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Sure we’ve all got a couple of those, I know I have.

Bloody hell, mcfootball.

3am, clock hands still turning in case anyone is wondering!

Fabulous song.

That didn’t work.

Yeah, probably is time to get up. In a minute.

About to go to bed rather than stay up any later watching the telly. Didn't get washed away in the floods, so that's good! 👍

What’s your favourite song about the rain? ☔️

"And the rain fell like bullets from a gun
And the sky came and swallowed up the sun
So I buttoned up my coat and I went out for a walk
Beneath the iron sky"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjcR...

So instead of being about to go out, with #TotP in the background, this friday evening I’m dozing in front of the telly like your nan. But missing the 90s episodes, no I ain’t missing you at all (missing you) etc.

I saw xmas lights on a house nearby last week. I guess they can make up for the way I won't be doing anything along those lines, not if I live for another thousand years, but also very nope, no need.

lively white water fills a gully which is surrounded by rusty-brown fallen leaves

Nah, not much rain really. Not yet…

It's a stitch-up of the right kind.

Really nice telly 👍

Well, perhaps predictable but I know who I'm looking forward to seeing...

Then the very best for all your future padam padaming ❤️‍🩹

Fantastic song.

Happy in person socialising-medialising 😀

YouTube video by LiveAidWizard Neil Young - Powderfinger (MTV - Live Aid 7/13/1985)

My my, hey hey, seems old Neil really is, 80 today.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw11...

The internet says yes. The internet also can't check if you keep your promises,so your word will do fine 👢👢

Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey had a ‘manifesto for success’. Here’s how it worked Podcast Episode · Word In Your Ear · 04/11/2025 · 35m

And you can enjoy some fun background chat about exactly that here:

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I shan’t be changing because I’m no fun like that but also because I don’t xmas like that either. Since the festive season seems to go on forever now, there’s scope for expanding the song beyond the traditional Twelve Days Of Xmas, and if it ever gets up to “on the twenty-eighth day of xmas”, well…

I had a 20 minute nap in mine. Would also recommend.

cover of 2026 calendar of photos of the London underground network, cover shows two tube trains, one near one further behind, with an arch spanning overhead

Looking forward to planning my next year with the help of the fine work of @tubemapper.bsky.social - looks great!

I don’t know that, I’ll have to look it up.

It is absolutely fantastic, yes. #AndYouHateTheLot

Well, “hello Ben off the internet, you don’t know me but you do but you don’t…” didn’t get me a smack in the face and I don’t appear to have been blocked yet…

I’m convinced, and I really don’t think robotics and AI are up to the advanced standards necessary to fool me with a replicant version just yet!

Pop Will Eat Itself playing live, under geographically appropriate white, green and red lights, above a sea of silhoutted ageing indie heads

Wise up suckers, it’s time for some PWEIzation!

Some people I vaguely e-know & encounter in other contexts but meeting someone I only bluesky-know is a first. Very not my style to approach not-quite-strangers in person, not just because I’m not identifiable or recognisable from here. Anyway, I can now confirm @safers.bsky.social exists - shwmae!

a big wheel with blue outside but mostly white lights, in a city centre that doesn’t normally have a big wheel except this couple of months of the year

Oh, it’s *that* time of year again, got it.