Potato Muppet 🥔

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

They’re really not okay over there are they?

Last ten minutes my apple watch gave me a health warning

What was your favourite Matsumoto? My partner just finished Inspector Imanishi Investigates, loved it and is looking for the next to read

Can confirm (well not the piss bit)

When I pull a blind up I like to make a little bugle fanfare

Song Machine, especially the bonus tracks, many of which are way better than the main album tracks. With Love to an Ex a particular high point.

An inspired choice

Love that show. Has one of the best fun gang ensembles with an added extra fun gang of all the daughters. And margaritas in a can!

It's no exaggeration to say that this, the news that stinkbug eggs look exactly like a hape of creamy pints, is one of the most impactful things that's ever happened in the history of Irish posting. A dazzling event. A nuclear level revelation.

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Me with a black cat watching down from the stairs behind me

"No one would have believed, in the early years of the 21st century, that human affairs were being watched.
No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water"

BBFC eat your heart out 📽️

In my experience from working at other broadcasters, no. Because Sky will not know themselves yet. Normally try to have things locked down 30 days ahead. Probably especially tricky with Atlantic what with the HBO uk launch!

The teenaged boy in the flat next door to me was home alone and decided to practice his MCing skills. This consisted of him yelling “do you do you feel safe” over a Casio keyboard preset beat. All night. I looked so shit the next day my boss thought I was hungover and took me aside for a quiet word.

Although going to great efforts to get in or out of a room then hesitating at the doorway and turning back is rather cat behaviour wouldn’t you say?

Exceptionally poor wording aside, not sure you should be President of BAFTA if you’re not prepared to watch even the most nominated of films!

The Tourette’s incident providing a handy smokescreen for this clanger

🫵 chill out

Could see myself having a nightmare about waking up here and wondering if I'm dead

SAM ALTMAN: What no one understands is that no one at the beach can stop you from scooping up as many shells as you want. An endless well of seashells for the taking. INTERVIEWER: Mhm. ALTMAN: Look I have a bunch in my pocket right here. INTERVIEWER: Wow that's incredible. And they're all already crushed up too.

ALTMAN: Yes well I crushed them. They didn't start crushed. I took them home and then I crushed them. INTERVIEWER: Mhm. Mhm. ALTMAN: You can eat them. I eat them everyday. That's why I crush them. Here have a taste. INTERVIEWER: Wow these are great. It feels like eating teeth. ALTMAN: Right? Human teeth. Isn't it incredible? I died in 2023.

Extremely revealing details in this interview

I guess that’s one of the confusing class tells in the UK in that you could be considered working class whilst outright owning a four bed house with a driveway and garden in one area and upper middle class whilst only ever being able to afford to rent a one bed flat in another.

What’s insane reading that is the prospect that a council apparently already owed £3 million from Criterion would be considering using them as a housing provider?

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

The curling target/house thingy at the Milan Cortina Olympics keeps making me thing of the poster for Has’ Hourglass Sanatorium

Yeah, well when I was in America I went to one of those McDonalds places they have everywhere and it bore nor resemblance to Scottish cuisine whatsoever

A single panel cartoon. Moominpapa leans over a newspaper on a table, holding an empty glass. Snufkin is seated on the opposite side of the table, head in hands, puffing on his pipe disconsolately. Moomonpapa says to Snufkin: 'Tell us all that'a happening out in the world!' Snufkin replies: 'Fuss and misery..'

Mood

Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession The former Duke of York is eighth in line to the throne meaning he remains eligible to be King.

Unless there’s some sort of Kind Hearts & Coronets situation then surely this is just a colossal waste of everyone’s time? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.