Lemmy Caution

Ah no, Nacho. 😥

Times like these call for salad cream.

There are lonely churches to be found where old saints live in strange stone boxes. When we say saints, that word has to encompass those spirits of place which were there long before the cross came along. Relics of both Christian and folk faith may be the same bone. – Dr. M. Benn

In Hookland, many a folkloric tale starts not with ‘A long time ago’ or ‘Far, far away’, but with the line: ‘Out across the dark moor where strange songs are still heard …’ For folklore tells strongly of place and our relationships to it. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore #FolkloreThursday

I've certainly spiked my productivity.

I've brought this up before but I think it bears repeating because it's a total non-factor in all the rhetoric: "Britain" hasn't been an island (or archipelago) at any time in its history. The last decade of drawing back behind our borders is a bizarre aberration.

Some days I have a sweet bop stuck in my head; other days I have Einsturzende Neubauten chanting "sicher nicht sein, sicher nicht sein, sicher nicht sein" ...

feed some acorns to a pig if anyone is in the mood to hear a pig happily crunching on an acorn

It's a pity Tom Petty is dead, because, he should be congratulated for writing a song, Free Falling, that - while I was at the shops today - made me LONG for them to put the Christmas music back on...

I've discovered that Focus are playing Whelan's next year. Tix are €32. I mentioned it to my wife and I think that was a mistake. "Ooh, that's expensive, I'm not sure I like them *that* much."
I never learn.

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"When garments are produced using misery, no joy can be derived from them." - Derek Guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Stories on BBC News - a street brawl which helpfully tells us those involved were “of Turkish origin” and another about a sex offender “Sudanese” but an extremely prolific sex offender responsible for 343 offences is not described as “white British” why is that

Hard to take it any other way really! 🤣

Early 90s, walking down Donegall Road in Belfast, wearing the bright, striped Nepalese baggy trousers that were in vogue for hippy types back then.
"Fenian trousers" came shouted out the window of a passing car.

No-one has made a good movie about Borley Rectory. In fact some of the worst films I have ever seen have had Borley in the title. It’s a film curse. A spectrum of shite. I implore you, avoid any Borley film - even those with half-decent casts and cinematography are pustules on the Devil’s cock.

However as someone who grew up in 70s and 80s Northern Ireland I am struggling to keep a straight face over all these claims that the Beeb tries to be impartial and tell the truth.
3/3

Calling out Trump for his stochastic instigation of Jan 6th was one of the BBC's braver acts and should be defended.
2/3

The way the BBC have reacted to Trump's criticism is a ridiculous, overblown kneejerk, especially when they wholly ignored criticism about their Gaza reporting, Corbyn bashing or Farage soapboxing.
1/3

Coffee out my nose right there.

Oh god. Am I this new middleaged Bond demographic now? 🥶

I remember in the early 2000's, during the government broadband rollout drive, their contract criteria insisted on "compelling content" be delivered along with connectivity. Basically mandating software & hardware companies create the one thing they couldn't create so and had to fake.

Hunker down, y'awl.

If that's a machine, I think it needs an out of order sign.

"junkshop universe" oughta be a shoe-in

Delicate pencil and pastel drawing of a thin dark haired man top half, on bumpy paper

Tiny drawing of my dad, who is dead in real life but in drawing kind of liminal

Triple neck required

I just read this out to my wife. Her eyes went wide as she said: "Wow, deep memory - I think I knew that, 'cos I think we had a Tufty boardgame at school."

It was only today that I learnt that Tufty from Tufty Club has a surname - Fluffytale.

So, @bsky.app, why does your web interface character count say 300, but allow me to post 323 characters when there's a URL? You only allow 300 ch in your API, so when I write posts here to check for length and then paste them into a scheduler, they are too long. This is ridiculous.