Charlie Budd

Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect.

“Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”

Nice of the BBC graphics team to capture @vicderbyshire.bsky.social’s inner monologue. #Newsnight

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

Love the understatedness of his playing and singing.

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

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Cartoon of a man talking to a dog. He is saying "What's that Lassie? So long as wealth can buy power it's not really democracy?"

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One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

How will the government fund scrapping the two child benefit cap? Talks about the fact it's important to remember public finances are not like household finances.

Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail?

H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

And I get to watch it again next week when I’m editing! 😄

Totally agree, and I love the photograph.

Two video cameras in focus in front of out of focus tiered seating in a theatre with an archway at the back of the stage.

One of my favourite jobs of each year, filming the autumn production from @kes-drama.bsky.social at
@kes-stratford.bsky.social

This year it’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, which I’ve never seen… until now.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas."

Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.

We're looking forward to Wednesday's matinée performance of Love's Labour's Lost with an audience of Y7 & Y6 pupils from local primary schools. With Saturday sold out, your only chance to watch is Thurs or Fri. Tickets are selling fast so book now before it is too late! www.ticketsource.co.uk/kes

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

That looks fabulous!

a man in a suit and tie says " yes i can i 'm the chief inspector " ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " yes i can i 'm the chief inspector "

Just waiting for the marzipan and icing my good fellow…

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Original titles to "Doctor Who" (first transmitted 23/11/63).

Theme music composed by Ron Grainer; arranged by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. #DoctorWho #scifi

Does anyone know of any groups who offer support for people who have had a bad experience with the Court of Protection? Asking for a friend.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

-FDR, 1937

I’ve never seen them live, but love their music. Hope you had a great time.

You could be forgiven for looking forward to him being PM. 😂he will actually have to attend PMQs & fulfill his duties -what a shock that will be.🤣

He's a workshy, lazy grifter who barely fulfills his duties now as a constituency MP.
Ask them, When was the last time he held a constituency surgery?

But if the government start taxing the likes of Starbucks & they leave, Are we seriously saying that Britain will stop drinking coffee?

£3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax?

It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.

Sheffield charity given grant to fit 'swift bricks' in homes The Sheffield Swift Network was given £7,000 by the council for a project to help the birds nest.

Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.

Two pigeons on a London street, pecking at crumbs. Pigeon 1: "I'm sorry you missed out on the Booker prize. I thought your novel was wonderful." Pigeon 2: "It’s a stitch up! They always give it to a human!" Pigeon 1: "It’s nice they considered it." Pigeon 2: "Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!" Pigeon 2 again: "Zadie Smith had a bestselling novel and an armload of literary prizes before she was 25*." Pigeon 1: "You’ve got to stop comparing yourself to Zadie Smith" Pigeon 2: "Why?" Pigeon 1: "We’ve all got to find our own path through the world. Plus, it’s much harder to type with claws." pigeon 2: "That’s true." They both go back to pecking. Pigeon 2: "I’m glad you liked my book." *Pigeon 2 is 3 years, 11 months and 22 days old, the equivalent of 42 in human years. https://pigeonpedia.com/pigeon-years-to-human-years-calculator/

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.