Depeche Median
@happybusman.bsky.social
£4.50 for a jar of Bovril. Game's gone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
£4.50 for a jar of Bovril. Game's gone.
Praying for Time
Freedom 90
Last Christmas
The Edge of Heaven
Club Tropicana
Freedom 90
Last Christmas
The Edge of Heaven
Club Tropicana
In this strongly pro-George Michael space, tell me, what are your Top 5 Wham!/George tracks
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Praying for Time
Freedom 90
Last Christmas
The Edge of Heaven
Club Tropicana
Freedom 90
Last Christmas
The Edge of Heaven
Club Tropicana
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Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Don’t think much of the Amazon Black Friday sales. I ordered The Two Ronnies on DVD but instead I got four Kindles
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just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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If I was In Charge every working person would have a number of days per year - in addition to annual leave & sick days - where you could just say ‘not coming in today because I do not want to’, no questions asked
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
If I was In Charge every working person would have a number of days per year - in addition to annual leave & sick days - where you could just say ‘not coming in today because I do not want to’, no questions asked
Practicing my fountain penmanship and exercising my brain by writing out the US states. This time I missed out Wyoming and Nebraska
Asvine v800 , Diamine Blaze Orange
Asvine v800 , Diamine Blaze Orange
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Practicing my fountain penmanship and exercising my brain by writing out the US states. This time I missed out Wyoming and Nebraska
Asvine v800 , Diamine Blaze Orange
Asvine v800 , Diamine Blaze Orange
Suspect the national obsession with making a cup of tea is that we convince ourselves that it is doing something productive.
Cup of tea anyone?
Cup of tea anyone?
Heading into another working week having accomplished nothing of note on the weekend.
I have four or five things I could/should do, but have instead chosen the sixth option, lying on my bed for four hours.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Suspect the national obsession with making a cup of tea is that we convince ourselves that it is doing something productive.
Cup of tea anyone?
Cup of tea anyone?
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(And yes I did just distance-diagnose Pete Best. When your mum has to build an actual nightclub in your house so you can make friends your neurology is not a three-pipe problem.)
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
(And yes I did just distance-diagnose Pete Best. When your mum has to build an actual nightclub in your house so you can make friends your neurology is not a three-pipe problem.)
Heading into another working week having accomplished nothing of note on the weekend.
I have four or five things I could/should do, but have instead chosen the sixth option, lying on my bed for four hours.
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Heading into another working week having accomplished nothing of note on the weekend.
Everybody in my timeline mocking Your Party for trying something different, presumably on the basis that what every other party is doing is so successful
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Everybody in my timeline mocking Your Party for trying something different, presumably on the basis that what every other party is doing is so successful
Same as the Labour Party then
Your Party conference votes for allowing dual membership:
"Members shall be permitted to hold membership in other national political parties where they have been approved by the CEC as aligning with the Party’s values, to include those with whom the Party cooperates electorally."
69% majority
"Members shall be permitted to hold membership in other national political parties where they have been approved by the CEC as aligning with the Party’s values, to include those with whom the Party cooperates electorally."
69% majority
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Same as the Labour Party then
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Underneath all of this stuff is a real economy where everything is both shit and expensive, nothing works and everyone is miserable and hopeless. Can you fucking focus, you hacks??
November 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Underneath all of this stuff is a real economy where everything is both shit and expensive, nothing works and everyone is miserable and hopeless. Can you fucking focus, you hacks??
And this is the compromise position. My position is seizing the means of production and sticking every last fucking one of them in a gulag.
All of these companies should be taxed into the ground and required to pay living wages.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
And this is the compromise position. My position is seizing the means of production and sticking every last fucking one of them in a gulag.
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Þú Og Ég - Á Sprengisandi [Iceland, Disco/Space Rock] (1980)
https://redd.it/qbjwgs
https://youtu.be/UBXQPgx-iBc
https://redd.it/qbjwgs
https://youtu.be/UBXQPgx-iBc
Þú Og Ég - Á Sprengisandi [Iceland, Disco/Space Rock] (1980)
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Þú Og Ég - Á Sprengisandi [Iceland, Disco/Space Rock] (1980)
https://redd.it/qbjwgs
https://youtu.be/UBXQPgx-iBc
https://redd.it/qbjwgs
https://youtu.be/UBXQPgx-iBc
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The only legitimate software development methodology:
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The only legitimate software development methodology:
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
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Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
Just saw an ad on the hooky football feed whose theme was "banking can do more" and finished with a disclaimer "Mercury is not a bank".
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just saw an ad on the hooky football feed whose theme was "banking can do more" and finished with a disclaimer "Mercury is not a bank".
I have four or five things I could/should do, but have instead chosen the sixth option, lying on my bed for four hours.
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I have four or five things I could/should do, but have instead chosen the sixth option, lying on my bed for four hours.
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They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence
This is just revolting cruelty, done to pander to racists who won't give it the time of day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence
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Is it possible that they're so burned out from the Anxiety Factory of school that when they finally get some autonomy the first thing they want to do is "nothing at all"?
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Is it possible that they're so burned out from the Anxiety Factory of school that when they finally get some autonomy the first thing they want to do is "nothing at all"?
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Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
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People something think I'm being glib when I say "the cruelty is the point," but it is the heart of our entire political discussion these days, inflicting cruelty on "other people" to mollycoddle the feelings of a group who are very certain "other people" are getting better treatment.
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to
Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement
A low-paid carer from Ghana has cancelled all the benefits she is legally entitled to, including the disability allowance one of her children receives, owing to fears about her immigration status after the policy changes announced by the home secretary.
The radical changes to legal migration announced by Shabana Mahmood on 20 November will penalise those who are living and working legally in the UK, but who claim benefits. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 AM
People something think I'm being glib when I say "the cruelty is the point," but it is the heart of our entire political discussion these days, inflicting cruelty on "other people" to mollycoddle the feelings of a group who are very certain "other people" are getting better treatment.
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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Bit late with this, but… Colours Yet To Be Named, the gorgeous new album by Lightning In A Twilight Hour, is a bewitchingly beautiful thing, all hazily layered atmospherics that dissolve into crystalline, heart-melting tunes with words that haunt and linger. It's as good as [1/2]
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Bit late with this, but… Colours Yet To Be Named, the gorgeous new album by Lightning In A Twilight Hour, is a bewitchingly beautiful thing, all hazily layered atmospherics that dissolve into crystalline, heart-melting tunes with words that haunt and linger. It's as good as [1/2]