Jo dB
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Idiots, the lot of you.
Idiots, the lot of you.
We've got @davedfb.bsky.social up here, so of course we're watching Anthology.
the beatles are posing for a picture with purple curtains in the background
ALT: the beatles are posing for a picture with purple curtains in the background
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November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We've got @davedfb.bsky.social up here, so of course we're watching Anthology.
Absolutely wonderful description of the opposition leader.
She is so profoundly intellectually incurious that I find myself fascinated how she ever learnt how to *speak*.
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Absolutely wonderful description of the opposition leader.
Being elderly, I still “do” podcasts with my ears and only by popping over to Insta do I realise why so many of them sound a bit removed from each other or leave words hanging in the air. So many are now mugging to the camera, it makes the audio experience distancing.
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Being elderly, I still “do” podcasts with my ears and only by popping over to Insta do I realise why so many of them sound a bit removed from each other or leave words hanging in the air. So many are now mugging to the camera, it makes the audio experience distancing.
“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.”
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.”
Private Eye is VERY careful about crediting the Lucy Letby articles to the writer rather than the magazine. It’s rare to do that, I don’t think I can remember a time the mag was so keen to distinguish.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Private Eye is VERY careful about crediting the Lucy Letby articles to the writer rather than the magazine. It’s rare to do that, I don’t think I can remember a time the mag was so keen to distinguish.
Editorial meeting: “Reader’s Wives sounds a bit provincial and Daily Star. What can we call it to appeal to Guardian readers in Chiswick?”
Answer:
Answer:
‘It was no longer a gift for my husband. It was all for me’: four women on how boudoir photography changed their lives
‘It was no longer a gift for my husband. It was all for me’: four women on how boudoir photography changed their lives
Now a hugely popular photographic genre, many women pay thousands to have intimate portraits taken of themselves by a professional. What do they get out of it?
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Editorial meeting: “Reader’s Wives sounds a bit provincial and Daily Star. What can we call it to appeal to Guardian readers in Chiswick?”
Answer:
Answer:
As is only reet, it’s grey skies and rain over the Ribble Valley for Lancashire Day 🌹
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
As is only reet, it’s grey skies and rain over the Ribble Valley for Lancashire Day 🌹
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Aw reet!
As it’s #LancashireDay I’m going to give away a Northern Sky A4 unframed print. Inspired by my hometown of Blackburn and Nick Drake.
Repost and follow me to enter.
I’ll pick a winner after 9pm (27 Nov)
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...
As it’s #LancashireDay I’m going to give away a Northern Sky A4 unframed print. Inspired by my hometown of Blackburn and Nick Drake.
Repost and follow me to enter.
I’ll pick a winner after 9pm (27 Nov)
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Aw reet!
As it’s #LancashireDay I’m going to give away a Northern Sky A4 unframed print. Inspired by my hometown of Blackburn and Nick Drake.
Repost and follow me to enter.
I’ll pick a winner after 9pm (27 Nov)
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...
As it’s #LancashireDay I’m going to give away a Northern Sky A4 unframed print. Inspired by my hometown of Blackburn and Nick Drake.
Repost and follow me to enter.
I’ll pick a winner after 9pm (27 Nov)
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/product-page...
Thread to read (via @gralefrit.bsky.social).
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Thread to read (via @gralefrit.bsky.social).
Fancy listening to a podcast series where you will hate absolutely everyone involved? Here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Shadow World - Anatomy of a Cancellation - 1. Kate’s Story - BBC Sounds
When a prize-winning author was accused of racism, she asked her online followers to help.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Fancy listening to a podcast series where you will hate absolutely everyone involved? Here you go: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Buddo says it's Max Roach time!!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Buddo says it's Max Roach time!!!
Ah yes, the vital to society industry of, erm, Christmas trees. Why, we should be paying them for their service, obvs.
These people can absolutely gtf.
These people can absolutely gtf.
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Ah yes, the vital to society industry of, erm, Christmas trees. Why, we should be paying them for their service, obvs.
These people can absolutely gtf.
These people can absolutely gtf.
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Tax tattoos
Tax people who call their children Jaxxon
Tax builders who have opted for some Christmas songs only station this morning
Tax messy binmen
Tax Paddington bear
Tax people who call their children Jaxxon
Tax builders who have opted for some Christmas songs only station this morning
Tax messy binmen
Tax Paddington bear
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Tax tattoos
Tax people who call their children Jaxxon
Tax builders who have opted for some Christmas songs only station this morning
Tax messy binmen
Tax Paddington bear
Tax people who call their children Jaxxon
Tax builders who have opted for some Christmas songs only station this morning
Tax messy binmen
Tax Paddington bear
The 78 year old... born in 1948... was thought to be in good health when she celebrated her 80th birthday at a party in the summer."
In one article! Bravo, Mail Online #saveoursubs
In one article! Bravo, Mail Online #saveoursubs
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The 78 year old... born in 1948... was thought to be in good health when she celebrated her 80th birthday at a party in the summer."
In one article! Bravo, Mail Online #saveoursubs
In one article! Bravo, Mail Online #saveoursubs
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OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
Civilisations: Rise and Fall on BBC2. Seemingly made by idiots for idiots. Do they think it’s all pre-schoolers watching? It’s embarrassing.
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Civilisations: Rise and Fall on BBC2. Seemingly made by idiots for idiots. Do they think it’s all pre-schoolers watching? It’s embarrassing.
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Francis Wheen on some of Farage's more sinister connections, back in 1999
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Francis Wheen on some of Farage's more sinister connections, back in 1999
I note that Roland Gift picked Jimmy Cliff for Tracks of My Years today*
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
*I presume it’s still done on a daily basis, I only very occasionally check the podcast version
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
*I presume it’s still done on a daily basis, I only very occasionally check the podcast version
Tracks Of My Years - Roland Gift - BBC Sounds
Roland Gift, frontman of Fine Young Cannibals, selects his Tracks Of My Years.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I note that Roland Gift picked Jimmy Cliff for Tracks of My Years today*
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
*I presume it’s still done on a daily basis, I only very occasionally check the podcast version
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
*I presume it’s still done on a daily basis, I only very occasionally check the podcast version
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If, like me, you’re still struggling to remember/adjust to “new” Composer of the Week slot, I’m here to remind you: today, 4pm, Radio 3.
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If, like me, you’re still struggling to remember/adjust to “new” Composer of the Week slot, I’m here to remind you: today, 4pm, Radio 3.
What a gig that was.
Once saw Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Jimmy Cliff as the interval act. Many Rivers To Cross floating across Hyde Park really was A Thing
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Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
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November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
What a gig that was.
If, like me, you’re still struggling to remember/adjust to “new” Composer of the Week slot, I’m here to remind you: today, 4pm, Radio 3.
November 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If, like me, you’re still struggling to remember/adjust to “new” Composer of the Week slot, I’m here to remind you: today, 4pm, Radio 3.
I spent yesterday wondering who this reminded me of, especially the bit where he walks away from the camera with that odd waddle and awful kecks.
And I’ve realised it’s Freddie Starr.
And I’ve realised it’s Freddie Starr.
Morrissey, somehow managing to be a more ridiculous version of Stewart Lee’s ‘These days if you say you’re English’ parody
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I spent yesterday wondering who this reminded me of, especially the bit where he walks away from the camera with that odd waddle and awful kecks.
And I’ve realised it’s Freddie Starr.
And I’ve realised it’s Freddie Starr.