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Wirral based artist, woolgatherer, flâneur and general laggard. Lover of music, comics and the weird.

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It's that time again, the BBC have wheeled-out a former first sea lord.

04.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A family favourite here 🙂

04.03.2026 14:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Someone remind Scott that world is round

04.03.2026 14:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Tuesday meet up with my old friend Will. Subjects covered: films directed by Paul Schrader, especially Rolling Thunder and Mishima: A life in four chapters. Italian's writing under the pseudonym Luther Blissett. The Plastic Ono Band and primal scream therapy. The use of cursive text in comic books.

03.03.2026 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Starmer seems to be following Wilson's approach to Vietnam by not committing troops but allowing some logistical and diplomatic support (and being ambivalent re criticism). Worth noting that Wilson lost the 1970 election.

03.03.2026 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glastonbury '93?

02.03.2026 23:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Definitely feels like they're skipping the decline stage.

02.03.2026 21:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I saw a cushion the other day with "Give it a rest!" written on it

02.03.2026 17:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I try to project the second half of the word out of my nose.

02.03.2026 09:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm amazed there wasn't at least one bagpipe expert in Jamaican music, to spar with White Rum Raymond, the reggae violinist.

02.03.2026 08:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You put a monetary deposit down to enter a member of your political party into the election. If they get less than 1000 (I think) votes, your deposit isn't returned 😀

01.03.2026 20:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love those Signet classics, always a bit psychedelic with plenty of negative space.

01.03.2026 19:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sassy

28.02.2026 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bought some Supermalt to try and fill a beer-shaped hole in my life, then I remembered it tastes like flat Family Choice cola.

26.02.2026 19:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My son did a load of work for game design prize entry. He's lost it all because he was using my old laptop with little disk space, and it crashed. Feeling really sad for him.

26.02.2026 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They do have customers...

26.02.2026 17:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds like a UCU meeting

26.02.2026 14:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just read that as Joan Baez :(

25.02.2026 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pete Hegseth threatens to cut Anthropic from Pentagon supply chain in showdown with CEO AI start-up’s Dario Amodei summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Pete Hegseth threatens to cut Anthropic from Pentagon supply chain in showdown with CEO

24.02.2026 22:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My wife has Tootlesphobia

24.02.2026 20:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cheers. You can't sail from Hoylake anymore. The old channel (the Hoyle Lake) began to silt over in the 60s, and now it's all sand.

24.02.2026 16:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We had a cat man in New Brighton

23.02.2026 20:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hopefully Candy. Nick, that is.

23.02.2026 18:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can't beat the Maytones, IMHO. Vernon Buckley's voice is so distinctive. Ridulously underrated.

23.02.2026 18:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rewatched it recently. It's very good and that ending still hurts. It also reminded me that I had a youthful crush on Christine Kavanagh after I'd seen her in a few plays at the local theatre in Scarborough.

23.02.2026 17:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Linda Ronstadt, London, early 70s

23.02.2026 17:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Content" is a good word for documentation that no one will ever read, which is mainly written by machines rather than human adults.

23.02.2026 17:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anthropic Tested 16 Models. Instructions Didn't Stop Them (When Security is a Structural Failure)
Anthropic Tested 16 Models. Instructions Didn't Stop Them (When Security is a Structural Failure) YouTube video by AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones

AI acting autonomously, can decide to destroy you if it doesn't like you: youtu.be/OMb5oTlC_q0?...

23.02.2026 12:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought it was from Hoylake

23.02.2026 11:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I worked at a university during covid. It was all hands to the pump. We moved lectures and open days online. It was a lot of work and business critical. I don't feel that a sector so financially weakened by government immigration policy should foot the bill.

21.02.2026 18:19 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0