Karl-on-Sea

4pm today on BBC Radio 4 Extra it’s the repeat of my adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ The State of the Art, with Sir Antony Sher as the ship. So proud of this amazing production by @nadiamolinari.bsky.social

Got pictures of your parents as teenagers? Let’s see ‘em!

Here are mine - both would’ve been in about 1963, so they’d have been about 18 or 19.

Why would the people of Durham not vote Reform - what's not to like about increasing council tax, cutting £12.9m from services, having a Deputy Leader who posts AI lies or a Leader who ran two companies that went bust owing more than £500k in tax?

I fully expect that to be a project at work soon. It’ll have some fancy science title like, “Catalytic depolymerisation of waste fabrics to generate net zero marine fuel feedstocks”, but we all know what that really means.

IOC and Fifa: "It is time to welcome Russia back into the sport family".

Photo of a man with his hand touching his face in a room in a house. Behind his is a shelving unit with many things on it, and a bicycle.

Rik Mayall brings alternative comedy, and a bicycle, to British television in an episode of The Young Ones, 1982

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Rik Mayall!
March 7 (1958-2014)

What is the shape of the Venn Diagram of people who wanted us to leave the EU because of our "sauvereignity", and the people who are okay with following the USA and Israel blindly and unconditionally into an unlawful war?

How it feels being able to commute without ever having to fill up with fossil fuels.

Didn’t know you knew my mother.

Comic. [Person 1 talking to a person with shoulder-length hair and a person with a white hat.] PERSON 1: I would never get an electric vehicle. Sure, they sound great, but what do you do if the battery runs out of charge? [caption] I felt pretty silly when someone finally explained tome that EVs are rechargeable.

Electric Vehicles

xkcd.com/3214/

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Cartoon illustration featuring a man running towards a bicycle encased in a glass box. Over the box is a giant hammer and a sign that says, "In case of rising gas prices break glass."

You know what to do

Impressive!

Don’t think I didn’t consider it.

Good.

Already heading back up from Canterbury.

Aye. I realised as we crossed the Medway.

White text: strange how nobody cares about pedestrian safety until the villainous cyclist shows up

Oh bollocks. Can this day get any worse?

*Looks at horizontal rain outside*

*Opens a news app to see if anything nice is happening in the world*

*Stares unblinking into the void *

How’s your day going? I got directed onto the wrong train at St Pancras, and so am now enjoying a 90 minute detour to Chatham via Canterbury.

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I flippin’ hate Tuesdays.

I am reassured by this:

a man in a brown robe with a hood on his head is standing in the desert . ALT: a man in a brown robe with a hood on his head is standing in the desert .

“…there’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time…”

OR.., Is it our psyops unit at work again?

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There's a good reason you feel old.

This one resonates with me the most. Especially after some of my politicians wring their hands everytime someone claims they weren't consulted.

The quickest way to getting nothing done is to allow goal post moving and consensus chasing.

See also: Ireland.

Aye. But speaking as someone living on the east side of the Pennines, I can heartily recommend living somewhere that's not as wet as Glasgow.