Happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day to all who celebrate
amir
@amirrowaichi.bsky.social
fan of cats, cooking, beer and increasingly mark corriganesque non-fiction
Tesco profits shot up from £883m to £2.3bn. An extra £1.4bn+ in profit while families STRUGGLE to afford basic groceries. It’s not a cost-of-living crisis, it’s a cost-of-greed crisis—backed by government INACTION!
winning the midterms feels like defeating a mini-boss and watching it explode into gold coins
I delivered @pelliclemag.com’s first wholesale order to @raremags.bsky.social this afternoon so they’ll have them for launch next week. Here’s the lovely Martin with his big stack of mags!
The current national anthem is a dirge and should be replaced by The Hokey Cokey. It would make the country a much happier place especially if everyone singing it, no matter the occasion, had to do the dance as well.
imagine having a completely fucking smooth brain, like a big marble or grape
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2w agoImagine saying the reverse and thinking it makes any sense: “Having Russian planes on the UK’s border reduces the risk of war.”
Right. I'm on a nightbus home. So the law is i have to tell y'all a story. So let me tell you about the time i ended up drinking with Ray Harryhausen's right-hand animator. Who we were incorrectly convinced was full of so much shit
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the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · last mo.Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
If you’re interested in current affairs and not reading @nickbryantoz.bsky.social’s History Never Ended, you’re missing out. This latest piece in my inbox on journalism in the age of AI is great historyneverended.substack.com/p/in-defence...
In defence of human journalism
My industry at a time of AI.
historyneverended.substack.com
Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 2mo agoJames McEnroe encourages tennis players to boycott the Grand Slam after stars protest Wimbledon and French Open
When I was 15 my boyfriend at the time said when we were cuddling, "I wish we could lie here forever". I am now 43 and I regularly think, god we would still be lying there now how boring.
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
Went to this anti fascist rally in Manchester today. It felt good to see some positivity
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
Happy ninth anniversary to the Princess Diana well dressing if you’re celebrating. #OnThisDayInHistory #OhMate #PrincessOfAreHarts #WithTheAngles
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Bayeux tapestry? More like Bayeux case of delicious beers at pilotbeer.co.uk right! Right?
When I was about 10 years old I thought I would be able to walk on water if I put arm bands round my ankles and jumped in. Turned upside down in the pool with my feet poking out. Dad had to jump in and save me.
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a GOTTLE O’ GEER”
Well, happy 29th anniversary to the greatest ‘reverse ferret’ ever issued by a media outlet
So much love for the Armando Iannucci Shows. Odd how everyone's so much younger 25 years ago. Great writing, by him of course, and by @andyrileyish.bsky.social and Kevin Cecil. The whole thing's a muster station for the socially awkward, the imposter syndromers. YES. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
The Armando Iannucci Shows
Armando's surreal 2001 comedy series that confronts our feelings and fears
channel4.com
Went to @strinesnightingale.bsky.social for Nestival this weekend. Two days of wonderfully artistic, creative people and loads of laughs. Absolutely delighted to get my portrait done by @jontofski.bsky.social and see him and @feltmistress.bsky.social chatting to Andy Votel
Many years ago I thought mixing cream into a setting strawberry jelly would make a nice creamy desert for the then toddlers. And meat-baby was born. For the same toddlers 17th birthday, they’ve asked that I make another one…
Not a great name, which probably didn’t help. It’s a brilliant show though
Chortle@chortle.bsky.social · 3mo agoBBC exec admits Here We Go was a hard sell
This article is now paywall free so everyone can have a gander
The Mill@manchestermill.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨 Business rates for pubs, social clubs, and live music venues are being cut by 20%. 🍺 Our food and drinks correspondent Matthew Curtis explores what Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ means for the PM’s beloved boozers. manchestermill.co.uk/what-does-an...