If I want to hear virtually any song at all I either fire up my iTunes library or look it up on YouTube, I don't have to rely on The Chart Show (great, but only one hour a week) or Radio 1. 12-year-old me would've LOVED looking up all the stuff Smash Hits was parping on about that fortnight.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 13h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Today is the day that *any* man who wants to go in the women's toilets just has to claim to be a trans man and everybody's got JK Rowling to thank.

George_T_Truth2@george-t-truth2.bsky.social · 6h ago

#JeremyVine When trans men start entering women's toilets, this whole thing blows up This culture war crap is a nonsense

Revolver wasn't one of the Beatles albums my mum had. She tapped out after Beatles for Sale, then came back for Abbey Road. As a result, I didn't hear Revolver until a girl I was seeing at university had it on in her room. On a cassette, taped off her dad's LP. As a result, it has connotations.

Today, I have said no to two things. I'm getting better at it.

No time to write anything, so please enjoy this tale of an artist who died 24 years ago today and was obsessed with death to the extent of doing hundreds of works on the subject, faking his own, and embalming a homeless man he’d befriended, who didn’t want “the authorities” to have his body

Robert Lenkiewicz: Larger than life and death

He had thousands of lovers, faked his own demise, and kept an embalmed corpse in his home. Yes, Robert Lenkiewicz was one of the great eccentrics – and now, prices for his paintings are soaring

independent.co.uk

*bergerac theme* one less nonce o-one less nonce

Plenty more to come too

Another lovely day without Rod Liddle breathing.

Bluesky is not a "liberal bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Nazis get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.

Local legend, brilliant artist. And yes, the definitive Gus Honeybun and Judi Spiers portraitist.

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h ago

No time to write anything, so please enjoy this tale of an artist who died 24 years ago today and was obsessed with death to the extent of doing hundreds of works on the subject, faking his own, and embalming a homeless man he’d befriended, who didn’t want “the authorities” to have his body

Nods.

Update from mum's care home. One of the staff introduced herself and said "you live two doors down from my sister". Valleys, mun.

What kind of radio station would play that, I ask you.

What a pity ITV haven't recommissioned another series of You Bet!

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 18h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Happened to me almost every day of my working life. You don't know terror until you hear the sound of someone who hasn't bothered to check if there's anyone in the stacks unsnibbing the locking bar and giving it the full Star Wars Trash Compactor routine when you're the one inside.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 16h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Spoony played Goodnight Tonight by Wings on the radio today. One of my favourite records of all time. It prompted me to buy the 12", which I've been meaning to do for ages.

Reminded of elsewhere, but here you’ll find Vernon Kay getting as close to calling Jeremy Vine a stupid cunt as you’ll ever get on daytime BBC radio.

If you go onto Bluesky and trash Vimes’ Boots you are quite plainly looking for a fight. The quality of your argument is beside the point, you are here to push buttons.

Oh so having hobbies is illegal now is it

I don't want to add to any ratios here, but there have been a few incidences of 'I am deeply saddened and shocked at the reaction to the death of [X very nefarious journalist and proven abuser]' Yes, that's kind of the point. These responses act as a warning and deterrent against abusing your power.

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 3y ago

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

Great news. Rod Liddle's still dead.

This is probably statistically provable.

Dr Mand@mandapen.bsky.social · yesterday

Cathy Dennis is the best pop songwriter of all time.

I don't think you can be kind in private. You are either kind or not. I think too many people mistake niceness for kindness. "Oh but he was kind to me!" Well, no.

Logging On

It’s easy to forget this happened. People who knew who he was and what he’d done lobbied for it.

Dr Matt Lodder@mattlodder.com · yesterday

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

Is Rod Liddle dead?

Jason C. Cole@theduckmachine.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm not sure. Maybe if you ask again someone will know.

Yes I acknowledge it makes sense in context but “I need my car to meet criminals” is now my favourite basis for an attempted exceptional hardship plea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today reminds me there was a UK journalist who died and received fulsome tributes from many others. It was considered the height of rudeness when some pointed out none of the tributes had mentioned he'd killed his wife. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ka...

John Kay (journalist, born 1943) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Once again I find myself pointing to Paul Eddington for how to be remembered.

Reading the Rod Liddle tributes about what a great writer he was (he really really wasn’t, can’t emphasise that enough) and I keep thinking of the bit from Arrested Development. “He said some wonderful things” cut to: “Daddy horny, Michael”