The best cheese - and it’s not close - I have had in my life was “Cuillin” from a tiny independent called the West Highland Dairy. On the Scottish mainland near the Skye bridge. Never found the place again or seen it advertised. The Brigadoon of cheese.

🌈Dr. Frizzle@swilua.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yesterday I had cheese so amazing—creamy like I can’t describe, under a shell I can’t describe—I went to sleep thinking about it, I dreamed about it, woke up thinking about it. I tried to go buy more, but like the truly magical thing it was, it’d vanished in the sea mists. I’ll remember you cheese 🥺

and I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2w ago

STOP SHOVING AI IN EVERYTHING!

In further “Nick states the bleedin obvious” news, The Odyssey is a great blockbuster film. Well acted, well directed, and refreshingly well lit even when they are in a cave or the belly of a wooden horse. It flew by, though the last couple of scenes could have lost a couple of minutes each.

Winchelsea’s nice. #insight

Coffee shops toast both sides of your toastie challenge. For SIX QUID I want more than a tasty side and a raw side 😤

Proper pop star

Birmingham 81@birmingham81.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy birthday to David Essex. Rock On

do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg

They’re being chased by the VAT Controller www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Grandkids of Thomas the Tank Engine author in HMRC court fight over huge tax bill

Almost 30 years after Wilbert Awdry’s death, the managers of a trust ended up fighting HMRC in a bid to pay out less tax on the royalties

independent.co.uk

Fascinating thread on professional irate pensioner Elaine Yates and her remarkable media career. Not British journalism's finest hour

Legal C@legalclaret.bsky.social · 2w ago

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

The whole thread is well worth it bsky.app/profile/wade...

Ian Wade@wadeywade.bsky.social · 2w ago

HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY THE UK ALBUM CHART Here are some facts about (well, you know them, but the public may not) you

14. Paul Weller has the unique distinction of having had No.1s across five decades in various incarnations, and it’s literally him, Macca and Lennon who’ve done it over that stretch of time. So essentially The Style Council were his Wings/ Plastic Ono Band.

Angine de Mothrine

Daniel Peake@quizzydan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pretty moth of the day

Stockard Channing held sway

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago

It would be nice just once to spread one slice of toast with marmalade without the marmalade ending up all over my plate, fingers, beard, and sometimes floor 😒

The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")

Happened across this new XTC sculpture in Queens Park yesterday, which was nice.

Will it be Wes as a quid pro quo for not standing? Will it be Ed or is he too Stalinist 🥴? Will it be Shabana 🤷🏻‍♂️? No, it’s a guy nobody was talking about at all. Much political journalism makes football transfer speculation seem accurate.

@rosejudson.bsky.social Going back to the early Books of Our Times that I missed due to not knowing about them. Gilgamesh as “a semi-divine border collie trapped in a studio apartment” is a superb, evocative turn of phrase 👏👏

So, was that the worst World Cup final ever? The other candidates in my lifetime would be 1990, 1994 and 2006.

This is a fallacy known as argument to moderation or argumentum ad temperantiam. It assumes that the truth always lies in the middle of two opposing positions. For example if someone says the sky is blue and another says the sky is yellow, it follows that the sky must be green

This is the biggest vibe kill since George Michael decided to do “one off the new album” at the 2012 Olympic closing ceremony

Argentina defending in numbers and niggling, Messi quiet, their opponents passing around but final ball v poor. It’s like watching Wednesday’s game all over again.

Yellow card given for the third yellow card offence, better ratio than for much of the tournament 🙄

LOL Mowbray namechecking “AKA Rocky”

Literally how the first section 28 began: the newspapers saw a picture book with a gay couple in and were scared of it.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3w ago

"TRANS activists are bombarding primary schools with ‘sex-change propaganda’ in the form of brightly coloured picture books, according to a new report." [Mail on Sunday] "The report – compiled by concerned authors and editors with traditional views on biology and sex..."

If the plot is “no price is too high to pay to bring Matt Damon home”, I am fully sat for the movie.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Can’t believe the French team held a banner saying the Channel Islands belong to the Duchy of Normandy

People talk about Kraftwerk as innovators and musical pioneers, but what they probably don’t realize is that “The Wheels On The Bus” was written more than 70 YEARS before electronic Düsseldorfers became famous for making songs about the various forms of transportation.