Illuminatus
@illuminatus.bsky.social
Politor merdarum. Septentrionarius. Software wrangler. Transmitter of “Low quality thoughts.” https://www.gestaltweb.me.uk/
Bluesky is not a "Pat Coombs bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Peggy Mount fans get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.
ChinnyVision@chinnyvision.bsky.social · 11h agoBluesky is not a "Crossroads bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Coronation Street fans get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.
Especially if you're from the Home Counties
Sanjeev Kohli@govindajeggy.bsky.social · 11h agoIt's Britain. We don’t call them asteroids. We call them arseteroids
It's Britain. We don’t call them asteroids. We call them arseteroids
Critics and fans can be weird "I want you to continue doing exactly what it was about the thing I first discovered about you that I found interesting and liked. I will consider you not continuing to that as an act of personal betrayal, and will bang on endlessly to the world about it."
Luke Haines@lukehaines.bsky.social · yesterdayCopping flak from the rock grandads today. I don't write those old angsty Auteurs songs anymore. I was 25. I'm 58. I do what I want. Do you? Still scrapping it out for 200 words and £50? If you like the old angsty stuff you could get into BBR - like the kids (200 mil streams and counting, dad)
Is there a junction the BBC won’t show this bloody Romesh thing in? A quick way to make people dislike it, which is sad.
Philosophers used to moan about the assumption that things are only real if you could measure them. But honestly that’s a lot better than the assumption now that things are only real if you can monetise them.
The shark and his mate want to go to a nudist camp and try to get their girlfriends to go to, but when they get there it’s just a normal campsite. Then some young school sharks turn up, give the main two sharks the come on before running off with some hippy sharks.
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
I am in the middle of some work on some web-based stuff in a dev environment. Can I just say that I fucking hate Oracle with a screaming intensity right now, and hope Larry Ellison gets really terrible painful chalfonts. And scrofula.
Home at last! I had an amazing time with @bobfischer.bsky.social in Colchester and Bungay over the weekend for our Folk Horror shows. The Black Shuck Festival was one to remember! Stay tuned for news of more shows later this year...
This! Fabulous time on the road.
Scarred For Life@scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2d agoHome at last! I had an amazing time with @bobfischer.bsky.social in Colchester and Bungay over the weekend for our Folk Horror shows. The Black Shuck Festival was one to remember! Stay tuned for news of more shows later this year...
Oops. www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...
NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data
The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ...
publictechnology.net
When hacks talk about a hack being 'hilarious' and you think, 'If you ever heard any actual comedy you'd fucking burst.'
You can tell it's the 80s. Frank's hair is looking less First Doctor/latter day Blair than it was in Patrick's day #CallMyBluff
It’s a new episode of the (British Podcast Awards Comedy Longlisted) Listen Through the Brown Window!
No poncing around on backstory or inserts. Just crack on with answering proper questions #Mastermind
How can 15 points be a combined winning #Mastermind heat score? What kind of country is this now?
Request for anyone who has a copy of #TerryPratchett #SmallGods that is more recent than my Corgi 1993 paperback. Page 248 says as below, but I feel there may be a typographical error and ‘God’ should be in the plural. Has that one been carried over to later editions, I am wondering? #Discworld
Sadly, there's no more. RIP Jimmy Cricket. Worth watching @herring1967.bsky.social's RHLSTP from a few years back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHAO...
Jimmy Cricket - RHLSTP #225
YouTube video by Richard Herring
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Your Monday edition is en route. In the meantime, why not check out our second of two great weekend reads? This one's a brilliant personal essay by David Lloyd, recounting his time in the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit. www.livpost.co.uk/i-was-nt-a-t...
I Was(n’t) a Teenage Pop Star
My time as a Half Man Half Biscuit
livpost.co.uk
"He brought so much laughter and happiness to countless audiences". Comedian Jimmy Cricket has died aged 80. www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/...
Jimmy Cricket dies aged 80 - British Comedy Guide
James Mulgrew, the comedian who performed as Jimmy Cricket, has died after a short illness.
comedy.co.uk
Life lessons for today: would you rather be remembered like Jimmy Cricket, or Rod Liddle? It's not hard to answer is it?
LF Lightning-Barugh@cheeseford.bsky.social · 2d agoI know a lot of people who knew Jimmy Cricket, and they all say he was as lovely as you'd imagine and hope.
I know a lot of people who knew Jimmy Cricket, and they all say he was as lovely as you'd imagine and hope.
waltydunlop@waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d agoI once sat in a pub beer garden during festival time in Edinburgh, and the time I was there coincided with the audience from a Jimmy Cricket show spilling out and into the pub grounds. I swear, you never saw such a silly, delighted, just downright *happy* bunch of people. Not a bad old epitaph.
