Tim Lawrie
@mouse90.bsky.social
Music, Doctor Who, nice things wot I like
Artists need to stop putting their song/album titles in all lower case or all upper case. It's been a trend for like a decade now and it's just stupid. It doesn't mean anything.
So Reform have launched an app that tracks small boats arriving in the UK in real time, and already their supporters are complaining that it's boring because there are hardly any boats. They are SO close to getting it.
I literally can't think of anything more unutterably evil than deliberately preventing lifeboats from going out to sea. Just monstrous.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 24h agoLifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
bbc.com
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
Marillion opened with “Gaza” tonight, which obviously had added resonance. They dedicated it to Ed Sheeran 😆
Anxiety / headspace-clearing album recommendations please, Bluesky
If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.
I’ve always thought that “AI” was a con and, when the bubble bursts, all the investors will find is a tin can with a string stuck to it and the apparent geniuses who foisted it onto people gone with a considerable bank balance. That’s what I’m getting from all these headlines
Last night, I left my phone under my pillow. This morning, it was gone, and there was a pound coin in its place. Damn Bluetooth Fairy.
GENESIS FANS KLAXON! Almost 50 years on, here's some very watchable Super 8 footage from the Wind & Wuthering tour captured by Bill Wilson, only 14 at the time! The close shots during Afterglow/I Know What I Like are brilliant. Imagine what else could be out there... www.youtube.com/watch?v=luvt...
Genesis - Live in Hartford, CT (February 25th, 1977) - Super 8 Film
YouTube video by Classic Rock Media Archive
youtube.com
Dismayed by defeat of the assisted dying bill. Nothing was won today – no new palliative care funding, no new disability support. And the suffering that brought this bill to parliament remains.
Things I was frightened of as a child: The Hood from Thunderbirds The Ghosts episode of Tugs Germs Asteroids Acid The news The Ark of the Covenant
Si Hart@sihart.bsky.social · 7d agoThings I was frightened of as a child: The cylinder opening sequence in Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds The Open University ident The tone when the BBC went into shutdown after lunch Heights The cupboards on the landing at night after Earthshock was on. Semolina by Dave Langford
Trying to settle with some Star Trek TOS to celebrate its 60th Anniversary. What a wonderful, ridiculous programme. And one that grew into things even more ridiculous and wonderful with the decades. Live long and prosper
Two windmills are standing in a wind farm. One asks, "What’s your favorite kind of music?" The other says, "I’m a big metal fan."
Need confirmation that the Bayeux Tapestry is in the correct 7000:50 aspect ratio