My parents would kill this robot with hammers, I can tell you that much

Meet Robert the robot looking after Vera, 74, in her own home

At least a thousand people across England use the droids, health tech company Cera says.

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Increasingly I think the two genders might be those who watch Slow Horses for the fart scenes and those who watch it despite the fart scenes.

I really enjoyed May We Feed The King but the top review of it on Goodreads still made me laugh.

Had a meeting with a lawyer this afternoon. Needed a drink afterwards and as luck would have it there was a bar next door.

SO glad all the phones went off with that civil alert last night so that I was better prepared for *checks skies* it being slightly overcast this morning

Whoa. Opened Bluesky, first four posts are about Choosin' Texas, a song of which I had not heard until four posts ago. One of these posts says that anyone who says they haven't heard of Choosin' Texas is lying. What is happening

By the pricking of my thumbs, something fucking wicked this way comes.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

I'm very much not recommending you watch the latest season of Ted Lasso, but credit where it's due, there was a Pinter joke in it just now.

Apparently in the parlance of our times we are to say someone keeps repeating something 'like a broken CD'. Did CDs even do this? I feel like broken CDs skipped ahead.

Back from extremely challenging but bizarrely enjoyable French class. A properly diverse group of ages and backgrounds, all of us fumbling with latent skill ('extremely rusty A level' was the norm) and laughing at our own inability to remember very basic words. Everyone do classes!!

Now that the child has landed in London, where she knows nothing and nobody, I've promoted from world's most embarrassing parent to Cool Mum. Today's module was Soho streets from Greek to Poland (Going For Dinner With Billie Piper)…

If I enjoyed the riches of an earl I would fork out for a decent typeface or two but that's just me

All the Cusk chat making me think I should give her another go. I read the first one BITD and thought she came across like someone you were at university with who was a right piece of work and then my friend said 'I was at university with her and she was a right piece of work' so that was that.

this is fantastic and I learned something new

Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline

I recently changed my youthful, glamorous, highly filtered photo on LinkedIn to a mumsy middle-aged one that better reflects reality, and since then i've had three job offers. I don't know what the lesson is here. Is pity-hiring a thing now?

I say this with love, but the seam of Passport to Pimlico jokes has now been mined to extreme depletion.

Apple Santa has been!

Stellbound: Stellraiser II@antlervel.vet · 11mo ago

Slow Horses is so cool I wish England was real

Right. So. Back from the airport run to the empty nest then.

Kermit The Frog Says Nah

ALT: Kermit The Frog Says Nah

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I was in no way ready for Christian Bale's real voice.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3w ago

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

How are we writing the plural of 'pre', ie the drink that the young people have before they go out to drink in earnest? The teenagers are mocking me ('aren't you supposed to be an editor?') and I need to save face asap pls thnx

Doing my bit on behalf of the four of us on bluesky who are actually from Cheltenham.

Boothby Graffoe@boothbygraffoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's not easy selling tickets for a Cheltenham gig on a platform that's 50% Americans but I'm giving it a go. Me & Antonio Forcione are at the Cheltenham Playhouse this Friday 11th. Antonio is the most amazing guitar player you'll ever see & I sit next to him. What's not to like? wotitalian.com

Curious thing about Oslo is you get off the train and the Royal Palace is just there, with the Parliament buildings facing it, no gates, no walls. You can walk right up to them. Knock on the door. Cut a dodgy business deal with a crown prince. Have a cardamom bun.

If you never learn another thing, I recommend you learn the Spanish for Wuthering Heights.

The Vivisectors – stick or twist?

The only thing worse than forgetting what a frying faff all aubergine dishes are is forgetting what a frying faff all aubergine dishes are, spending two hours making a parmigiana and then learning the person you made it for doesn't like aubergines. Have gone back to bed with book.

I know people "sickened by E.coli" isn't funny but also it is, you have to admit, quite funny

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w ago

The total number of people sickened by E. coli linked to recalled frozen blueberries has increased to 17, the FDA said in an update on Thursday. The affected products, which were distributed to 19 states and to retailers like Walmart and Publix, were recalled starting in July.

Not sure Marina Hyde understands her core constituency

What I love about Bluesky is that the most ridiculous and smartest people in the room are often the same people. Anyway, here's Possible Cabbage discussing the transcendental nature of Liouville's constant with Giant Piss Baby.