Walked to see a very large hole. (Coldstone Cut, near Pately Bridge). It was windy. And windy.
Tom Sutcliffe
@tds153.bsky.social
Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week.
On tonight's BBC Front Row: One of the most exciting voices in British fiction:Jacqueline Crooks on her new novel Sky City, tribute bands with a twist, France's epidemic of museum smash & grabs, & 2 young illusionists from Now You See Me Live read my mind. 715 or link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Never get in a car with a strange carrot…. (From Imperial War Museum’s exhibition Childhood in War)
A bee that is busy. (Bombus lapidarius, Red-tailed Bumble Bee)
What terribly bad luck that they all crashed on the same spot.
WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 6d agoRussians claim they allegedly shot down 9+ Flamingo missiles over Rostov.
I somehow seem to have gone directly from Scorsese’s Taxi Driver to Michael Bay’s Bad Boys II. And I think I’ve got the bends.
Trump will probably try to bomb UEFA back to the negotiating table. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed
Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup
theguardian.com
Is modern bric-a-brac all this wildly combustible? Or do Wildberries depots stock a disproportionate inventory of firelighters, tiki torches and roman candles?
WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 6d agoLast night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Wildberries warehouse in Penza, which covers an area of 90,000 m².
An updated version of Cyrano de Bergerac where the handsome but stupid Christian uses AI to write love letters to Roxane. The AI is secretly in love with her itself but doesn't dare express its feelings because it has a really big nose.
Has Jared Leto found Jesus yet? Or is he going to see how all this shakes out before he finds the Lord?
If you missed last night‘s BBC, Front Row, do listen to Graeme Garden talking about the rebel genius that was Bill Oddie. Link below…
Samira Ahmed@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · last wk.Graeme Garden is going to talk about his friend Bill Oddie on tonight's BBC Front Row.
Enjoyed my first music festival (though I know that Latitude is just a bougie learner slope). But you can keep camping. Everything’s on the floor! And it’s so much harder to get down there than it used to be.
Just seen the fabulous Self Esteem. If you get a chance to see this show take it. Joyous.
Banana-shaped and orange-shaped snacks to be rolled out in autumn, if this snack launch goes well.
Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 2w agoSpoiler alert: it’s an apple.
Howling at this artist’s rendering of the Tate brothers’ court hearing from The Times (it’s credited to AP). This would be my strategy as a courtroom artist: always show them facing the other way.
Getting Ronaldo flashbacks from the new Charlie Kirk statue. But Ronaldo still holds the title for Worst Ever Immortalisation in Bronze, I think.
Sad to hear about Edward Stourton. I didn’t know him personally but that steady, warm voice was part of my soundscape.
“ChatGPT…remove the unsightly blemish from this picture please…”
Good grief. I’ve been doing the washing up. Something seems to be right with our ships.