My God, the plastic media Citeh fans are out in force at the Guardian. I remember when the side was crap; we both went down to League 1/Div 2 together. Not sure proper fans will have any issue ‘knowing how to feel’. I know how I’d feel. Like it was all a strange fever dream.

If Citeh are fully guilty (looks like it), then we won the FA Cup in 2011. #goarnstoke

Ball & Biscuit - White Stripes My Father My King - Mogwai United States - Smashing Pumpkins God Is In The Radio - QOTSA Nobody Loves Me & Neither Do I - Them Crooked Vultures Toys Toys Toys Choke Toys - Biffy Clyro Stockholm Syndrome - Muse One from the 90s: Heard You Looking - Yo La Tengo

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 6d ago

have there been any truly great electric guitar solos this century, if so what?

Every day, we move further from God’s light.

IGN@ign.com · 3d ago

Kraft Dinner Canada has revealed a new limited-time cream soda with a "subtle hint" of its iconic mac & cheese flavor, in collaboration with with Solly's Craft Soda.

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

Gazing into the slop bucket of the business cosplay site. One word equity is apparently back. TURN IT OFF AND ON AGAIN.

The greatest repositioning i've read (at least this year), from @soverybritish.bsky.social.

Commuters! Laptop warriors! People who have to travel with a rucksack for more than 90m! My rucksack (Stubble, so so quality) is dying/would not buy again. What should I get to replace it? Points for good straps.

Wearing red trousers whilst listening to Jagged Little Pill, because I contain multitudes.

My current employer, as a Grown Up Place, checked my work history. About three quarters of the agencies i've worked for either don't exist or have been renamed.

Andrew Carrier 🍸@andrewcarrier.com · 4d ago

I’d be more impressed if they found a way to eliminate the humble brag.

All primary school: 1) Our head teacher brandishing a toilet seat to encourage more hygenic toilet use. 2) Someone fainted (standard). 3) Our class being forced to perform a environmental 'dance' to 'Heal the World' by Michael Jackson. I made an excellent tree.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bizarre things that happened in your assembly: A neighbour of one of the teachers gave us a five-minute lecture about kwashiorkor which involved him reciting a list of his favourite words (yes, ‘kwashiorkor’ was one of them). Included the unforgettable phrase, “Diarrhoea, another beautiful word.”

This afternoon's lunchtime musing: Surely every pet is an emotional support pet?

I don't want to go on the jabs, I don't want to outsource my thinking to AI, I don't want AI recommendations, I don't want endless franchise reboots. Yes, I am having a grumpy middle aged man morning, why do you ask?

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So, i've had my wisdom teeth out. Fine at the time, ate quite a bit of icecream. What they didn't adequately warn about was the days with a dull, annoying ache in the jaw. Feels like someone's been punching me in the face overnight.

Reminder about chromosomes: XY: Male XX: Female YYY: Delilah

Come on Stoke. A quick fire double here would be great to get the most unpleasant manager in the Championship the sack. #wilder

Call it out. It’s domestic terrorism. This, and the RNLI shit.

Dee Lomas@deelomas.bsky.social · last wk.

I bring worse news. That poor woman who lives in Piddington & who @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interviewed after that ridiculous election has had her address leaked to Tommy Robinson & the Pink Ladies & she’s been doxxed by both of them. Wtaf is going on. These people all need to be proscribed now.

The internet’s ads are convinced I’m either trying to regrow hair (nul points), lose weight (nul points) or play golf (si). I’m a middle aged man based in Surrey. One out of three ain’t bad, as Meatloaf almost sang.

St Dominic’s Preview may well be the ultimate Saturday morning holding a coffee tune. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Wisdom teeth out. All four of them. I will be on the sofa eating icecream for the foreseeable. Any movie recommendations while I convalesce?

A proper government would directly challenge this and be honest about domestic terrorism.

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · last wk.

What on earth is happening?

Two pieces of copy that are both fairly insane / quite funny. At least Gail’s knows what it’s selling.

Surprised at this. Disappointing.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · last wk.

Revolving doors and political auctions. Labour peer and former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir. Palantir is trying to save its £330m NHS contract, wants more public contracts. Nick Clegg, Rishi Sunak, George Osborne and others have taken similar jobs.

HELLO, ARE YOU THE MEDIA? WE’VE HELD A VILLAGE REFERENDUM

St. Scandalbags@alfaguru.bsky.social · last wk.

We’ve held a Village referendum

What this should read is 'We needed a paycheck, so we changed industry'. Also, as someone who did this, terrifyingly, 16 years ago, PR is not any less snooty than advertising. Just much less direct.

<deep breath> WHAT BUSINESS LEADERS OR CELEBRITIES SAY TO THE MARKET OR JOURNALISTS IS SIGNALLING, PEOPLE. SIGNALLING DESIGNED TO BOOST THE SHARE PRICE / THEIR OWN POSITION. LOOK AT WHAT THEY STAND TO BENEFIT FROM. THIS STUFF ISN'T HARD; IT JUST NEEDS A MODICUM OF CRITICAL THINKING. <exhale>

I really need journalists to learn that every time OpenAI or Anthropic or xAI says that their model has broken containment and could destroy humanity that it’s a marketing pitch by companies running out of cash with high overheads and no profitable business model wanting more investment.

I sometimes think marketing is doomed to forever rediscover the same principles from the 1960s. Bright young people come in Discover principles Trumpet them Get disillusioned, don't pass them on Rinse and repeat.

'Fandoms' and 'tribes' are classic marketing hyperbole. For most people, whatever it is is a hobby. That better reflects how people interact with things. Yes, there's always some obsessive fans, but they are the 0.5%, not the mass. As a discipline, marketing loves to pander to the edge case.