Arthur Adams

It's what most people are thinking.

@herring1967.bsky.social Hey Rich! You're famous! www.facebook.com/share/p/1CKx...

@georgetakei.bsky.social

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

In the run up to the release of The Boys From Dungeon Lane, any fans of Macca or The Beatles may like to take a look at Dungeon Lane on Google Streetview for a clever bit of marketing. @eggpod.bsky.social @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

@reformexposed.bsky.social No trace of anyone of this name being born in the UK in the last 45 years.

Someone really should have checked the lyrics of Space Oddity (even if they did play an instrumental version) before they decided to use it over the closing Artemis II montage. Newsnight, To the moon and back: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002trqf

@petefirman.bsky.social You may put a false moustache on to disguise yourself on University Challenge, but you can't fool us. share.google/cj33zOqfEmxD...

New song & video: ICE ICE (Maybe) Patreon.Com/mitchbenn #mitchbenn #satire #uspolitics #presidenttrump #usapolitics #ice #jdvance #kristinoem #stephenmiller #fascism #proudboys #project2025 youtu.be/DdSqe_2FpU0?...

Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman announce their engagement. Photo credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images

30k signs in just a couple of days. Have you signed? By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

But who will help the Americans? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Does today's Strands puzzle from the @nytimes.com have anything to do with recent threats from the orange one or is it a complete coincidence? Strands #567 “Stand by me” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵

Look who came with

Oh FFS! Newspaper clickbait strikes again! btw It's Christmas Day, one of two days in the UK when all large shops must remain closed. share.google/CNCpTFvwUHnP...

Urge Farage to release his tax returns. chng.it/5BbNB64Q2W

Thick as thieves, where Trump is thick and Putin is the thief. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

@herring1967.bsky.social Your monoball status just got a mention from @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social on Only Connect.

Interview with "Speedo Mick" (in The Guardian, no less) about his life and the musical about him currently playing at the Royal Court, Liverpool. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

A thread that illustrates why Noel Skum is not as clever as he thinks he is.

Just checking to see if Bluesky really is an echo chamber. Helloooo!

@theresthistory.bsky.social Just listening to the first Rolling Stones episode and I'm sorry to have to point out that Ready Steady Go was an ITV programme and not BBC. The BBC replied a year later with Top Of The Pops.

Not normally one to blow my own trumpet, but .... Strands #366 “I just finished the first anniversary Strands puzzle!” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Perfect answer: Spangram first and no hints. www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Abandoned bicycle.

"This is not in our hemisphere, this is in your hemisphere" Sebastian Gorka on BBC Newsnight talking about the Ukraine war. I think someone should try to explain to Gorka just how geographically close Russia is to America.

If you had a time machine would you go back in time to the 1920s to stop Hitler becoming chancellor or would you go back to the early 2000s to stop Trump getting picked for The Apprentice?

Trumps motives. My theory: Impose tariffs Crash markets His cronies buy shares/stocks that are now trading at reduced prices Reduce tariffs Watch markets restabilise Value of shares/stocks increase Sell shares/stocks

Pues para no ser un pato, lo parece

Trump's inauguration speech fact checked. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

40k homes and at least 80k people without water for at least 4 days after a major supply pipe bursts in the Conwy area of Wales. Schools closed and businesses badly affected, yet the only reports I can find are from local papers & BBC Wales. No national coverage? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Someone should try to explain to Trump the difference between a windmill and a wind turbine. news.sky.com/story/donald...

www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Receding Floods Sankey Valley Park, Warrington New Year's Day

A light hearted quiz for New Year's Eve: Place The Pastry. www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/quizzes...

I'll continue to use the same opening word, so I doubt I will ever manage this again. Wordle 1,290 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

First documented conspiracy theory and subsequent mass panic.

Just in case someone needs to see this.

How much is Adrian Chiles (husband of Katherine Viner (Guardian editor, Scott Trust member and apparent driving force behind the sale of the Observer)) getting paid for this weak nonsense? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@theguardian.com and The Scott Trust Judases! Clearly this was a done deal from the day it was first announced. I will be responding in the only way possible for me, which is to cancel my subscription.

Can you spot an AI created deep fake video? I managed a dismal 2 out of 5. www.which.co.uk/news/article...

As it's a bit cold out there today, here's a photo taken during the summer of a dragonfly that came to inspect my work when I was painting our fence.

The view from our front door this evening (and we don't live in the middle of a forest or the countryside for that matter).

St John's Beacon, Liverpool against a night sky with an almost full moon.

@georgetakei.bsky.social I thought this cartoon from the UK magazine Private Eye, referencing Zulu (the 1964 Michael Caine film) might cheer you up.

Never heard of it before today, as the position of the spangram in the results shows. Strands #182 “Serve ginger-ly?” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡