David Sim

Ah yes, that great Billy Wilder film noir Double and Dumpty.

When you get a notification on Facebook and it’s just that another one of your idiot friends has signed up for Meta AI.

nigella.comChicken BarleyThis thick, creamy pottage, somewhere cosily between a stew and a slightly soupy, sticky risotto, offers instant comfort. This is the sort of food that gets left behind in the Instagram age: not prett...

Chicken barley, like all @nigella.bsky.social one-pot chicken soupy stews, is delicious, simple, flexible and forgiving. Chuck in any veg you’ve got: I had half a butternut, a fennel bulb, some cabbage and a few slightly shrivelled mushrooms. Worked out perfectly. www.nigella.com/recipes/chic...

I knew about some flag weirdnesses. But it’s great to see them all laid out in one chart. Never again will I confuse 🇷🇴 and 🇹🇩. Or 🇮🇩 and 🇲🇨.

Pat O'Leary@patoleary.bsky.social

If nothing else, it shows the Irish flag in its proper ratio 1:2. It annoys me when they use 3:4!

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Interview with @jeaniefinlay.com regarding her documentary All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea, about the industrial pollution decimating the north-east coast’s ecosystem #AllRiversSpill

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My local bins are giving me: Stan Laurel? Donald Trump?

It’s Spain‘s national day, and we have perfect view from our balcony

I see the football people are angry.

Cuban motion = havana shit #strictly

Cloud balancing. #madrid

I went to the same school as Richard E Grant. (Yes, the one in Swaziland he doesn’t stop going on about. Great school.)

“What a piece of fucking work is a man!”

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social

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

“If you fuck us, do we not bleed?”

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social

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

“Though she be but little, she is fucking fierce.”

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social

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

Nut the crack. #vito #strictly

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”

I have just started re-watching breaking bad (third time). And I’m shocked by the spelling of hydrofluoric acid. It is not “hydroflouric”.

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A warning about the supposed final Fall album that’s coming out soon: it is NOT a real Fall album, it’s just Mark E Smith rambling nonsense over music that has no connection to the vocal

My laptop camera suddenly stopped working this afternoon. I googled everything I could, used ChatGPT, installed drivers, uninstalled devices, did a hard reset, went into device manager, terminal, the bios, oh, I don’t even know how to describe half of what I did. But nothing worked.

And then I found the solution, and it was so unbelievably simple.

I pressed the bezel around the camera and it immediately popped up in device manager: it was obviously just a loose connection.

Waiting for @john-self.bsky.social to post #stupidgame re today’s connections

21 Sept

My Top 5 Albums On The Day I Turned 18 (Reconstructed) The Human League: Dare Blondie: The Best of Blondie John Lennon: Imagine Soft Cell: Non Stop Erotic Cabaret Peach: On Lion for Evolution

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social

My Top 5 Albums On The Day I Turned 18 (Reconstructed) Public Enemy, IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK Pixies, DOOLITTLE The Smiths, THE QUEEN IS DEAD Pet Shop Boys, INTROSPECTIVE feel like I'm forgetting something vital for the fifth one but I'll say Carter USM, 30SOMETHING

21 Sept

“On *Loan* for Evolution”

20 Sept

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you’ll accept as a bribe.

Anne Billson@annebillson.bsky.social

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.

20 Sept

Never much of a gamer, but i was obsessed with this version of Batman on the Spectrum. (Not the other, better-known one.)

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20 Sept

About, oh I don’t know, remaining. #ios27

19 Sept

Spent the morning at the Madrid Air Museum (Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica / Museo del Aire). Highly recommended.

18 Sept

The rest is politics theme tune: jeepers creepers, where’d’ya get those peepers. The rest is politics US theme tune: gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight, take me through the darkness to the break of the day.

17 Sept

The most beautiful skies, as a matter of fact Uh, the sunsets were Purple and red and yellow and on fire

16 Sept

My dark side.

15 Sept

When a long the hot summer gives you tomatoes, make @nigella.bsky.social moonblush tomatoes. www.nigella.com/recipes/moon...

15 Sept

Menudo.

don't hug me I'm porksweats@porksweats.bsky.social

who is your favorite ship of theseus band

12 Sept

Well done, me! I’m just about to board my second flight of the day, taking me back to Madrid, after a 12-day, three-location holiday (Munich, Salzburg and Ljubljana) with trains or buses between each. I didn’t miss a single one or confuse any checkout dates (unlike last year).

12 Sept

Today was risky: minibus 120km from Ljubljana to Trieste airport, flight to Seville, exit airport and reenter for flight to Madrid, with minimal time at each airport. Thankfully, the traffic wasn’t bad, and the first flight arrived ahead of schedule. Sign me up for race across the world!

Postojna cave. The journey begins with a dizzying train ride through narrow tunnels, opening out into giant cathedrals with towering organ pipes. But they all go whizzing by so fast. I’m amazed no one has had their brains bashed out. Bet a few phones have been smashed, though.

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It’s vast.

Finally, another super-fast train ride back to the entrance, wincing and ducking every time we scraped under a low arch.

After that, you and thousands of others get to follow a path through some of the more spectacular caverns. After a while, I managed to leave the crowds behind.

9 Sept

Protest in Ljubljana* tonight after Israel opened its first embassy in Slovenia. *Literally outside my holiday rental.

9 Sept

9 Sept

Today: Lake Bled, and the World Master Rowing Regatta.

8 Sept

Dobrodošli v Sloveniji! [its been a while since I added another country to my personal world map]

7 Sept

Just visited the Werfen ice cave (Eisriesenwelt). And WOW! It’s incredible.

6 Sept

Just walked up Gaisberg. The hills are alive with the sound of wheezing.

5 Sept

Spotted in a Munich window: Fans of Herge’s Tintin will love Aurélien Reichert’s collages

5 Sept

Salzburg beer hall. Woman on opposite table has spent ten minutes creating content about her currywurst. General shots. Close ups. Selfie stick full extended distant shots. Reaction shots. Pretend eating shots. Smiles! Gasps! Curiosity! Disgust! Whimsy! She hasn’t yet eaten a bit of it.

5 Sept

Salzburg. Seems ok so far.

3 Sept

I’m in Munich. Watching a woman chainsmoke. Five in a row so far, lighting one from the other. It looked like she had a box of 55 cigarettes. I googled, and sure enough, Germany sells boxes of 55. And 77.

1 Sept

I fell in love with a hopeless case.