Grrr Booley

If only there were a Nobel Prize for heckling

On Life Goals Middlesbrough fan @danielgraywriter - editor of @nutmegmagazine, host of the @WSC_magazine pod, writer of ace football books including the new ‘Fanzine: The Story of Football's Alternative Press’ - talks me thru the goals of his life #boro theodelaney.com/life-goals-lin…

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The claims were made on trips to London almost always paid for by the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA), chaired by Houchen and covering one of Britain’s most deprived regions.

Taken with claims for 19 days on which he has registered a vote or spoken (three times, including on his introduction to the House as Baron Houchen of High Leven), the total up to July comes to £33,260.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

"A telepathic nymphomaniac twin possessing one half of a vital formula...a vulture trained to eat living prey...a gunfight amongst priceless antiques" blurb from a 1960s Pan paperback. Publishers knew how to sell books back then.

67 Years Ago Today: Linus mentions the "Great Pumpkin" for the first time! ~ "This is the time of year when we all write to the "Great Pumpkin" and tell him what we want for Halloween." ~ Linus van Pelt (Classic Peanuts - October 26, 1959) 🎃 #Pumpkin #History #NationalPumpkinDay

Fellow Teesside weirdies! We are bringing the all new @scarredforlife.bsky.social Christmas show to ARC in Stockton on Wed 16th December, it's only just gone onsale, and it's selling really quickly. Join Ste Brotherstone and me for a nostalgic festive ramble... arconline.co.uk/whats-on/sca...

Tell you what's really good for recovering from anxiety and depression, financial instability.

Pretty sure the top one is the stolen head of one of the mummies St Mitchan's that got set on fire

WATCH OUT FOR YOUR PURSE: This early 70s PIF warns housewives to keep an eye on their purses whilst shopping. Judging by the looks they're giving him, that purse snatcher is what passed for sexy in the 70s.

Looking for Xmas stuff and I'd forgotten about this beauty amzn.eu/d/0eGwocwH

The French army once had a marching-band-battle with one hired by Adolph Sax. Sax was trying to prove that the Saxophone was the perfect combat music/marching instrument. As military instruments and music was where all the money was. the French military band establishment were trying to stop him.

Posted without comment #Braziliant #Borocelona #Boro #UTB

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KNIGHTMARE IS BACK! An official point-and click adventure game based on the classic TV series - with actors from the original show. Coming 2027. www.knightmaregame.co.uk And just remember - it's only a game...isn't it? #indiedev #adventuregame

STEVE McQUEEN’s (in)famous 1972 mugshot, taken after he got a little carried away in Anchorage — Alaska.

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

"Middlesbrough" 80s #middlesbroughfc #middlesbrough #boro #mfc #england #football #soccer #retro #vintage #80s #photography #art #portrait #news #footballnews #footballculture #culture #bluesky #viral #fyp #calcio #fútbol #futebol #futbo #fotboll #fussball #voetbal

🔝'The best I've seen in a long time' was the verdict on Boro from one Bolton press box regular. Top of the Championship and with performances like this they can stay there. A joy. ✍️Verdict 👇 www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/266666...

FT: 5-1. Statement win: when #Boro get into gear they can play some blistering football. Sublime movement & passing, brilliant goals, zest, spirit, grit. What a team. Joyful. But for their keeper could have been a total filleting. Top of the league* #UTB

Good luck tonight #Boro - and safe journey home to everyone

Your Friday night Boro 🔴

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

I wish I could die happily in my sleep like my grandad did. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

View of Rochdale Canal from Princess Street at night - Manchester #RochdaleCanal #canal #manchester #nightphotography #cityscape #scape #classicMono

Here's me and @bobfischer.bsky.social on BBC Radio Derby yesterday afternoon, talking to the lovely Ian Skye about next week's Folk Horror show at the Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent! Pop along if you fancy a fun evening about rural nightmares... Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36

Why Lowe is a much more dangerous influence on British politics than many people seem willing to admit.

What happened to pub quiz machines? Four blokes huddled around a bleeping cabinet, pints in hand, all shouting "D! D! It's D - MARTIN FUCKING PETERS!" then groaning in unison when the bloke on the buttons goes rogue and presses "C - BOBBY CHARLTON". It all seemed to vanish overnight in about 2009.

CHRISTMAS TOUR! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social have got December wrapped up - tickets now onsale for our brand-new festive show! It's a selection box of dark Yuletide pop culture, with Box of Delights, K-9 & Company, Christmas ghost stories, Blake's 7, EastEnders, and much more! bit.ly/4ibJ7PU

NEW in our digital archive: Explore a golden age of gaming with the Colin Williamson photography collection, featuring over 300 photos from game events and culture in 2000s Japan. 📸🗾 https://gamehistory.org/williamson-photos/

Nationalise SpaceX and let the rest incl Twitter burn.

Also, the stuff on Radio4 Extra will NOT remain on Sounds when the service is scrapped. A repeat of my audio drama on the station remained for just 30 days on Sounds, as it had when broadcast on R4. It's not available anywhere now cough. www.mixcloud.com/espeee/the-h...

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

Something I wrote about the sex lives of sheep. Yes, really... eyesandearsnortheast.substack.com/p/passion-pr...

"Hey, guys. This is my cousin Deborah. She's from Hartlepool" #Dinosaurs #Cousins #Science #Paleontology

It’s all in this weeks Radio Times! 📻

PS: In answer to a question, I know of no non-deceptive, ethical reason why a crypto-based firm would engage in the kind of activity that the WSJ claims to have uncovered with ADI Predictstreet. The volume of transactions, in actual and % terms, is so huge it can only be for disreputable purposes.

6: Regulators in several countries immediately moved to block ADI Predictstreet, Fifa’s $150m prediction market sponsor, for operating illegally on the very day it went live. josimarfootball.com/2026/06/08/f...

Maxïmo is going to the Town Hall, Kasabian to the Student’s Union.

Yeah, the Faulkners have sold it, it’s going to be closed for at least a year after November. They’ve moved out the Maxïmo and Kasabian gigs.