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Love how 'good service' covers a range of meanings including a 20 minute wait at Canada Water

I feel I would make exactly the same kind of gurning expressions as Joanne if I were on this programme #CelebrityTraitors

Is Ed Gamble aiming for the 'Peeta doing his propaganda broadcast in Hunger Games 3' look in the Uncloaked trailer

Oh damn it's as bad as expected: If you are running anything on PHP turn it the hell off RIGHT NOW until you can patch it. Yes this means every single Wordpress, Drupal, and Wikimedia install. www.wiz.io/blog/php2she...

I have managed to finish this, after... looking at the grid 🫠 (still not sure of a couple of parsings but I am Closing The Tab Now)

Struggling with the Genius xword this month, after finishing the last two 😭 Maybe 6 clues solved so far in 2 weeks? Ooof

Ooo they're getting rid of the leap second www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026...

Octo and Eris are playing all the banger genres: -Rave Submarine -Countdown Clock Acid -Stomping through the Swamp -Detroit But More Fun -What If We Played The Oboe Through A 303

My finest ever work. I wrote it on a treadmill in a gym, recording each title, as I thought of them, into the notes app.

Considering putting the heating on

Bit late to the party here but The Correspondent is pretty good, isn't it. Certainly feel inspired to barge my way into an English Literature seminar

peelsessions.club had a little bit of fun building this tonight after I got really, really into post-punk's heydey again recently

B&Q playing Patrice Rushen's Haven't You Heard = somehow bought six paint tester pots instead of my planned three

Having a nice Friday afternoon listening to World Domination Enterprises www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPKr...

To elaborate on that last repost, eimi – cryptics editor at the Indy – is gauging interest in an independent follow-up to the Independent crossword Email trulyindependentcrosswords@gmail.com with the subject line “truly” Comment #152 on the fifteensquared blog fifteensquared.net/2026/09/21/i...

Come see Murder Bridge do a karaoke set of our own songs at Bingo Masters Breakout @ the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon tonight! I'm bringing the badges

Insane xword from Brendan in today's Grau (complimentary)

sometimes the goal of science is to help us begin to understand the mystery and complexity of this astounding universe and sometimes the goal is to simply improve the human experience

I'm eating a burrito #burrito

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

HOOTING each time I see the Drag Race Down Under girls carefully deliberating over, then choosing, a very obviously wooden lipstick

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

BEEP BEEP

Seeing humans do well at sports! And also seeing them do badly

I know better than to look directly at astral phenomena www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrin...

Here’s another sample clue from issue 4, this one from Crenditi, the ‘nom de croix’ of @juffowup.bsky.social and @longyfan.bsky.social for their UK collabs: 'Frick’ (not ‘f**k’) is written after other bad language (8) Not ordered yet? It’s still available [currently UK only] at unchcrosswords.com

Cor managed to 100% solve this month's Graux Genius, maybe I'm getting the hang of these

I was asked about my favourite films this other day, and this speculative one has to be up there

Listening to the import version of Since I Left You for... possibly the first time? The extra sample sections are easy to spot but I can see why they didn't bother clearing them all

Still five more hours of July *taps watch*

Solidarity with all our siblings at Trans Pride today - the haters are obviously jealous at how fabulous you all are

Tough week for various reasons but the prospect of watching swimming with Scots Gaelic commentary is immensely cheering

There seems to have been a lot of July so far, and yet there is still another week and a half of July left?

New RB - I think I like this better than the last single? (video not particularly SFW) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6Z...

THE WORLD IS A GLOBAL ENTITY NOW - M Pougatch channelling @jennyholzer.bsky.social

Incredible overnight sporting result!

Black eggs perfec t size to put baby in to nap! inside very soft and comfort baby sleep soundly put baby in eggs. no problems ever in eggs because good shape and support for baby neck weak of big baby head. can trust black eggs for giveing good love to baby. friend mysterious black eggs.

Apparently coconut macaroons are not part of your five a day, even if you eat the whole packet