matthewcr

Sitting at home with a cold listening to the Norwich fans singing at Charlton carrying over with the wind and rain.

It's a way away but loud. It's quite weird. Apparently the sound waves are pushed downwards by wind or something, hence the effect

Moth Winn

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Starting the campaign to put Will Self in Star Wars. Imagine this guy in imperial garb. Grand Moff Vocab, force-choked by Vader for talking about the haecceity of R2-D2

any other suggestions for recasting Star Wars with contemporary writers? Sally Rooney as a resistance princess seems a gimme. Richard Osman can be Chewie I guess

Anybody need a picture of James Acaster getting his GCSEs?

#Guesswherelondon

This was upstairs at the Betsey Trotwood, where we just put in a very middling performance in the books quiz

Thought the £47.87 price for Amol Rajan's entry level membership tier might be related to his date of birth. But that seems to be 4 July 83. Maybe it's a typo

standard day in Richmond park

Local fox this afternoon

Matt Smith as Prince Phillip in The Crown. So yes, this is TV. but he did kill Diana

Daniel Radosh@radosh.bsky.social

My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"

Opted for a table on the train for legroom purposes and am now hemmed in by Ipswich fans with cans. Fml

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Thom

@thwphipps.bsky.social

Something undignified about BBC1 - the FLAGSHIP CHANNEL - broadcasting something proudly referring to itself as a "video podcast"

Maybe this could be adapted for tv. Celebrity sausage house. Last one scarfing. One banger after another

matthewcr@matthewcr.bsky.social

mention of the brutal 1000 sausage challenge that followed

Christa Pike now benching 300

Presumably the first anagram of arse cannon to win a Nobel prize

Inspired by a mutual to read this again. Feels like sitting down to eat an entire wedding cake

West, to the Reading 'we have the Bayeux Tapestry at home' museum. Also, the Museum of English Rural Life

Drench time! Let's have a drench

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Drench held illimitable dominion over all.

End of an era in Woolwich

Rewatching late nineties police drama The Cops (iPlayer), it holds up pretty well

youtu.beDwarf Fortress - Dwarf Fortress Mode themeYouTube video by StarmanSuper00

NP some of the greatest computer game music ever - the sad, spooky theme from Dwarf Fortress youtu.be/-6FXeupOp04?...

I have breakfasted on a prawn cocktail and two hot cross buns, like someone desperately signalling to their Moscow handlers

JAMES BOND WILL RETURN IN THE

I stand corrected, this was of course part of a Ludlum franchise bsky.app/profile/mark...

Marktech@marktech.bsky.social

Can think of one job interview where I should have arrived with an iced coffee/knickerbocker glory/Asterix-style roast boar if only to distract from the fact I'd just been caught in a biblical downpour with no brolly and was completely sodden from head to toe.

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Robert Francis

@birdhistory.bsky.social

List of Individual Birds is my favorite Wikipedia page

Whales in the Thames klaxon

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk

The Port of London Authority says that a pod of approximately 25 long-finned pilot whales has been reported within the River Thames east of Gravesend. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is monitoring them and keeping boats away.

though these are more big dolphins

Local sticker scene. Maybe related to drugs. Or cribbage?

Saw and heard loads of these beauts (nutcrackers) on holiday. Maybe the iconic sound of the alps/dolomites for me (ahead of cowbells, marmot whistles, and the satisfying bloop upon ingress to the chairlifts).

Odd feeling leaving the house just now, like the clouds haven't moved at all since 6pm yesterday

Deja cu-mulus

18 Sept

this promo shot for celebrity masterchef feels like an invite to a cannibal dinner party

18 Sept

still off work so gone to Leigh-on-sea