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Not long now til the people close to me in real life are freed from hearing me say 'Traitors' in a mock Bristolian accent for some reason
January 22, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Not long now til the people close to me in real life are freed from hearing me say 'Traitors' in a mock Bristolian accent for some reason
Announcing contentious policies, defending them, and then climbing down is such a great way of ensuring you piss off everyone on all sides of the debate and lose the maximum amount of votes 👍
🔺 BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned plans for mandatory digital ID for workers amid concerns that it will undermine public trust in the scheme ⬇️
Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID
Scheme intended to verify someone’s right to work in the UK will be optional, government admitted in 13th U-turn since taking power
www.thetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Announcing contentious policies, defending them, and then climbing down is such a great way of ensuring you piss off everyone on all sides of the debate and lose the maximum amount of votes 👍
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Life Without Buildings will reunite to perform their 2001 album Any Other City in full this November to mark fifty years since Rough Trade opened its first record store; tickets on sale from 16 January!
Life Without Buildings to reform for one-off show to celebrate Rough Trade's 50th anniversary
Glasgow art-rock band Life Without Buildings reunite to perform their 2001 album Any Other City in full to mark fifty years since Rough Trade opened its first record store.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Life Without Buildings will reunite to perform their 2001 album Any Other City in full this November to mark fifty years since Rough Trade opened its first record store; tickets on sale from 16 January!
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in case you hadn't heard -- we finally decided the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade was an appropriate time to get back together ... been a strange ride remembering the songs!
January 13, 2026 at 4:34 PM
in case you hadn't heard -- we finally decided the 50th anniversary of Rough Trade was an appropriate time to get back together ... been a strange ride remembering the songs!
Decided to stop putting off a job I've been meaning to do for months, and restring my acoustic guitar. Now, instead of a guitar with six horrible sounding strings, I have one with four very nice sounding ones 😎
January 11, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Decided to stop putting off a job I've been meaning to do for months, and restring my acoustic guitar. Now, instead of a guitar with six horrible sounding strings, I have one with four very nice sounding ones 😎
Growing your hair out for six years as a man is, it turns out, a great way to meet and get complimented by bald, old, straight men
January 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Growing your hair out for six years as a man is, it turns out, a great way to meet and get complimented by bald, old, straight men
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One trillion of AI investment is riding on this being legal
So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
January 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM
One trillion of AI investment is riding on this being legal
Just semi-successfully retuned every single string on a 12-string guitar without getting wildly pissed off, I'm getting all my 2026 achievements out of the way early
January 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Just semi-successfully retuned every single string on a 12-string guitar without getting wildly pissed off, I'm getting all my 2026 achievements out of the way early
Merry Christmas from me and the guy who wants my toast
December 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Merry Christmas from me and the guy who wants my toast
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oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
December 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
I play an above average amount of video games, but I'm never tempted to play online because if I reached the point where anyone ever described me as a 'gamer' I would die instantly
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I play an above average amount of video games, but I'm never tempted to play online because if I reached the point where anyone ever described me as a 'gamer' I would die instantly
2x Melvins plus Dopes To Infinity in here, can't accuse me of going off brand can you
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
2x Melvins plus Dopes To Infinity in here, can't accuse me of going off brand can you
They're calling it the Biggest and Most Beautiful Waterfall we've ever seen
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
They're calling it the Biggest and Most Beautiful Waterfall we've ever seen
The faces of two unrepentant criminals who are forcing me to sit in the fucking middle of the sofa
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The faces of two unrepentant criminals who are forcing me to sit in the fucking middle of the sofa
Going to a gig tonight of a band I last saw live so long ago I blogged about it on deadjournal
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Going to a gig tonight of a band I last saw live so long ago I blogged about it on deadjournal
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This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
October 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Wait Billy Bragg is still doing the "what if we waved the flag, but progressively?" bit after the last couple of months? Bless
October 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Wait Billy Bragg is still doing the "what if we waved the flag, but progressively?" bit after the last couple of months? Bless
Think I'm gonna try and curate my experience on here a bit and try and make it more enjoyable than the other place. In that spirit I've just blocked a recent mutual who apparently mainly posts about Arsenal football club. The Arsenal quota is maxed out
September 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Think I'm gonna try and curate my experience on here a bit and try and make it more enjoyable than the other place. In that spirit I've just blocked a recent mutual who apparently mainly posts about Arsenal football club. The Arsenal quota is maxed out
Love when these things happen and random British people with 200 followers feel weirdly compelled to be like "but seriously, I actually condemn this kind of political violence in the strongest possible terms", who's that for exactly
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Love when these things happen and random British people with 200 followers feel weirdly compelled to be like "but seriously, I actually condemn this kind of political violence in the strongest possible terms", who's that for exactly
The most generous reading of Mandelson's ties to Epstein is that he was there not for paedophile reasons, but because of his long history of swanning around with very rich cunts for almost certainly corrupt purposes
September 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The most generous reading of Mandelson's ties to Epstein is that he was there not for paedophile reasons, but because of his long history of swanning around with very rich cunts for almost certainly corrupt purposes
I always work so much faster and with so much more motivation when I have next week off. Wonder if I can turn this into a business case for me to get 26 weeks of annual leave a year
September 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I always work so much faster and with so much more motivation when I have next week off. Wonder if I can turn this into a business case for me to get 26 weeks of annual leave a year
Hard to imagine there'd be any point in having a Green Party that gains the support of John Rentoul, so this feels like a big waste of everyone's time
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September 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Hard to imagine there'd be any point in having a Green Party that gains the support of John Rentoul, so this feels like a big waste of everyone's time
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I find it bizarre that we're forced to accept live-streamed genocide and are told that it's illegal to be opposed to it, but anyone who says the obvious about these guys is at best putting their account at risk and at worse potentially facing legal charges. and the obvious is: we need to kill them
Republican candidate for Governor of California Kyle Langford stands in front of a Nazi concentration camp and proposes sending unemployed and homeless individuals to be incinerated there.
July 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I find it bizarre that we're forced to accept live-streamed genocide and are told that it's illegal to be opposed to it, but anyone who says the obvious about these guys is at best putting their account at risk and at worse potentially facing legal charges. and the obvious is: we need to kill them
Logged on here and the first post I see is about a sort-of ex of mine who's now a massive obsessive TERF, fucking hell. Spoke to her for a year-ish online but never actually met because she was very obviously lying about her age
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Logged on here and the first post I see is about a sort-of ex of mine who's now a massive obsessive TERF, fucking hell. Spoke to her for a year-ish online but never actually met because she was very obviously lying about her age
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June 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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