Not #Scarborough

Took this picture of my wife this morning, Teesside airport on our way to Mallorca. I'm not being big headed, but think it should be on the cover of all Ryanair's promotional material. Happy to negotiate fees. #ryanair #betterthandavidbailey

Goon Pod talked to Jonathan Coe.

He chatted about his influences such as David Nobbs, B.S Johnson and Flann O'Brien and one of his earliest exposures to freewheeling comic prose via Spike Milligan's 1963 novel Puckoon. Take a listen:

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Extraordinary man, sublime talent.

And it's ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for Alan Ayckbourn's Earth Angel from The Yorkshire Post, describing it as:

"There are tears, laughter, love, hate, big ideas, division, reconciliation, small-town life, little victories and a huge heart in Earth Angel."

Only running until 11 Oct, so see it while you can!

I think there are a lot of "anyone but the Yankees" fans out there. I think Bieber is up next for us so I do have some hope.

A wild night. I'm a Jays fan so hoping we can now get it over the line, but I'm forever pessimistic.

Historic.

What a start from the big man.

Americans need to do this at scale

Been calling “AI” a financial bubble for three years now (1. “this is gonna be a bubble”, 2. “This is a bubble but hasn’t peaked yet”, 3. “This is fucking huge, what’s wrong with you all?!”) and it’s nice to see mainstream rhetoric finally shift, even if most of tech is still in some denial

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Yes, no slot element to it at all, and even then there wasn't much skill involved in driving the cars. Weird really, as there was obviously some coding talent behind it all.

The track design part was really well done, but the game itself was poor. Such a disappointment as with a bit more thought it could have been very good.

And this is fantastic news. Well done, bookshop.org!

Publication day for #IntoTheGroove!

Thanks for your patience and tolerance in the run-up to this.

I will be on BBC Radio Sheffield at 10.10 and BBC Radio Northampton at 11.40 this morning. BBC Sounds will have them up later.

And here’s me signing copies in Cover to Cover, Mumbles.

Will be interesting to see if leftish types spend quite so much time memeing virtriol during the Tory conference as they are during the Labour one.

Lewis Hamilton was truly devoted to his bulldog - so, even if you don’t have pets, as I don’t, you should feel able to extend to him your deepest sympathy now that Roscoe has died. This morning a mate of mine sent me this touching pic, which shows Lewis, Roscoe & yours truly.

I'm not idealistic about immigration but I would like something to be said for the idea that human existence is a good thing, that people existing is better than them not existing, that living human substance is to be prized, and that people don't have to start businesses or prop up the NHS or

Last call for the newsletter available from totally free (enter £0) or for a donation if you would like. I would love to hear your views of the new format. Go to payhip.com/b/DQzbO

There are no words to describe how happy shit like this makes me. Absolutely masterful set-up and reveal from 1:07. I howled

Not my birthday but I can see that my post could confuse!

Five sheep standing on a little hill and going "what the actual fuck"

So exhausting..