Vox pops really are the laziest and ridiculous form of reporting. Let's amplify the most uninformed and small minded opinions!

These small plastic pellets are called #nurdles. After a ship collided with a crane on the #Tyne, these are washing up in South Shields and have now been seen on the beaches of North #Tyneside. Keep your kids and animals away from them.

This week's Men's Pie Club recipe was from #Curaçao. Keshi Yena is supposed to be served in a hollowed out Dutch cheese, so I had to adapt it. Very good.

Ground elder is a curse in the garden. But it was originally introduced as a leafy vegetable by the Romans. So I have made ravioli stuffed with ricotta, parmesan, and ground elder. Not bad at all. #food #cookery

To celebrate #CaboVerde's magnificent performances at the #WorldCup, we made a Cabo Verdean feijoada pie at this week's Mens Pie Club. Mmmm pies 😋

Ducks in the parent and toddler parking area. Ducks do what they want.

Eh?

It's fair to say that about a third of Americans are as thick as mince, are nasty, and bigoted. Is this a standard global percentage that applies everywhere? I'd like to be smug but I do suspect that a third of the people here in the UK are as stupid and awful too.

Yeah, it's puerile but an accumulation of attacks on Reform is OK by me.

I don't think there's any beavers, but here's Randy Bell End, near Runswick Bay in North Yorkshire.

Pablo #Picasso never got called an asshole Not like you. Street art in #Málaga.

Went to the Whitley Bay v North Shields match last night (the third El Coastico of the season). Went to bed thinking Whitley Bay had won 2-0. Woke up this morning to find it had finished 2-1. 🤷🏻‍♂️

A genealogy website I use has a lookalike feature. Yep, me and Johannes Kepler is its best guess.

This app turns everything into glorious LinkedIn speak. "I went to the supermarket"

Trickle down economics. A cartoon by Tjeerd Royards

Trebles all round for the disaster capitalists

Saw David Byrne last night in Glasgow. It was a fantastic gig, truly euphoric and joyous. I'm so jealous of the people who are yet to see him on the rest of the tour. It's fabulous.

The UK's most laughable columnist (from a strong field) is rightly mocked. Create your own doom mongering headline here stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

My painting of a #trilobite* might not be very good and it looks like a poo (to be fair, the fossil looks like a poo), but at least I created it and it's not #AIslop. Make art ✊ *The best fossil class.

Age verification? In my first job, data was encoded onto punch tape. I was able to read it.

Whole roast spiced cauliflower on a herby, nutty rice, with a tahini dressing. I even managed to get some tahdig on the rice. ✊ Taken from Meera Sodha's wonderful book, Dinner.

Fifty odd pages in, really excellent and very readable 👍

Grifters gonna grift

Shot in one of my local pubs. A classic series.

Neither Stuart Maconie nor Mark Radcliffe will get their hands on these. Brets might be one of the best crisp brands.

Spent the morning at the wonderful Big River Bakery in Shieldfield learning how to make the north eastern classic stottie. Smells divine

If you genuinely think that this is about security, then I have a fabulous bridge that you might like to buy. I'll chuck a lovely big metal tower in for free.

Your house? 🤔

I was in my local pub the other day and I was thrilled to see this graffiti. Not because I liked the Butthole Surfers, but because at least one other person remembers them.

I know they were people who loved this, but honestly, what a dreadful mess of chaotic bollocks. I would have left if there hadn't been so people between me and the aisle.