Got a job lot of eclipse glasses. Been watching the prices go up exponentially. I reckon if I hold out til tomorrow then cash in, I’ll be a zillionaire.

Dear BBC News editorial team. Resign. Immediately. You have failed in the most basic test of unbiased objective reporting.

I had one of these (still in loft I think). Battery life was pretty awful but if you carried the big spare you could get a couple of hours. On mains power it was great. Digital input meant you could ‘backup’ CDs to DAT. 😉 I borrowed a lot of CDs from the library. Added Sony mic for live recording.

The Orange Felon has now opted to protect all data for his plane on flightradar24. No flights found. But it’s hard to hide something that distinctive. It flew in to Prestwick yesterday. Presume Eric heading for Turnberry.

My phone keeps autocorrecting ‘Islay’ to ‘Islam’. Given each one’s position re. alcohol, that’s not ideal. I’m definitely not likely to convert away from Islay.

‘UK braces for extreme heat’ says the BBC. It’s a very pleasant 16C in the part of the UK where I live, forecasting peak of 21. A nice normal June day. Just lazy & inaccurate journalism. They have a whole website, no character limit. Plenty room to say ‘parts of England & Wales’.

I have decided to become a trillionaire by selling shares in this crusty sourdough loaf which I baked this morning. I retain 50% ownership & the remaining 50% is for sale at $1/share with 1 trillion shares available. Invest now (all eating rights retained by me). Lunch was delicious: about $200Bn.

Whilst generally quite negative about AI replacing talented humans, I’m ok with this one. I have no artistic talent and can’t work photoshop. But for a daft throwaway joke, it lets me produce an image. I wouldn’t pay an artist or graphic designer to do it.

Translation: Each month I will post an AI-generated rant of right wing rabble/rousing for which the gullible morons who support me will pay a subscription fee. It’s all about the racism & the grift.

Hello BBC. You omitted the phrase ‘In the South East of England’ from this headline. It’s mild but not hot everywhere else. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... Ludicrously inaccurate London-centric view of the world. Pathetic.

Simple little metal disc. Works great. It’s not quite fine enough to handle an espresso grind (I go super fine for my machine) but same grind as I use for paper.

Reform showing their true colours in the last week of campaigning. They are evil bigots. Utter scum. And anyone voting for them is the same. There are no excuses. Hopefully this will be counter-productive and some of their less committed supporters may finally see the light.

All the above recommendations are excellent. My personal favourite is Quite Ugly One Morning which with only two words, delivers for me, the best opening sentence of anything I’ve ever read.

Regular readers of the Herald may find this hard to believe, but today we had a very pleasant day trip to Arran on the MV Caledonian Isles and tomorrow my wife has a GP appointment. The all-pervasive ‘ferries are fucked and you can’t get a GP appointment #snpbad’ narrative is complete bollocks.

Music legend and BBC journalist.

I’m guessing Encona is not so well known in USA/Canada. The absolute best.

Inviting Charlie to the 250th anniversary of independence is like inviting your ex-spouse along to celebrate the anniversary of your divorce.

Great fun to watch the Players championship with my #arccos app giving me AI strategy for how I should play the course. Recommending I hit Pitching Wedge on 17 with the following wind but smart enough to know I’d have a 56% chance of double or worse. 💦 ⛳️ 💦

The recent flights of the Emirates Airbus A380 currently on the tarmac at Glasgow & going nowhere. 1 single aircraft which typically does 2/3 cycles per day, all via Dubai. Millions in lost revenue for the airline, global travel disrupted. Multiply that by everything going through Dubai - massive.

A world without borders would be wonderful. A world without the fascist rag the Daily Mail would also be wonderful. A country which gives every citizen a home, an income & healthcare: surely that’s the minimum standard of what a state should do for its people?

Horizontal hail. Cold driving wind, but the golf practice must go on…* *from the heated covered bays. I may be keen but I am not a masochist!

4’33” later, John Cage added:

Well done Minnesota. Leipzig 1989 showed what large numbers of good & brave people can achieve.

So much losing. I pity the poor losers who invested their money in this energy supplier which keeps building more wind farms. LOSERS!

It’s not unheard of, but it is unusual for Air Force One to be visible on Flightradar24. fr24.com/AF1/3dfeafba

Orion with a hint of Aurora.

Photo editors of Bluesky - do your thing.

While we’re all understandably concerned about the potential implications if Trump becomes more aggressive re. Greenland, I can’t help wondering if there’s possibly another story he’s keen to keep out of the headlines using his firehose of falsehoods.

As a test I put this photo of some mushrooms from my garden into Chat GPT, Copilot and Deepseek. 2 said edible, one said deadly. Can’t remember which was which. Needless to say, I don’t eat foraged fungi.

If Greenland was to consider changing its status and joining another country, the most logical choice due to geographic proximity would be Canada. 🇨🇦 Their country, their choice and remaining aligned to 🇩🇰 is probably the correct option. But certainly never 🇺🇸