Was just wondering what happened to actor John Alford (I didn’t know about his conviction and the fact that he recently died in prison) and this is a pretty brutal Wikipedia sequence

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that someone within Google was actively sabotaging the company by enshittifying its services, or in this case deciding to stop offering something I’ve used for years and thus actively making my life more difficult, all for just £14/month

I’m bored of waking up and seeing a picture of a demonstrably shit golfer say the same old bollocks next to a tied back curtain by an aeroplane toilet

Not sure if this is delicious passion fruit in our garden or deadly passion poison, only one way to find out

PITY

(In fact I once made a video about my long-standing confusion over Going Underground, but I won't be making a similar video about "Navvy" by Pere Ubu because the potential audience is negligible by comparison)

I commend to all the LEGO Trail at Hyde Hall RHS. Top notch brickwork. The actual nature is almost as good, I’d say

The news has prompted me to address my own personal confusion between Cap Ferret (west of Bordeaux) and Cap Ferrat (south of Nice) and it’s not helped by news organisations also being confused and getting it wrong

I sometimes look at my Facebook memories to see what bollocks I was spouting on this day in whatever year, and today I see this, posted during a gruelling Labour leadership contest, which hasn’t aged well, has it

Oh gosh! I didn’t know you’d be there! My shirt was a kind of rearrangement of this record sleeve, I had it printed up last week

I know people find this kind of thing appalling but I adore it. All hail the sudoku constructor, Nicolas Duhail. Dunno how he does it. Digits can’t repeat within a cage. If the digits in a cage sum to N, there are exactly N cages whose digits sum to N. I look forward to your solutions.

Nothing beats this

“What did you do today, darling” “I named a song with the word ‘night’ in the title” “Did you put the bins out” “No”

I’ve had a monthly technology column in Prog magazine for 15 years or something equally stupid, and when I see magnificent Prog headlines like “Why Jon Anderson drove himself mad making Olias Of Sunhillow” I feel very proud of this

Perfect illustration of the British (i.e. our) lack of familiarity with aircon. Yep, really make that unit work, guys. Trail that vent out of them Wide Open Doors

Sunday preferable I think

A tortuous experience with Trainline's customer support ends with me losing my rag at an excruciating multiple choice quiz via WhatsApp, and the news that the waiting time for a WhatsApp response from a human being is 12 hours, well done everyone

I make my mother a birthday card every year in the style of a 6 year old child, and it’s good to see this one up on the dresser

Chelmsford has a history of this (I live a few miles away.) It makes Essex Highways exceedingly cross

I was following the Ireland game on Cricbuzz (based in Bengaluru) and it’s like they’ve canned the whole website in response to the India defeat. No update since 19.4 overs

It completely delights me that a book with the word “wisdom” in the title is written by someone with the surname “Wisnom”

“NEXT” #totp

I just checked my weather station to see if it was hot at the end of June and it appears that it is

My pal @danielmaier.bsky.social shared my interest in (and love of) Baxab by Topcret, and on the occasion of a landmark birthday in 2018 there was only one gift I could give him

Ten years ago today I saw this van in a car park and I think about Topcret and Baxab surprisingly often

Time to put on Track 3 of this album

Seven years ago today! Scritti Politti about to support Tears For Fears at Blenheim Palace. Nice pic. We’re currently prepping for our two shows at the Rough Trade extravaganza on the South Bank next month.