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[Reposted for anybody who missed it on Friday] With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at https://t.co/BAroWPOH0e or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at

CCHQ: Question Time's Silence On Scotch Eggs Is Now Deafening #QuestionTime

I’ve wanted to go to Highclere Castle since I was a child; I think it’s now possible to visit without feeling the need to stage whisper ‘I’m here for the Egyptology, not the Downton Abbey’ all the time

Have I mentioned before that I like hurdy-gurdies?

So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"... here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...

Eastwood (Nottinghamshire) Council By-Election Result: IND: 43.1% (New) LAB: 41.7% (-0.1) CON: 15.2% (-31.2) No LDM (-7.9) or GRN (-5.0) as previous. Independent GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2021.

Bushes: Apparently Men And Women Use Them Differently #Bushes

24% imported electricity feels rather high (though not in the cheese sense), even at 3am when the sun isn’t shining.

Death metal is very much not my genre. (Pseudo-) Irish folk is very much not my genre. I won’t say Dutch death-metal-pseudo-Irish-folk fusion *is* my genre, but add a hurdy-gurdy to it and it at least becomes an effective and intriguing ear cleaner.

…the solution to that problem is to increase the profits of the commercial banks, building societies, and credit card companies?

…can anybody explain how the Bank of England thinks the cause of runaway inflation is people going round rashly spending their money rather than saving it for a rainy day, and how they think…

I realise I am but an humble ethnomusicologist and digital strategist-practitioner rather than an economist, but…

Elon Musk has had more gender affirming surgeries than most trans people. I’m not trying to upset the fanboys, just simply exercising my freedom of speech. So glad that I can state my opinions without having to worry about triggered snowflakes.

So I see @cherryaudiovst are releasing a VST of the Yamaha CS80 then, ‘for all those who celebrate it’

It probably took them two days to twig because at least 18% of serving police officers should have failed their vetting checks and thus shouldn’t even be employed. The question is, are these at least 18% of unfit police officers going to be purged?

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[…] Channel 4 exists as a public service broadcasting channel to be experimental and niche as well as to be profitable; if anything, its current ownership model is much more defensible in the modern media landscape than the BBC’s license fee model is.

…hour to look for an all night offy, and came back 45 minutes later with a carrier bag full of wine bottles for everybody? […]

…cameras rolling and said ‘just chat amongst yourselves about whatever you want to talk about for however long you want, and we’ll keep the broadcast rolling until you’re done’. Who could forget the memorable episode when Oliver Reed turned up pissed as a fart, left after an…