Lichfield Dean

I've tried to get into Sleep Token but they just don't do it for me.

Taking on Microsoft in a spurious legal challenge eh? That can only go well. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/twitter-claims-microsoft-broke-api-rules-musk-already-threatened-lawsuit/ Elon Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, yesterday sent a letter to Microsoft accusing the company of using the Twitter APIs in ways that violated Twitter policies. Spiro's letter came about a month after Microsoft halted API use instead of paying new fees and Musk threatened to sue Microsoft, claiming it was "illegally using Twitter data."

Does he get a bridge too?

Phantomime by Ghost (their latest covers EP) is absolutely brilliant. I don't as a rule enjoy covers, let alone entire mini albums, but wow they really smashed this one. Again. Love it.

Joss Whedon

Phantomime is out!

The Alexander stadium? How can Villa propose to do anything to an athletics stadium that is the home of Birchfield Harriers and UK Athletics? Sounds a terrible idea to me. It's bad enough that there's apparently going to be some rugby played there next year. It's an athletics stadium, it's what it always was and what it should always be.

Good lord. 98 minutes and they get a fourth!

Hold on a second!!! What's wrong with a Toby Carvery?

That's how it reads to me

I live opposite the "other" Sutton line, which is just freight (and once the Flying Scotsman). The trains are very noisy outside, but not so much inside. The really big heavy ones do shake the house a bit. But interestingly they relaid the track a few weeks ago and the vibrations have dropped notably. Either way, you get used to it very quickly. And it has the advantage of me not having any buildings opposite, instead I have an unobstructed view across parkland.

Meh, they aren't that fast...

All those amazing curry houses in Selly Oak... Almost all gone What do students eat these days?

Potentially 14 games if there's a two-leg playoff and you get to the final? (Am guessing how the playoffs work)

I still think that if the Vegas Villans (or another team in V if that one doesn't happen) could be a great destination for him as an initial "marquee" signing. The four year contract may not be a total waste of we can wrangle some kind of internal group transfer like that, he still has a marketable name.

Just like Villa!

Nice one Poland... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65545636 Kaliningrad: Russia fury as Poland body recommends renaming exclave The Kremlin has reacted furiously after a Polish government body advised using a different name for Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea coast. The Polish committee said the city and wider area should instead be called Królewiec. This was the area's traditional name, it said, and the decision no longer to use an "imposed name" was partly a result of Russia invading Ukraine. Russia said the decision was "bordering on madness" and "a hostile act".

Jesus He Knows Me (cover of the Genesis tune)

Season 4 of Barry has gone very dark...

This is weirdly close to the ending of Ghost's latest video...

Erm... Are you sure you've checked the number of the space station in question?

Fabulous album, but when I first played it I thought my record player had broken. Then I used by brain and figured out that it was pressed at 33rpm. Is that common for albums these days? My first time coming across this. Edit: 45rpm lol

Wasn't fussed about watching it, have other things to do today, but I popped it on for a bit out of curiosity and hey, I was greeted by Floella Benjamin carrying the sceptre!! That alone somehow compensates for all the rest of the nonsense.

Our tariff with Shell (who we were forced to move to when our previous provider went bump) was 33p/kWh. We eventually managed to move to Octopus agile and our first monthly average tariff was.... 22p/kWh. Given we have an electric car that is some saving. But how can there be such a huge discrepancy?