Notices by Nick (nickiquote@mstdn.social)

PSA.

#heatwave #ukheatwave

Squeezing in there with a late #Caturday kitten.

@LoganFive

Going to fill a wheely bin with cold water and sit in it all day like Oscar the Grouch.

I do enjoy it when I cause the trending bot accounts to boost a swear word.

“Sorry, we can’t afford jury trials.”

You can afford warplanes carrying tactical nuclear weapons. You can afford a King. You can afford a Cold War SLBM system. You can afford a subsidised bar for members of Parliament.

Once you get rid of those, come back to me on how you can’t afford to allow people their right to a jury trial.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2m808kml0o

Happy 85th birthday to Ringo! #RingoStarr #TheBeatles

Mourning for a lost future: yes, we have no mañanas.

@evan no-one has the right to tell anyone that it’s not ok to despair.

PROUD POTATOES

Fair play to Sharon Osborne for managing to get the Doors to reunite for this.

Kind of expected more than 35 minutes of Sabbath, considering.

Anthrax get a mere 14 minutes! That’s only 30-50 songs!

EDIT: I’ve gone and confused Anthrax and Napalm Death again. Sorry. Always mixing up my biological and incendiary warfare.

I love my kids unconditionally, even though they will, for example, leave an unfinished cup of milk in a conservatory during a heatwave.

Waiting for someone to inform me that this wouldn’t have happened if I had just installed Linux rather than impregnating a lady.

PC - Hi, morning! Glad you’re here! I’m going to start doing some updates now.

Me - No, I have a Zoom call.

PC - Right after I do these updates.

Me - No, it’s starting now.

PC - I think you’ll find that it isn’t.

I forgot to tick the I Am Human box on a Captcha and now I no longer have human rights, a vote or the ability to enter into contracts. In positive news, I no longer have to pay tax and am immune from prosecution.

I always misread Beethoven’s 3rd symphony as “Erotica”. Ludwig after dark.

@fu https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-investigate-comments-made-kneecap-31954405

I once again note the deafening fucking silence of free speech advocates on the right, as police say they are combing through footage of a rock concert to see if there is the slightest opportunity of locking an artist up for political speech.

So long as TERFs get to dehumanise others in the workplace though, right?

We shouldn’t look to musicians generally as political leaders, there are enough Rods and Rogers and Ringos (bless him) out there to confirm that being able to bash out a tune does not amount to political insight.

But there are a number of musicians for whom social justice, anti-racism, anti-poverty etc is core to their music.

And it can just be cathartic to hear it. To hear both the kindness and righteous anger that our politicians will not allow. That not everyone is so callous and aloof.