Nick Rowe ✍💻

Well, this just made my day 😁

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@akuhayum I can affirm that your linguistic perspicacity in your lingua materna is somewhat impoverished. Yeah, you're a bit dim and need to read a shit ton more.

This English exam from Japan is impossible 😭

@OneOutof4 The Primitives have just finished a tour and 3 weeks ago played their hometown gig in Coventry where my mate captured them performing Crash. Brilliant band. Tracy's mum works as a volunteer at the wonderful Coventry Music Museum.

"Crash" is a song by this British indie pop band who released this song in 1988. 👉🏻 What’s the name of the band? 👉🏻 What soundtrack was it on?

@Isaiah967967 @thelornashow @theenemyband It's a song by a Cov band, about Cov (and the down-to-earth unglamourous nature of the UK), performed in Cov's ground by the band & the fans before the game against Sheff Utd. Apart from the invention of amplification & rock music, what exactly here is 'American'?

@thelornashow @theenemyband Americanised. I'd rather our clubs don't do that

Wow. That’s all. Just wow. #pusb @theenemyband

@anon_opin Toolhardy (for those who haven't seen my response on BlueSky)

There's a moment when using a screwdriver to prise something open or cutting the wrong way with a sharp blade, you know your going to impale yourself but you carry on regardless until it happens, the English language needs a word for this

@ArchieHicoxGB @fesshole Christ no. Absolutely not.

@fesshole Honestly most men would be happy with new socks, underwear, t shirts or a belt.

Used to buy my brothers, father & uncles new wallets each Christmas. It's always been a reliable gift for men. But now they all just use their phone to pay. No cards. No cash. I'm sure it's convenient for them but now I have to work out a new standard gift item for male relatives

@MRCOOLSDREAM Mick's Company. An absolute banger. And the A side (My Ever Changing Moods) is rather good too. Quite possibly the best bit of 7" vinyl I own.

WHAT 1 TRACK WOULD YOU SELECT FOR A TSC GREATEST HITS? #thestylecouncil

@kostekcanu A long time ago we took our lovely 3 yr old to the Nottingham Open. She was as good as gold but eventually got a bit bored & whiney. All eyes on me as I carried her out of the stands. All eyes including those of @GregRusedski1 & @lleytonhewitt. Oops. Sorry lads.

"It's a child do you want me to send the child out of the stadium?" 😭😭😭😭

@JulienHoez Well seeing as I (Remainer) worked with EU information for 12 yrs I'd say I was a lot more informed than the typical Leave voter, but yeah stereotyping is an easy trap to fall into. It's probably more about logic versus emotion. If you don't understand it resort to gut feeling.

Some very strong and biased opinions here on the capacity of British pro-Europeans to be aware of technical details, as if Remainers are somehow inherently superior to people who voted to leave just because they dislike the EU. Which was silly long-term, but at least makes sense

@eddieizzard Definitely a Spit, probably a Mk IX or later judging by the 4 bladed prop. I'm sure someone will be able to give more detail.

Pretty sure it’s a Spitfire, but it’s flying over the South Downs just up the hill from Eastbourne - right now!

@buitengebieden I really hope that cat is called Zaphod.

Wait for the surprise.. 😊

A little bit of dystopian flash fiction - babbitman.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/the…

@WarMonitor3 Pie in the sky wishful thinking. Too many different power bases & ideologies to have such a thing. Turkey, Saudi, Iran - never going to agree to it.

Another interesting fact I have come across into todays strategy research. Jihadi documents from Al Qaeda before 911 claims that drawing the US into the Middle East was in an effort to drain them of their resources in such a way social discontent for interventionism would lead them to completely withdraw from the Middle East and leave room for the creation of a caliphate in the Middle East free from their influence. Whats your thoughts on this?

@ClaireNorth42 Oh yum! All about Hephaestus this time? I know, I know, I can see the rocket. Very much looking forward to this.

Delicious cover of the next book, published September 2025! Design by Nico Taylor, who has knocked it out of the park and into orbit.

@milkyonesug My little Cookie! My furry fella. My chase-around-the-garden playmate. My ambush pal.

The cat that made me a crazy cat lady, the cat that made me a cat mother, and the cat that completed my heart. I love my b&w babbeys, past and present 🖤🤍🐈‍⬛

@ArtCandee Mump kind of works given their approach to vaccination & the disease they are introducing to American government.

Can we start calling Elon Musk and Donald Trump a Hollywood couple nickname like Brangelina, Bennifer, and Kimye? Especially since everyone who gets one seems to split up. I vote for for "Elonald" since we all know Elon is the headliner in the relationship.

If anyone's interested in artworks depicting historic British aviation events I'm selling a large print of the very first flight of the first British aircraft in 1908: #aviationart #paullengelle #samuelcody #aircraft #farnborough ebay.co.uk/itm/1269181606…

@SoVeryBritish Unless it's a heavy wooden framed mirror and you're barefoot. I almost passed out with the pain & my big toenail went black & fell off the following week.

The huge satisfaction when you drop something breakable and stop its fall with your foot. Must be what it feels like to be a superhero.

@jon_cronshaw Probably "A Fall of Moondust" by Arthur C Clarke. I was still about a year or so away from discovering Douglas Adams.

Don't think about it. Don't try to be cool. What was your favourite book when you were twelve?

@enbyinjail You're blummin amazing, you'll be fine, hang on in there 😊