Steve Collier
@steviepops.bsky.social
Leftie, data chef, amateur luthier. Likes cheese, geometry and cats. Dislikes Nazis, Top Gear and brown bread.
Viewing this from the UK, it's a rancid, ever-swelling glut of the most astonishing lunacy. You have my sympathy over there.
December 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Viewing this from the UK, it's a rancid, ever-swelling glut of the most astonishing lunacy. You have my sympathy over there.
Yeah, cos it's all been hunky-fucking-dory in Gaza up until now.
December 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Yeah, cos it's all been hunky-fucking-dory in Gaza up until now.
Nodded at Dr. Fox walking along Great Marlborough St. on my way to work one morning in 2001. He acknowledged my nod and returned one of his own.
December 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Nodded at Dr. Fox walking along Great Marlborough St. on my way to work one morning in 2001. He acknowledged my nod and returned one of his own.
For someone so hell-bent on being recognised as a wartime president, you can't help but feel he's shooting himself in the foot by ending seven of them (or twelve, or a million, or however many he's claiming this week).
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
For someone so hell-bent on being recognised as a wartime president, you can't help but feel he's shooting himself in the foot by ending seven of them (or twelve, or a million, or however many he's claiming this week).
Happy to be of service. It's a good job you hadn't already done so as your memory would have gone unjogged.
December 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy to be of service. It's a good job you hadn't already done so as your memory would have gone unjogged.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Nothing to see here. Move along.
All kudos to Zelenskyy. He must have crocodile-strength jaw muscles to bite his tongue that hard.
December 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
All kudos to Zelenskyy. He must have crocodile-strength jaw muscles to bite his tongue that hard.
Quite right. Frivolous and inaccurate. I prefer to deal in facts, using "I was fifty-two years old when I discovered..." (on June 4th next year this will increment to "fifty-three"). This allows scant room for linguistic horseplay.
"Holibobs" though - yeah, people can fuck right off with that one.
"Holibobs" though - yeah, people can fuck right off with that one.
December 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Quite right. Frivolous and inaccurate. I prefer to deal in facts, using "I was fifty-two years old when I discovered..." (on June 4th next year this will increment to "fifty-three"). This allows scant room for linguistic horseplay.
"Holibobs" though - yeah, people can fuck right off with that one.
"Holibobs" though - yeah, people can fuck right off with that one.
Help is out there.
December 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Help is out there.
I once saw a CV that included "Profreading" in the Skills section.
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I once saw a CV that included "Profreading" in the Skills section.
Bigly Trouble In Little China
October 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Bigly Trouble In Little China
"Bumper crop of onions again, dear."
"?"
"We're going to need more jars. A lot more jars."
"Oh, God."
"?"
"We're going to need more jars. A lot more jars."
"Oh, God."
October 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Bumper crop of onions again, dear."
"?"
"We're going to need more jars. A lot more jars."
"Oh, God."
"?"
"We're going to need more jars. A lot more jars."
"Oh, God."
... or in a cage to launch the new ballroom. (Gold-plated, obvs. It needs to be classy.)
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
... or in a cage to launch the new ballroom. (Gold-plated, obvs. It needs to be classy.)
Make him wrestle Kevin Sorbo for it.
October 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Make him wrestle Kevin Sorbo for it.
I have a recurring idea of Shabba Ranks' Charabanc, in which the Jamaican reggae star ferries a collection of late nineties musicians to the seaside in his own open-top vehicle, for a small fee. @daveyjones.bsky.social Any chance?
October 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I have a recurring idea of Shabba Ranks' Charabanc, in which the Jamaican reggae star ferries a collection of late nineties musicians to the seaside in his own open-top vehicle, for a small fee. @daveyjones.bsky.social Any chance?
Just checking - she's the one at the front, yes?
October 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Just checking - she's the one at the front, yes?
Have done this ever since reading it in Viz. My now-grown-up kids do the same and, one day, their own kids may follow. This is your legacy (you know, along with all the death stuff).
October 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Have done this ever since reading it in Viz. My now-grown-up kids do the same and, one day, their own kids may follow. This is your legacy (you know, along with all the death stuff).
Then the future looks brighter than that shirt he's sporting.
September 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Then the future looks brighter than that shirt he's sporting.
Genuinely read, and re-read, this as an ill-capitalised "weird Al video".
September 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Genuinely read, and re-read, this as an ill-capitalised "weird Al video".
"I'm not racist, but, [some thinly-veiled racism]."
September 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"I'm not racist, but, [some thinly-veiled racism]."