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  Evening poppers! What are we hoping for from #TotP tonight..? I'm hoping for something better than Mambo No.5 to dislodge my current earworm, Mambo No.5 I am expecting The fucking Birdy Song...

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  Oh no! The chippy has run out of chips... Well, chips that are ready anyway... Gotta do some me magic while I wait here hungry and fearing I'm going to miss the start of #TotP 00s goodness

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  I am done for the day... for the week... my brain is mush... I shall fix this by watching truly awful early-00s #TotP re-runs tonight???

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  Scores for first five... Warsaw is hosting so have knowledge of the trams... #TramEM

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  Woohoo! #TotP is back to normal tonight and I can join in again for the first few episodes...

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  Oh god... Still no #TotP for me tonight... This time it's not even The Proms it'# the bloody Cricket... I hardly engage with anything BBC (I'm probably sacking off Strictly now too) and still the stuff I do try gets usurped by bullshit

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  Ooh BBC Four (and therefore iPlayer where it is already up) is showing Dolly's Glastonbury performance from 2014 tonight... IIRC it was a lot of fun (but I thought it was more recent than that...) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04d8xv8/glastonbury-dolly-parton-2014 Once again, will be busy before #TotP or Dolly starts 8-(

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  It has been clear for a while that neurodivergency (ADHD and Autism specifically) are in the crosshairs, but from what I read of last night's Great ADHD Myth, it's ramping up significantly... With the "usual suspects" ("Gender Criticals", racists and general bigots) behind it... Anyway - I hope we're all doing OK and looking after ourselves as well as looking to next steps to fight the fuckers

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  Looks like there will be no #TotP for me tonight... But I shall probably be watching Elgar at the #Proms instead...

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  So, it looks like the faux-feminists have decided "she was asking for it" and "look at what she was wearing though" are, somehow, acceptable arguments... Rowling with her harassment (and upskirting) of Freda Wallace and now Burchill and her comments on Maire-France van Heel (Andy Burnham's wife)... (both of these are, obviously, on that hotbed of feminist discourse, Twitter and screenshotted and under endless repeat on Blusky) Who needs patriarchy eh? #UKPol

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  "the only musical instrument anyone should want to learn how to play is the bagpipes. And with that I bid you good night."

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  Fear not Poppers! I am here! My TV forgot that live broadcast TV was a thing so needed a re-tune... My tablet was using a VPN so iPlayer was all "nope"... But i'm here for Lauren... #TotP

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  Nooooo! Poppers! There is something bad and wrong taking over our #TotP foray through 2000... Sports. Women's cricket to be precise. (Did you know people actually play and, more bizarrely, watch cricket? It's not a practical joke PE teachers played on us all?)

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  Evening Poppers! No battered sausage today (the chippy ran out of fish so cleaned out the batter forgetting me... How do you forget me?!?) I have a bad feeling that we may have had 2000's good #TotP episode, so... Buckle in

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  Evening Poppers! Welcome to the new Millennium* I have chippy tea and cheese and... Well, hopefully cheese... #TotP *Disputed

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  No sporty rubbish ruining our aural rubbish tonight Poppers... And in, maybe better, news - it's the hour long 1999 Christmas Special (which is why we couldn't have the normal two episodes last week)... at the very least, it means that we only have to sit through Cliff's bloody awful Millennium Prayer a maximum of one time... #TotP

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  Tweet tweet! Hello Poppers! Four episodes but only one 1999 episode... We are blessed? Maybe... #TotP

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  I just checked and, despite some sportsball thing having started, we still have #TotP tonight! I'm not saying it'll be *good* TotP, but... Huzzah!

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  My MP has joined the crowd of Labour MPs calling for Starmer to go 8-) #UKPol

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  Oh good... Starmer's "reflection" is here (or, at least, the version he wants Guardian readers to see) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/08/election-results-left-right-uk-keir-starmer And he *says* he takes responsibility then fails to do so - exactly as expected. Everything is everyone else's fault. He makes brief mention of "unnecessary mistakes" made by a nebulous "we" and unidentified. He's st...

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  So, Starmer's determined to stay. The country doesn't need the chaos of a leadership election. So what does Starmer have to put in his upcoming King's Speech? What should his second Parliamentary Session be doing? #UKPol

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  Meanwhile, if anyone fancies coming over, doing my washing up, tidying and cleaning, I'll leave the key for you so you don't even have to break in...

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  The algorithm has just thrust this list of seven Sci-Fi books for beginners upon my poor, unsuspecting soul. Shall we just say "no" here? Unfortunately I need to get some thoughts out, but probably won't be able to do a full list now... Let's see how well we manage... https://booksofbrilliance.com/2026/05/05/7-sci-fi-novels-for-beginners-the-best-science-fiction-books-to-start-with/

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  Starmer's local elections message... Pledging to back "you and your family" - does that include queer "you"s? Migrant "you"s? Disabled "you"s? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/06/starmer-late-pitch-voters-labour-greens-reform-elections #UKPol #LocalElections2026

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  No #LocalElections2026 where I am today. If I could vote, there's only one party I'd hold my nose and vote for (yeah, Labour can't even clear that bar now-a-days) and that's, surprise surprise, the Greens We can't afford more Reform bullshit, but we're probably going to get it and Labour's going to lean into it, but the stronger the actually progressive vote is, the more difficult it will be for them. So, yeah, go vote if you can... #UKP...

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  The two Green Party candidates here need to be more clearly disowned by the Greens. The 'ramming' comment is particularly egregious (the Hamas one may be less clear if you don't know context - but then why would you be vetting alone if you didn't have that context). https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/30/met-police-arrest-two-green-election-candidates-over-alleged-antisemitism #UKPol

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  No chippy tea and no #TotP for me *again* tonight... I'm off to see Akira at the cinema... I've never seen it (mostly because I'm not a fan of anime style), but the opportunity is there and it *is* a classic, so... https://youtu.be/Uap_8YEVib4

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  I'm watching Akira (1988) https://trakt.tv/movies/akira-1988 #Akira #trakt

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  It is hard to see how Starmer can survive this, if accurate. He either knew at the time and approved overruling the decision and hid it and lied or was briefed as the scandal developed and hid it and lied or we are expected to believe Mr Keir "Human Rights Barrister and Competent Pair of Hands" Starmer didn't ask and noone briefed in the middle of a relevant scandal and he is an incompetent buffoon https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/16/revealed-mandelson-fa...

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  Meanwhile the BBC, in it's gloriously "neutral" way has decided to attack asylum seeking... Yesterday it was faking sexuality, today it's faking domestic abuse. They throw around numbers without context, share anecdotes as if they are the rule, not the exception and target extremely vulnerable people... Rainbow Migration shared this message yesterday which is well worth reading - https://www.rainbowmigration.org.uk/news/behaviour-by-a-small-number-of-bad-faith...