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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 1h

BBB (Brother Bikini Broadcasting) is closing down now. We wish you all a very safe night whether you're at home in bed or busy working through the small hours, and we leave you with a last look at the weather. Goodnight everyone, and don't forget to unplug your set. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2j...

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Weather Forecast Master Singers Slideshow with subs

YouTube video by Elzo Huizing

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 4h

The cake was a disaster. Details to follow after I've tried some of it, the parts that can be eaten anyway. I don't care fucking bad it is, I'm eating it even if some of it is raw dough. Which it might well be.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 9h

Recipes where you bung everything a bowl and beat the tar out of it are all well and good - no rubbing the butter into the flour or creaming the sugar and the butter, adding the eggs one at a time and praying it doesn't split, but they make weird cakes. www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...

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One-bowl vanilla cake with cream cheese icing recipe

This easy-going vanilla cake is the ultimate fuss‑free bake – light, fluffy and super simple. Cream cheese icing adds a lovely tang.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 14h

One of the most bleak and depressing things I've witnessed is people fishing off the end of Southend Pier on a grey, cold, miserable day.

Two images of people fishing off the end of Southend Pier on a grey, cold, miserable day, wrapped up in coats and woolly hats

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 15h

There's a small glade at the bottom of the apartment complex where I live. A copse, you might call it. A tranquil area of trees. I like to take a walk there each day before breakfast. It's my morning wood.

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What? It's still the international break? I could have gone through puberty since the last full weekend of league football.

A black and white photo of a glum schoolboy at a football match

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How out of touch am I with what's going on in my own city? I realised only a few hours ago that it's the first weekend of ACL Fest. I can hear it from where I'm sitting. It's like someone just pulled up outside with the car stereo going full blast. www.aclfestival.com/lineup

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Lineup | Austin City Limits Music Festival

Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That band of rain to the east of Austin has hardly moved all morning, with areas of heavy rain passing over the same places repeatedly, and now us too. That's after the 1.3" we got yesterday.

National Weather Service radar showing heavy rain to the west of I-35 from San Antonio to Waco

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do you sometimes find yourself humming one song, for instance Julie Ocean by The Undertones, and one part of it keeps morphing into another song that you can't quite pin down? Which in the end turned out to be Our Lips Are Sealed by The Go-Gos (or Fun Boy Three if you prefer).

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can anyone explain to me why, if they must execute people (I wish they wouldn't), hanging isn't the preferred method in the US? Done right, it's swift, painless and humane, if killing someone can be called humane.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There was a brother and sister in my class at junior school, twins, who were called Samuel and Susan, and the family name was Widge. Parents can be so thoughtless when it comes to naming their kids.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My back is much better today, thank you for asking, but still has some healing to do. At least I can walk again.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There was a period when I liked A Certain Ratio a lot. It was when they made sounds like this. It's been raining almost continuously since noon when we got a proper downpour, 0.67" in an hour, most of it in about 15 minutes. There's been another 0.47" since then and www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQF...

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Forced Laugh

YouTube video by A Certain Ratio - Topic

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something for poetry day courtesy of Barry Cryer, John Junkin and Tim Brooke-Taylor, aka Hello Cheeky. A wanderer I, with my stick in my hand, Sing ho for the road to Plaistow. The wind and the weather just make feel grand, Sing ho for the road to Plaistow. Oh daff-a-down dilly and derry down down,

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is Frank wearing two bow ties, one on top of the other?

Frank Muir on Call My Bluff wearing one of his trademark bow ties, a nice blue one, but apparently with a bigger bow tie, a striped one, underneath

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I could murder a big bowl of chocolate pudding right now. Do I mean a steamed chocolate pudding? An American type of chocolate pudding? A chocolate mousse? Angel Delight? You choose whichever you fancy and so will I.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"One customer at the greengrocer bought 10 oranges and 1 lemon, the second customer bought 8 oranges and 4 lemons. If they were both charged the same amount how much were the lemons if the oranges were 12 pence each?" OH WHO FUCKING CARES!!!

Robert Robinson asking the question on an episode of Ask The Family

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I suspect you will either like this one or a loathe it, and not necessarily depending on your familiarity with The Soft Machine. It was difficult to track down because of the 1940s vocal group associated with Glenn Miller who swamped the search results. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQqs...

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John Peel Archive - 7 August 1990 | Full BBC Radio 1 Broadcast | The Fall & 1981 Music

YouTube video by creative flow

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm feeling a bit like that this morning, and coming to the horrible realisation that I can't have more than one drink each evening. If I do I wake up a few hours after going to bed with a pinger of a headache and then can't get back to sleep. I didn't even get drunk last night FFS!

A wicket with the middle stump knocked out and laying on the ground behind after a batter was bowled out

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll leave this here for any petrolheads and lovers of excellent design. You're welcome.

A close-up of the front end of an Aston Martin DB6

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There you are, listening to someone playing records on the wireless, thinking to yourself about so many of them "what was the point of writing that?" and "that says absolutely nothing". And then along comes something like this, and you smile. Well I do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KNJ...

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Klaus Krüger - You Have To Pay (1981)

YouTube video by Abraxas80

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I do love the sound of African guitars. Very good for shifting annoying earworms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky4z...

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Orchestra Super Mazembe -06- Samba

YouTube video by Hans 16

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've had me hair cut by Vidal Sassoon. Well not actually by Vidal Sassoon himself. *At* a Vidal Sassoon salon. By a trainee. For nowt. In Manchester.

Vidal cutting someone's hair in the 1960s

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Alf a dollar to the first person who can name the boat race behind that soup strainer, and no cheating by looking at the alt text or you're dasquilified.

Sir Gerald Nabarro with his trademark moustache

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Could we be getting some seasonal temperatures next week? Oh yes indeed. And rain too? Maybe a little too much. It's been so dry lately any rainfall will run off rather rather than soak in. Very bad. Is 49 our final scorchio count for the year? Could be.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've got "yeah yeah yeah" stuck in my head so I don't see why you shouldn't have it too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WMj...

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Morecambe & Wise with Tom Jones

YouTube video by St0neykins

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I watched a moment of Parkinson history last night. Any guesses as to who's about to walk on? It shouldn't be too difficult.

Someone as yet unseen about to walk onto the set to be interviewed by Michael Parkinson.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've got nothing worthwhile or important to say before I go to bed, so if I were to post anything it'd be solely for the point of trying to get numbers on the notification icon, so I won't.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Blue and white truck hasn't been sighted for two or three months now. Will we see it again?

A 1970s blue and white Ford pickup truck parked in an apartment complex

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was hard enough seeing Nick looking so ill, but this finished me off last night.

A screenshot from the second episode of 70-Up showing a very ill Nick Hitchon sitting on his porch, with the caption "Nick died 3 days after filming"

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The cicadas are giving it plenty tonight. I don't remember hearing them this late.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dinner tonight is frijoles de olla and arroz roja. (That's beans and rice to you and me).

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really, *really* wish Bill Hicks was still around. I'd love to hear what he'd have to say about The Way Things Are Now.

Bill Hicks during one of his standup shows

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a very confusing time of the year around these parts. The weather still thinks it's bleedin' August with temperatures 6°-10° above average. Oktoberfest beers have been in the beer chillers for more than a month and now the winter/Christmas ales are showing up. The same applies to Halloween

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've no idea what they're saying. I hope it isn't anything too racy. I know how easily shocked you are. I have smelling salts ready if needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9VK...

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die dominas - herr ralfi und herr karl

YouTube video by Minimalist

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's a jolly little tune to give you a midweek tonic if you're in need of one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2v...

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The Jellies - Jive Baby on a Saturday Night

YouTube video by brunskibeats

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today I have been mostly baking a chocolate cake, stuffing blackberries and raspberries into separate jars of gin, and cutting up dried kelp. I have to do this because it comes in sodding great lumps that are stuffed into a sealable bag which is awkward to store in the pantry, so I cut it into

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes, you're right. That is the same Wall of Voodoo that made 'Mexican Radio' completely fucking ruining 'Ring of Fire'. Johnny C must be spinning in his grave. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBs4...

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Ring of Fire

YouTube video by Wall Of Voodoo - Topic

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Two legends of British music, and both still going.

Georgie Fame and Alan Price on the Morecambe and Wise Show

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I heard this today for the first time in ages and was instantly reminded of what a damn fine record it is. How many songs can you think of that have a fully instrumental chorus? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWHG...

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Scars - Adult ery

YouTube video by devilinthenewman

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is this how you imagined Manhattan to be when you were a nipper? I did. It isn't.

Morecambe and Wise singing A Couple of Swells with Peter Cushing with a nighttime backdrop of idealised Manhattan skyscrapers

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

[She thought her] "ironing board had fallen over in the airing cupboard". "I thought [my husband] had fallen off the toilet". Bravo! Not one mention of a bomb going off. Well... "There is a quarry on the outskirts of the village, and we just thought they were blasting" www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Silverdale earthquake: Lancashire villagers describe latest tremor

One Silverdale resident said she thought her "ironing board had fallen over in the airing cupboard".

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My crappy double clicking trackball posted those before I could add the alt text for the second image. It's a misty nighttime photo of the Regents Canal in London.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I dropped an egg on the kitchen floor this afternoon, always an annoying cleanup. I've heard it said the best way to take care of it is to own a cat or a dog. Well, I don't have either so I got a couple plastic dough scrapers and scooped it into a bowl, then washed that bit of the floor. Bugger.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The incident, at Sorrento Beach in Perth's north, has reignited debate about how to keep beachgoers safe in Australia." It's not bloody rocket science! DON'T GO IN THE WATER! There are teeth in there. Big, sharp teeth that will rip you in half! Kinell. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Perth shark attack: Rare kill order issued as victim identified as Greg O'Neill

Greg O'Neill "loved the ocean", his family say, as police boats and helicopters patrol Perth's beaches in search of his body and the shark that attacked him.

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Brother Bikini @brotherbikini.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All I've got left in the way of drugs is half a bottle of cheap bourbon, three Ibuprofen and some out of date anti histamines. What the hell, you only die once.

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