David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026He’s my guiltiest pleasure. Agree with hardly anything he wrote, when he writes on something I know about I can see it’s nonsense, but he wrote his nonsense with such panache. 110
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I saw someone reading it on the tube the other day (between Farringdon and Moorgate on a Monday morning I think). First time I’ve seen The Fence being read in the wild. Wanted to commend them on their choice of periodical but would clearly have been too bizarre so (rightly) didn’t. 121
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I’m an extreme example of this - own thousands of books, probably low double figures are hardbacks and I’m always looking to replace them if/when I can. Take up more room on the shelf and are less comfortable to hold while reading. 010
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Whenever I see this, I wade into buzzkill it - the buy now! headline was invented and created by the tweeter which I think makes what could have been the greatest tweet ever one of the most disappointing. This sort of tweet only works where existing wording is discovered by someone. 130
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I gave my teapot to an opponent I beat and I still get raised eyebrows when I tell people that. You only get a teapot if you win a show, and you only get one teapot, so they’re… sought after. 010
Reposted by David Staineroliver levy @helicule.bsky.social · 13/02/2026But the river Sananda doesn't even flow through Maitreya?? 022
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026A fair few of them feel like 10k longreads similarly stretched to me. Doubtful about the new Radden Keefe one of instance - that was a good article but a whole book on it? Hmm. 060
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Been missed for several years by my quiz league, and good to see it back. It’s a classic example of the “cosy bolthole on very unappealing thoroughfare” pub, which is one of my favourite subcategories of London boozer. 020
Reposted by David StainerRay Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026BlueSky: the social media network for kids who were excited when it was a Wet Playtime. 2427043
Reposted by David StainerSimon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I know a lot of people think Microsoft Excel is a dreadful piece of software, but I would rate it October 10th. 4634113
Reposted by David StainerTom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Lovely Wittgenstein story of just nine words — lower line here 65211
Reposted by David StainerOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Can’t let Valentine’s Day pass without a bit of poetry, of course. Here’s one by @rtipple.bsky.social from the old place 18832
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Oh man, though, to lose London’s best McDonald’s (in service terms) would be a barbarity. 130
Reposted by David StainerMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny 573068821
Reposted by David StainerEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 29/01/2026This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever. 182457682
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026If it was a single album, I think it would probably be regarded as an all timer. As it is it’s very good but quite mixed and sprawling. 110
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Yup, I agree with that. I certainly didn't have it nailed on, and I'm allegedly one of the better quizzers in the country. Feels like all S-Gs in my lifetime (born 1978) would have been much easier than naming Guterres. 010
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Magnificent band. So good to see someone else who was keen, amid the derision. 110
Reposted by David StainerJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 01/01/2026In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree 10407145
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025If MC&TIS had been a single album and kept the best bits I suspect it’d have been an all timer. 020
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 28/12/2025ah fair, I can see a few references plus this photo in Seabrook’s volume now I check, which must be where Google AI is pulling it from. 000
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Yes. Also, I wonder if the “link” to this garage is a bit AI-invented? I can see two websites using the photo in relation to the murders but neither explains precisely why. It is mentioned in Google’s AI write up of the garage name but feels a bit thin to me. 110
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025They were just so magnificent. I wish a fan would publish all the missing ones in the same format. I’d pay a lot for them. 020
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I’m not even sure it needs explaining, perhaps beyond “France invaded the Channel Island of Jersey”, really. 150
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I miss his Olympics books more than any other defunct series of books. (Schott’s Almanac is second.) 320
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025I have acquired all three volumes of this over the years plus a lot of other Wallechinsky works. Great books. 110
Reposted by David StainerVikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here 9886051273
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Years ago I was once doing a quiz using buzzers, like University Challenger. And a player buzzed in very early on a geographical sounding clue to say “Wester Ross”. I was genuinely very impressed at his Scottish geographical knowledge for about 24 hours before looking up the clue and realising. 010
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Sultans of Ping FC’s debut album is called Casual Sex in the Cineplex. 020
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Didn’t change my life but I thoroughly enjoyed it. 020
Reposted by David StainerJames Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi... 76595151
Reposted by David StainerGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Sport FACT: Tennis star Coco Gauff’s full name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio Coco Gauff. 46314
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Ah, I have that one on my wishlist (next one up by date added in fact) and that has put me off a bit. 010
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Not the same thing but I only discovered this week that the thing you say when clinking wine glasses is spelt “cin, cin” not “chin, chin”. (It’s Italian.) Just me? 170
Reposted by David StainerRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/11/2025rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming" 8972961141
David Stainer @davidstainer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025I couldn’t really get into it but I’ll admit I liked one other song. HM so far above the rest though it felt like a good answer to your question. 030
