WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I am very tempted to buy this Temu sticker pack just to see what could possibly be happening on the other 48 in the set.

Kid found a tray of Tanqueray negroni cans in the street. They expired a year ago - maybe I should try one to make sure they're still ok

Splinter in my finger from Salzburg castle last Sunday has come out - end of a fairytale

Moghul miniatures cut up by the imperial family to decorate Schönbrunn, like wallpaper

Hapsburgs metal at the Kaisergruft

Replica of Oskar Kokoschka's life-size furry Alma Mahler doll. It's a replica because he threw wine over his and cut its head off

The only place open to buy a pint of milk in Vienna's Inner Stadt on a Sunday evening seems to be in a vending machine, sandwiched between a vibe bullet and a bottle of Jagermeister

Roses are red Violets are blue Jessica Mitford playing Boggle With Maya Angelou

しだれ桜と旧家と青い空

Picked up copy of Atonement left at the hotel. Then decided I didn't want to read it and threw it away. Now I have to atone

Hallo Salzburg

I have two jokes about Trotsky, but you gotta pick

Before smartphones, social media users would gather in hairdressing salons to have it streamed directly into their brains.

The yellow is very Alison's Party

Looked for another Barbara Pym to buy and realise that I've read them all

Thought I had a bruise on one finger like a black grape from excessive knitting but it could be a 'paroxysmal finger haematoma' called Achenbach syndrome. Well

Naked Lunch :/

I can't be the only one having nightmares about Trump - Trumpmares. Think someone once published a book of dreams people sent in about Bill Clinton but let's not go there

Palestinian embroidery, Nordic woodcuts by Mamma Andersson and Henry Heerup

Enjoyed the gradual tipping point in this as lawyers pick the case apart. Plot involves no libel law or contempt of court for the press - not sure if it's still like that in Japan

Europeans when asked to unblock the Strait of Hormuz

So when did your obsession with hot toxic women begin?

Had kedgeree again last night and dreamt I was on a spaceship again but this time it blew up. Maybe someone else can take over this experiment

Mar 1967: Blazer-striped Jacket ad from Rex Trueform (+Shetland Dress, Jacket And Sweater and Co-ordinate Trousers) «No more Wuthering on the Heights»

Think I'd be surprised if there hadn't been abuse at Fettes

MALVERN GAZETTE: Severn Trent finds Ken doll and wet wipes in sewers …and just look at him, the filthy devil. He’s loving every second of it.

Female firefighter's uniform, screen from the Samurai exhibition

Could this be a solution?

stone in my shoe turns out to be glass

One adult son plans to move back home with his girlfriend, the other now wants to move back with his cat. We already have a cat

Lads

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Absolutely superb film. Makes Ken Russell look understated.

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure. 

As per Jello:

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

Extraordinary piece, brilliant writing.

The only paper my granny read. She looked like Ma Broon

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got. Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean? Last line is especially ominous

Awful news about Glasgow Central, I'm still hoping the station itself escaped serious damage. But while we're here, can anyone spot the problem with the news photo below, from thetraveler.org/glasgow-cent...? We've really got to STOP using AI to fake things.

Dream about driving my spaceship back to earth when I had a road rage incident with Richard Dawkins. He was incredibly rude

Can't find the Book of Disquiet. If I buy it again, what will I find? That's right

This section is called 'use adverbs'. What does Duolingo think an adverb is?

I absolutely love the Qamishli missile photos. Especially trhis one by Delil Souleiman of @afp.com - which is surrealist genius.

February: decided insurance on washing machine was a waste of money and stopped it March: loud bang and smoke from ex-washing machine

The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this. Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.

2/2 How Michelangelo's Pieta looked from above while he was sculpting it. Nobody else saw this and it’s still amazing.

1066 documentary on BBC 4 with Steven Bartlett - maybe a Bayeux stitch up for the British Museum exhibition