Love this anthology. Everyone will have a favourite. Mine's the best. Top, top ********* gift.

Despairing Of America As Represented By Its President is not new. This came out in like 1982-ish.

Only heard this once before yesterday but can't leave it alone. Like sunlight streaming in, as it actually is at the moment.

I'm trying to find any descendants of John and Emma Gilkes who lived in Heath Road, Twickenham, in the early 19th century. Here they are.. behind the bride... at the wedding of their daughter Ethel to a man called Will Whiting ca 1908. Feel like I'm in a Hartley novel...

Happy Visible Bisexuality Day.

BOSH, mate.

What an adorable couple - the Fine Fare tiramisu and the knock-off giant Tunnocks bollocks. "Unveiled" my arse. You mean "left in safe location by your courier" fucking hell.

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

BREAKING NEWS: The campaign to save Bastion House and the former Museum of London (Powell & Moya, 1976-77) has won the right to present its case to the High Court. The Judicial Review will challenge the City of London's decision to demolish the buildings. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/museum-...

Autumn days when the grass is jewelled

Hi yeah so I got raptured. Punched, bored, countersunk. Afterlife ain’t too bad but in the name of evangelical fuck why is literally everyone on Bluesky?

Just back from a funeral which, as is often the case these days, had a humanist service. It's always so very moving to see a slide show containing photos of the guy you only knew from 70 onwards looking young and free and happy and sexy half a century ago. [1/2]

Showrooms & Offices, Westminster Electric Supply,Victoria Street 1933 Maxwell Fry bit.ly/46ntKye

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

Not only that, but ao half-ten our time it's buried way down the home page of the NYT.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Georgian architecture. Philip Larkin. Hanging baskets. Basic fucking decency.

original is an all-timer

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In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty. Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3

22 September 1936 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Agnes Deutsch, was born in Mór. In 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- VIDEO: gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Ruins of Athens: Portal #Athens #UrbanPhotography

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Can't thank @lewharper.bsky.social (x) enough for alerting me to this apparently secret English Open snooker tournament. On DMAX. Hilarious. Between the frames it's ads for mobility aids, cantilevered chairs and end-of-life care. One guy in the bath chuckling just thinking about his cremation plan.

'A Touch of Murder', the first episode of I, Claudius, was originally broadcast on this day in 1976.

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836. Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

Pre-match commentators chat before the snooker semi today. Selby versus someone called Joey Long. Thought who the fuck's he and it's Zhou Youlong.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Liddington Camp, a 3 hectare hillfort above Swindon. The first occupation dates back to the 7th century BC, making it a late Bronze Age / early Iron Age hillfort.

Pierrot Playing the Guitar

‘Eno’s exchanges in 1995 with friends such as Kevin Kelly (Wired, the Whole Earth Review) and Stewart Brand (the Whole Earth Catalogue, the WELL) now feel a little quaint, like a coffee house claque in 18th-century Vienna.’ Ian Penman on becoming Enosceptic: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A man genuinely came up to me on the street and said the Fabians were part of a new world order of control. Baffling that they can fit it in between pamphlets on prison reform.

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Must be, ooh, half a century since I rode a white swan.

Had this in my wallet for so long it’s falling apart. Photo of my wife. Magical to me because although I’ve known her since I was 19, this was taken in the 60s before we met. Time, eh?

Well this looks like *quite* the thing to have in 2026.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Lads, I’m not sure you’ve quite got the hang of this secrecy stuff.

Yes, agree with everything in this post about keeping a perspective when considering contemporary fascism. Everything except "touch grass". "Chill out, touch grass" "Fuck off, eat shit"

The Onionisation of History. In this 4,000-word essay I shall tackle such questions as What Is Reality and, What If Illusion Itself Is Illusory, and

St. Hildegard von Bingen, Scivias I.6: The Choirs of Angels c.1150

This is the kind of high-calibre shit you can depend on in my cloud of associates. Metonomy. Ba-baa b-ba-ba. Metonomy.

Ah fuck 600 people are going to be arrested on Saturday for wearing 'I Like Sally Rooney' t-shirts aren't they? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Idea for a radio play (number 104). A dramatisation of the meeting between Sylvia Plath and Tony Benn in September 1962. It happened! They had afternoon tea together.

Times births column today

honestly what an honor though