'Reduce your enemies to Goop'

Trying to find out what is best number edjefferson.com/bestnumber/

...and furthermore, Tiktok delenda est

This power of infinite knowledge is of course reserved solely for podcasters

The washing cage, in all its glory bsky.app/profile/show...

Omg I can get the shirt too, full set with my jeans

Today's baseball cap is a little fashion joke, had custom embroidered incredibly cheaply and quickly from Not On The High Street .

Italy. Actually perfect espresso and a cigarette

Why hasn't someone done a big budget TV series of the Harry Potter books, with one season per book? Ideally it would exactly mirror the design choices of the film series, have a main cast who are going to be 35 by book 7, and all the subtitles would be insults directed at some guy called Stephen.

Deeply ambivalent about any value in this policy. But what gives me pause is that the most internet-poisoned human being, Taylor Lorenz, is incredibly against this. Tweeting from her vivarium. Parents force Starmer into embracing social media ban - www.ft.com/content/224e... via @FT

"Melts"! That takes me back.

Are goats being sacrificed in this office in the centre of Hackney? www.londoncentric.media/p/hackney-lo...

Having said this, one day I want to see what a darkly talented production designer creates for one of the two climactic reveals in Use Of Weapons.

This remains one of those true things that people absolutely refuse to believe

Because it so nearly happened, and because it would make a ravishing $200 million miniseries.

People of Bluesky, as part of my summer jaunt I will be working from home in Bordeaux first week of August. What I'd love is some café, bakery and restaurant tips. Not insanely lavish.

I remember when calling people populist was meant to show that they were a bad thing. I guess I'm just built different (not a massive fucking hack with only one thing in politics I actually care about)

It's a day for the faintly Palm Beach baseball cap, made far too beautifully by Borsalino

I missed this thread the first time round and I'm gutted, because immediately I thought of a great "spot the ball" style game where you have to Photoshop in Martin Crane's chair from Frasier at the right viewing angle

"...and this is the room where we gather to sit and look at a print propped on a sideboard"

Hi Zack! 👋👋👋 I can usually be found engaging in subversive activities like litter picking & supporting local art organisations in Swindon, but as it happens at the moment I'm back on the mothership receiving my latest tranche of instructions. HTH, HAND.

You have to understand, literary audiences in the UK *love* this sort of thing. They get a special little thrill hearing from a token Jew about how British Jews (what a coincidence Golders Green is in there!) should be held somehow accountable for Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"This is why I paid extra for two"

Now it's over ...

Literally why I'm driving to France this summer

Top Ten Cheering Up things. 1. Biscuit- Garibaldi 2. Crisps- Walkers Paprika Max 3. Tea- Earl Grey 4. Coffee- flat white, extra shot 5. Beer- avoided* 6. Meal- spaghetti bolognese 7. Snack- buttered toast 8. Wine- Chablis 9. Takeaway- Chinese 10. Pastime- model aircraft

"I'm not in it"

Checks out

For those keeping track I make this the 10th or potentially 11th faction bsky.app/profile/josi...

Like shooting fish in a barrel

The right wing media like the Guardian are just too invested in seeing Reform succeed, for clicks, they don't know what to do with this searing honesty

Hang on lads I'm trying something

😭😭😭

Aside from the populist whining, "Tax wealth. Not work." is actually a fascinatingly no-bedtime bad slogan for a supposedly left-wing party; maybe I could get on board with the political movement that doesn't want me to pay any tax at all.

Star City is enjoyable. Helped of course by the fact that Anna Maxwell Martin just has always had Soviet Apparatchik Face And Affect.

Breakfast of champions

So for reasons I had to find a cheap hotel in Bournemouth at the last minute. I booked the Hotel Celebrity and it did not disappoint. There was one stag do and one hen do - both in the bar - and one elderly eastern european woman working both bar and reception. I was in the Stallone Room.

Bachelor Kisses by The Radio Dept. (The original by The Go-Betweens may be known by some of course but this is better)

Were I to be a footballist I'd be...yey PSG, my brother's local team

In the right size, great success. Laces combo a bit baffling but some study of the lengths and styling does indicate that this is indeed how to do them and I like it. Basically the standard Diadora Equipe 75 but with nicer suede, couple of tweaks and made in Italy.

Translates to no new housing

If only he hadn't had to resign.

If only we had a cabinet minister in charge of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

With the heatwave having broken, it's a rare opportunity to break out the summery Lanvin x Babar hoodie

wonder how many poaster thinkpieces take into account that poasting is one of the last pleasurable things that anyone can do for free

You’ve made it look fucking cool mind

I held the UK record for underage [redacted] for 20 years after I was caught [redacted] [redacted] stepmother's [redacted]

QTWTAIN

Cannot stress enough that this guy is actually serious

From the other place, and...not really wrong