A small child (4 or 5, maybe?) in this restaurant is finding things A Bit Much and having a little lie down on the floor. We've all been there, emotionally or actually physically.

"it destablizes a society when elites attempt a coup, fail, yet suffer few consequences. That precedent would beat bitter fruit." Reading about Louis the Pious, obviously.

I've found what can only be a shop for massive pockets!

The re-recorded version of "West End girls" by Pet Shop Boys first entered the UK Official Singles Chart on November 16, 1985, at number 80. It entered the Top 40 the following week, and eventually reached number one on January 11, 1986. #PetText

A little haggle of teenage boys just went into this hipster sweatshirt shop. The shops may have changed, but Saturday afternoon teenagers haven't.

My life story:

All 4 episodes of this joyful nonsense (4 episodes of anything is a win, these days) available on BBC Sounds (or, as some still whistfully refer to it: iPlayerRadio)

Love to start the day emailing my MP about the latest attempt to pander to Reform voters by making asylum seekers' lives worse. What the Home Secretary's reportedly proposing isn't sanctuary, it's purgatory.

I got to see that series courtesy of the last person who stayed here: Graham, you forgot to log out of your Netflix. (I didn't do anything nefarious and have now logged out on his behalf.)

I've really enjoyed Department Q* Scottish noir with a great cast and some sharp writing, so glad to hear there's a Series 2 on the way (not till next year at the earliest). *only caveat is not sure it needed 9 episodes rather than 7/8, given I guessed the perp with two episodes to go

Trying times - trying not to eat more than I can realistically digest. Not pictured, glass of ice cold rosé.

@lollardfish.bsky.social I'm very much enjoying Oathbreakers and coincidentally saw these 'caliphal epoch' coins today, in Mallorca.

The Judean People's Front back in the news:

ahhhh my book is published today, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh this one is a real labour of passion - I think it is genuinely important to understand the information crisis that we're living through and how and why it makes us all feel anxious and angry www.penguin.co.uk/books/469677...

You need this thread for the sheep and the alts

MURDER ON MARS! All episodes just dropped on BBC Sounds. Or, you can tune in today at 14:15 on BBC Radio 4. I’d love it if you gave it a listen!

It's ONLY been 65 years since six year old Ruby Bridges walked through the halls of William Frantz Elementary as the first Black child to attend an all white school. Met with mobs and hate, her bravery and courage helped change the course of history for this nation. (1/3)

Current status: on a vintage train, purely for the joy of it.

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Small child walks past, wearing a fleece with a plush dinosaur tucked into the top, by the zip. Important to keep your dinosaur warm.

A 14th century Annunciation, aka "Say whaaaaat?".

Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

"What is best in life? To crush your evening out, have some dinner, see some culture, then get in, put your pyjamas on and have a little drink, lamenting nothing." Cosy the Barbarian

Listening to two women switch straight from fluid Spanish in introducing themselves to each other, into fluid German. I'm massively impressed by people who speak even one 'extra' language fluently and lots clearly manage several.

Set these guys on the new Bond movie:

[sitting in a nondescript conference room surrounded by smiling tv execs] i want you to stay with me, because this is gonna get a little wild! but what if the story went ... in order

As though things weren't charming enough, someone has started very competently playing saxophone under my window.

This is the most Canadian "man hijacks bus" story ever. He contined to make stops and enforced the fare, and when police caught up to him they deescalated the situation and didn't identify the guy because “there could be a mental health component..."

Smallish South Asian woman, dressed in ankle-length white, is taking photos with her tall, red-haired friend, wearing ankle-length black. They could be the starting point for a bespoke chess set, or a fantasy series.

Visited a Museum of Modern Art. Its cafe/bar: - has a terrace - with a view of the cathedral, the sea and the sunset - is open till midnight. I'm rehydrating gently and not sad about any aspect of this.

New temporary exhibition.

I'm looking forward to watching the new Play for Today:

This palace has a well, actually - for convenient mansplaining.

BBC NEWSCAST are doing a live 24 hour podcast for charity today, and I’ll be popping in to chat history with Adam at 4pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

@mooseallain.bsky.social There are people here thinking their faves improve this cathedral; I politely disagree. 😊

There's gold in these hills:

Spanish TV has reminded me of the existence of Forever, starring Ioan Gruffudd - a series about an immortal medical examiner who helps the NYPD solve cases, obviously.

There are still a few of my '26 calendars left in this final printrun.I create each of my 📷s using recent research into the beneficial effects on the brain of looking at plants & items arranged neatly. Each calendar's 12 high quality frameable prints-make smashing gifts: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Current status: full of extremely delicious, melts in the middle tortilla, a five euro bottle of cava is chilling in the freezer and I couldn't feel more on holiday.

There's an elephant in the room: sent by an Abbasid d caliph in Baghdad to Charlemagne's court in Aachen, in the eighth century. Now that is a memorable diplomatic gift. From #Oathbreakers, which I've just started reading.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

The most beautiful greyhound/larhe lurcher has just walked by, wearing a little teal velvet number with a cowl neck. Such elegance.

Here's another AMAZING #buyastrangerabook day offer. @spacedlaw.bsky.social is offering to buy FIVE lucky people a copy each of Justin Myers new novel The Glorious Dead. Check out the blurb, and let us know if you'd like a FREE copy! UK only.

ANOTHER #buyastrangerabook day offer! @angelygogledd.bsky.social is offering to buy someone whatever book they want, up to £20! That's right! So, if you have your eye on a particular book, let us know what it is. UK only

I'm sitting next to the world's most wholesome couple, who've brought carrots - not carrot batons, whole, intact carrots - to snack on.

A Murder Is Announced is on BBC Sounds, with June Whitfield as Miss Marple.

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

going back to do a phd in assyriology so i can do my dissertation on cuneiform correspondence and call it 'ur in her dms'