"I a grown up, I a sophisticated person," he muttered wanly, removing the cheese that had lodged in his eyelash.

Northern Ireland, functionally, has no immigration. Net immigration last year was about 8000 people in a population of 2 million, and that was a record.

For every world cup match that features three straight red cards I will share a photo of a door in Deptford.

odd mural, Big Sheinbaum w two little football men looking on in terror

beautiful C18 map of the Duchy of Milan

Kazuo Nakamura, String Painting, 1957

– what do you call a man with a Snoopy on his head? – Dog – what do you call a man without a Snoopy on his head? – Doglas

Three trees and the microfault.

The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge

Born on this day in 1776, the great English landscape painter John Constable. Here drawn by himself in 1806, because he had other talents besides landscapes!

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

1825: Saw 3 fellows at the end of Royce Wood who I found were laying out the plan for an 'Iron railway' from Manchester to London - it is to cross over Round Oak Spring by Royce Wood corner for Woodcroft Castle I little thought that fresh intrusions would interrupt & spoil my solitudes after the...

"Lighting-up Time"

Grafton Street looking towards Trinity College, Dublin, c.1890, photo by Robert French, Irish photographer, 1841-1917 (Lawrence Collection).

Egon Erwin Kisch at Xochimilco

On Ethnographic Barbarism, by Munira Khayyat ctjournal.org/2026/06/09/o...

I hate this with a pure and vital passion

soft launching my new breakfast project

niemand: ich: berlin

"...World Cup fever grips this soccer-mad nation..."

#EarlyRecordingsInJune Frank Crumit, "A Gay Caballero" (1928, New York) youtu.be/2PtcPLzM5rs

Chaplin in the mid-1930s, on the Los Angeles waterfront, where he built a set to shoot several scenes in "Modern Times"

for connoisseurs of the form

Unknown Chaplin tremendous 3-part series, all on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMI8...

Todo el mundo piensa que su versión de no hacer nada y llorar en alguna red social es la versión más inteligente y sabia de no hacer nada y llorar en alguna red social.

some wonderful things on Substack, some long-winded mediocre tosh what irks me is the whole Here We All Are, All Us Wryders Wryding thing cosy fetishization & ghettoization of "writing" silos & in-groups are a curse on culture amazing thing about Old Twitter was that *everyone* was on it

The book is worth it for this shot alone imo

change your lives

COVER REVEAL for HOLD OVER FIRE Delighted to share the cover for my new book. The cover image is a snapshot taken from the viewing platform on Nelson's Pillar in 1966 by my parents on honeymoon. They married on 21 February and were in Dublin the following week. The Pillar was blown up 8 March!

14x18 on canvas

Only 2 weeks till the Lewis Carroll Society of North America's Snarkarama in San Francisco (www.lewiscarroll.org)! To whet your appetite, the Snark Hunters of Kumaon!!! justtheplaceforasnark.blogspot.com/2011/11/fit-...

1. El Greco, "St. Martin & the Beggar" 2. Workshop of El Greco, "St. Martin & the Beggar"

"Der Ort, den eine Epoche im Geschichtsprozess einnimmt, ist aus der Analyse ihrer unscheinbaren Oberflächenerscheinungen schlagender zu bestimmen als aus den Urteilen der Epoche über sich selbst." Am 9. Juni 1927 erschien der erste Teil von Siegfried Kracauers Ornament der Masse in der FZ.

Trump falling asleep everywhere in public is... almost endearing (not, obvs)

spondulicks forever Charles Chaplin, The Floorwalker (1916)

bughedzuhreyn bughedzuhdeerz

Sentiments of the LA River: Born Cursed Deserve Worse

idly I sit & enjoy the heavy rain, savoring the sound of thunder, its repeated echoes...

at least no one's going to take the World Cup romanticism seriously this time

Happy #WorldOceansDay! 🌊 This view of the Atlantic Ocean from Inis Oírr in the Aran Islands dates from 1914. The image is a modern print produced from an original photo taken more than a century ago, capturing the enduring beauty + power of Ireland’s western coastline: https://ow.ly/4bFL50Z8Gu8

idle as a painted ship / upon a painted ocean Ivan Aivazovsky, "Landscape with Sailing Ship" (1874)

“Long live the pamflet…” THE—A Concordance by Colin Sackett INCISIONS—A Micro Anthology by Michael Hampton MKBP—Twenty-four pieces by David Matless uniformbooks.co.uk/uniformpamphlets.php

TIL that Melville Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was a passionate advocate of Simplified Spelling — so much that he used it in his own guide to the system (signing himself as "Melvil").

Increase in weapon lethality over history www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/rethinking...

855. Je me souviens de Qui voit Ouessant voit son sang, Qui voit Molène voit sa peine, Qui voit Sein voit sa fin, Qui voit Groix voit sa croix.

A Walk by Waiting celluloidwickerman.com/2016/06/06/s...

Pick your purple for Prince's birthday today! #purple #purplelove #purplepower #purplerain #prince #madamepurrla

the sequel: "Fall Again, Fall Better: Rooney's Revenge"