It's racist and feudalist too, if you need to know that the hot coffee YOU JUST BOUGHT is hot and might scald you.

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Tomorrow is my day off! I am going to read Sword of Honour and listen to the new Mark Turner album.

@stuhennigan.bsky.social hope you have had a great night!

Everything has always been Midsomer, friend

An unusually fraught PCC... I hope they are more boring in future.

I remember her as Marie Curie! One of the first grown-up things on telly I was allowed to watch

I will reflect upon this for a suitable time, before aggressively doubling down upon my original view.

The far right cannot afford to understand history. Fortunately for them, their followers are insufficiently educated to know that.

There now follows a comment about Kathleen Stock. NE SUTOR ULTRA CREPIDAM the cobbler should not go beyond their last If you are lucky enough to be a published writer, try sticking to things you know about. Otherwise you might come across as a far-right shill chancer.

A nice thread on contemporary and eternal white supremacist stupidity.

For goodness sake

Spectacularly scathing stuff and I wish more writers of note brought even a tenth of the fire that Arundhati Roy does here. Shouldn't be the exception, should be the rule, and I hope the likes of Margaret Atwood and Stephen King and Zadie Smith are feeling some fucking shame for not saying this too.

A horrible good book!

As I read Waugh's Sword of Honour, I recognise that a) comic fiction must be especially difficult to write and b) even more so when it's tied to a specific time/place. Makes me see @jonathancoe.bsky.social who is great anyway, in a new light.

Listening to Scofield jamming with Medeski Martin & Wood. In one sense, it's nothing. But done so well, it becomes something.

A deeply troubled country since its inception

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. See the cranes come back in spring 2. Hear the penny drop 3. Connect to perfect strangers

Once a troglodyte, always a troglodyte

Dubai Dubai Wipe a tear baby dear from your AI

Pigs in brackets

Beano #1632, October 27, 1973

I forgot to add: pretending I can speak German. Much more fun than actually learning German would be at my age. Stimmt!

1. When you get to trot out what's interesting about the number 1729 2. Pelicans, real or imagined 3. Remembering who pollinates magnolias, and why it isn't bees

I’ve just watched a video made by someone who appears to be an adult and who wishes to be PM suggesting that a badger is an unfit successor to Winston Churchill and I now formally give up.

THE BULL OF THE BOG HAS SPOKEN

Also getting a distinct feeling that Viv Stanshall grew up on stuff like this

Good lord, I have become one of those fellows who read war novels.

Funny how the mind works. I find myself turning against Brideshead BUT that's to do with the sentiments (feudal nostalgia etc?). That's not what I enjoyed about it anyway, though. You just can't argue with the writing!

NEW: An Iranian outlet has published this picture of a ballistic missile. The writing on the front reads: "In memory of the victims of Epstein Island". (📸 Middle East Observer)

If you go back 900 years, then a very high percentage of the people who read this post will also be descended from this man's ancestor. I'm almost certainly descended from him. Why don't I get a seat in the House of Lords?

I beg to differ.

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Hey who remembers trial by jury ffs

Death to fake Lovejoy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All men live enveloped in whale-lines.

Diana Quick is so beautiful though

Absolutely superb film. Makes Ken Russell look understated.

The Trump White House is gaslighting us again, this time over the massacre of scores of Iranian children by the U.S. military. Despite clear evidence of this, they are insisting that Iran bombed its own school. That’s a lie. My write-up in the replies.

Tonight’s mood. Peace. xx youtu.be/TQtEFdyhgdE

For what would have been Mike Davis's 80th birthday today, we've put the Essential Mike Davis collection on sale through the weekend. "We must fight like the Red Army in the rubble of Stalingrad. Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely."

From the NY Times in 1932: Benjamin de Casseres to write a magazine by, and entirely about, himself. "It will be a magazine of aggressive individualism," he added, somewhat unnecessarily.

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

Now of course I am watching the old series of Brideshead again. It's too slow! And the music kills it stone dead. Who did the music? I bet it's Carl Davis. Deadly dull.

Cheers gang