Handy skipping rhyme for fans of Australian PM Gough Whitlam: “My mama told me If I was good-ee Then she would buy me Gough Whitlam dolly. Three Six Nine Gough drank wine Tried to find a seat for Brian Harradine, He chewed on a root Gough wore a suit And we all went to heaven in a Holden ute"

Can’t believe I almost missed Alien Day.

Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️

I built it brick by brick! Wordle 1,772 5/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Jessica Watkins was assigned the position of Commander on Crew-13 yesterday. Not only will she be the first #NASA astronaut to fly the Dragon capsule twice, but she will be the first woman of colour to command a space mission! (Photo by: Robert Markowitz)

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Pic is by Paul Gillis, I believe.

A picture from the Bristol balloon festival. I am unable to name the photographer. Your sort of thing @swansonian.bsky.social ?

I often repost other artists while brilliantly forgetting to plug my own stuff then moaning about my lack of sales. So with that in mind look upon my works ye mighty and think that would look smashing in the living room. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

20 years ago in the UK I'd never heard of Tina Fey or Amy Poehler then there was 30 Rock, then there was Parks and Recreation, then they hosted the Golden Globes three times then they each wrote a book and all these things are among my favourite things. What a heady time it was. #TinaFey #AmyPoehler

“Not since Henry VIII has a divorced slob felt the Pope has so over-stepped the bounds, but at least Henry didn’t bury Anne Boleyn on a golf course” Jon Lovett on Pod Save America #trump #podsaveamerica #crookedmedia

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

A fantastic interview by @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and Graham Kibble-White with Graeme Garden. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Do you think the secretary of war is frustrated that his immense lethality and qualifications have not yet been employed in a proper war? #hegseth #gotigers

The spacecraft reached a temperature of 2,700 degrees C. That’s 2,680 in a fan oven. #Artemis #WelcomeHome

I’m always surprised by how tall Emily Watson is in this film. Not sure why I think she’s smaller. #GosfordPark

Gosford Park is pretty much a masterpiece until Stephen Fry shows up, performing in another film altogether. Shame, but it shrugs him off and survives. #GosfordPark

It’s only after watching re-runs of Call My Bluff and Face The Music on BBC4 lately I’ve realised Robin Ray and Russell Davies are different people. Thanks BBC!

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

As the Jargonauts of Artemis politely listened to a president, I thought Mr Hansen, on the left, had pulled a lovely tartan blanket over his knees. It's a net of webbing I suppose.

Trump contemplates firing Artemis astronauts in the morning. He will require them to leave the spacecraft, saying ‘These astronauts have been ripping us off for decades. No president has had the guts to tell ‘em there’s no such thing as a free ride’

Bondi Beached!

I always remembered the odd detail in Irene Handl’s obituary that she had written two novels, and filed it away. Now I finally treated myself to the first of them, The Sioux, published in 1965. Have you read it? #irenehandl #thesioux #librarylife

My print sales are low at the moment. It seems the world is simply not ready for my level of absurdist melancholy so I’ve made the difficult decision to ignore this and carry on as normal. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

Twenty minutes in and already the Artemis mission is very, very boring. #imjoking #artemis

I hear Yahoo Serious retrained as Google Alert

When he’s finally gone and they strip this crap out there will be little oily dots of blu-tac all over the wall like the bedroom of a student who fell out of love with Morrissey.

Listening to old radio episodes of After Henry is my under-the-blanket safe place.

NEXT SUNDAY! All Remembered Mothers' names to me please by 10p.m Saturday 14th. Reposts appreciated.

Sharing this here as it seems not enough people know it even exists. I rarely watch the Brits, but in '94 (and living in Björk's old flat) saw this go out on the night. I was already playing Dry and Rid of Me all the time, and this was something else again. Magnificent. youtu.be/a8RFignlzaM?...

Irish dads at a pub learning to braid their daughter’s hair 😭 www.tiktok.com/t/ZThv5jNNK/

Sharing this here as it seems not enough people know it even exists. I rarely watch the Brits, but in '94 (and living in Björk's old flat) saw this go out on the night. I was already playing Dry and Rid of Me all the time, and this was something else again. Magnificent. youtu.be/a8RFignlzaM?...

The books are whispering to each other again #librarylife

Not really in the mood for selling prints today but needs must.

I'm going to do a thread of my ten most popular prints with a link to my shop. Feel free to browse or ignore. I am as if "No worries if not" and "Sorry" had a baby and called him Graeme. First at number 10 is Borrowed Spacesuit. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Astounding fox this morning, in the grounds of a hospital.

Some of you seem to be in a good mood. Let me take advantage of that by putting my prints in front of you in the hope that you buy one or six. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

It’s not all Nabokov, Atwood and Proust at your local library. #librarylife

20 years on and this old warhorse just gets more thoroughbred. Three excellent topics this week and @jdickerson.bsky.social said “…they’re trying to put Andrew Mountbatten down the hatch,” which, as a comment on a naval man, made me stand up in my London bathtub and clap. slate.com/podcasts/pol...

Top headline writing at BBC News; “MPs Call for Brazilian butt lift crackdown”

So the man who sits in the front of the bobsleigh is called the pilot.

Well, that fell rather well. Archive February 16, 2026 Wordle 1,703 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

powdered dessert product at night, Angel Delight

Sometimes colleagues in the library are thrown by an unfamiliar author’s name, or multi barrelled one. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mario Vargas Llosa and W. Somerset Maugham can all cause a pause. Yesterday I advised a colleague ‘Try looking for Of Human Bondage in S and M’ #librarylife

I see ‘Emily’ is on BBC4. You can tell Emily Brontë was artistic and creative because she was outside in the rain, turning round and round with her arms out.

Small Prophets is industrial estate light and magic.

Oh! Lovely treat on the beeb for Valentines everywhere. Nosh with Binoche!

Small Prophets is industrial estate light and magic.

I see ‘Emily’ is on BBC4. You can tell Emily Brontë was artistic and creative because she was outside in the rain, turning round and round with her arms out.

Sometimes the books in the library just speak to other. #librarylife