Ah, I’ve been waiting for the US to wake up …

Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app

Lots of huffing and puffing about a joke candidate in a volatile by-election, but no-one can stop Farage from standing.

Thankfully for Farage, the Reform party isn't full of malignant little sacks of backstabbing shit, who emit such a stench of raw ambition that it can bring down light aircraft, and will see this as a great opportunity to leak more poison into the press, destroy Nigel, and take over the party.

Someone get Count Binface to Clacton

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

Maybe if it was still called the Dept of Defense, they’d have had one against Belgium?

great day for moules frites and flipping off King Leopold and would-be kings alike

My algo is now serving up other people watching this, and every one of them is amazing. Case in point: www.instagram.com/reel/DaDhbuz...

Sometimes I rewatch the 1997 Fleetwood Mac live of Silver Springs, mostly because it is one of the all time great performances. I mean, Stevie Nicks made Buckingham sing backup at his own funeral, and we all got to see it. As a professional grudge keeper, this is a level I can only aspire to.

I think ‘Reflecting pool’ is still a perfectly apt name.

I have had a vestibular migraine since 1am yesterday, which is like being sea-sick but while laying on your own bed. And now with added 95 degree heat!

I would like to announce my husband and I are in a polyamorous relationship with 3 AC units

As someone whose brain fails above 22 degrees and high humidity, it’s going to be a wretched week.

Two 12 year olds in a trench coat trying to buy a ticket for the 3pm showing of Tiktok

I’m not a big investor but I had long term savings in an S&P tracker account. And after the SpaceX IPO changes, now I don’t.

The continued assault on trans people’s human rights is truly truly grim.

Ulysses Pride and Prejudice Barchester Towers

This is my all time favourite cake. I make it most years for my birthday when English strawberries are just at their peak.

Every time I think Elon Musk the most divorced man in the world could not be more divorced, he achieves a new level of most divorced man.

You ever have a really bad night’s sleep but are then faced with the realisation that you got to be such a cornerstone, you still have to make the workday work out somehow.

love to see the orbants

I have a hypothesis about this related to expectations of levels of information to feel assured in purchases. Millennials look for comparative tables, options, t&cs (which is easier on a bigger screen). Gen Z are more comfortable being presented with mobile sized information patterns (1/3)

And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

Christ, The Body Shop is bringing back Dewberry.

I am saving TR-49 for the weekend but the temptation is huuuuge

Struggling to write an email to colleagues to say my attendance at a work event is somewhat dependent on real time geopolitics.

In a fit of madness, I created a personal blog/newsletter again last night. It’s been a while. I shall attempt to finish setup at the weekend and then maybe I’ll have just enough left in the tank to write something.

halfway through my first book of the year, Dan Jones’ Plantagenets honestly, I’d forgotten how much I enjoy a good narrative history

Me, sowing in December: Let’s circle back in the new year! Me, reaping in January: Well, fuck.

Came on here to wish everyone a happy new year but I’m already too late

The horrors persist but so does the embroidery

Live by these fucking words in 2026. Be SPICY and lend a hand.

We got 2026 before we got GTA6

I have done my first baking of the season (thank the little baby jesus that my kids no longer have school fairs or the like) - cranberry mince pies with cinnamon sugar crust. Now I must gird myself to make a bundt cake.

The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home

I’m still right at the beginning of learning embroidery and digitising but to test out what I’ve learned I made a band tour shirt for my DnD bard Juniper and her party based on our last campaign. Very unoptimized but I’m framing it anyway

I continue my adventures in machine embroidery. I’ve followed instructions and tried out some adorable patterns, and graduated from felt to teatowels, and I’m now dabbling in tshirts and sweatshirts. It is time to learn digitising (which is the bit I’ve been really looking forward to).

Christmas tree lights: - on - twinkling - blinking - flashing - SANDSTORM BY DARUDE - off

A new Mega Man? In this economy?

i embroidered this tea towel for my team program manager and she’s gonna cry, possibly from happiness, probably from knowing this is how i operate every day and i am her cat to herd ✌️

apparently we’re subbing in for Good Housekeeping this year (i’m told the Sainsburys Taste The Difference ones are in the current top spot)

The real recession indicator is Pantone’s 2026 color of the year choice. ‘Corporate hallway white’

The Telegraph thing is ghoulish, naturally, but by all rights the journalist calling a tiefling a devil should undermine any credibility the article has with the actual player base.

I have purchased a rather fancy embroidery machine. I’m sure it will have a learning curve but my main motivating force to learn fast is simple. About once a week someone at work will say something unhinged to my face, and I want to wear that quote on a shirt the very next team meeting we have.

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McLaren, you towering buffoons.

Every time I see a perfume advert on TV, I am reminded how nuts a concept that is. The core essence of the thing is the one thing they cannot meaningfully share with you. So instead, here’s Johny Depp alligator wrestling in leather chaps.

Decorations are out of the attic