Sometimes a single line of text that makes you breathe strangely for a moment is just the tonic.

Just been poleaxed by the sheer beauty of a man wearing eyeliner at the petrol station.

My mom keeps dinosaur figures outside to scare off raccoons who want to steal her garbage. She sent me a photo today. A large toad has found one of the dinosaur figures and befriended it. They are besties now.

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Note for those needing a different kind of balm (and perhaps looking to stock up on treats as the days get darker), Monty Don reading 'Nigel: my family and other dogs' has appeared on my Spotify this week and has had exactly the kind of effect on one's brain you might imagine. Aural gravy 🫠

Brief Encounter is on the iPlayer, gang. This is not a drill :)

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Wishing I hadn't said yes to the early appointment before my train to London tomorrow. FFS me, wtf.

💯! * weeps in history *

I recommend prancing about in a swooshy cloak on an iron age hillfort. Cures most things, momentarily.

I stepped forward and supported someone having a seizure in a coffee shop today. Not telling you this for praise reasons, more noting that it is a humbling thing to be in that position even doing the basics and paramedics are amazing.

It's a type a message three times then delete it and don't send anything evening which is progress on some level I guess.

Not sure what's up, bluesky, but something is, and it's not the usual *waves at everything*

just got my ass kicked by the tupperware drawer again

Home after 2 weeks working away. Grateful to myself for making bed with best sheets before I left, annoyed I can't sleep with the window open until the spider screen is fixed.

It would seem from my extensive research that no amount of rueful looks turn a bag of healthy almonds into a box of Maltesers.

Rolex one of the easier brands to boycott, if that is your thing.

Doesn't James Keothavong have a lovely voice tho?

UK PEOPLE: If you start watching Threads at 2.12pm, the bomb will go off at the same time as the Emergency Text alert.

Looks like my afternoon could be an interesting one for different reasons today 👀

This deserves a wider audience.

I've just found a ring under the hotel bed. I don't want to let Sauron know my plans so I'm going to hand it in at reception.

Enjoying the second set resurgence at the tennis, really vibing with the way the American crowd have blatantly and noisily adopted the Canadian player 🫶

Going floppy is the way forward. Peacefully annoying ftw x

Alcaraz has started well in the tennis btw.

If anyone wants a dead magpie, there's one outside where i'm working :(

I wish tv producers would go actual rich black and white rather than watery greyscale if choosing that as a look. Hello have you heard of the contrast slider you use perfectly well for colour coverage IT STILL WORKS WITH MONOCHROME gah.

It means another few hours awake and working, but I'm glad the tennis has gone to 3sets because Anisimova deserves it *refreshes matchsticks*

Just had a fascinating chat with someone who was medically unresponsive for some minutes during a medical event earlier in the year. They had quite the psychedelic vision experience and noted that when sharing about it afterwards (they are fine now) many people's response is to not believe them.

Anecdotally, 'Let them' is having some interesting results.

The finest response I've seen so far.

Djokovic doing a dance from KPop Demon Hunters when he won wasn't on my bingo card either but here we are.

Just for variety, tonight's adventure was going back to work after my shift (and about an hour of sleep) because a small wild creature had managed to set the alarm off and I was closest. What japes!

Suspected ordnance has been found on the beach near my house. FB community group comments include one from a St George flag saying 'give it a kick and see what happens'.

I've just heard 'pinecone' used as a slur on the street and I think they heard me laugh.

So. Finished a long shift, closed big industrial gates and padlocked them. As I was putting my bag into my car (15 ft away), was approached and flashed by a bashed up red transit. I tried to ignore it and not show fear, turned my car around and drove away...

Is anyone other than me staying up to watch Norrie in the Tennis?

Everyone I have smiled at today has smiled back 💃

Today has involved making ear tags for cows.

@woodo.bsky.social Nishioka left a racket like this yesterday too, not to mention giving himself 'a talking to'.

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I'm not sure why seeing this has made me quite as happy as it has.

“The books would have all looked new,” I scream impotently at another costume drama.

Sometimes Def Leppard is absolutely the right way.

I love the way that despite being built on strict rules and hard discipline, the cathedral green is still where lovers go on an evening like this to be openly soft with one another.

Im not a violent man by any means, but i do sincerely believe that if you're wearing a hidden always-on audio and video surveillance device, you should get a bopping from anyone who notices

Whatever may or may not have been true in The Salt Path, the bit about sea salt kissed blackberries is utterly correct.

4 nights under canvas and tonight I'm back in my own bed with the pillow I forgot to take *neck cries in gratitude*

The Celine Song interview on this week's Wittertainment is extremely insightful fyi x