Worth it, if only to hear his experiences working on the shopfloor of C&A department store in the early 70s and his still lingering contempt for the quality and cut of their clothes.

Now listening to Kevin's book. And a very fine reading by him it is too. Borrowed from #ManchesterLibraries #booklovers #dexys #audiobooks #libraries

Harry Clarke's Geneva Window, 1930 Thomas Bodkin called it ‘the loveliest thing ever made by an Irishman’.

From the look of this lot they've been waiting AGES for a bus. Second on the left of the stop is Jack MacGowran, one of Beckett's favourite actors (he wrote 'Eh Joe' for him).

Sorry to see Len Deighton go. I reread this novel again recently and would highly recommend it.

Dolores Keane, ‘distinctive’ Irish folk singer, dies aged 72

The Poor Fisherman | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

First they came for the malapropists, and I said muffin.

Had a walk along the prom & met some hells angels.

holy shit

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

And look at this fabulously confident self portrait by Leyster

📷 Alan Schaller 🌐📌 Florence, Italy, 2017 #photooftheday #photography #blueskyphotography #photokind

Collar https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/1381929

King Street, Manchester, 1900 (Manchester Libraries).

"LOOK AT ME I'M A TORTOISE, I'M SO SLOW, IT TAKES ME HALF AN HOUR JUST TO GET TO THE FRONT GATE" "Fuck off Brian"

Mahlzeit in der Sappe (Lorettohöhe) (Mealtime in the Trenches [Loretto Heights]), plate 13 from Der Krieg (The War) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/96546/

This McCartney documentary about his decade post B band is fascinating. You don't even have to like all of the music ( impossible) but his process as an artist ...and how did I already not know that a Northern Irish guy (Henry McCullough) was an important musician in Wings?!

Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?

in amongst all the terrible shit he's done over the last decade it's easy to have lost sight of the fact that the american people elected a leader called President Fart

Hebden Bridge, 1975, photo by Martin Parr.

Someone should make a scented candle that smells like the smell you get when you blow out a candle.

Meanwhile in the #adult filter on #Bluesky. #Photography Alfred Eisenstaedt (1963), Paris. (Children watching the story of Saint George and the Dragon at an outdoor puppet theatre.)

Moon Tiger (1987) by Penelope Lively. Wonderful novel. #bookerprize #reading #novels #penelopelively #booklovers

They tried to make Frankie Howerd go to rehab. He said “Nay, nay and thrice nay!" via Andrew Brechin

"Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour Pingu?"

📸 Paul Borg Oliver "A moment in Black&White" #photooftheday #blueskyphotography #photokind

I’m so happy with this comp. No acetates or anything recovered from a degrading quarter inch… all songs that will be familiar to anyone who woke up to Wogan/Ray Moore/Steve Jones in the 80s. www.acerecords.co.uk/weds-morning...

Detail of William Hogarth's painting from 1742, 'All Cats are Bastards' or as it is sometimes known, 'The Graham Children' #Hogarth #catlovers #Englishpainting #art

By **POPULAR DEMAND** the exhibition has been extended until May 2026. I might even get to see it in person myself!

Propitiate. William Golding used it several times in Lord of The Flies which I reread a couple of weeks ago and now I've just come across it in a Penelope Lively novel. It does seem to have fallen out of favour with later generations.

Self-Portrait 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/24879

Remembering actor & photographer Allan Arbus on his birthday 🎂 📷 Self-portrait of husband & wife Allan & Diane The Arbuses had a studio on West 54th Street for fashion photography, with a contract from Condé Nast to supply photos for Glamour & Vogue.

Add your own narrative. #plattfields #manchester #February #stilllife

On a plateau above the River Ure in North Yorkshire stand the remarkable Thornborough Henges, three vast, identical Neolithic earthworks built around 2500 BC. Aligned north-west to south-east over more than 3 kilometres, each henge measures about 250 metres across The overall 1/6

Valentine's. All Doiled Up. For all those who do. Painted in 2022 #loveheart #valentinesday #art #illustration #doilie

It's Friday 13th, but here's a ladder you maybe wouldn't mind walking under any day of the week 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Duncan Grant's 1953 enveloping murals of the Russell Chantry at Lincoln Cathedral illustrate the city's dockers (it must have been a warm day in Lincoln!) 😁

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Absolutely beautiful bit of design. Now listening to the Audiobook. #ElmoreLeonard #TheSwitch #novels #crimefiction

I'm editing a book, part memoir, part art history, about the German artist Kurt Schwitters' last years in the English Lake District, and it's FANTASTIC. Not read anything like this in years and cannot wait until @littletollerbooks.bsky.social publishes it later this spring. More soon.

Somehow, I was reminded of this…

Tall Man, Bald Child Duos Applaud Representation In New ‘Game Of Thrones’ Show https://theonion.com/tall-man-bald-child-duos-applaud-representation-in-new-game-of-thrones-show/

"The Third of May" by Francisco Goya (1815) ... and three paintings it inspired: "The Execution of Emperor Maximillian" by Édouard Manet (1869), "Massacre in Korea" by Pablo Picasso (1951), "The Execution" by Yue Minjun (1995).

I’m no Trump supporter but the Melania doc isn’t as bad as some are saying. The part where she’s watching work on the East Wing & her eyes roll back in her head & she unhinges her jaw & eats a contractor’s head & arm is amazing.