Breaking wave at Achmelvich in NW Scotland this morning. #LongExposure #Scotland

Remembering the great Rob Reiner by seeking out this stone cold classic, ‘The Sure Thing’. Watching it now as an adult I still remember so many of the lines and beats and notice how strongly it resembles another forever favourite, ‘When Harry Met Sally’. #RobReiner #RIPRobReiner #movies 🎦

Mother Nature's Christmas Lights While actually captured in April, the scene reminds me of the lights of the season... and that I really need to get around to putting mine up! 1/2 #Aurora #PacificOcean #Nightscape #SouthernLights #Seascape #EastCoastKin #TravelTuesday #Landscape #Photography

In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

Thank goodness for that. Something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. And now it’s set to unhappen. Great for students, great for research in general and great for Britain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I didn't know about some of these. So much catching up to do! #RIP #RobReiner www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

A cracking lineup of comics across the four Nine Lessons shows this year as ever. Just some of the people joining @robinince.bsky.social will be Stewart Lee, @athenakugblenu.bsky.social, @joannaneary.bsky.social, @soozuk.bsky.social, Sam See & more! Very last tix www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...

In Sydney Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with Ahmed al-Ahmed, and described him as “the best of our country."

Someone did an impression of Cameron Winter from the the band Geese stubbing his toe, and it’s so accurate that I’m deaddddd. 👌🏻😆👌🏻 I needed this laugh today. www.instagram.com/reel/DQ-R4rH...

The impression I get is that The Sure Thing is better known and more widely seen in the US, but here in the UK, I'd say it counts as one of the forgotten classics of 80s teen cinema: It Happened One Night remade as a teen comedy. It's BRILLIANT.

One of the best ways to show your support for presenters and creatives who have been forced to take a hit for standing up for what is right, is to buy their work! Just got a hold of @robinince.bsky.social’s book “NORMALLY WEIRD and WEIRDLY NORMAL: ADVENTURES IN NEURODIVERSITY” Go get a copy! ⭐️

People keep sharing Rob Reiner’s incredible run of movies. Back in 2014 we pitched him the idea of just going through them all, trying to find a through line, and he was all for it. Anyway if interested here’s Rob Reiner on all his movies up through then screencrush.com/rob-reiner-c...

🧵 Dirty Donald has set himself up as the arbiter on the value of US movie director Rob Reiner. So I think it’s worth comparing Reiner’s work to Trumps [1]

This is what a statesman and President writes

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Munich by Vasily Kandinsky, 1901 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137502

R.I.P. Rob Reiner 💔 and his wife Michele. Also thinking of the great Carl.

‘Disunited Nations: The UN and the Middle East’ a documentary by Christophe Cotteret about the challenges facing the UN, particularly since 7 October 2023. #UN #UNRWA www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...

If you love science and comedy and @robinince.bsky.social, now is a great time to discover @cosmicshambles.com and everything they have to offer. And if you're in the vicinity of London, UK, check out their amazing holiday event, "Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People"

This is the entrance to the Art Deco Eastern Columbia Building, built in 1930 in Los Angeles, USA

The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003. www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...

Nuria Velasco

Marion, Indiana, 1958 - Luis Cesar.

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

Friday banger #music #musicsky #newmusic youtu.be/HWkG9Z_gGGg

But we see these sorts of headlines every year - it’s the sheer predictability of these headlines and the lack of any real plan to stabilise the NHS over winter that should be the front page story! Not some - in my opinion - highly misleading use of statistics! END OF RANT 10/10

Watching ‘Snow Dogs’ with Gordon Buchanan on BBC2 and I’m learning how easy it is to get knocked out by a tree suddenly in your face. #tv #bbc

Wait, quicksand is real again? All our old TV Trope nightmares are true? www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

After the first snow in my backyard full of oak trees (at my old house) This one is 6”x8” oil and you can find it here: (Chrislongpainter.com)

Francesca Albanese: ‘the truth’ behind Gaza’s ‘precarious’ ceasefire youtu.be/GblQ8u87FnE

Standing on Kirkjusandur beach waiting for cool waves to come in is such fun. But wellies are a must! Vestrahorn, Stokksnes #Iceland Nov 2025

That fact that we, as a nation, are still dithering on this topic makes me despair. 😁 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 11 ‘Mam Tor’ Artist: SR Badmin

Crosswalks. NYC. A couple of autumns ago. 6”x6” oil

Cosmos / Memory / Scale by Karl Singporewala. Art inspired by Zoroastrianism and architecture. At SOAS Gallery until 13 December. #art #London

What? I didn’t do nothin’.

😂 Ever since seeing the vocal chords of St Anthony in a cloudy glass container in a church in Padova, I have always been bemused by religious relics.

Turns out I've had a terrible year for cinema-going. I haven't seen a single one of these. #cinema #filmsky www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

A lovely evening with the creators of ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ doing a live commentary. #cinema 🎦 #timkey #tombasden #jamesgriffiths

Once more for the haters...

Michal Vitásek ~ Charles Bridge, Prague #Prague #Photography

Winter mosaic #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography #EastCoastKin #Sunset

'Nightfall, Fleet Street and the Royal Courts of Justice' by Michael Alford michaelalford.co.uk

Video footage shows Israeli bulldozers forcibly uprooting hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in Qaryut, a village south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

#music #musicsky youtu.be/GvrNPiz7rHw

"I Am Martin Parr" is a lovely documentary about his life and work. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Martin Parr has died & this grimmest gloomiest greyest, Sundayest of Sundays is the perfect day to watch Signs of the Times. All four extraordinary episodes are full of pathos, beauty & humour, life & love stories told through relationships with interiors & objects www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Imposible no amar a Martin Parr, era uno di noi. 🥲