TREAT YOSELF

Reminder to treat yourself to nice things once in a while. I had a rough week and a horrible migraine one day that was so bad I almost threw up. So I booked a 90 minute deep tissue massage yesterday and while it was painful I feel so much better for it. Some stuff is worth spending money on

fun fact: most men find it incredibly difficult to locate the arch

I saw this "Far Side" cartoon from December 6, 1987, and couldn't believe it was real. But it is. That Gary Larson--he was forty years ahead of his time.

West Green Road 💚

Telling another cowboy to stand down:

trying to see something

had a Labour guy canvassing today. Not the best day for them I assume, poor sod.

fun fact: most men find it incredibly difficult to locate the arch

Today in Irene vs tfl: don’t tell me the next train will be at 5.15 if it’s actually at 5.32. then quietly cancel the 5.32 and tell me the next one is at 5.43. I’m trying to get to my dentist.

lovely in-depth review from @imdbartlett.bsky.social (you should follow him!) of Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise. I’m due a rewatch! thepeoplesmovies.com/trouble-in-p...

I hate it when people say “x is much smarter than me” because in 99%of cases they secretly think that they are smarter than x in some way.

any angry young women wanna meet or

full solidarity with whoever posted this #whomiliation

Post the best photo you’ve taken of your pet

getting my stitches out from last week’s dental work. the molar right of the author has been asserted.

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

ooooh boy did I not like the new Jim Jarmusch

i’m at the stage where I don’t want to repost anything anymore because it might all be AI but I just saw a clip of Hegseth delivering the psalm from Pulp Fiction in earnest. Even if it’s fake, it’s funny.

I left my home near Clitheroe to look for work and I'm so homesick. I was looking for a job and then I found a job and, heavens knows, I miss Ribble now.

Not to brag but I have been invited to the New Statesman’s invite-only NS Hypertension Prevention and Innovation Reception as part of World Hypertension day.

Justin meets Katy Coachella main stage every Friday night

psst. I still have some cornichons in the cupboard. First one’s on me .

this is very good

peak wfh looksmaxxing

a vice president with a name that sounds like he could get you top fashion, gifting and homeware brands for up to 60% less

"Straight men who simultaneously crave sex with women but also fucking hate them" is the single most troublemaking group of Earth TBH

my favourite vice? unsolicited ad

my friend confessed to fancying Karoline Leavitt (but finding her evil). He asked me who I’d pick if I had to sleep with one of them: JD Vance Marco Rubio Pete Hegseth ofc it’s stupid and beside the point to talk about politicians in terms of fuckability, but it feels like women can only lose.

I think David Attenborough should be more careful when talking about zoology

a healthy fuck you to the bus driver of the 476 who simply chose to ignore my outstretched arm and went past my stop without so much as slowing down. and fuck you again.

as someone who loves to cycle and wishes more people realised how amazing it can be for everyday trips, especially in cities, I think Lime bikes can absolutely go back to not existing

went to the Jerk Centre and everyone there knew you

this is what happens when I decide to seize the means of production

my crocheted phone bags all look like Gary Larson characters

what if I’m Banksy

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

Young David Bowie

since I refuse to suddenly get hayfever this late in life, I’m going with “I must have yawned extra hard is why my eyes and nose are runny” (what pollen is today please?)

i’m at Wholefoods in Stoke Newington and they’re selling something called a hydration drink

crime rate in the Vatican at all time high

christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"

Young David Bowie

OMG YES!!!

guy who dresses for a first date like The Times&Sunday Times suggests

regarding the US decision to blockade the strait of Hormuz, I offer the wisdom of the Yiddish language, in which a double negative - "nit keyn" or "keyn bulbes hob ikh nit"* - is still in fact a negative. * I ain't got no potatoes, more or less.

Vinaigrette Childless

and I couldn’t help but wonder that maybe the real lesson was the ships we blocked along the way

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Let’s go Hungary