I know everyone wants to say Mamdani is a very charming man (he is) but I feel people might be leaving out the fact he is soon to have a gun to the head (in Trump's worldview) of his favourite city

I wonder how the Ashes are going after a few hours-

This kinda goes hard as a pfp or something though lol

Today we learnt a valuable lesson: this camera does NOT need 100 ISO film

Has to be more music like this out there open.spotify.com/track/6au2fZ...

How it feels to listen to a dungeon synth playlist and then look up the artist you just listened to

bluesky make a funny response to this post do not use emojis

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

🚨Gem discovered

This is the highest my HRV has been all year... Encouraging but also concerning it's this low.

Massive Cloudflare outage... sure glad half the internet doesn't use it!

stonks down

We're proud and excited to say our Working Class Library podcast episode about The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, featuring David Nicholls, is now available on all good podcast platforms, and on our site. We loved doing this, and hope you like it too 🐝

This stuff is an international embarrassment and yet it is also the tip of the iceberg. It is the failure of the British state in action. As the perpetrators are unlikely to be significantly punished, it will happen a lot more in the coming years.

Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice. Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in. It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her. open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...

After years of therapy it turns out the number one thing that boosts my mood is "simply having good things happen to me and not having constant stressors"

Our lesson on slavery was one or two lessons IIRC, I know because I still have my school notes and our lesson was quite memorable. We definitely never learnt about the Irish famine though. In fact our lessons about the British empire post-slavery were very limited.

I follow AOC on social media so usually catch up with what she's saying on politics but why did she start rambling about short men to tiktok (?) one day, that was really weird right

I was having a conversation with my friend about therapy, and a drunk man across the bar said maybe I needed therapy for my shit haircut. How do I ever recover from this?

Remember when people were saying Corbyn's new party would kill Labour lol

Looking at guides to old cameras online and there are a load of capital-C Collectors filming informational videos where they clearly just hate the camera and consider it a waste of time to be taking photos on it. Why bother? Why do you own it in that case?

The signs are there that Valve is interested in TF3. The question is, what do you even put in such a game? The mercs are symbolic and beloved characters and if you replace them you might as well just name it something else.

[Person whose employer is in direct competition with the BBC]: I think the BBC should stop everything except the weather forecasts

Was noticing that someone at work looks pale, always seems to have an open wound. Today he said he only eats porridge, eggs, and bread. Ah yes that would be it.

Yup! That's another certified CUCK SCHUMER ™ Moment

My mother is low-key becoming a BLM supporter because she's being negatively polarised by hatred of a local aristocrat, who still owns plantations.

I spoke to the person at the camera shop and the reason for the light leak was probably because of how I took the film out. The manual is a little unclear a to exactly how to do it, and whatever happened, I did it incorrectly. Fortunately this indicates there is not an issue with the camera itself.

Was briefly tempted by the Victoria 3 jumper but honestly for £45 it looks really cheap?

Sounds hypervigilant but when people call me Tommy I get the impression they are subtly infantilising/demeaning me. OTOH I don't mind it if it's from a friend.

My dad's a coffee enjoyer so I bought some from an artisanal shop in London. Now I keep getting emails like this

Bridget Phillipson claims to be a socialist and as a socialist she should be interested in the successes of socialists abroad, especially in a country that is so close to us and has such influence

Greenwald's article about Lee Rigby that Mamdani was criticised for sharing was not as bad as I expected. If that's the best they can do, well they don't have much.

Pouring one out for Dick Cheney tonight. Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I'll see you in Valhalla.

Someone needs to tell the Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd that are saying "I'm not voting for him because of XYZ against the party" doesn't actually make sense when your whole position is, you know, voting blue no matter who. If your position was "vote for most blues" you wouldn't be a hypocrite!

FYI, I've fleshed out some recent comments on Tesco bashing into a blog... 🤔✍️ julianhjessop.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

Sigma

A peaceful and introspective Ann Selzer Memorial Day

Well this was an odd film. It has many threads and is never really able to satisfactorily cover any of them. It's "anything goes" approach to historical accuracy begins to irritate at times, especially when modern English idioms creep in. I did find it compelling.

Just watched

Alright some things to learn here but wow that shot of Molly is incredible. Seems to have been some sort of issue with how there's a line about a fifth of the way from the right, probably a light leak.

Just on the whole cultural appropriation thing, anyone is welcome to appropriate English food except Americans. I don't know what horrors you would unleash upon the Dorset Apple Cake but I don't want to see it.

Every Graham Platner revelation is more confusing than the last, truly a man of our times

Going to a Halloween showing of Penda's Fen.

This is what I found when I looked at the density of places in Great Britain named after Saints: these are Edmund, Cuthbert, Paul, Mary.

Found some film from the 1960s in one of my old cameras. Was expecting some exciting window into history or at least my family. This was the only picture that came out. Whatever man.

I asked a friend in Madagascar several years ago what hope she had for the future and she said "I don't believe there is any"

I've had the "Call to function 'Context. renderAsync' has been rejected" bug that blocks you from posting an image more times than I've actually been able to post an image on this app.