This is savagery, not justice.

This video has really bothered me, when does it fucking end? HH is in her 60s FFS, she has been, no matter what you think of FG, a public servant for 20+yrs, what the actual fuck do women have to do to be seen as people by some men? When do we get to stop worrying about SA? #speirgorm #aras25

He's going to be like a 5 year old who didn't get to win pass the parcel.

I wish I had a picture of me and @archivedelver.bsky.social when I was in the push wheelchair. My mum bought me a windproof coat in camouflage green. Con was pushing me and I caught a glimpse of ourselves We looked like a radical mature student and her tweedy Marxist professor in a Ken Loach film

*Scratches own head*

Claustrophobic, creepy and atmospheric. Don't eat the soup, Ace!

Love thos coinage - the Bad Faith Threshold

We're going to our excellent indie bookshop in Derry, Little Acorns, to get it. Stephen Travers has a vital story to tell about the Miami Showband murders by Ulster Loyalists that he was nearly a victim of. littleacornsbookstore.co.uk

A thoughtful blog about tragic events in England from my good friend Michael McFarland Campbell. neurodivine.blog/2025/10/05/i...

GB News can, to put it politely, get stuffed.

A long, long, long time coming. Now to hope that there will be some better efficency in getting works underway.

Today's cultural theory: I think 'Conclave' is basically a Merchant/Ivory film of the 'yes what is it, Sebastian, can't you see I'm arranging matches' variety and that's why we all loved it so much. The public longs for ARCHITECTURE and MIDDLE-AGED ACTORS in RESTRAINED AGONY.

If you think Irish beer mythology is something from the past and only created by Big Breweries, then you need to start questioning some of the tall tales spouted by a number of Irish 'craft' beer entities. Spurious dates, invisible breweries, rebadged beers, pretend historic ales, etc. ...

This remains an awful and unfair proposal. For one thing, a lot of people genuinely struggle to find time to volunteer, and for another and more importantly, it’s not volunteering if you’re being compelled to do it!

Back in Kildare during the week for the new job - most stressful part - dealing with uncontactable couriers and jury-rigging our interweb connection @magstheobscure.bsky.social

Surprising @archivedelver.bsky.social by revealing to him that Freddy in My Fair Lady was played by Jeremy Brett youtu.be/KeybnI6OJMQ?...

#NationalTrust members - don't forget to vote to keep out the so-called 'Restore Trust' lot. Use the quick vote to consolidate the opposition.

Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from home. www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...

Sounds like a great speech from Tim Farron, and I’m very glad someone is speaking for those who don’t just love this country, they actually like it.

Mr Vain the first UK number one single since the 1950s which wasn't available in 7-inch format. You can find out lots more pop facts like that in my calendar of pop book #DontStopTheMusic, still very much available, along with my new one, #IntoTheGroove. #totp

'Big fish, small fish, cardboard box' as reminded to me by @magstheobscure.bsky.social #totp

'Well, Chaka Demus and Pliers, how's it going' - immortalised in my life as a former employer's standard greeting to me #totp

'Are You Gonna Go My Way?' this isnt #totp

Somewhere, a tea room proprietor is wondering where their chairs went. #totp

Three in a row - has to end 😪 [addendum - it did] #totp

Two bangers in a row - you are spoiling us! #totp

LEMMY! MOTORHEAD! THE ACE OF SPADES! #TOTP

Watch out for the over enthusiastic guy in the audience in the braces. He looks like the spit of @archivedelver.bsky.social in the day. #TOTP

Beginning to think that "reality" TV is when the West lost it

Amen to that!

I'm not surprised we travelled that way a week ago and it was a shambles

sadly, the atmospheric-pressure powered overhead Circle Line of 1845 did not proceed.

Attended Holy Communion using the Book of Common Prayer today at S Lawrence Jewry in the City of London.

Jeremy Taylor in 'Apples of Sodom', Part II, Sermon XX, from his Golden Grove sermons - on our capacity for self-delusion:

This is the owner of X actively campaigning to take down the elected government of a country he is neither a resident nor a citizen of - and using threats of violence in the streets to further his aims www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

"...the wind seems to have changed spiritually, and I’m not surprised at all that this is starting to show up in statistical surveys." Some thoughts on the Quiet Revival. thurible.net/2025/09/12/l...

No one in the international community actually cares enough about Palestinians to do what's necessary to end the Gaza war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict. International security supervision of Gaza & West Bank > Palestinian civil administration > Two state solution. That's the only way this ends.

Mags and me staying in Dublin tonight instead of being on the train to Derry from Belfast, because SailRail London to Dublin is falling apart at the seams. Last minute rail cancellation from EUS and no comms from Irish Ferries to rail pax until we arrived at Holyhead. @seatsixtyone.bsky.social

It's worth remembering how much banning women from things in the early 20th C was done "for their own good"

Mutuals, I encourage you to increase your Rood screentime. ⚓️ (From St Mary, Kettlebaston, with panels by the one and only Enid Chadwick.)

This is why we can't have nice things, pt. 96839

8th September, Accession Day.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Preswatch 2/2 | A nice touch by BBC Presentation recently with the Network airing of Northern Ireland World Cup Qualifier matches being introduced by members of BBC Northern Ireland's Pres team. On BBC Two tonight, Jennie Browne.

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL! Back to work today, but with the happy news that THE ROADS TO ROME is only 99p on Kindle all month so you can get away from it all in virtual fashion and enjoy the ancient routes. www.amazon.co.uk/Roads-Rome-H...

This one is Harvey's Sussex Best. A good one!

Against stupidity we are defenseless Bonhoeffer

ECCLES: Hulloo there! Everybody! Look at me! NED: I say, Eccles - 1st class! How did you get ashore? ECCLES: I walked across this log! NED: You fool! That's an alligator! ECCLES: Oh! I wondered why my leg kept getting shorter! (Crazy People S1 E15, 6 Sep 1951. Script by Milligan, Stephens & Grafton)

Before Mary Poppins was in that film, she worked as a gas boiler service engineer during the Jurassic period. She had to tell one customer, "Your super Calor fragile dipstick expired, diplodocus."

Art via screen

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