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Bumped into a female friend tonight who was having a bad time. Told her I was learning how to fix the blown render on my outside wall. She got very aggressive. That is her job. I can't afford her work, so I've been trying to learn it. I understand though. I understand.

With all the world’s problems solved, the Telegraph turns to the thorny issue of Smeg heads into the kitchen.

It's rare that a neologism lands so fully-formed you wonder why it didn't exist sooner but here we are:

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Thread.

They nearly didn't. Bassets threatened to sue.

I LOVE gargoyles. If you read "the Iron Dragon's Daughter" there's a great passage describing their mating & feeding habits. Love that book.

It's a peak location for a gargoyle in my opinion.

A gargoyle!

Well I just rewatched it for the first time in exactly 37 years, and I liked it better this time. I'm still not sure how they got away with the giant evil robot Bertie Bassett though.

A tentacle breaking through from the other reality

Principles of Mercantile Law by E.W Chance, with the pages splayed.

About a hundred years ago, I bought it on VHS for @charliebrooker.bsky.social because he didn't believe me about Evil Bertie Bassett.

GAP NEWS: my living room (very high) ceiling has a wedge-shaped gap, presumably from when the house shape-shifted from being a shop. What weird thing should I install in it? (Yes, the lampshade is a pirate ship.)

“Ma’am, this is a school board meeting, not the final battle of Middle-Earth.”

Walking in low winter sun, dazzled in both senses: beauty & blinding feels related to the impossible act of seeing ourselves head on, how often insight arrives aslant, the sharp clarifying prism of encountering self as stranger, a breathtaking tenderness Marie Howe articulates In What The Living Do

Low, bright Sunday light feels like Kodachromes of distant relatives, BBC continuity cards of sun through frosty teasels, staticky folk records. Reminded me of this photo my dad took the day an adoption society worker arrived me with wrapped in her fur coat. Maybe I’m reluctantly writing about it

I sometimes have a terrible inescapable feeling that I am a taxidermy, desperately trying to knock out the stuffing placed into me, to regrow true eyes instead of glass.

Just realised that the awful, secret second part of the "What would I have done differently if I'd known sooner about the autism/ADHD?" question is "And why aren't I doing it now?" Oh no.

Great article - interesting quote tho 'Obviously you are not going to park yourself down and watch all 344 episodes of Byker Grove.' Whoops, I did!!!

I am now open for Christmas commissions. Pets, portraits, things you’d wish I’d draw.Anything goes. You can DM or contact me via my website for a quote www.infinitebacon.com Spaces fill up quite quickly so get in early. Thank you!

"What do we want?" "A compilation album!" "What shall we call it?" "Now!"

My favourite Doctor Who story of all time.

What actually happened is the opposite of "woke". There is a turkey shortage because of bird flu. You know the sort of thing animal welfare regulations and consumer protections might have prevented if not for decades of deregulation.

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

I've just decided, through a conversation with a friend, that I'm gonna frame everything I've been through in terms of "tough result to take, but we go again 💪" The fundamental principle, combined with the invocation of Victor Anichebe, is exactly what will heal me.

Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.

The sound of Christmas 1992 if you were working behind the counter at HMV (along with Cher's Greatest Hits, and the Christing Bodyguard soundtrack). Somehow I still love this Erasure compilation even if we probably heard it more than Vince and Andy have.

Listening to Radio 4 and the reporting on people seeking asylum is factually incorrect on multiple levels, including overstating channel crossings in comparison to other routes to seek asylum. No wonder people don't understand the situation when the media reporting on it is so poor.

Every subject of a broadsheet 'I'm leaving the country' article should be marched onto a plane at bayonet-point and have their passport revoked as they board.

To all the people who told me not to desert Labour because we had to beat the Tories and I said I can't vote for something so far removed from my beliefs - are you pleased to see the Home Secretary blaming migrants for all the ills caused by the rich and the last Tory government?

I found underneath the massive backyard leaf pile my beautiful children have been playing in for the past four weeks a decomposing rabbit

Whenever I see the tide turning against a popular actress I wonder which powerful man she turned down

This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

An original member of the group, she chickened out before they became famous.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Ooh, I’m SCARED.

It took a second viewing for me to see the incest theme running through it...

My recollection is hazy, but I remember enjoying the bit where they all got lost in the Barbican centre (not really a spoiler)

Trump: "they changed the words coming out of my mouth." I'm no expert, but taking legal action against the BBC seems like a distraction from other recent rumours about his mouth.

Why does every presidential corruption scandal revolve around Deep Throat?

Stayed up to binge all of Edge of Darkness. I was a child when it first came out, so it was great to see the whole thing. Protagonist was a bit odd though. If I found someone's vibrator, let alone that of a dead blood relative, I definitely wouldn't kiss it. Bleurgh.

I was once introduced to a woman named "Echinacea" and expected to treat that as normal.

Current house spider roll call: Little Leggy Sue (dungeon), Leggy Steve (living room, though hidden in a mystery location, under or behind something), and Big Staniel (present and correct, sighted earlier in the box room and greeted with a friendly hello which saw him retreat into a cupboard).

I'm hearing Elvis cancelled too, and that James Brown's thinking about it

Parkrun bantz

Not all of them - I ran into some where Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and 50 Cent were cancelling a world tour out of respect for Charlie Kirk