Day 17 of my #FebruaryPhotoFest #FebPhotoFest and a post wax play image. Although the knife itself was quite something. focusedandfilthy.com/2026/02/17/w...

My own answer is the Meat-Shaped Stone from the National Palace Museum in Taipei. It's a piece of jasper from the qing dynasty that looks like pork belly.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

My local bookshop understands their audience.

What’s that? Just me and the dog having a sing along and bounce to this, nothing to see here😁 youtu.be/SkkIwO_X4i4?...

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

To be fair, this is every Friday and Saturday night in Brighton.

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

Day 14 of #FebruaryPhotoFest #FebPhotoFest and happy Valentine’s Day to you all focusedandfilthy.com/2026/02/14/h...

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

The National Trust is really pushing the limits of what email filters will let through…

We (trans safety network) met with Cass during her research on the Cass review and explained how clearly ridiculous it would be to try and bring haircuts and self expression under the authority of being a "medical intervention". She went away from that meeting and produced this crap anyway.

Indeco IFP28X pulverizer with googly eyes.

Day 10 of my #FebruaryPhotoFest #FebPhotoFest and an interesting seat focusedandfilthy.com/2026/02/10/b...

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

God forbid a girl has a hobby

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Please read & share this excellent account. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

This is Ladybird. She's politely requesting butt pats. Will accept them for as long as you're willing to provide them. Could be days. Weeks even. 13/10 (TT: christina.stamper5)

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

they pissed off the WeRateDogs guy enough from him to break character to directly tell them off, that's genuinely impressive levels of being an asshole

Poo, Spew, Richer Than You, Cuntface, Dribble, Twat.

Paddington gently taking Morgan McSweeney by the hand, leading him to the afterlife McSweeney screaming, I’m not dead, trying to break free Paddington’s grip tightens further, the more McSweeney struggles Paddington does not make mistakes Once he has your hand, your time on Earth is up

Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection. If you take that away, what do they have left?

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Filmed using a GonadPro.

sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

@eyebright.bsky.social Saw these and thought of you

when you say “duhh ai writing is good actually” you’re the yellow guy. this is u

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Day 6 of my #FebruaryPhotoFest and she’s next to me. #FebPhotoFest focusedandfilthy.com/2026/02/06/t...

ARTE

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods “It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This is the first one that came to mind. Utter banger.

Day 4 of my #FebruaryPhotoFest focusedandfilthy.com/2026/02/04/m...