Every day I look more likely to bend your ear about the state of the road to Mullingar

A delighted son-in-law receives a family heirloom

Kaassassuk sends greetings from Greenland

YULESHARD n. a person woefully unprepared for Christmas #OldWeirdScotland #Scots

Recently stumbled upon this Instagram account that's just a guy who lives in a downtown Chicago high rise throwing paper airplanes out his window. Dudes rock, tbh www.instagram.com/reel/DR3CmxB...

I'm pretty ambivalent about Pynchon's songs but if this was sung by David Berman we'd all go nuts for it

Demonic Sainsbury Bambi

I am talking myself into this being The Great American Novel of the post-war era - making a list but it's very much a boys club

I'm very pleased to publish an essay by myself and Joseph LaBine about the contexts for Flann O'Brien and the radio. We cover material, cultural and the Adornian theoretical surroundings for Irish radio that shaped writing in Ireland at this time: parishreview.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

In honor of the death of the great D. Boon here’s the Minutemen documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5IW...

In other words: never

Do you ever get a line stuck in your head and think "that'd be good in a song" only to remember you don't write songs anymore? Mommy bloggers and domme floggers, is what I have right now

Kathleen Turner looking like a perfect 40's film star has always had me thinking she was related to Lana Turner but there are no blue links on her wiki

The Venezuelan oil tanker the US navy is trying to steal looking so much like Dame Edna Everage is very off-putting

A boat on the other side

I would simply never employ a scheming vizier, I would ask if they were were always honest and only hire one who said that he was

Dusk falls on Slateford

Kazimir Malevich, redacted

Today I learnt what a gird and cleek is and that I have married into a family that knows how to do it

The past really is another country

This would go hard as an album cover ngl

National Park - Solo Demos, from John Hogarty (The Pastels) and pals. Utterly sublime songwriting from one of Glasgow's finest. So good. Lovely transparent green cassette, professionally copied, with full colour, printed, folding J Card. monorailmusic.com/product/solo...

Five hunger strikers being held on remand are in a critical state, after protesting prison conditions. The government has chosen not to engage, reports Anandita Abraham

To everyone on Bluesky finding out about Walliams and despairing at the fact that "I read those books to my kids" I just want to reassure them that it's OK. He didn't write them.

'The Donald J. Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts' yeah boss that reads fine and makes sense no yeah absolutely

One of the bits of literary criticism that's stuck is the mind as a valve, the main task of which is to restrict how much information you have to deal with and as you become better read the filtering gets tuned. Why AI writes like an idiot is that it never wants less information

For completely unrelated reasons I bought the excellent Boyracer album Sunlight Is The Best Antiseptic, but if this is what's needed to lead you fine music so be it

Been working my through these and I'm finding a lot of new bands I'm going to enjoy in 2026

BOTD, 1918: Professor Longhair (d. 1980). Heard here putting his stamp on a Hank Williams classic. #1001CoverSongs Song # 63: youtu.be/BQwZEbPSEM8?...

Just so you know, the average speed for a professional cyclist on tour is 25-28 mph. Average speed for professional cyclists on a 13% gradient (!) are about 50 mph/80 kph.

With my glorious new-old badge, I am sartorially prepared for the work Christmas lunch 🧥🐸🎀

Being a lucky Sod I'm off to Vietnam on Boxing Day ! took a bit of searchin' for a relevant toon but Elves for #Fallfriday "The Siamese reached the shore" bit vague but the Kingdom of Siam included parts of Vietnam ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8M_...

this is culturally a vital work of modern art

My outfit for the day it happens

And in a dark room you'll see more than you think #FallFriday youtu.be/jsVJjppvKUs?...

Your legs are so cool Came twice You thrice #FallFriday

Ivanhoes Two Pence And the standing cup fills youtu.be/1fZ-1XmLvAE?... #FallFriday #PaintWork

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

I have about 4 books started that all seem really good and I should be enjoying but I picked up V last week and that's all I want to read. so it looks like Pynchon number for this year is happening

this is the sort of apex of it, although ps exclusive was in that line too and we had another that wasn’t recorded gargleblastrecords.bandcamp.com/track/libert...

What could possibly go wrong!?!?!

The UK could unilaterally cripple Israel's fighter jet program but chooses not to explicitly because they make a comprehensively stupid and bogus argument that it would somehow harm their support for Ukraine. Last I checked these are two different countries.

Let me fix that: Pointless arrests of concerned octogenarian vicars and teachers have increased by 8000000%

The history of rich Belgian men running an equatorial country as a personal fiefdom has never gone badly in the past, picture unrelated

youtu.be/V4vxftTqnTY?... Late entrant for the song of the year that's ineligible as it came out a different year - great way to close off an end of year comp if it wasn't 20 minutes long

Fall silent Decline silent Empire silent Roman silent

That old stick about the Roman Empire, and how the actual sign of the collapse was a bridge falling down and nobody coming to fix it.

Reskeet with your favorite meme you made.