#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 12 : A Song With Beautiful Harmonies The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreaming youtu.be/N-aK6JnyFmk?...

If i had £1 for every time some gatekeeper of writing has told me that no one wants to watch/hear/read two people just sitting talking, i'd have about £20 - which isn't much but it's accurate and quite a lot considering i wasn't a writer for very long. And they were all wrong, and always will be.

RIP Bud Cort, such a beautiful scene from the great Harold and Maude... youtu.be/Tw-YRCbgnn0?...

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

I don't think there's any doubt that many within the GOP realise they need to build an off-ramp for Maga voters, bc the one thing a Republican voter wants more than anything is a reason to never have to vote blue. But the Shitstain-in-Chief won't go quietly, will he? They've built a nightmare.

well, should i not be having a lot more nights out??

seeing a bit of discourse about whether theatre should make ppl uncomfortable and my first thought was of the poor leg room at the Lyceum, Edinburgh

trying to choose a colour to paint the living room based on, um, the colour rather than just liking that it's called Alpaca Mittens

Last posting dates for Valentine's cards 💌 Monday 9th Feb for 2nd class Wednesday 11 Feb for 1st class Get your orders in sharpish if you want them there on time! www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/valentines-c...

RTing about a good old-fashioned letter reminds me that yesterday I phoned the Ecco shop in Rose St about some boots that i'd seen with a big saving online. They not only had them, but I had a nice convo with Lee, who said he'd hold them for me. Same price, but I get to try them on - and meet Lee.

“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.” Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

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

Did everyone just wake up from a coma?

In case you missed it the 1st time here's the weirdest & best octopus IMO. Amphitretus! 2nd clip 👇 for a look at the arms & beak. From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 819 #taludcontinental4 #mardelplatacanyon #MarineLife

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

And it works!!!!!

found my old iPod! It’s a 1st generation. I had it inscribed with “stick a quarter in the Wurlitzer”, a misquote from “The Last Time I Saw Richard” bc I am an idiot

marshmallows - might as well eat fuck all

i also learned about Shuggie Otis today and will be getting this album on vinyl asap www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk3v...

Give yourself a moment, and read this little excerpt from 'Anne of Avonlea' by the wonderful Lucy Maud Montgomery.

I had one of these. The novelty wore off pretty fast.

Went to a social event this lunchtime. I dread such things, but am trying to gently encourage myself to meet new people. And today I met an absolutely delightful guy and talked about Buckingham Nicks at length. Amazing.

discovered yesterday that my band has missed three invitations to play bc neither of us can be arsed checking instagram 😑

Great pre-loved Tarot reading. Really looking forward to the rest of 1993

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Re Epstein, I'm reminded of Sylvia Meagher, analyst at the WHO, who in 1965 published a Subject Index to the Warren Report on JFK. She said studying the entire 26 vols without one was like trying to use Encylopedia Britannica "if the contents were untitled, unalphabetized, and in random sequence".

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Cherry spritz 😏 #oilpainting #art

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

Well, that's the book downsizing done. I think we've kept about 60% of them. It gets easier every time I do it and I like the space around what's left. Everywhere is things I know I love, or things I worked on, or things I'm excited to read.

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

ach, she was just really great, wasn't she? www.thebulwark.com/p/catherine-...

What a shame to lose Catherine O'Hara. One of those actors whose lightness made me value actors more than dozens of actors who wang on about acting. I'll watch A Mighty Wind in her honour tomorrow ❤️

oh this is easy: if you love music and want to enjoy it your whole life long, look after your hearing

Went to a gig tonight and one of the bands had brought an AI video. Strange choice. Their lead singer had good presence but my eye kept being drawn to the parade of mystifying images behind him, wondering what the prompt was. 'Gentleman Jack but with mice in the House of Lords', perhaps.

Another shot of the kestrel from yesterday. #birds #photography

now afflicted with a thing where every lyric i can come up with sounds like it's from a novelty song *googles repulsive shirts*

Women’s trouser style or personal insult? - an occasional series.

time to do some work on my song

Idk I kinda think we should bring beliefs like this back. Tell them we gotta fix global warming asap or the Leviathan will escape. We gotta sacrifice another billionaire to the ocean or the harvest will be bad and food will get more expensive

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds playing CSNY’s “Ohio” with a little “Killing in the Name Of” thrown in.

kind of wish this wasn't paywalled bc i can see an application of AI in which it *could* shed light on child development but maybe this is just ragebait for the anti-AI folk (like me). Also, studying actual human children works too

made a bean stew - very tasty with a bit of halloumi - AND there are 7 fewer cans in our comically tiny food storage cupboard 🏆

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

me, to young ppl listening to ear pods all the day long

well, after a lot of faffing i got my turntable working with my bluetooth speaker! It sounds terrible. Idk if it's my ears. I've lost so much top end. If i won the lottery i'd get super-duper hearing aids but anyway it's nice to be able to play records

All I can see is Joan Sims! But also I lived in Whitfield for many years during 70s and 80s. It was a sink estate before the term existed, with usual mix of radges and salt of the earth types. Seem to recall JL was in a production of The Cherry Orchard at Dundee Rep at some point around then too?

Minnesota is the best of us.