the man has admitted to sexually assaulting people and was legally proven by a court of law to be sexually assaulting people (a notoriously hard thing to do) but I’m sure this new evidence that he was sexually assaulting people will really wake up the base. It’ll be our lucky sexual assault evidence

Kentucky, 1942.

Do NOT repost Owen Fucking Jones into my TL.

'We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense' Roland Barthes

If you haven't heard this you're in for a treat...

It's probably a bit odd to have a semiology idol but here's mine, Roland Barthes, born on this day in 1915. I would have had steak frites for tea in tribute but I'm a vegbian.

Generation 60! 🎶🇫🇷 Sylvie Vartan, France Gall, Sheila and Françoise Hardy.

This really isn't the first dodgy @BBC edit but it's certainly the one that counts because delegitimising striking miners in 1984 or undermining Corbyn in 2019 apparently don't matter. Some thoughts for @LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Rare, running condition Guiller Freres 175cc from 1953.

Her dress is 'part Mondrian, part Battenberg' has guaranteed I will never read this book. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

November 12 — Roland Barthes writes in his diary a few weeks after the death of his mother:

Quint, 1975

Truman Capote and his cat, Kansas, 1967. 📷 Steve Schapiro

The Barthes Studies journal is ten years old today. All eleven volumes published to date are free to read online here: sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/

Today's teatime tunes: back to Brazil but there's barely a hint of Tropicalia on this, their sole album from 1972, it's heavier, sludgier and more experimental. The whole album is definitely worth listening to.

I'm at the dentist, and they've put an artsy print of a molar next to a bunch of lilies on a small table and it feels like I'm at a funeral for a tooth

'Preening Man' by radical architect and artist Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826)

I hear Black Knight has been bought out by the Gordons so I'm afraid we're no longer brothers in balls @johnneptune.bsky.social

Booker T. Jones, 81 today.

Neil Young, 80 today, seen here letting a cat eat his breakfast. 📷 Jini Dellaccio, 1967

12 November. Roland Barthes was born on this day in 1915. Here he is with his mother in Cherbourg (the city of his birth) in January 1916.

Upper Richmond Road, London 1964 📷 Terry Spencer

1, increase ticket prices 2, more forrin players 3, no more away ends, it’s 2025. Let’s all just get along. 4, more games on subscription tv. If you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t be allowed to watch it 5, all northern teams to play at 20:00. Especially if they have to travel over 150 miles.

The launching of Immediate Records with Loog, Mickie Most, Nico... www.tumblr.com/britrockahol...

Unit

Pete Quaife of the Kinks with his band and the Yardbirds, Ready Steady Go!, 1965

Twiggy, 1969. 📷 Linda McCartney

Morning beautiful people. Peanut says have a wonderful Wednesday, she's spending hers trying to form a perfect circle. Love, everybody

Maximum embarrassment potential especially when you're learning to walk again going up and down the corridor.

I'm watching World's Most Dangerous Roads on BBC2 and frankly I'm now with Trump and Farage

Do read to the err climax.

Please feel free to share. Got commitments to meet on Friday and have a lot of spare time outside of a very part time role! Local to Liverpool and Wirral, but can travel in the right circumstances Thanks pals! 💙 #Liverpool #Jobs #Chef #Hamdyman #Wirral #ManualLabor

'Clean living under difficult circumstances' Pete Meaden, botd 1941. Legend had it his flat contained only a bed, a wardrobe, an ironing board and a record player.

You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that: 1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people. 2. Most drug-takers are not a problem. 3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich. 4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.

If only

Silly old 'Xander', pretending to know all the answers when he's clearly got an earpiece in.

Today's teatime tunes: full disclosure up front, this is a Jethro Tull song. There's no standing in a stupid position here tho, these New Delhi dudes have funked it up, fucked the flute off and replaced it with a drenching of wah-wah guitars. Stupendous.

'Also drums' 🤣🥁😂

Mediaeval Hippy Hawk, hunted to extinction by the ravening maw of commerce.

HBD Kurt Vonnegut, one of the best Americans ever. His Uncle Alex story is one of my absolute faves. Real hard these days to enjoy the lemonade but we really gotta try hard to keep our spirits up to fight these bastards.

1970s PSA

Profoundly disingenuous when you've 'accidentally' quoted Enoch Powell & your home secretary is about to draw up a virulently racist set of new immigration laws. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Jacko really went too far with the lightening and plastic surgery at the end.

Starving people is a weapon of control. So, too, is controlling and attacking the media, attacking science and higher ed, and using the military against citizens and innocent people. All weapons of control.

📷 Jerome Ducrot for Seventeen magazine, 1967.