Fields full of cows, sniggering

'Where can you scream? Where can you go in society and scream?' R.D. Laing

'Barely legal' like being 'a bit pregnant'

STOP EATING ANIMALS FFS

This country has an awful lot of good things about it but then...

Today's teatime tunes: Kim's old fella decides to go popsike to try and revive his flagging career and the results are remarkably good.

Language matters. Asylum seekers live in appalling conditions but the buildings are described as "hotels". Members of the Royal family live a life of luxury and privilege but their homes are often called "cottage" or "lodge". Why not just describe things accurately?

I begged him as well as I could, to accelerate his toilet somewhat, and particularly to get into his pantaloons as soon as possible.

Hermann Hesse 1975 Calendar was illustrated by Milton Glaser! www.theprintarkive.co.uk/products/138...

Featuring the dad from American Pie!

From our local NextDoor, the Universal Cat Distribution System in operation once again. This person now has a cat.

Another Jean-Jacques Lequeu drawing, 'The Bacchante'.

Adorable cat netsuke with eyes closed and an expression of contentment! Purrfect! 😻 Circa 1820-1840, Edo period, Japan, 📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

John and Michelle Phillips in Southampton with Lou Adler, October 5th, 1967. Cass had been arrested straight off the boat for theft of two hotel towels and a room key on a previous visit. Lots of theories as to the real reason including a Manson link...

New LRB just hit the mat 🎉

Niche tweet, back door of the Grande Ballroom, Detroit.

Author wrote best book he's ever written. Publisher disintegrated/fucked off with author's earnings. Book was finally published by new publisher. Author has bought two hardbacks, for full price, to give away, signed. Please repost/reply if you'd like a chance to win one.. bsky.app/profile/zygo...

Though the Finns call mozzarella 'Moomin Meat', so they are pretty much psychos

Lovecraftian politics

The Action at the Spinoza Lyceum, Amsterdam, 1965.

Morning beautiful people. Peanut says have a tremendous Thursday and do you possibly have a treat for me? Love, everybody

Trump shill on Newsnight - 'Trump is the most investigated man in the world and nothing has come out' he's a convicted felon and sex offender...

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...

Quint, 1975

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

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

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...

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