Tourism be damned. Welcome to the Opaque District.

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Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild Aardvark Badger Dassie Hummingbird hawk-moth Hare

For millions of Indigenous Americans, Thanksgiving is tied to a history of invasion, displacement, and devastation as settlers took over the land that is now the US aje.io/bb1ezw

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen. Yes King Crimson Secret Chiefs 3 Adam Ant Mike Oldfield

All piped / broadcast ‘popular’ music heard everywhere public today is compressing people’s brains to pancakes with its one safe, pedestrian chord progression.

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Tax drivers who don’t acknowledge you when you stop your car to let them pass first. Per I’m not sure how to measure it.

Major iPhone gripe: you can’t highlight more than one screen’s worth of text in order to copy. You get to the end of the screen and you can’t keep scrolling to capture more text. What you can do is apply the specific, limited shape of text you’ve highlighted to a different, irrelevant bit of text. 😖

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Ooooh! ‘…a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out of fossil fuels…’ So there’s a seemingly willing consensus to start talking about a concept of a plan at some point, probably. That’s alright then. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Post-UN Climate Change conference: as usual, as always, as predicted - we’re all fucked. We won’t ever not all be fucked.

Israel is still killing Palestinians in Gaza. The U.S. and Israel, approved by the UN, are going to colonize Gaza. Palestinians are still being denied basic humanitarian aid. The genocide in Gaza has not ended. #GazaGenocide

Meetings at G20, “condemnation”, “we stand with Ukraine”.. Not enough. When civilians are being slaughtered. Not enough is being done.

Well! Certainly fuck the traitor trump, bending over as much as he can to take putin’s putrid girth right up to its hilt, not even inviting Zelenskyy to the party. Fuck vance, the slimy little turd. America should not be Mini-Russia.

Friday dinner with Stewart Lee. Hope you're eating something that can be pushed aside until later. "Just as the Environment Agency allowed the Oxfordshire field to fill with filth, so compliant sensation-seeking media has normalised the filth of Farage for years." www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Strands #628 “Heard at the board meeting” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡

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Strands #627 “Busybody buzz” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵

Israeli settlers:🖕

This is such a good album. The instrumental section in Lady Ice is from another planet 😎

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The Chase clearly employs a question setter who only knows things about NASA.

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Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

Strands #620 “Out, damned spot!” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

Israeli settlers in the West Bank: fuck you; get a life; get woke; get intelligent; become human.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Strands #614 “Encuentra el ritmo” 💡🔵🟡💡 🔵💡🔵💡 💡🔵💡💡 🔵💡💡🔵 Hinty McHintface

Happy Halloween

Strands #607 “Good bones” 🦴🦴💀🦴 🦴🦴🦴🦴

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Quote post with your favourite reaction gif of all time

Irresponsibly posting my location on social media

Someone fucking stop America evolving in this way before it’s too late

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🚨NEW: Actor Richard #Gere on Donald #Trump: “We have a president who’s not only crazy, he’s a dark presence. And it’s happened so quickly. Six months, he’s almost destroyed our country” by @disavowtrump20.bsky.social RETWEET if you stand with Gere against Trump!

Richard Gere on Channel 4: 🫡

This is a joyful read 😀 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Three Potato, Four