We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

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The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it. It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.

This is the basic problem and it does make you wonder whether anyone decent would go for either job. Ludicrous expectations, no resources, God knows what skeletons from 30 years ago that might suddenly kill you, lukewarm government backing, the money isn’t that good by industry standards...

So let me get this straight: the BBC, which has been massively and obviously biased in favour of Tories and Reform since at least 2015, is apologising and the DG is resigning for… ‘anti Trump and anti Israel bias’??? Make it make sense

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

Next BBC Director-General: Odds Tristram Hunt: Evens Li Shulei: 10/1 The collective hosts of The Rest Is Directors-General: 33/1 Andrew Mountbatten Windsor: [BETTING SUSPENDED] A looped episode of Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming: 75/1 Grok-generated Victoria Derbyshire: 100/1 David Milireith: 150/1

Very much a ‘he’s resigned over…. THAT?’. Staggering.

In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him

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“What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it. And I’m looking at it now.” -Kenneth Clark

Some seasonally appropriate poppy extravaganza from Salisbury a few weeks back

Genuinely thought that was the Irish president in the picture

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

@scarytoilet.bsky.social spotted in Newport

This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.

Composition with cantilever, overhead wires, crane and sunny blue sky

THE NORTH EASTERN GOES FORWARD (1962)

Absolute peak enshittification, here. Unbelievable. "We've decided to hide the standard functionality of our previous product – you know, the thing you depend on – and put it in a drop-down menu that you're unlikely to find"

Composition with cantilever, overhead wires, crane and sunny blue sky

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The Two Cultures

Couleurs de Belgique Harry Gruyaert

Sorry not sorry

The singularity is near, not because machine intelligence is suddenly surging, but because we are content to risk extinguishing the spark of human consciousness by exposing ourselves to endless streams of artificially generated bullshit. ideophone.org/bringing-abo...

The right to bear bread vindicated

The Two Cultures

A barber shop that made an effort

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Most potential pet owners consider things like breeding, size, coat, intelligence, trainability, and temperament. Often overlooked is the crucially important element of aerodynamics, which can greatly affect your gas mileage, raising the overall cost of ownership significantly.

Seems useful to think about the social media era as politically deranging in the same fashion as widespread photographic and film propaganda made people insane when it first appeared in the 1920s-30s

I prefer the terms “vintage” or “classic”. The Jaguar E-type of racism. You don’t see it much any more.

LAST CHANCE SALOON to register for our (free) interlinked events in Namur: 'Lifelines' symposium and 'Lifespan' conference, 11-12 December, Namur, Belgium :) register by 10 November if you can make it in person. (Info about partial streaming -of plenary sessions- to follow later.) lifespan.unamur.be

lol

A new dawn has broken, has it not

Chimneyscapes of Brussels

Timeline cleanser (at St Ives last week)

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Underground, Overground My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues. This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.

Foxes of Brussels , 1 of an occasional series.

Brussels by night

A barber shop that made an effort

Post a bird announcing Dick Cheney is dead.

New awareness campaign

Never too soon to introduce my nephew to coffee snobbery.

LAST CHANCE SALOON to register for our (free) interlinked events in Namur: 'Lifelines' symposium and 'Lifespan' conference, 11-12 December, Namur, Belgium :) register by 10 November if you can make it in person. (Info about partial streaming -of plenary sessions- to follow later.) lifespan.unamur.be