Roses are red Their thorns can cause pain

Fucking hell. Is everything written eithdr by AI or thick cunty little children now?

Met a pal, gave him some nuts.

lol

"This song is not a rebel song. This song is Slam Dunk (Da Funk)."

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This has the most hummable chorus you'll hear all week. Plus it's a reminder that good songs really can be about anything.

48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

This is one of the studies (1885) John Singer Sargent made for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose.' The lanterns which we can see here were painted with very thin layers of paint; this allowed the light to seem like it was emanating from within rather than just sitting on the surface.

I think I've done quite well to have been on social media for about twelve years and not gotten into a single argument. With the exception of the two people who thought I was actually wishing death upon Julie Walters.

Decline

New York Interior - 1921 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104654

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A very good evening indeed over in Cathays Library, as our Open Space events series rolls on. All kudos to Mr Mat Troy and co for taking time to do this with us.

Father Ted: "I'm not a fascist. Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, whereas priests........."

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Roger Allam giving excellent quote in the Guardian

Happy Halloween from Star Trek and the haunted horny candle that makes you have sex with the ghost who had sex with your grandmother

Oh, so the Louvre picture guy was 'the most French thing imaginable'? Hold my Bordeaux.

Ok, stand down: we have a winner.

Dreamed about an otter with the face of former Man City defender Vincent Kompany, as one does.

The fox is probably a psychopath.

I met a horse today who looked like he was wearing an unconvincing wig.

Remembering Tetley, late of Walthamstow village! Images from our collections for #NationalCatDay.

Union members - does anyone else still pay their subs solely out of principle, despite their union branch being of no use whatsoever?

You can sing 'Harri-et Harman, Harri-et Harman' to 'Babylon's Burning' if, y'know, you want.

Leonard Freed, Naples, 1956

Let's be clear. If you go to 'Songs From Your Youth - With An Orchestra!' you are a sad old bastard, a pathetic husk of the person you once were. Fuck off to the retirement home in your lazy and careless mind.

I only found out that Max Factor was a real guy like last year, before that I thought it was 'Maximum Factor', like 'give your lips their maximum factor of sexiness'

Oooh, I do have one of these. Kurt Vile, the musician - that's his real name. He's one of 9 "Vile" children. His parents had never heard of Curt Weil.

Let's be clear. If you go to 'Songs From Your Youth - With An Orchestra!' you are a sad old bastard, a pathetic husk of the person you once were. Fuck off to the retirement home in your lazy and careless mind.

Dane has a favourite TV show, has worked out how to completely unplug the Playstation (and the controllers) AND eject a disc from it. Fitzwilliam doesn't even know we *have* a TV. You don't have to ask which one is which, do you?

Aah Wales, never change ❤️

I sometimes think about how Star Trek TNG would have been the first time I ever encountered a 'counsellor'. Such a thing did not exist in my young world in, oh, 1991. That the workplace of the future would have a dedicated person for staff wellbeing was incredibly utopian in the age of Miami Vice.

I knew this was Wales before squinting at the bottom edge, just from the combo of picture and caption. Have never even been to Aberdyfi.

The number of people on this 'internet' thing who don't know 'peek' from 'peak' (let alone 'pique', the fancy mysterious cousin riding past in a sports car) is fucking embarrassing. Bad spelling is unsexy as hell. Sort it out.

I call this piece What If The Loch Ness Monster Was Mr Blobby

Scale of Plaid win in Caerphilly is significant, not least because of what it says about the potential for progressive tactical voting in (relatively) high turnout elections to block Reform. Voters in this race knew it was a Plaid-Reform contest and voted accordingly.

Well done to everyone in Caerphilly who refused to vote for Reform. I was genuinely worried.

A simple message for Caerphilly this week (Senedd/Welsh Gov by-election) and, well, everyone everywhere.

The maddest one of these ever was in person in the library. This genuinely happened. "Is this floor 4?" "No sir, this is floor 3." "No it isn't." HOW ARE PEOPLE LIKE YOU ALIVE. DO YOU ARGUE WITH LIFT BUTTONS?

Some people are insane when you politely suggest they're doing something wrong. 'Perhaps you would like to use our other webform, which is the one you need for this enquiry'. 'No, for reasons that make sense in my head only, I am in fact doing the correct thing.' WHAT.

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

If you want to know how mad the UK has become, I just saw an online customer review for a high street shop CARDIGAN which used the word 'British' twice for no obvious reason and ended with the line 'Wearing it makes you feel proud'.

Oh yeah I hadn’t thought of that

Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, promotional still for The Hunger 1983.

(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)

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First cinema trip in a long while to see The Mastermind. Very Kelly Reichardt in that Alana Haim, as a main supporting character, mostly spoke through silences. Super depiction of the suburban autumn, full of lovely early 70s detail and good knitwear. Still feels like it was missing something.