WHAT WILL FATHER PANCAKE BRING YOU TONIGHT

Morning all. Photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Cat crossing the street, Byker, 1974.

'The Balcony.' (1934) One of the most appealing British artists of 20thC, Kenneth Rowntree had a great gift in recording the face of various towns and cities in England and Wales.

Let's have some love for songs about specific things. How about: riding around on your bicycle? jimnothing.bandcamp.com/track/raleig...

(not my cat)

The National Trust is really pushing the limits of what email filters will let through…

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

A little park wander. It's fucking cold. Despite this, there's a 17 year old boy casually wandering along in a t-shirt and, on an unrelated note, a man wheeling a pushchair containing, quite naturally, a television.

Well my name's John Keats and I'm here to say / that Beauty is Truth, in a major way

You can’t offload emotional labor. Believe me, I’ve tried

Was once in an old man pub whose jukebox had the Manics' thrillingly odd 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time'. Ka-ching! The barman came into the room, squinted at it like it was broken, then walked away. Presumably muttering to a regular "Dunno Jim. It doesn't normally make that noise".

This is why I'm scared to do adult ed / training courses outside work. I'll just end up getting chucked out after calling everyone brain-dead cunts.

Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.

So far I've had food poisoning from chips out of cafe and have had a tennis ball smashed into my face.

Great to see all the love for Cameron Winter, a man of significant musical talent, but whose singing voice appears to be Flu-Ridden Julian Casablancas Does Radiohead, or possibly Drunk-at-5am Anaemic Vegan Rufus Wainwright. Either way: No.

Me being very natural and convincing when a friend shows off some new clothes

You may spot the crucial mistake this person has made, which is not just entering a 'Brewdog pub' but even considering that to be a thing that exists, rather than simply a black hole in space.

Automat - 1927 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104043

reminded of that post that was like "subtle difference! Catholics think suffering is good and Protestants think pleasure is bad :)" and increasingly worried about our Protestant-coded times

this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)

Most academic books have boring descriptive titles but occasionally...

I have never had such an 'oof' response to feedback as when my friend read a story draft of mine last year, making annotations as she went. Barely two-thirds through the story she wrote 'this would be a good place to end', after which there were simply no further notes.

Perhaps the finest Total Misunderstanding I ever heard about was a friend's sister, who somehow believed that the TV show Don't Tell The Bride was where the groom was secretly terminally ill (??!) but determined to still give his fiancée a great wedding. In, presumably, EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.

Additionally: more Rizzo.

Bummer for all the Cardiff fans in July. At least it gives people a day to clear up the litter from the previous day's crowd: Pitbull. Presumably various sweat-stained singlets and discarded coke wraps.

Genuinely asking for tips here - how do you convince someone that what they're 'creating' for external comms (and sometimes their own damn emails) sounds shit, lifeless bland and, given the lack of actual thought input, disrespectful?

How do I get a colleague to stop using ChatGPT to write stuff? It's undignified.

It's always those slutty clergymen causing trouble

This fucks me off far more than it probably should. IT DOESN'T WORK YOU SWINES

She just wants to live her life this way.

Someone from work has had a sudden serious illness. Someone else from work has died. A friend's mother has died. Another close friend has two teenage children undergoing test after test for a mysterious, possibly genetic condition. In a JanuFebruary of endless rain, it's all a bit fucking much.

"...Men like ravenous fishes feed on one another.... oh, desperate as you are, wash your foul minds with tears".

Abandoned Soviet radio telescope facility in Armenia 🇦🇲

“Three Deer Lying Down in Snowy Forest in Winter," 1940 Photographer Harold M. Lambert.

the great sphinx

Imagine seeing post-punk heroes Gang of Four in a catering college on Colchester fucking Avenue. For two quid.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

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*Sabbath riff* 🎵 I'm Horse Iron Man 🎵 Standing tall at sixteen hands 🎵 My day job's so good 🎵 At Ladbrokes in Borehamwood

*Sabbath riff* 🎵 I'm Horse Iron Man 🎵 Standing tall at sixteen hands 🎵 My day job's so good 🎵 At Ladbrokes in Borehamwood

They're also great for making a passing jogger giggle by shouting "fuck off back to Canada!" at them while shaking your fist. As per the recent experience of, um, a friend.

If you ever see a cat in public it is your civic duty to assist that cat with whatever matters it is currently engaged in, regardless of legality or personal financial cost

LIVE: #HalfManHalfBiscuit – O2 Ritz, Manchester, 30/01/2026 "There is nobody like Half Man Half Biscuit, and I’m not sure what we’d do without them." Steven Doherty www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2026/02/02/l...

Novelist, having written a memoir: I prefer to view my life as a fiction. Translation: I am making shit up to make my life sound more dramatic, my enemies more foolish and myself far, far more interesting.

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My favourite part of a visit to an otter sanctuary is the bit where the otters stand respectfully in silence for their national anthems.