I love these photos of my nan, my granddad and my uncle dancing in my grandparents' living room in Nottingham in 1972. I am massively intrigued to know what the song was.

Me: This has been a really tough day. Going to relax by having a bath with candles and listening to Radio Three. Radio Three: And now, live from Nottingham, the BBC Concert Orchestra with a medley of classic sports themes!

He fucked around. He found out. Blocked.

Les caresses Anders Petersen

Pronounced "doubt that".

This month, the hardcover edition of Isabella’s Not Dead is a bargain £12.50 on Amazon! If you’re looking for any bookish Christmas gifts… amzn.eu/d/dh5fahK

Just a tiny puppy on a beach, sun shining, playing fetch with a stone. Perfection. #tinypup #spudlet

ICONIC

“Man wants to be fish or fowl, the snake would like to have wings the dog is a disoriented lion, the engineer would like to be a poet, the fly studies to be a swift, the poet tries to imitate the fly, but the cat only wants to be a cat”

Such a handsome cat. Such a goof.

One of the hottest scenes ever committed to film. (Alas, I am not a fan of the film itself.)

Thank you so much for recommending Remember the Night @mariephillips.bsky.social. I’ve just watched it and it was fantastic. I will be adding it to my Christmas viewing list from now on. Barbara Stanwyck was absolutely brilliant, and I loved the ending. Thank you again!

48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

I hope the makers of the John Lewis Christmas ad slipped Charlotte Wells fifty quid after taking a wee bit of inspiration from the climactic scene of Aftersun (and then adding six tonnes of schmaltz, as is their bent)

Toffee apples (1965) Artist: Martin Aitchison

The cats would like me to think about what I have done

I've just nibbled a bit of the cheez-ee dog treats I bought at the market, and something's going on. These are FAR better quality crispy cheese treats than anything humans are given. Same with the doggy pork scratchings I bought her last month. A game is definitely afoot, and the humans are losing.

Well that was incredible! Dark Breton folk with heavy hurdy gurdy drone, sparkling dulcimer and gorgeous Conny Veit style Kosmische guitar from Colin Johnco. Plus, she signed all my records!

“Hindsight: it’s a right cunt” god i love Mel Blatt #girlbandsforever

Honestly one of the best pumpkins I have ever seen

Perfect Days is one of the best films of the past decade, more toilet companies need to get into producing

Drawing by cat-loving British poet Stevie Smith (1902-1971) #womensart #caturday

frog hole, royal oak miniature golf, royal oak, michigan, 1986

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

Happy Halloween!

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A trick I’ve been using to make seeing commercials (sound off, at least, I’m not a masochist) during the Word Series more tolerable is imagining that one person in each commercial is embarking on a plan to murder at least one other person in the commercial. Most of them hold up to that scenario.

Enjoyable list of unscary films: some undeniable greats, a deserved number one and many films I now want to see. But I think Stuart Heritage has forgotten the Vietnam reminiscence scene in The Straight Story and the various allusions to people burning to death www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

it's the great lumpkin charlie brown!

This photo is so incredibly sexy it’s moved me up a whole notch on the Kinsey scale

Barbara Stanwyck rocking some knee socks. Photographed by John Florea, 1942.

Reviving these photos I got in January 2023 I'm never getting a better pair of photos than these in my life, they're too powerful together

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

theatre set makers rejoice as they realise the key to home ownership was in their props cupboard the whole time

If you have ever dreamed of living in a packing crate… themodernhouse.com/sales-list/v...

What’s your #celebritytraitors name? To find out, simply spell your name incorrectly.

Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.

neep

Martyn Goddard's photos of Blondie in 1978. Exhibition in the Barbican Centre Library.

Book from 1911 showing that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption is far from being a phenomenon born with the internet. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #NationalCatDay

On October 31st from 3pm to 4pm, Amnesty International, PEN International and various local branches of PEN will be holding a vigil outside the Mexican Embassy in London in honour of journalists killed in Mexico for their work. All of us who write freely must remember those who risk their lives.

While trying to help me remember whether there was an Are You Being Served episode when they went to France, Google AI has so far suggested a French remake series from 1997 and a French TV movie version from 2016, both apparently considered inferior by IMDB users, probably because NEITHER EXIST.

Happy 43rd anniversary of Gary Larson’s Cow Tools Apology – or at least it’s 43 years since The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, printed this:

What our dog smells of today: a fortnight's worth of shallow urban ponds.

No no no no no no no no NEVER let American shows come to London. It will all be cameos for Geri Halliwell and Richard Branson, and a posh star (Joanna Lumley?) affecting a cockney accent. There will be comedy policemen. A minor royal played by Eddie Redmayne. I veto this. I VETO IT.

On a thankfully different note, it’s also 25 years since a man who had seen 17 Tina Turner concerts in one tour got invited on stage with her. It’s really rather a sweet video, and I believe watching it will brighten your day

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

Wonderful, evocative thread 🧵

no idea but it is very much going on right now

When do we get the Architectural Digest tour of David Harbour’s Pussy Palace?