Kyoto rail museum, very nice to visit once you have visited every shrine in the city 😀

The crown turd on the layer cake of 1990 unflushables. #TOTP

Arghh, 1990, get your coat and leave. #TOTP

I've never seen a nation torch its reputation the way Musk and Trump are torching that of the US. Every day they find a way to make a new segment of the world population detest them. Makes Brexit look like a PR triumph.

Please make sure you are following @quietriotpod.bsky.social It’s a superb podcast. Many thanks. Now please repost this post and continue with your scrolling.

The Daily Mirror brands Donald Trump "shameful" after the president blamed diversity hiring for the deadly air collision in Washington DC on Wednesday

Today, I wrote about the Founders, about their faith, and about the history of the Episcopal Church in the USA. I posted it on Vichy Facebook, and it was immediately removed as spam. There is no free speech on any platform owned by an oligarch. tompepinsky.com/2025/01/22/w...

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Hi there - a first post on this platform. Do please repost this message just in case anyone should want to find me here -- thank you...

lol I used to quite religiously direct people towards the Waterstones website to buy my books because I was hoping to avoid Amazon at all costs, going to have to find another option now, fuck's sake

This is a great interview but this answer just made me miss the ‘90s so bad

Amazing what a bike ride does for your mood. It just never fails. The most reliable source of joy I know.

This book placement at Heathrow airport

National Trust members, you have till midnight on 25 October to vote. Best thing is to use the quick vote to be sure we keep the Tufton St Restore Trust lot out. I appreciate some people would prefer to choose for themselves, but beware fragmenting the vote and letting in a Restore Trust candidate.

Terrific piece here by @willdunn.bsky.social on the new book about Musk’s takeover of Twitter. In awe of the last paragraph especially. A merciless shanking

This blog from Lee Waters MS, former transport secretary in the Welsh government, should be required reading for Labour’s new team at the Department for Transport. Vision is important but nothing changes in transport unless you rewire how decisions are made amanwy.blogspot.com/2024/08/dont...

This should win a Pulitzer defector.com/neither-elon...

Bamburgh Castle from a (rather cold) sea near the Farne Islands. Definitely the end of summer...

Yes a thousand times over to "Part of how the UK will shift towards being a country with a closer relationship is 1000 small domestic shifts." And more than "part" because of the importance of facts on the ground. Though (a) is probably but not definitely right. Negotiations matter.

This column makes some great points: “Our beliefs aren’t just a barometer of what we think is true. They’re also bound up with what we value; our attitude to how thinking itself should work. What do you trust? What kinds of error will you risk? When will you count something as true?”

More timeline luxury, from our neck of the woods this weekend!

Hello Blue Sky, glad to be here in the hope of a healthier place. I have nothing more to add now except - here's a nice slice of Bristol UK life, our Balloon Fiesta... from yesterday