the spanish manager

discovered an old screenshot

my boring but infallable wordle technique: 1. adieu 2. strop 3. word with entirely new consonants which moves the right but incorrectly placed vowels to a new space (ex: bench/milky) 4. new word with as many of the unused characters as possible make a guess, repeat 4, or consider double letters.

Am smug to have an article in the Guardian before a review - it’s all about autistic-coding in media! They cut out some of the beefier stuff but that’s life! Bazinga! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

victoria, the most 𝘱𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵, the spiciest of the girls

an idle thought I've had at the back of my head for a while is that a lot of white collar/middle class jobs used to be legitimately fun and/or intellectually stimulating and/or ludicrously well paid and now they're few or none of those things, and we don't talk about that at all

victoria, the most 𝘱𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵, the spiciest of the girls

found photos i took while walking around an empty delfshaven waiting for the results of a lateral flow test for a covid passport, christmas 2021

at primary school someone asked me what my favourite brand was. I panicked and said 'zanussi' (apparently a washing machine company my friend's dad worked at)

gloom of the day

consider the cycle path

the shining is a christmas movie

a painter's guide to colour from 1692 bibliotheque-numerique.citedulivre-aix.com/viewer/35315

came to me in a dream

me in the turkish bath of managed decline

strongly recommend you give tim a follow, a really remarkable painter

morning

covers of the magazine mir iskusstva (world of art) from 1904

no one: gregg wallace's agent: gregg wallace: as it happens, i'm also the croydon cat killer

ooohhh, oooooh we're all making jokes about the US ambassador to France are we, oh he's horny and louche is he, good appointment is it, well I hope Trump picks a nonce who likes baked beans for the UK

art nouveau architectural collage at 79, rue madame (paris 6e)

kind of remarkable to note how comparatively little the CEO of spaceX and tesla is talking about space travel and renewables

i will listen to nothing but this for the whole month of december

Gawd, didn't even break 1k RTs

all these storms showing up with their silly little names

been looking through the 1917 paris archives and would like to share these genuine names with you: oscar handsome, ernest fromage, hippolyte champagne, joseph le bastard.

i have ordered the most beautiful jumper

and then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like [speak-to-chat activated]

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty rory stewart: ignore the commentators; kamala harris will easily drink over half of that cup

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty ADHD werner herzog: alas, my coffee cup stands as a solemn witness to the chaos of my existence. cold, abandoned among the other cups...full? yes, but for a single sip. why must it taunt me so?

gloomiest view

ok, so everyone's just going to ignore what's at #2?

incredible subtitle

english folk song: a woman found a reason to dress in men's clothes and i was such a fan i wrote you seven verses about it

this guy man

i can take the cold, the dark, the damp, the vague sense of hopelessness. but motorcyclists warming up their engine under my window? winter must end.

these netflix fights are getting ridiculous

remembering that completely insensitive firework display of captain tom getting attacked by two massive virions of coronavirus

has anyone thought to mention that, like john prescott, angela rayner is also northern and working class?

remembering how a woman once found a mysteriously abandoned strip of passport photos of john prescott in the delivery slot of the kiosk at the station. the english amélie.

almost twelve and a half years ago near arthur's seat

a lot of 90s family that voluntarily doesn't own a television vibes on bluesky

FARMER: okay can you go round up the 47 sheep i have please? ME: there's about 50 :)

the most unexpected transformation in clarkson's farm is not that clarkson becomes a farmer, it's that he has somehow entirely subsumed the personality of an elder millennial. gout face and soy face at the same time, very eery.

@pierrenovellie.bsky.social really enjoyed the last budpod but (for my own peace of mind) i need to know how many people have suggested "wormicelli" as a title for the ratatouille style film about RFK jnr being guided about by his own brain worm.

anyone want to suggest a nice film to watch? i.e. a film which is easy, gentle, funny, etc? pride, about a boy, that kind of thing.

looking through the archives of amateur artists given permission to make copies at the musée luxembourg. like to think that madame tabard rocked up at reception with her two kittens every time so they could be sure it was her.