19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France. In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

Like I needed any encouragement....

Training the Russian army for Ivan the Terrible 😳

Great thread, especially this bit.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I could not love this curator more - intellectual shade thrown all over Hercules (Cleveland Museum of Arts)

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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

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This is great, thank you.

I'm always late, but this is still funny.

Reminder to anyone who needs it today: Reading books (at home, on the bus, in Starbucks); owning books; loving books; discussing books. None of these things are “performative” unless you’re selling tickets.

British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979. Photo © Virginia Turbett via @britcultarchive.bsky.social britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...

I'm in.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

This is a fabulous interview/advice column! The socks bit especially....

Following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social breaks my heart every day. As it should.

Great thread.

The thread under the Unsolicited Hick Pic is superb.

'Making people pay for retail goods would kill the shoplifting industry.'

Today I got down my 1986 copy of Rider, in honour of Jilly. I was far too young to be given the hardback from the library by my mother 😳 but I couldn't wait to get my own copy. I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Great thread, thank you.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

I've just added a couple of Maureen Duffy books to my wish list. I knew her name but hadn't read her - yet.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Great thread, thank you.

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

It's definitely a snerdle day.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

This might be important to some people

Well played.

Trees are dropping leaves to reduce water intake, but many are individuals not benefitting from safety in numbers In our woodland where there has been no significant rainfall for months, there is no leaf loss, & if you scrape your boot on the surface it is still damp beneath

I'm still struggling with the concept of "leftover booze"...

selfdiscoverywisdom.com/2025/08/08/a... I saw a version of this poem this morning that made me tear up a bit, so here's the original. "Show up gently, fully, authentically"

A superb thread. I can picture allmost all of the cards instantly.

Judith Butler teaches us that feminism is the generational task of expanding the definition of what a woman can be. Women being maligned as lesser inherently limits what a woman can be, as does placing material barriers on women. Expanding the definition of what a woman can be is feminist work.

This is amazing.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!

Today is as distant in time from Live Aid as Live Aid was from the end of World War II. We're going back to bed.

Source of a thousand train journey day dreams....