Oh just go to hell

London doing its increasingly spiky thing

LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTE UNIT

God: This is a CAT. They're soft and furry, great to stroke and fuss, and a good size to pick up and hold; they make a nice sound when they're happy and they'll curl up with you and sleep. Adam: Sounds great God: Also they have razor-sharp spikes on their feet Adam: ...

So, just for the whole "people who have two cats" meme, here we have (a) Floofy Angel Baby and (b) Demonic Destroyer of Worlds

Chatting to a friend and just pausing every half hour or so to check to see if the world is about to end

Do you have cat food in the apocalypse kit? If so what kind and what if I stop liking it

Could we ... stop reporting things Trump says? Like the way the nurses don't tell the family everything?

The inverted commas here really should be around the third word, not the second

Broadhaven beach

Little Haven this evening

The cat just shook his head really fast and ear-whipped me

Oxford magnolias

You can't always get what you want

tl;dr @aselrod.bsky.social right on the money unfortunately

STEP FORWARD, THE WELSH. This is your time. Rex quondam rexque futurus, eh?

Everything is gorgeous in spring

I have a Medea joke but you have to kill your darlings

Dune and Out in Paris and London

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Caught in my natural habitat reading a novel and drinking champagne

No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI

Just chilling. You wouldn't believe what people put in the rubbish these days.

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

Do we need an explicit statement that "separate the art from the artist" only applies when the artist is (preferably long) dead and is not making money from the art?

This is a brilliant observation. As well as being true of the getting-ever-further-right, it's also a personality trait I've encountered in several colleagues of unknown political views. In. A. Sodding. University.

Today I went to the funeral of a former lover. There's a wonderful moment in Wolf Hall when Monica Dolan, playing Thomas More's wife, says that if you've known a man that way, you can't help wondering if he's cold. Our bodies remember.

As a grad student I lived in the top floor flat in the middle here with the little dormer window; the building caught fire one morning and I was rescued by firefighters who helped me out of the window and down a ladder Very fond memories, actually

We have two gorgeous, mad, always-indoor cats. One never tries to go outside. The other one does, but miaows like mad, as in "Look at me! I'm outside! I'm totally outside! If you don't grab me I'll, probably, go a bit further!" And it is adorable. Also they won't get run over and that is EVERYTHING

Found a very old picture of me looking on-brand-unconvinced

Spring gatti

What I find especially weird is that this was wholly fabricated but also wildly laughable

Stephen Baxter, who died in January. A great historian and a lovely man

Bloody hell this guy has a beautiful unspoilt painting in his attic

30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.

I've never read any Walter Scott, but resorted to Wikipedia to get a plot overview of one novel, and I can reveal I was not sufficiently prepared to read a synopsis ending "but on the way he falls into quicksand and dies".

I thought "I headed out" and then thought: woah that sounds wrong; is it "I hod out"? And no. So it turns out there are some things you just can't do in the past

It happened again

Me thinking about Gorton and Denton

Note that the centre/left/progressive vote was 24997, with the hard right vote at 11284

Gorton and Denton for the insomnia win (also the massive hope, optimism, hell yes win)

This programme title seems a bit insulting and also threatening Punctuation education is at a low ebb

Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary

This is my seagull. He's called Derek. He follows me everywhere.

Love watching cats encountering new objects to sniff and going through the endless cat choice game of "Eat/Bat/Bury"

Winter seaside breaks are the BUSINESS

Wyatt appears to have liquefied

The walk to the restaurant last night

Me looking like I've been photoshopped onto Bruges