Found the control to turn down the earsplitting terrible music in the gym!

There was an AI voice - American accent and the telltail wrong intonation - reading out special offers in Marks yesterday. Not very premium.

I would hate to be a big account, my replies all swamped with crap like emojis, or even worse, gifs, as is happening to the lovely Derek here. This is why i choose to make such repellant posts.

My copy of the Safari EP by the Breeders is probably my most treasured posession.

[Consoling myself after financial horror story presented by my tax return] It’s actually very zeitgeisty to be a downwardly mobile graduate. Maybe even revolutionary!

A byelection in my parents’ ward, after respected Labour cllr, who defected to Your Party, sadly died. Apparently it’s between Plaid and Reform, who are popular with the northern English retirees in the big bungalows.

Whatever you think of the merits of their case, it is quite funny to name your group Women Against State Pension Inequality, when your beef is the pension age being equalised between men and women.

Another aspect of this is that almost all office work nowadays is pointless makework that doesn't even need doing. You're just spending a billion hours writing reports no one reads, making a tenth option when the first was correct, and writing bullshit answers to bullshit questions.

Our government will not keep us safe even in our own country. They will let a foreign power do as they please to us.

Will America’s cultural hegemony fade, as it becomes mask-off fascist? Like I need some new robust trousers for work since my thighs embiggened from doing squats. But blue jeans or even carhardt “pants” seem to have acquired unfortunate connotations.

Banger cover of Son of a Preacher Man by the Gaylettes on the radio just now youtu.be/Gd8aBtRe6mk?...

People on here really do eat the most outlandish meals.

A woman we sort of recognised came into the shop. We weren’t sure if she was an actor or bar staff.

My work laptop is getting increasingly insistent that I 'upgrade' to Windows 11. Should I relent? And is it hard to get all the AI crap off?

these things need torching

Why @pippacrerar.bsky.social when journalists such as yourself discuss China, human rights always leads in your opinion pieces and reporting, yet for decades when reporting on USA, human rights abuses foreign and domestic are ignored? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ffilm #traws neis ar y iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Heated Rivalry, from what i’ve heard, seems to be of this ilk. By a writer so clueless about faggotry she apparently thinks a hottie couldn’t get laid in a gay sauna or something? But the gays are so desperate for “representation” they’ll latch onto any old shite.

Just launched shipping from the shop to the EU and some of the rest of the world. It's been a huge palaver - I really hope it pays off!

Look where that bloody “let people enjoy things” meme has got us - this kind of nonsense!

Tried out the suggestion of the man we bought some fancy balsamic and olive oil from on holiday to try a bit of them (seperately) on ice cream. It definately tasted luxury. Just not particularly nice.

Lots of pro-Palestine stuff in Italy. Handwritten signs on independent shops for example. People saying “buona sera!” at me for wearing a keffiyeh. Rather like being home in Tower Hamlets (complimentary).

I bought myself a recipe book in Italian, to force me to practise using the language, so as to get the likes of Ribollita as the result.

The Eataly in Florence is smaller than the one in London and no less expensive. We got some seeds. I wondet how they will fare in Tower Hamlets?

Asking the Florentines I meet if they’re Guelphs or Ghibilines.

Would paintings with gold leaf be better lit with candles, than overhead spotlights? I’m sure they could give them a wipe every couple of hundred years of they got sooty.

A lot of people seem to have outsourced the work of looking at art to their phones.

47 today!

Tsomgo yak rider is my current knitwear goals

Uomo, Bimbo or Filati?

The main quality of most art from nowadays is that it is quick to do.

The yarn fair has a vintage clothing market of really interesting stuff

I really want one but they’re so expensive

The likes of Novara like to paint Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman as left wing, but he’s very pro-car, and wanted to rip out three safer streets projects.

Some big views from the train down from Oulx to Turin.

Fuckin hammered and it’s only 8:30 here

Nice to have some cime di rapa, because all the turnip tops we grew at the community garden got eaten by snails.

Just straight up saying it now. K'EA.

In the UK planning system, planners, who aren’t themselves designers, get to say whether things are good design (or in this case art) or not. But they rarely have any idea.

Got above the clouds for a while today

Having a big glass of red wine before skiing down some fast red runs

Mostly being offline (don’t want to drop phone off the chairlift) but logging on occasionally to see if Trump has invaded Greenland yet.

I know that snow is rather the point of skiing, but it can make it cold.

Nothing Trump is doing differs from standard American practice around the world, what’s changed is that he feels no need to fabricate justifications for it and he’s happy to include Europe as a target ✍️Ben Wildsmith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1cWo

Parents, like those police horses who’ve had loads of stuff thrown at them, have got desensitised to how annoying the sound of the ipad slop they deploy so as not to have to interact with their children is. Other diners in the restaurant, less so.

I have remembered how to ski and my husband (who doesn’t like heights) was very brave with all the mountaintops.

Come in from skiing and my face is so red from the cold I’m the colour of Luke bloody Akehurst.

TRAINS FUCKING

Fiasco is such a fun word