LOKI IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN. Last seen at Saint Nicholas and Wyckoff, she's 7 pounds. If you've seen or found her please go here: www.lostmydoggie.com/details.cfm?... and/or phone 877-818-0060 and PLEASE RT LOKI!

This is what Harold Wilson said in reply to Enoch Powell's 'River of Blood' speech. Oh to have politicians of this calibre again. Imagine Starmer saying this?

Calling historians/fashionistas. US barkeep's diary of 1875: ‘Davis got drunk and got a French lip put on him’ (‘a lip as big as a beefsteak’). A possible precursor of the ‘Paris pout’?

Some incredible wins to balance out the knocks. niallharbison.substack.com/p/a-week-tha...

Irresitable: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Depressing but doubtless true: open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells. First DM gets it. UK shipping only. Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK. Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Big Mac is one of our house dogs. He is slowing down a lot recently. He has complete free reign with us and even a job guarding the kitchen where we cook all the food. He is also chief food tester there. I love the old guys so much ❤️

This seems bad. Craven, abject and despicable are all epithets that also spring to mind.

Why not? A little mid-19C slang from The Swell’s Night Guide (1846): ‘Your doss gorger cracked a wid about you to me, and said she must give you the shoot.’ ‘Shoot! what for?’ roared poor Fuzzy [...] ‘Why because you made a dunniken of your cupboard, and used to lag in the coffee pot.’

A very big day for the street dogs

The Geat X-Tinction. From an in-house chat app to the most dangerous social media site in history. The magical flight and tragic decline of twitter. And why I left. bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

I’m getting sick to death of the relentless self-promotion of so-called ‘creatives’ on social media. By the way you can buy my posters here: www.edwardphilips.co.uk

If it's October it must be GDoS Update time. And so it is: #36. A few notes (and a pic of an invaluable supporter) here: jonathongreen.substack.com/p/gdos-updat...

‘Mother of mercy, is this the end of Ricotta?’ asks the ‘Al Capone of Cheese’ (should've been the 'Little Cheeser' surely). I'm sorry, I can’t resist. There are doubtless superior lines therein, but I am so looking forward to T. Pynchon's new novel ‘Shadow Ticket’, delivery promised five days hence.

Words in form but not in (slangy) content. More thoughts on our present discontents. Mine anyway. open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...

What I value in Meades is not any organised body of opinion, but his attitude.

#Dogs #Dog #AdoptDontShop #AdoptAFriend #DogsAreFamily #LoveDogs #GoodDog #BestFriend #DogsAreLove

"I am sick and tired of watching people with decent, compassionate values constantly be told to accommodate the views of people who lack decency or compassion...."

Gore Vidal, b. October 3, 1925

And 10 months later it's grown considerably: over 150 names featured, many of them with (I'd say) fascinating lives. Please take a look—try picking a name at random—and share/link to the website if you know anyone interested in the #OED or its history. (Yes, I'm autotrombating again.)

The inhumanity is accelerating. There are multiple reports of ICE agents laughing as kids scream and cry, and one in this raid saying literally “fuck them kids.”

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal… But why only Michelle Mone? £15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk So where’s the rest of them? And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

This film takes us deeper into its world of disreputable book scouts. We meet - still alive and thoroughly respectable - Michael Moorcock and Alan Moore. Then there's David Seabrook (dead), Michael Stone (dead) and Driffield (disappeared, though see the recent court case).

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Dachshund Lovers ❤️❤️ #dachshund #dachshunds #pets

@drgrammar.bsky.social Point being poor Jesse, being a veg., had to reject fries/chips in Arras, nr Belgian border and where we both were for a conference on the 'F-Word', because the waiter proudly assured us that they were cooked in beef dripping.

If you wish to define "genocide" then read this.

I guess I should share this, as I'm in it. On the other hand, if you read it and don't think you'll be interested in the conversations with any of the other lexicographers in the book, then you're that much less likely to buy the book. But what the hell. lithub.com/how-to-build...

@jessesword.com Going to have to run it through a translator but...I don’t know how to say this easily, but the champ ‘amazed the jury with his recipe using VEGETABLE OIL'. (Too late, too late) tinyurl.com/mr3amz5j

Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" Labour have gone utterly bonkers

Tacking this on here… bsky.app/profile/impl...

Scribes: Don't miss The Demon that Causes Typos - Titivillus, patron demon of scribes by @rebekahking.bsky.social on substack

@fritinancy.bsky.social I like "chum" but then I would... btw "chummage" synon: "garnish" seemingly a development of the "embellishment" / "extras" sense and prob. roots in OHG warnên, warnôn, (reflexive) to guard oneself, provide oneself (OED)

And on the big Russian offensive gearing up in the Donbas - which could be critical to deciding what happens in Ukraine. samf.substack.com/p/one-last-p...

Trump and Comey and the whirlpool of revenge politics open.substack.com/pub/luciantr...

Russian provocations open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

@bcdreyer.social Don't know whether or not you are a Terry Prachett fan or even reader, but in his 'The Fifth Elephant' (1999) there is a fine Chekhov pastiche.

That sad, sad thing where you are leaving town just before the World French Fry Championships begin.

Sent to me (nothing to do with the current trip). #Linguistics #Scots #dialect

This is Soooooooo GOOD! 🤣👏👏👏 @rosieisaholt.bsky.social

“He was a Rag Merchant, whereas I am a Textile Consultant. I understand textiles, I know about suitings and have been dealing in them since 1946. Our different specialities complemented each other.” @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/23/m...

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Purely for interest: has any ever heard of or even met 'the brick': a traditional collection of condolence money given at a funeral in memoryof the dead person. Probbaly long vanished; this example was London 1912.