I do not work for the shelter. Just been sharing MELIA for awhile now. The shelter does post videos on Facebook, Instagram and X. It's under "Adopt MELIA & Friends". I only have Bluesky. I post videos as I receive them. Check her out below. 💗 ☎️ 516.785.5220 ⬇️⬇️ www.threads.com/@adopt_melia...

And nor should it. Farage is a dangerous racist and yet is being fast tracked into No.10 on a ruinous populist agenda, funded by shady right wing money and malign foreign interests. People must know who and what they are voting for. That’s the very lowest bar in a democracy.

November Wines - Bordeaux open.substack.com/pub/gilesmac...

gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social Pav de Luze: My M'prix has no 2023 but 2019 at €25.50 (and website 2018 €23.90 with 50% off second bott). Should I be finding my free tram bus pass and dragging my ancient body thence before le tout Marseille reads your substack?

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

These are all the dogs we sponsored in November ❤️‍🩹

A short free post on you-know-who having been a bit you-know-what open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t...

🗓️ 🎄Calendrier de l’Avent (en) marseillais Chaque jour jusqu'à Noël, je vous explique un mot du français de Marseille : étymologie, sens, usages spécifiques, évolution, aspects sociolinguistiques… Le marseillais, c’est du français… de Marseille. Allez zou, ça part de là 👇🏼🧵

A reminder of my new blog post on Brexit reminders

Add a little eau de vie de framboise to your Campari-soda and enhance them both. Would theoretically be pinker too, but for the eau de vie resisting its raspberry base and remaining steadfastly crystalline.

Pitching new versions of A Christmas Carol in 2025 www.youtube.com/shorts/IqZrB...

Thanks to @lynneguist.bsky.social + @stancarey.bsky.social for a fine 'amuse-geule' for the day. But nothing lasts, work crooks an imperious digit, and back we go to slang's take on exchanging gobs of bodily fluids via Dr Simes' Dict. Lang. of Sex & Sexuality. For results see GDoS now + next update.

New titles for the season. Via StuffLikeThatbooks.carrd.co We'll be at the creative Makers market Walthamstow 6th Dec, Valentines Mansion 7th Dec, and Pineapple pub 14th Dec. With Bonestone Jewellery too.

"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." ~ #MarkTwain

😢 MELIA will spend her second Thanksgiving at the shelter. She wants a home for Christmas. She can live with cats, no dogs. Low traffic home, adult only. Needs training. Please adopt her. 😢 Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 [email protected] 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

7 months ago she was abandoned by her first humans, 7 months ago she didn’t really have a name. 7 months ago she was so scared of humans Spud today has been with her forever home for 7 months now, Spud has a name and Spud is not afraid of humans anymore 😭❤️

PS . Peter G will noit require this, but sere means dry and withered and often appears alongside 'grey' to denote old age. No, not exactly current. But for me it is at least one word of all such years that remain.

This is Scotchy. He is here to collect the belly rub toll. Would like to remind you that failing to pay results in a fine of even more belly rubs. 12/10 (TT: scotchythedoxie)

I spent hours yesterday at the tent encampment behind the Adelphi in London and as a result have sent this open letter with a plea for a meaningful intervention to Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social @paulabarkermp.bsky.social and Bob Blackman

couple of variants on ‘Down & Out’ a Black toast c. 1970. Jim/John Crow is, given that 'he' is a hype', i.e. a junkie, is a needle. But does anyone know more? Doesn't fit with usual ‘Jim Crow’ meaning.

The Ukraine Peace Plan open.substack.com/pub/mrandrew...

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself" www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t... #AI

Co-ed Jim Lambert asked ChatGPT-5 if AI wd benefit from GDoS. ‘Short answer: yes — and his work is unusually well-positioned to be valuable for future AI systems, not obsolete.’ My work provides 'ground truth'. Looked: neither OED/Merriam have def. of 'well-positioned' = 'stealable'.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

In the tradition of ‘Dogs in Slang’ and ‘Cats in Slang’, here's #3: ‘A Slang Christmas Dinner’. Printing now, avilable soon from stufflikethatbooks.carrd.co. You won’t be able to keep it down.

Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés. Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.

Goossens à nouveau.

Time for a subtack: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon... A short ramble through slang's use of (some) proper names (below: 'Cooter Brown')

I can never hear or see something about the extreme right Proud Boys without remembering that "proud boy" is a term for a gelding that doesn't realize it's been neutered and keeps acting like a stallion. So do with that info what you will. *sips coffee*

This is Archie. He's deaf and doesn't hear when his humans get home. Luckily, his little brother Frankie lets him know with a gentle nudge to make sure he doesn't miss the moment. 14/10 for both (TT: melissamilne)

Coming on a dismal, dark wet day this is a really depressing read but, unfortunately, it's all true.

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

9 November 1938. The synagogue opposite my family home in Vienna goes up in smoke.

If you dig this post please amplify its reach

Today we just did the simple things. I think to Iris that must have felt like the best day of her life! Have a lovely Saturday everybody ❤️

🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

Henry Mencken, amerikanischer Satiriker, 1880-1956, im Baltimore Evening Sun, 26. July 1920

The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.

Just finished reading Peter Corris' 42 ‘Cliff Hardy’ books (appeared 1980-2018). For a good overview of the somewhat overlooked 'godfather of Aus. noir', there's culturmag.de/crimemag/far... by @pulpcurry.bsky.social

Some very big news for the little guy today. We spoke with his owner and he 100% wanted what was best for Stormzy. He will be able to have a full recovery now and never have to go back on the streets again ❤️

It really is incredible what a difference we have seen in 24 hours. So much for her being "vicious and dangerous" as we were told

A photographer at a demonstration. The US Today.

Actually, I do have a bit of a problem with "six-seven" as WOTY. Like many WOTY choices, it exhibits a bias toward words that are in the news at the time the decision is made, not taking into account the entire sweep of the year.

We've worked so hard for this moment since saving his life. I could punch the air I am so happy. Prepare to have a huge grin on your face!! Look at Stormzy go!

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

He had no future. Brain damage from a whack from a car. His life was over. Look at little Storm now just 9 days later. He was down but he wasn't out ❤️

We lack the tear-filled ocean required to deal adequately with contemporaneity, but if you have tears (and access) prepare to shed them over: ...https://www.ezsubscription.com/webreader/#/library/baffler/reader/TheBaffler80AfterWords