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schley peaches, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1898

What an album this is, by the way.

Deborah Griscom Passmore is excelling herself here. Exquisite!

I'm on a Trans-Europa Express (TEE). AMA.

lent golden peaches, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

Living the Vienna life.

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ulster grapes, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1904

Does anyone have any recommendations for Vienna and/or Prague?

Mary Daisy Arnold was cooking here. A late career masterpiece from one of the foremost painters of fruit of the early 20th century.

cellina apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1939

Outrageously cynical and damaging.

Share your favourite black and white film.

Today is the last day I'll ever have to go to work in Chelmsford. No disrespect to Chelmsford, but that can only be a good thing.

mangalore mangoes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1910

this exists it is called thinking

The presence of a Cypriot team in the Chmapions League has got me thinking about how it is in the interests of UK imperialism for the island to be divided.

Don't get me wrong, it IS completely shameful. However, I think "shameful" lets Starmer (and Trump) off the hook slightly, and "ally" mystifies the relationship that the UK and USA have with the ongoing genocide (e.g. they are actively invested in it rather than passive but chummy bystanders).

As ever, "law and order" rather than ethical critiques are typical of some whose moral development is at the level of an 8-13 year-old.

My Review of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) boxd.it/b4YHNp

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I wasn't on the counter protest today, but I should have been. The next counter protest needs many, many more there there. 5000 is nowhere near enough.

Now it's been revealed who the killer is, it is really wrong for it to be seen as political violence, imo.

I've seen many more Christian Crosses in people's usernames online recently - usually attached to some opinion that would usually be associated with fascism. I usually feel I can mentally bat away a lot of awful dangerous stuff I online, but the presence of the Cross really touches a nerve.

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

The ship has already sailed on this, but I really don't think it's great that "gender-critical" is such a commonplace term these days. It's just a euphemism for anti-trans, isn't it?

I agree with this analysis entirely, unfortunately.

ffs this is how I find out

ℹ️ Peter Mendelson is niet langer hoofdcoach van Club Brugge.

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My 96 year old grandma always had a very particular hatred for Peter Mandelson. "Tony Blair, George Bush, Putin, Netanyahu, Peter Mandelson... all awful men", she'd often repeat when her dementia wasn't so severe. On Mandelson: "How do you become a lord anyway?".

sierra beauty apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1908

Great song.

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Just won round 1 and round 2 of The Salisbury pub quiz (but narrowly came 2nd in the jackpot round). Great work all round!

[To the tune of Homer Simpson singing 'Shaving my Shoulders'] "Writing my thesis"

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I actually heard the national emergency alert sound a few months ago at Cafe Oto.

That was class! What a thrill!! The only good thing this government has done!!!

selah peaches, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1900

"You may be a model citizen, perhaps a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and in the odour of sanctity to boot; but the thing that you represent face to face with me has no heart in its breast. That which seems to throb there is my own heart-beating."

If Labour want to crush the popularity of Farage, the most effective thing they could do would be to say "Look, he's just like us!".

I've been loving this one recently. soundwayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tumb-l...

An unbelievably good record, btw. A total bargain at £5. There's cool music and there's uncool music and there's stuff like Jimmie Rodgers which that sort of spectrum can't even begin to comprehend.

ℹ️ Angela Rayner is niet langer hoofdcoach van Club Brugge.

There's a St George's flag on pretty much every lamp post here in Canvey Island. A big change from when I was last here a few weeks ago. Reactionaries being deliberately provocative while inserting a bit of plausible deniability to the matter... that's my take.

It is difficult to have any sympathy for Rayner, really. Yeah, there are double standards in way she has been treated by her own party and press, but she's largely towed the line of a political party that is actively invested in genocide (amongst other things) so who gives a shit?