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Well spotted - Kusama on Naoshima

If you haven’t been on the Hello Kitty bullet train you really haven’t lived

Helpful summary of trumped up libel claim against the Beeb, via Inforrm’s blog inforrm.org/2025/12/20/u...

Osaka, I have questions

Rice enough to eat?

Translation apps - what’s not to love?

"We recently announced that Netflix will acquire William Shakespeare, including his plays, sonnets, narrative poems and indeed also his biography and everything he ever said. This unites our leading entertainment service with William Shakespeare's iconic stories. 'All the world's a Netflix!'"

Say what you like about the 70s but productivity in the area of Xmas songs was through the roof.

Now this is surely one area where new tech - including AI - could be used to reduce cost? But issues around judicial editing and transparency would still need resolution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Never apologise. Never explain. But always say thanks. You'll be welcome again.

And they can keep their wives, unlike the left footers ab initio.

How long before this person is described as a “Walter Mitty” character? Article from The Times: 'Fake' rear-admiral charged after attending remembrance parade. www.thetimes.com/article/faa4...

In Hungary, judges are being doxed – their names, addresses, and private data leaked and publicized for supposed political leanings. TAMÁS MATUSIK traces how this new wave of intimidation exposes the fragile state of judicial independence in Hungary. verfassungsblog.de/hungary-judg...

Taking a selfie in ancient times, on the iScroll

In Italy, you’re never very far from de Chirico

Patron saint of lipbalm.

Weird song mashups: Calling Sister Morphine

Most newspapers illustrate articles with pointless pictures, poorly (if at all, by a human) researched; but the Times is particularly crap at this. bsky.app/profile/idio...

Will my Family Court judgment be published? Helpful ful guidance for litigants, from the Transparency Project @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk transparencyproject.org.uk/will-my-fami...

Review: Peep Show by Kate Summerscale; Inside 10 Rillington Place by Peter Thorley - Two books about a notorious multiple murder case that prompted public debate about the death penalty and continues to fascinate true crime historians. Grim reading, though. www.iclr.co.uk/blog/reviews...

@eucourtofjustice.bsky.social now streams video of oral argument at selected court hearings, and these stay on its website for one month! ht @ittuun.bsky.social curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1...

Now that David Lammy is Lord Chancellor, might this be a good opportunity to implement some of the many recommendations of the, er, Lammy Report? assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a8200...

The hard working skivers of the post office in Islington have failed to deliver recent copies of @privateeyenews.bsky.social and LRB.

New on @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk British teenager becomes a ward of court to escape from Somalia transparencyproject.org.uk/british-teen...

Ask not for whom the Bell hotels… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

I’m getting quite fed up with all these badly parked Limebikes. But no one cares anout pedestrians, do they? @islington-council.bsky.social

Putting glam back into the country is no bad thing. Glam rocks.

Time was, The Battle of Epping Forest was just a rather fun track on a prog rock album.

So cheesed off I missed this bunfight.

I’m guessing he knows his onions.

Ladies and Gentlemen. I give you Microsoft pretending to know about grammar.

This looks lovely, but you do realise all the same traffic (and noise and fumes) is just being fed into a narrower street the other side of those buildings. So all you've added is some dry-tolerant patches of grasses and a few benches.

Excellent guide for LIPs which I'm glad to see references stuff I've written with lay readers in mind, both @iclr.bsky.social and @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk figshare.com/articles/dat...

Maybe they mean "live-screamed"?

Crime-cutting courts: who knew? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Comments on the MOD Afghan data leak superinjunction case www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...

This is funny and true

Yes, yes, yes. The government fetishisation of Oxbridge only enhances their elitism. It endorses the bias of employers and the civil service at the expense of millions of other bright students. There's more to life than sherry.

It's actually a tiny mouth. It's like a boastful belly button.

But will it stand up in court? www.bbc.com/news/article... Dog sniffs out illegal vapes and Viagra in Tow

Trial Court Decides Case Based On AI-Hallucinated Caselaw abovethelaw.com/2025/07/tria...

Why is Onedrive so rubbish?

Yes it is wonderful. Destined to be a cult classic.

What CAN they mean? fnarr fnarr.

Wow. Judicial office really ahead of the game here. Publishing a judgment ten years in advance. Who left the key in the time machine?

@london.gov.uk thanks for allowing these Lime bikes to completely block the pavement.

Unwinding after a loooong meeting open.spotify.com/album/5qSfqo...

This, please.

Lovely story, but I can't believe @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social didn't use the phrase "quilty as charged" or "pleading quilty" or "proof of quilt" or something equally bad. I certainly would have done. (Sorry.) rozenberg.substack.com/p/quilting-n...?