THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Here we fucking go lads!

I was stunned today to discover zero of my coworkers have ever heard of the Iliad or the Odyssey. Or even Achilles or the Trojan horse or anything like that. Like I don't expect them to have read them, just to have maybe seen a Looney Tune with a wooden horse or something.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

Wisley. Is nice.

We should have been telling Trump to go fuck himself. Building homes. Fixing student loans. Fixing Brexit. Connecting migration with growth and changing the toxic narrative. Explaining slowly and carefully to flag shaggers why they should be at home reading a book. They bought this on themselves

Checked, confirmed.

crimes you do with a car aren’t really crimes and fines assessed for them exist solely to raise revenue

It's vanishingly rare that I ever rewatch any telly show, but Mr Inbetween is really, really proving worth it. Highly recommended.

50 ways to ditch Keir Starmer scans disturbingly well “The problem was never really comms” She said to me “The answer is easy if you Take it logically I’d like to help you in your struggle To be free There must be fifty ways to ditch Keir Starmer"

Fascinating blog on timeline changes to walking and cycling in East Oxford. Notably, County Council switched from Tory to progressive Lib Dem / Green / Labour Coalition in May 2021. wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2023/...

Huntly Gordon, San Francisco’s unofficial pope, has died after falling in his apartment and hitting his head. Gordon, a businessman, activist and longtime member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, spent his last night out dancing at the club. He was 91 years old.

This is the face of a cat who wants to climb onto my head while I'm trying to eat a mango. The face of evil.

The thing about disability is you can't predict when it will affect you or people you love. As we age we become increasingly likely to become a member of the 1 in 5 UK adults who has some form of disability. The odds *are* against you. Punching down is punching yourself, your family & friends.

Whenever racists go off about how Sharia Law is taking over I'm like, fun fact: the Church of England has courts that have the same legal standing as Crown Courts - and so as the only person in this conversation who's actually been taken to a religious court... I'm telling you to shut up.

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

And this evening is "looking at very ordinary things very close" time.

*complains*

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Parking for two bikes or one good boy or girl.

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

AOC Is Taking Incoming Fire From Billionaires, After She Said This..👏🏻

Altercation: the annual Fight Club road trip.

Starmer had a massive majority and chose to do nothing about the right wing capture of the BBC. Truly bizarre

Give that photographer a raise.

Dickhead apparently said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine," but was unaware that the fine would be collected with a series of punches to his skull. Some things money can't buy. www.surfer.com/news/tourist...

Truly the end of an era 😢 There were some aspects of Nightshift I wasn’t keen on, but so much respect for the amount of work Ronan put into the local music community!

The amazing Souad Massi at the Barbican tonight.

Good evening, That London

Matlock has fallen.

There’d be unified elation
 If they banned the term staycation
 And we crowded railway stations
 To explore our fractured nation

Look I try to keep an open mind when it comes to self-expression but performance artists are exhausting. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Shouldn't the fact that livers are roughly ten times the weight of spleens have been something of a clue. "Can somebody help me lift this spleen?"

The Onion ass headline

Modest proposal: People who use "staycation" to mean "going on holiday" to be placed under indefinite house arrest.

sometimes Oxford is normal and sometimes members of @orieloxford.bsky.social chapel gather to serenade a new beehive on college grounds with a 17th century madrigal

Labour need to stop splitting the vote like this and step aside to avoid Reform getting in. 😉

Here we go again I suppose.

Great Western Railway will be nationalised before Christmas. The Government has set a date of 13 December to bring GWR into public ownership, 30 years since it was privatised. The company, currently owned by FirstGroup, runs Oxfordshire’s rail services to and from London Paddington.

A quick repost for this on World Ovarian Cancer Day. #ovariancancer #nowomanleftbehind

Shaved 5 minutes off my morning routine by brushing my teeth and riding the mechanical duck outside the supermarket at the same time

To save you clicking that link, here’s a clear list of symptoms from Target Ovarian Cancer. (Please don’t be that arsehole who questions the use of the word “tummy” as childish or demeaning. I trust cancer charities have researched whether tummy or “abdominal cavity” is easier to understand.)

What a day to find out how many of our neighbours would have been cheerleaders for the fascists.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

A sizeable group of voters simply want an asshole as President. There is no point in trying to cater to them, you can either ignore them or discourage them from voting. Every effort to get their vote by adopting asshole-ish policies is a waste, they want the real thing.

Polygraph tests are notoriously unreliable. He might as well force everyone to have a tarot reading.

Early days so far, but signs are that this could be a *very* good night for the Greens in Oxford. Tentative reports of high Green numbers in East Oxford seats where the party barely topped 100 votes in previous elections.

No, YOU were just about to have an early night, when you remembered you started making bread earlier.

Just bass and vocals. I love this so much. youtu.be/ZrFad-viWqY