Hey, Utah teens, if you enjoyed the films Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, you’re out of luck. The state won’t let you read the Stephen King novellas on which the movies are based. This concludes today’s lesson on fascism.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

Kakomancy it is!

This. Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘A total, utter nightmare’: small businesses on Brexit, 10 years on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform also investigating: Is person elected as pontiff by College of Cardinals a Catholic? Does ursines defecating in silvan environments lead to bearshit problem in woods? Reform investigates whether Makerfield candidate’s sexist posts were costly www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Climbing rose The Pilgrim cut today. The scent is incredible.

Well, that went crazy. Never underestimate the power of Dennis Moore 😁

Give me all your lupins!

The same tactics Hitler used Farage/ Lowe / Tice /Yaxley Lennon evil opportunists “Why would somebody with 4 teeth vote for somebody with 5 yachts?” Marx ( Groucho) bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/t...

Sunday evening pint. One from your neck of the woods @mattpope.bsky.social

me: changes the light fixtures in my house to energy efficient LED lightbulbs Jeff Bezos:

When you take a building from class to ass by adding an Orange clown.

In spite of everything got up to the #allotmemt this evening, to hoe, strim, mow, weed and water. Still lots to catch up on but crops of onions, shallots, garlic, broad beans and spuds seem to be surviving the warm weather.

For the last fifteen years when camping I've relied on an Indian Primus stove knock-off called a Prabhat. It hasn't exploded and, for a small amount of paraffin, still cooks some brilliant breakfasts and dinners

Curious George. The Crystal Meth Years.

Going all fluxgate in Cranborne Chase.

‘You feel you’ve conquered the world’: a Thames swimmer on the river’s first bathing site in London www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

NUJ responds to Farage doxxing a photo journalist who was doing their job. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

It's a hard life but someone's got to do it

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#allotment #allotmentlife bottom of the allotment sorted. Headland cleared and new fenceposts (old scaffolding poles) in. Loganberries and tayberries tied in plus a splendid climbing rose in bloom. Shallots and spuds starting to produce growth. Thornless blackberry and bramble clearing tomorrow 😋

Currently reading about Lockley's pioneering days on Skokholm Island before the Second World War...😉😮 📷 The Island, Ronald Lockley, 1969 (... another name for Manx Shearwaters if you must know)

A recently recognised 80 metre #Neolithic long barrow near the coast at Southbourne in West #Sussex. To find out more, read this thread or check out this article: wp.me/pgKiQE-2r #Archaeology ... 1/10

Strands #795 “Go right ahead” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵

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Love this 🤣

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#allotment slowly being knocked into shape 😎

Archaeologies of the Roman Mediterranean: Papers Presented in Honour of Professor Simon Keay / @kdstrutt.bsky.social , et al eds. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... #openaccess @bsrome.bsky.social @archaeopress.bsky.social @letizia-ceccarelli.bsky.social

Happy Star Wars Day!

On #openaccess co-edited with Anna Collar Paul Johnson and Katherine Crawford in honour of Prof. Simon Keay. Thank you to all of the colleagues and friends of Simon who contributed. www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Afternoon up the #allotment. Bed cleared and onions planted. Shallots garlic and potatoes weeded. Lots more to do but the roses and globe artichokes have started.

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Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In that there London.

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Nice preprint paper on Roman and early med population. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Strands #787 “Fish or cut bait” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵

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Bloody hell.

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.