'Sunset on Boar's Hill, Oxford.' (1795) William Turner of Oxford came of age during the Golden Age of British watercolour, influenced by ideas of the Picturesque and the Sublime, and fascinated by the meeting of nature, city, and the changing landscape of the Industrial Age.

Me, to someone who's corrected my grammar: part of having good grammar is just being a nice person

most denizens of crimson lotus hell only contemplate the next thousand years of suffering. you need to be thinking in 10 billion year increments

feel like the bbc are really overestimating how much people want to know what wayne rooney specifically thinks about every major football issue

learning about a new “industry that tells a story about modern britain”, via my brother in law‘s search for a “professional snagger“ which is apparently someone you pay to identify all the hard to notice ways the home builder has messed up your new build before the deadline for them fixing it passes

trying to work out whether not realising that the oscars are this weekend is personal growth (they are a bit silly) or regression (too lazy to have seen enough of the films to develop strong opinions on them)

theory whereby the quality of the shmup is inversely correlated with how comprehensible the english description of the game is on the switch e-shop

playing virtual boy mario tennis and trying to work out whether the ridiculous advantage serve and volley has in videogame tennis is because it’s more fun as a mechanic or a sort of path dependency thing where many of the formative games came from an era where serve and volley was dominant irl

keep turning over this labour mayor post. think pandemic massively accelerated a post-modern atmosphere where we have a throughly developed market economy but next to no-one believes in the fundamentals underpinning it anymore. in the absence of an alternative framework, dysfunction can only deepen.

maybe the most depressing thing about the “manosphere“, which feels slightly lost in the fixation on grotesque larger than life grifters, is the degree to which its assumptions and pre-occupations have long become absorbed into a huge percent of online content, a constant background thudding noise

just one more thing….you keep talking about how this is a left behind constituency abandoned by westminster but there’s something that has been confusing me…why is every car in the busy big-box retail park on the outskirts of the town a new audi?

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in this 4-hour video essay we will be covering a surface level analysis while making several fundamental errors. patreon in description

a privilege to see the 1871 coffee pot train engine

escomb church in county durham, apparently one of only four surviving complete anglo-saxon churches and absolutely lovely

新橋のTAMIYAファクトリーで実物見たら、馬が目で訴えてきてダメだった。買いました。

guess i’ll just kms

love this scene of an english teacher talking to his class about herman melville from frederick wiseman’s belfast, maine youtu.be/_EGGHJT7obo?...

very moved by the carvings on the surviving fragments of st cuthbert‘s oak coffin from 698AD (not my photos as you aren’t allowed to take them in this part of the durham cathedral museum)

Guardian technology editor Samuel Gibbs' last <3 star review was in March 2021, which makes sense given how pleasing to use today's consumer tech products are

my wife when she lived in england

today we are off to historic house and gardens with a name like an amalgamated trade union

and people will still claim that the mii isn’t an inherently fascist form 🙄

forcing myself to read this muriel spark quote each time i am ready to press the ‘post’ button

lawrence proudly explaining that he’s bringing back in levi because he thinks there’s a better chance of lord sugar firing him…..future labour party strategist ?

bored of constant criticism of mojtaba khameini from people who haven’t closed a single sea passage vital to the global economy as currently constituted

↳@thenarcissistreplier ∙ 12s this reminds me of myself, it's vaguely similar to something i did once. in fact all your tweets are about me

when the heritage is seamlessly connected by aspirational shopping >>>>>>>>>

$200 a barrel is misleading. You're not just paying for the container, but also the valuable crude oil inside of it.

ceiling of the chapel at auckland palace. the vivid colours come from a 1980s restoration. for most of its history it was presented as exposed carved wood, but the original 1660s version was apparently painted too except in far more muted tones. quite like that they‘ve kept the “wrong” version.

lovely bit of early 1800s folk art “bishop bone”

spanish gallery in bishop auckland really very good, well worth your time !

made the layout of my phone incredibly convoluted to try and encourage me to reduce screen time. unfortunately in practice it just means that the screen time is the same but i’m more annoyed while doing so, plus if i need anyone else to find something on my phone we are truly fucked

it you were wondering why loads of warhammer purchases kept popping up on the joint account btw www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CONTACT WITH THE HEART OF ENGLAND (1967)

Credit where it's due: Stock has recognised opposition to assisted dying as a position premised on a fundamental denial of bodily autonomy, and so consistent with her anti-trans and anti-abortion views. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Irish amateur jockey called Declan Queally riding a horse called I'll Sort That says he was racially abused by English pro jockey Nico De Boinville riding a horse called Act Of Innocence. No fiction writer would dare to create these true names.

Can't sleep. Fringe poster will eat me.

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museum curators describing literally any portrait of a woman: she boldly meets the viewer's eye, confronting our gaze

crying @ Barry Glendenning saying Igor Tudor has 'torched his reputation as a bloke'

A very sad update from London Book Fair 😞

there is another path we could take our crude oil through, gandalf

auctioning off future extraction rights to any oil eventually produced by millions of years of pressure on my decomposed body

RT @wiaanmulder

god if i’d known you‘d have a tantrum and overreact like this I’d never have assassinated your supreme leader