look, i'm not mad about it

This poster is one of the best on here and I’m so sad we’re losing her because of the appalling harassment she has been subjected to. Of course she must look after herself. And the rest of us need to do whatever we can to challenge and change this cruel, sick, dangerous, culture.

It’s for sale for about half the cost of the restoration works, to put it in perspective

Elegant

Just as I was reading this, he appeared. 🤷😁

Nala in her round glory giving me the eye for wanting to make the bed

Squirrel in Greenwich Park.

if you’re the praying type can you please toss some prayers out? Not in a position to give any details so we’re just all gonna trust that the various gods will know what the deal is

East London squirrel a few years ago enjoying a crumpet. Not a bother on him as i took this photo.

Why isn't the first week of January annual Fat Squirrel Week?

He lives under the churro stand

‘Warm Spaces have also been set up again across the capital in libraries, churches and community spaces for people to get a hot drink and stay in the warmth during the day time.’ #libraries #homelessness

INNOCENT

Aiming for a Brambly Hedge-ish January

The second one is mostly just nicely rounding fluff

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Genuinely wish I had more photos of these guys because they were the best wildlife

If I can call Marjorie Taylor Greene from England to yell at her then you can call literally whoever your reps are

In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling. I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

Hidden Beneath Plaster, Medieval Frescoes Re-emerge in an Albanian Church www.medievalists.net/2026/01/hidd... #history #medieval #Byzantine #arthistory

and now I will bump this to recover my mentions. Please share your round animals

Question for full service sex workers: what kind of place makes for a good in-call in America, where the law makes such a place illegal? House? Apartment? Something else I'm not thinking of?

good moon tonight, large moon no I'm not going to check the news, just look at the moon

And they don't like being yelled at! They all quit having town halls! The GOP is retiring inassive waves. YELL AT THEM IF ONLY BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD!

My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds. I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are. My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.

it has been a very long and emotional day in chez Odent but here would you all like to see an incredibly fat squirrel

After reading the Redwall books, I have a literary criteria to which all books must be subjected. Are the depictions of rich cooking central to the plot? I call it the Beschamel Test.

The next online talk will look at life on the road in the mediaeval period. What was it like to travel, who could be found on the road, and what observations did they leave us? I'll be live online at 7pmGMT on Wednesday 28 January. Booking & more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mediae...

Artists as the world crumbles around us

Every time I walk past this bit of fallen tree I can't help imagining it scuttling around, crablike, after sundown, and getting up to no good.

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

just gonna reshare this post (and thread) because I think it's really important that people understand how we all use social media differently. some simply want to chat, some want to joke, or offload, or muse. These are not all opportunities for debate

Cosigned. I've had it muted more or less since I've had an account here and never once missed hearing about the latest idiocy. It helps to dial the volume down though.

sorry what the fuck

There may be snow on the ground but today we are closer to the sun than any other day! Here in the northern hemisphere it may be cold and dark, but remember, light and warmth are always closer than they appear

Jay, achieving new levels of ‘writer needs a new notebook to write’

When I was a student at Magdalen, the myth was that the Hall was candlelit and fire-heated because the building got listed before proper electricity was installed and now they aren’t allowed to. As an adult in the field I don’t *think* that’s true, but… one does wonder

HEY WRITERS! Do any of you write creative nonfiction, particular sort of shorter form humor/memoir sort of stuff? I'm looking for some basic craft resources to share with someone else & this is not my area!

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

i want to be clear that when i saw this meme, i debated doing it accurately, and then instead decided to skip 90% of my actual list in favour of making a point instead

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

everyone get ready for my thread on 20th and 21st century non-arson church fires

Can magnetic fridge poetry show contrition. Do dice feel pain. Is this calculator my friend.

It’s amazing that Mamdani has achieved so much positive change for NYC in just one day.

It's a weird thing in paganism that people will try to claim their belief is better bc there's some evidence people did it in the past, but will also *hard side-eye at popular witchcraft author* completely misinterpret and mis-cite the evidence that *is* there & get stroppy when called out about it

are there are actually decent cookware sets with the detachable handles? Stayed in a flat in Paris with ikea ones and loved the idea but hated the quality

“…the creators of these [nonconsensual, violent AI] images often seemed to be treating the action like a game or meme, with an air of laughter & detachment.”

I really do think that social media does not lend itself to nuanced or balanced conversations on complex topics so all I’m gonna say is: I do not personally want to risk seeing CSAM or non consensual nudity whilst scrolling, so, while my handle remains, I do not