Latest cd-related escapade saw me spend a nice couple of hours wandering the charity shops today. One shop had a total of 10 classical CDs of which 6 - SIX - were recordings of Carmina Burana. Thereby hangs a tale I am sure.

@entirelygill.bsky.social !

Enjoying rediscovering my CDs now my player is repaired. Some are lost I think 🤷🏽‍♀️. Many have price stickers on and gosh we paid what feels like a lot for them in those days. I did find THIS though which I sang on!!

A striking, clarifying fact not noted here is that, per Reuters yesterday, all but 3 of the 6069 refugees admitted to the US under Trump have been white South Africans. Trump isn't focused on whether immigrants are "legal" but whether they're white. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/u...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Got my cd player component fixed at a tiny shop on the high street. He also threw in a record player. Got the unit for my 21st birthday! The joy of popping in a 30-year-old cd and it sounding clear as a bell ❤️

It’s Ezekiel’s birthday! I made cakes for him to take to orchestra

IT’S THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL

Always good to have help when wrapping presents

❤️❤️❤️

In deep awe of the woman I bought lots of age 6 short pyjamas from off Vinted who has managed to keep all the sets together.

Working class British taxpayers paid for this compensation to enslavers, and so abolition became a moment of redistribution of wealth to the propertied class.

It’s World Ovarian Cancer Day today, so please forgive me banging on even more than usual. The most important thing is how vague and tricky the symptoms are - but that once you know, tests can be quite straightforward. Here’s a good place to start: targetovariancancer.org.uk/about-ovaria...

It’s messy. But isn’t it beautiful?

EPIC.

Bought this fabric to make something for Clementine and usually music fabric is nonsense but NOT THIS ONE

Fair play, Ollie W

@gailmyerscough.co.uk would you consider adding the Croydon NLA tower to your architecture products…?

Everyone, stop what you’re doing. There is a Black girl named Kameirah who is in Google’s top 5 “Doodle for Google” contest that can win a $55,000 scholarship. I just voted. VOTING CLOSES TOMORROW APRIL 29! doodles.google.com/d4g/

ETERNAL SADNESS

Friends, if you’re taking sertraline, check the batch number as there is a recall out and you may have ended up with a mislabelled lower dose of citalopram. www.gov.uk/government/n...

I thought my last giant Yorkie was good but I think I’ve outdone myself today

We sang this gorgeous piece this morning and I think it’s the first time I’ve sung something by a Sri Lankan composer (unless I’ve done something by Nethsinga and forgotten).

*staring into the camera with the light behind my eyes entirely extinguished*

This is a wonderful read

i am a pretty basic straight man so i do get things wrong when it comes to feminism and listening to women generally, like a lot of men do, but this concerted effort to make women seem like they're too angry over nothing when there are clear and present dangers all over society is just insane really

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

What’s the equivalent of @ianbetteridge.com ‘s law but where the answer to the question is “racism”

Delighted that like last year my MOT reminder letter from the garage has come with exciting stamps

My cat has really long “arms”

Not even free of this all the way out in space

Happy Easter all x

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

I managed to finish watching The Other Bennet Sister today and oh what a joy. Ella Bruccoleri as Mary is utterly wonderful. + Mrs Bennet got some empathetic treatment at the end. Loved seeing a familiar story both from the eyes of a lesser-written character and with my own added life experience.

Ah yes happy “all men are liars” day

“Abergavennyshire”

Wow how did a car manage that

This is a tough read, but an important one

Ezekiel was off sick today. Getting Clem (5) ready for school, she piped up with “why does Ezekiel have spots on him but Zachariah and me don’t?”. I felt a CHILL to my bones and a rush of panic went over me. It turned out she was talking about his freckles.

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thinking of my beloved tiger queen Alice Wong today, and what better a way to celebrate than with her work; Alice was so many things, and among them was an incredibly sharp, talented writer with a luminous love for words.

Appropriate music on the shuffle for what is looking to be a lovely day.

Best of luck, school uniform policies.

International Women’s Day website owners urged to stop ‘exploiting’ day

Mary Poppins hits very differently as a parent.

The book sort-out is going well 🥺

This is… inhumane.

Justice sure took a long while… apnews.com/article/henr...

Pre-orders matter so get your pre-orders in!