Once again I've caught a horrible lurgy following a work retreat. This is why I don't hang out with people! Luckily this one is a cold and not a covo.

The boy is showing off.

I've just realised the last 80 pages or so of this book are actually references, which I'm very pleased about as its now a fifth shorter than I thought. Not that it's not interesting; it is, it's just a bit of a slog.

It's too late.

Normalize epistemological humility (being a self-aware dumbass)

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things Before the blue Smartie Artist: Harry Wingfield (First Picture Book, 1970)

One I really didn't expect to see in the wild in the UK! On a little bit of unloved/waste land, this is Datura stramonium, aka Angel's Trumpet, Thornapple or Jimsonweed; it's quite the hallucinogen. Growing wild behind it were thistles and a tomato plant(!) #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

21/9/25 - nocturn

The book I'm reading just dropped the sentence "Only 9 per cent of the plastic ever produced has been recycled" so excuse me while I go vomit (the vomit contains microplastics)

"These are Over-Fried and Under-Proofed," says Prue Leith, inadvertently bestowing new nicknames upon herself and her co-judge. #GBBO

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

I have always believed this. No matter how strongly you feel about it, your child is not your property.

Enya took her piles of money, bought a castle, and lives there alone with a bunch of cats. Enya is correct.

In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

You know it's the good blueberries when they tasting faintly of basil.

This is far more disrespectful than any joke I've seen by the left about Charlie Kirk

pumpkin spice raktajino

What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

Salmon with roast kabocha squash, cavelo nero & lentils. Dressing: black garlic, za'atar & balsamic.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

The library has invented the whole concept of "pre overdue"... it's almost like there's an easier and faster way to say that.

Hermit girl autumn

We‘ve lost one of the most foundational unifying aspects of being British: our shared hatred and distrust of everything yank. No wonder we’re all so divided

The Paper isn't particularly good (there is room for it to grow, as The Office grew) but it is exactly the mindless, mildly charming viewing that I need on a sleepy Saturday after a tough week.

My friend said I look like I'd try to give you a lovebite rather too vigorously at The Bronze here. Which I take as a great compliment.

People getting the internet at home meant young men no longer got a basic grounding in arthouse cinema while looking for nudity on TV.

This is actually how I get around. People on the tube network particularly hate it.

I would have liked a bit more sleep to be honest so am not pleased with the people that rang my doorbell early and repeatedly.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

This is actually how I get around. People on the tube network particularly hate it.

They are seldom these days but still there are some evenings when only Explosions in the Sky will do.

My friend said I look like I'd try to give you a lovebite rather too vigorously at The Bronze here. Which I take as a great compliment.

Is anyone watching Coldwater on ITV? Is it any good?

Sometimes I wish I could do a big spit on command so that when I see a man hawk up a big one on the floor like an animal for some fucking reason I could respond by doing the same at his foot.

O/H: "I'm thinking might be just a loose kind of day... wear my blue jumper. Crocs."

Y’all this is chaotic and truly embarrassing

At the Stealing Sheep album launch and I can report that it's a great little record, a nice slice of chaotic girl group bedroom pop with occasional hyperpop leanings. (Competing interest disclosure, my brother in law did produce it)

If I ever bungle a product launch at work I hope I don't bungle it as badly as (Y)our Party has.

I'm leaving the house but I'm very tired about it

Boaty McBoatface with his skin of rusting painted pockmarked steel; barnacles clustered around an outlet-mouth that dribbles oil; a beard of snaking seaweed; rivets for eyes, blank and rusting. He waits at the water’s edge, swaying. From his lips comes a low creak that seems to sound your name.

it’s friday evening and now is as good a time as any to remind you all to JOIN A UNION

Big fat ratty sigh.

Why is it 27 degrees at the end of September it's making me so maddddddd

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This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

"He tells a story of arriving in his trailer to find a blue, checked Aubin and Wills shirt to wear while playing Partridge – which was identical to the one he was already wearing." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Flaubert on arriving in Alexandria in 1849: "I gulped down a whole bellyful of colours, like a donkey filling himself with hay."

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Having worked three 12 hour days in a row, I am now taking a day in lieu and if anybody needs me they can simply go and put their head in a bin.