Ant Dawson

Donald Trump winning the ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ is like when I didn’t win at school sports day so my mum made me a medal out of a yoghurt lid.

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social ANUBIS: (presses button with paw) [guilty] OSIRIS: im sorry he does this when he's hungry ANUBIS: (button) [guilty] [bad] [food] OSIRIS: you already ate ANUBIS: (button) [bad] [bad] [bad] OSIRIS: he's right though we weighed your heart against the feather and its not looking good November 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM

A Hurricane nose down in either a huge pile of crap or the raised earth around a bomb crater that it accidentally taxied into. I'll let you guess which is more likely, not least as it would have had to be a very big Hurricane to drop that amount.

Not many people know this, but Hawker Hurricanes sniff each other's droppings to assess fitness, dominance and breeding condition...

Doctor Who actors Sylvester McCoy, Peter Davison, Paul McGann, and Colin Baker smile and pose with a trans pride flag. Youtuber Jay Exci sits in front of them, grinning.

i like this image a lot

Post-finasteride syndrome (PFS) describes persistent sexual, neurological, physical, and mental adverse reactions in patients who have taken finasteride, a 5-alpha reductase type II enzyme inhibitor used to treat hair loss (under the brand name Propecia or generics) and/or enlarged prostate (Proscar or generics). Unfortunately, PFS is a condition with no known cure and few, if any, effective treatments. As an increasing number of men report their persistent side effects to health and regulatory agencies worldwide, medical and scientific communities are only beginning to realize the scope of the problem.

Post-Finasteride Syndrome is real

www.pfsfoundation.org/about-pfs-po...

From Dr. Ken Peters (MD, Urology) who is not yet on Bluesky: If you suffer from post-SSRI, Post-Finasteride or Post-Accutane Syndrome, please complete the attached IRB approved form and forward to others. Trying to quantify the impact of this condition. oakland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I love carols, but I would rather never sing one again than let the narrative take hold that only White English ways of celebrating Christmas are acceptable, or that Our Lord belongs to the fash.

Ilkley Moor is the only option. (As well as for "O for a thousand tongues")

Edward Carpenter

19th century Headingley

In his autobiography, Edward Carpenter recalled his time in #Leeds: 'On the whole it was an interesting time. It was at Leeds that I came to know the three sisters Ford of Adel Grange, whose friendship I have valued ever since'. The Fords were a strict #Quaker family involved in Socialist politics.

Mill Hill Chapel

Edward Carpenter

'W. H. Channing, who was then acting as Unitarian Minister at Leeds, insisted on giving me letters of introduction to various friends of his on that side...Emerson was very charming and friendly. I stayed one night at his house and dined with him and his wife & his daughter Ellen' (Edward Carpenter)

In exactly the same position, sadly.

There are thousands in the same boat. The Post Finasteride Syndrome Foundation has been set up to help them. There's also a #MeToo on Bluesky.

Bollocks. Despite having my physical and mental health ruined by Finasteride, NHS tells me it was 'inevitable' I'd have such unwanted side effects as breasts, loss of body hair, dysfunction etc. Nothing to do with them; won't consider or even fund surgery or treatments to deal with it all.
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Five years for me. Same reason. Same awful life destroy effect. I'm so sorry.

Post-finasteride syndrome has happened to people using topical finasteride even after only one dose. It's a dangerous med.

Yes. It's horrible and life-destroying. Finasteride is evil stuff

Good idea: it's Advent so "Wachet Auf" by JSB.
Bad idea: the Chorale is in the Tenor clef.

Yay.
Three clefs: one per limb.
Talk about flying by the seat of your pants.

To be honest I'd include the 1837 arrivals station as that is mapped. As it the entire layout of the station, including the cattle station, stables etc. it's more relevant to what's on the ground today. Some of it is still there of course.

Tolkien had some... Challenging .... views about the CofE and dissenters. And also the mass in English.

I wouldn't trust early iconography to be honest. Nasmyth likely to be correct but a lot of the commercial prints are very naive. Rather like trying to recreate L&MR engines & carriages from the Ackermann long prints! A lot of early mapping was based on earlier maps, with additions, or omissions
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A Roman tile with 13 dog's paws prints

Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2

📷me

At Sothebys, I chanced upon possibly the worst painted dog in British art history.

Eyes Down Looking: Talk on Blenkinsop & Murray for the Romney Marsh Model Engineering Society.....

Yep. Engine house and chimney tucked in between Water St and the Warehouse. It was only demolished within the last 30-40 years. Sadly, when Liverpool Road was 'restored' in the 80s they cleared away anything which they didn't think was 'original' to 1830 and wiped away a lot of history.

Looking horribly likely I'll be applying for a PhD by Publication in the Business School at Southampton University in April, for a start in September, looking at railway uniform and the creation of corporate culture, creation of the passenger, and sartorial awareness.

north side, and a foot path was made alongside the carriage ramp on the S side. There was a siding with a carriage dock to unload road coaches. The area in front of Liverpool Road station also sported a canopy on iron columns, full width of the passenger part of the building.

There was a footbridge, parallel to and contiguous with the Water St Bridge for foot passengers to prevent them walking on the line. The arrivals station of 1833 was a single long shed, brick built with an open front supported by columns. It was paved. There was also a curving carriage ramp on the

The engine house on the water st end of the 1830 warehouse is missing. There's an archaeological report on it and you can see in the existing building where it abutted and where the line shafting went through it.

Arrivals was always between Water St and the Irwell. The original building was much simpler than the 1837. Liverpool Rd was always departures.

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.