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How Social Media Shortens Your Life It's engineered to speed up your time

“A social media feed is like the Lethe, the mythical river in whose waters lost souls sought absolution, and received it in the form of oblivion.”

How Social Media Shortens Your Life

This is what I believe was the "Glass & Mirror Showroom" at Clark & Eaton in Glasshill Street, Blackfriars. It was painted by Archibald Hattemore c.1933/34. Arch was by then a flooring estimator & he'd gone there to measure up & became fascinated by what he saw, so he painted it! #ArchibaldHattemore

Letter of the day (in the Times)

'Misty Morning, River Thurne, Norfolk,' (c1960) is a striking example of Edward Seago's mastery of watercolour, a work in which you can sense the magic of being on the river just after the break of dawn - a sense of timelessness.

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

If COVID resulted in everyone getting harmless, untreatable, utterly gross pustules covering their entire face for weeks we wouldn't still be in a pandemic.

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

Rightwingers warn of another blaze of summer riots in Britain – but they’re the ones striking the match | John Harris Grim predictions of ‘societal collapse’ and ‘civil war’ will hit home so long as Labour fails to address the country’s problems, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Latest from me: on "Tinderbox" Britain, how it singularly failed to catch fire this weekend, & how the mainstream right now constantly plays with matches www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

Waging peace: women’s defiance of war and patriarchal power In the face of deteriorating trust between nations, Women in Black campaign to resist war and build peace

Waging peace: women’s defiance of war and patriarchal power

In the face of deteriorating trust between nations, Women in Black campaign to resist war and build peace
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My show hits the @edfringe.bsky.social in 7 days time! Still tickets available but they are selling fast especially for the first show so if you’re around at 12.50 pop in for some early afternoon laughs! edinburgh.justthetonic.com/event/88:4930/

Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

David Lammy: "We must also praise the courage of ordinary Russians taking to the streets of Moscow, in St. Petersburg and beyond, under the threat of repression, to show their opposition to this despot"

This is such a clear and useful article. Why does the phrase ‘the really important step was taken by David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s coalition government’ not surprise me?

quite a story too
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/program...

That is quite simply an incredible inscription

Derrick Kardos died of complications of #LongCovid on July 18th. Let his words sink in.

Presented by Curwen Studio 1978

Peter Brook, AUGUST Cottage in Anglesey, 1976 #artbots #tate
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The question isn’t ‘are people more evil or not than they were in the past?’

The question is - are more people likely to get away with their evil than they did in the past?

Am I sleep deprived or does this gnome look a bit like Tonty Blair?

Smiling man in space suit

Jim Lovell, the Commander of Apollo 13, has died. Four times in space. A reminder of a time before the billionaires.

I'm delighted to announce that my latest book 'Fragments Vol.2' is now available to pre-order! 🔥

The standard edition is just £19, and there's also a limited edition of 30 which come with a signed & numbered print.

You can pre-order a copy here - anotherplacepress.bigcartel.com/product/frag...

Matt Green: Work in Progress - Camden Fringe Online political comedy star Matt returns with new jokes about politics, the news and himself. Matt has moved house and the world is in chaos. But we can still laugh about it - right?Is selling a flat...

Two more chances to see my @camdenfringe.bsky.social this week - tonight and tomorrow at Aces and Eights next to Tufnell Park tube. Lovely air conditioned room. New jokes. Good pizza available too (not included in the ticket price...) See you there? camdenfringe.com/events/matt-...

Israel's endgame is clear: the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip and the expulsion of its population. It is not an immediate goal, and Israel uses different levels of violence depending on the situation. And yet the physical destruction of the Strip leaves no other outcome.

Lucy Easthope: Roadmaps for Resilience From Sun 24 Aug - Explore the practical and philosophical dimensions of crisis response with Lucy Easthope, emergency planner and international advisor on disaster recovery…

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

What do we know about the Covid-19 virus five years on? As the virus continues to evolve, experts assess its latest variants, seasonal prevalence and levels of vaccine uptake

'Another consideration, when it comes to building immunity, is the growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections...'

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The great thing about having pet insurance is that while our labrador is at the vets, they've given us a courtesy poodle to hang out with.

Good to see Rosie Holt MP going after these dangerous terrorists.

A Suffolk Estuary, Low Tide.' (1960) Edward Seago's paintings contradict the cliché that watercolours are mild. In this work, it's the freshness, spontaneity, and evanescence that perfectly sums up the beginning of a day.

This is my ministry

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities