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'Curzon Cinema, Soho' (2024) by Marc Gooderham
marcgooderham.co.uk

Dual nationals could use expired UK passports to prove they are British, Home Office says Carriers could accept expired passport ‘at their own discretion’, Home Office says, as new rules imminent

This is such cynical, profiteering bullshit. Feels like there is growing hostility towards dual nationals. I hate it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The only Olympics clip I have watched. 🤣👌🏻

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

My son has decided to take up skeleton luge.

Longevity influencers tell millions to take rapamycin, sit in hyperbaric oxygen chambers, blast themselves with red light therapy, and take 50+ supplements daily.

Meanwhile something that cuts dementia risk by 20% is invisible.

overmatter.substack.com/p/your-anti-...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Squiggly patterns of reflected metal and glass buildings

Squiggly patterns of reflected metal and glass buildings

Squiggly patterns of reflected metal and glass buildings

Squiggly patterns of reflected metal and glass buildings

Today’s selection of office reflections at #CanaryWharc at lunchtime, armed only with an #iPhone15pro.

#abstract

The grand entrance hall of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin

The grand entrance hall of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin

A Hertfordshire lakeside view with sky reflections

A Hertfordshire lakeside view with added reeds

A Hertfordshire lakeside view with clouds

Some weekend waterside views from walking around Hertfordshire. #photography

I apply the same rule on social media as I do IRL.
I don’t expect to and won’t try to persuade anyone to come round to my point of view on any topic. I choose to conserve my energy.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

Wow, that is heavy!

Intriguing 😆 Now I want to visit Whitby Museum.

I thought I understood German but I can’t figure out “mer dun et” on that sign. Presumably dialect?

A black and white streetart mural of George Michael’s face.

A mural I spotted on a walk this weekend. 🥾 #streetart

My latest binge watch: ‘Small Prophets’ on BBC iPlayer.
Quirky and delightful. Mackenzie Crook is fast becoming a national treasure. #BBC #BBCtv #iplayer

❤️ 💓 ❤️

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

YouTube video by Charli xcx Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)

the most beautiful phrase in the English language is “Charli XCX featuring John Cale”

Dear everyone who bangs on about London being unsafe.
Please bugger off collectively to the Cotswolds and leave the rest of us in peace.
Bye then! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Wow!

Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.

This is a *big* legal win.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) was a Japanese painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the leading names of the ukiyo-e shin-hanga artistic movement.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Mysore Palace in India

Mysore Palace in India is an opulent example of Indo-Saracenic architecture, completed in 1912

INEOS announces £150 million investment at its Grangemouth site, supported by the UK Government INEOS has today announced a major £150 million investment to underpin the long-term future of its Grangemouth site in Scotland, one of the UK’s most important industrial assets and a critical hub for ...

'Stop draining our resources, immigrants,' says Jim Ratcliffe who moved to Monaco to avoid paying personal taxes leaving his company here to claim tens of millions in public subsidies.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick