Jo Attree

Rudy press conference at 4 seasons total landscaping

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

We’ve planted too many tulips

Once again the dark hand of Big Potato

Gosh, I never knew there was so much doom/romance to it.

I'd vote for Marron - sweet chestnut. Hard and bitter on the outside, sweet on the inside (though I always seem to end up with some bitter pith left. That's probably a metaphor for something).

To Farage it's all about who you're siding with. What you signal with your loyalty is more important than facts, or whether your words will cause people harm.

Surely it's the one word you are allowed to spell any way you choose?

Low-key stalking is a use case I could get behind.

OMG that's why all these things are so obsessed with you adding contacts? Everyone else is so fit, it's very unmotivating and pointless. Except my partner and I compare "Body Battery" sometimes for fun IRL (it's a useless/inaccurate score on Garmin that you can't improve).

Sometimes literally. I've seen poncho tents. The question of what you do when you need both at the same time remains unanswered.

I can

I can

Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation

This is my flag.

There where more Bass players in The Fall

Top ,4 reasons why Britons wouldn't want to go to the moon
- not interested
- not enough to do on the moon
- would rather visit other places on earth

And my favourite - no point

Love Radio 3, love that the Proms are all just on there for free, love the halftime chat that has the same structure as halftime chat in sport but where they are never, ever going to actually go “well, he’s not a *great* Finnish conductor, is he?”

I know how they feel.

Ugh. It's like they have amnesia. Even in the car, where I could be interested in voice input, I can't bring myself to care enough to set it up. It's nice to have a bit of time off. Just switch between the 2 random radio stations it found before I interrupted its scanning by mistake.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

How to be a man The right story narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?

OK so feeling slightly apprehensive about this, which I suppose is kind of the point. This is an attempt at a progressive view on masculinity and on men getting laid. God help me. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

I..look...it's not actually about trees, it's just spelt like that. Honestly.

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

A Day in the Life of the Gen Z Worker Are you sure these are new workplace trends? Are you sure you aren’t just describing a routine phenomenon in an alarmed way?

The Gen Z worker awakes in the morning from her Microdeath (a new workforce trend where workers deliberately close their screens, repose horizontally, and are unavailable to respond to emails for up to eight hours)

FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

VIVA GLASTONBURY!

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.” George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

”Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”
George Orwell, English novelist, journalist, critic, born #OTD 1903; author of Animal Farm (1945), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
BBC Archive | UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social

Lou Christie †
Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco
February 19, 1943 - June 18, 2025

Every day with love,
talent, humor and kindness -

Angels keep cryin' for me 💔

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.