Alastair Lawless

Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?

At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window…

It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

Nice wolf though.

Result of a colour vision test. I score 20. A perfect score is zero, yet the test says the best score for my gender is -2147483648

Not sure about the scoring tbh

How was the hipstere knighte moost grievouslye woundid?
Wore the chainmail bifor it was coole.

Wombat architecture critics. Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there.

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By @chazhutton.com

My exact thoughts!

Edinburgh. I can think of a few likely places. The thought of vin santo and cantuccini before christmas pud is cheering me up quite a bit.

Thanks! I’ll give it a go. Now, where to buy vin santo…

Looks fantastic! What is half a vial if using a big bottle of Moroccan almond extract?

Kind of wild how relevant this 2013 JFSP sketch still is in 2025.
@edmorrish.bsky.social

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Struggling with Noble Silence. Practising Noble Humming as a halfway house.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

Or indeed fearing.

poster stop. expecting you from other people

The thread about Argyle House; “preposterously large and a potential rival to the Castle rock” Brutalist buildings are the Marmite of architecture - passionately loved or loathed - and one in Edinburgh was much in the news yesterday when it was announced that plans had been lodged for the demolition and replacement of Argyle House. But while other news sources make much click capital out of it having briefly appeared in some Netflix police show or another, here at Threadinburgh I prefer to get down to the nitty-gritty of the how, why and what of this much critiqued building. And just what it has to do with the Lyceum Theatre, Dalgety Bay and the Water of Leith Walkway...

The thread about Argyle House; “preposterously large and a potential rival to the Castle rock”

Brutalist buildings are the Marmite of architecture - passionately loved or loathed - and one in Edinburgh was much in the news yesterday when it was announced that plans had been lodged for the…

Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

James Bond discourse reminds me that an ex's nan sat in solemn silence through the whole of Austin Powers, then said "Well I don't see how he gets all those women"

Tonight’s dinner: halloumi and sprout curry. Much less disastrous than it sounds.

An analysis of BBC news coverage over the last 4 years shows a shameless bias against Vladimir Putin, with BBC reporters insisting on calling the Special Military Operation in Ukraine “an invasion”

That’s the way it crumbles.

Gazillions spent on arming and equipping the police and they couldn’t field a single helicopter with a big dangly magnet?

I’m really hoping that the next season of The Diplomat features, or at the very least mentions, David Rosen.

“Ah, Q, I see you’ve put Bond back together…”

Orange Alert. Orange Alert.

Pam ayres 'orses

Happy 50th anniversary to a classic album

A slow hour into GDT’s Frankenstein and there’s still no sign of Puttin’ On The Ritz.