Dr Sasha Garwood

OH MY GOD.

I watched it but I keep getting distracted by panelling and chaise longues. I wonder if the furniture is included?

That's probably if you want to rip everything out and start again to make it a hotel or something. Whereas I'd want it untouched and with the original Edwardian plumbing restored!

Oh 10000% yes! Like C3PO maybe. But called Jeeves. Or we could just have a herd of roombas and live on coffee?

Pleasure and longing On April 6, 1919, the Mapp and Lucia author, society figure and archbishop’s son E. F. Benson wrote to George Wolfe Plank: “I want you”. Plank had been a “very intimate friend” since introducing himse...

So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.

DM for pdf!

Right now the isolation feels like it might be an advantage...

That sounds more practical, but I'd love to *aspire* to a robot butler...

Can we have a butler? Robot or otherwise?

And a bathroom each!

I think the island of rum can be whatever you want it to be, with the possible exceptions of "drivable" and "warm eight months of the year"

Don't tempt me

I KNOW RIGHT

Check out this 20 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 20 bedroom detached house for sale in Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, PH43 for £750,000. Marketed by Savills Rural Sales, Edinburgh

okay this is it. THE PERFECT HOUSE. It even has the original Edwardian baths and showers?!?!

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Pleasure and longing On April 6, 1919, the Mapp and Lucia author, society figure and archbishop’s son E. F. Benson wrote to George Wolfe Plank: “I want you”. Plank had been a “very intimate friend” since introducing himse...

So glad this article is out! Finding these (heartrending) poems in the archive and realising what they meant remains one of my top research moments ever - absolute magic. I didn't know what I was looking for, except by instinct, and I found it; queer love hiding in plain sight.

DM for pdf!

Undercliffe, Lewes, East Sussex | Inigo An expansive Victorian ‘castle’ hidden among age-old trees

Incredible house. Not convinced by "clean, clear modern lines" in a Victorian Gothic mansion, but look at the reading nook in the topmost tower! www.inigo.com/sales-list/u...

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Has anyone made this FOI request of the south-west and the London CYP Gender services?

This post ⬇️relates to the north-west service, where not one young person has been offered medical transition since the service was opened over a year ago.

This isn't treatment. It's state sanctioned conversion.

THE DREAM 🥹🥹

Judge’s $1.5m home destroyed in huge fire as her family is rushed to hospital Circuit court justice Diane Goodstein, who ruled against Trump administration last month, was out walking when mansion erupted into flames

This is what Jenrick is encouraging in the UK. This aping oof MAGA by the Tories and RefUK must be foug tooth and nail. 1/2 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

We've already seen judges and lawyers being targeted as "enemies of the people". This increases risk of threats/attacks, while undermining judiciary as a whole. Couple it with Tory plans to scrap immigration tribunals and legal aid for people seeking asylum and it shows utter contempt for the law.

Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 5 bedroom detached house for sale in The Old Mansion, Ewelme, OX10 for £1,500,000. Marketed by Griffith and Partners, Watlington

Okay I take it back. Is this the perfect house? It might need some redecorating, but there's a coach house and a stream running through the garden! www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

I wish I didn't agree with you entirely 😭😭😭

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Check out this 8 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove 8 bedroom detached house for sale in Maldon Road, Bradwell-on-Sea, CM0 for £1,375,000. Marketed by Beresfords, Country and Village

Anyone want to live in an Edwardian novel? This still has the old stables...

(Scientists who claim “AI helped us with this breakthrough!” without making any effort to distinguish their painstakingly designed, well tested and not-new ML algos from slopAI are part of the problem and are tarnishing their own work while astroturfing for predatory fascist tech. Shame on them.)

The only real use of AI I see at a moment is as yet another tool of oligarchic state control

It is used to control knowledge, destroy education (in its emancipatory understanding) and ultimately curtail democratic imagination at a time when authoritarian measures become the norm

I LOVE THIS

It's apparent that at least some MPs are listening.

Businesses, too, have pushed back.

In the cold light of day the bigots' segregationist fever dream is being examined by ordinary people and found to be weird, unworkable, cruel and wrong.

Keep writing to your MPs 👍🏻