They don't care that they're hypocrites. They'll lie to your face smiling while they slide a knife in your gut and ship your family to a camp; all for a 0.5% increase over last quarter's profit.

They voted for this now they are reaping what they sowed

It’s a crime to cut a little girl’s hair like that

If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.

Yes, Charlie Kirk called for President Biden to be imprisoned and put to death, but he was so well-groomed when he said it so ...

The UK fired their ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Meanwhile, Epstein’s best friend remains the President of the United States.

The National Trust has offered me the chance to "win a scone experience". Intrigued by what this might entail. I have to assume it's more than just eating some scones and at least the chance to become a scone for a day, get covered in jam & cream & experience the full range of emotions of a scone.

A sheep staring intimidatingly over a wall in an attempt to watch one of the more tightly written episodes of the 1980s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles.

For fuck's sake, Michelle, I'm not telling you again: stop trying to watch our telly through the window. Pay for your own.

A charismatic tree beneath a dramatic sky, in the hills above Beaminster, Dorset. I took this photo at the beginning of spring last year, as I was thrashing out some of the later stages of my new novel Everything Will Swallow You in my head. I'd done a fabulous eight mile walk, lashed by wind, felt a more healthy version of the kind of inspiration that hits after three cups of coffee, and was thinking about, amongst other things, the way some of the other trees at the top of the conical hills in this area looked like the receding hair on top of men's heads. I found some graffiti on another tree, near a casually imperious triangulation pillar, and it expanded into a whole sub-plot about an ill-matched teenage couple, which became quite an important thread in the novel which I found a way to circle back to right at the end. It was one of those magical days when you feel like the landscape is writing your book for you.

Few sights gratify me more on a long equinoxical walk than an eerie weather-ravaged tree playing conductor to a screaming sky.

Why would anyone think Trump is in the Epstein files?

Just because he declared that voting to release the files is a 'hostile act'

And reports of MAGAs charged with sex crimes appear daily

And he's coddling Ghislane Maxwell

And halting investigations into human traffic ---

Okay, I get it now.

A photo I took of a crunchy autumn bridleway in Gloucestershire

"A culture is no better than its woods." - WH Auden

Our cat Professor Charles Cardigan, in his final days as a kitten

It is a legal requirement that all cat names must evolve like avant-garde jazz. By the time of a cat's fifth birthday the name by which it is generally known should have zero resemblance to its original name.

Tom Cox is one of the writers who got ripped off by Unbound publishers (you can read about it in the thread to this post). I've always liked his books a lot, and am glad to spread the word about his new book.
And yes, I've ordered my copy!

A door with 'PLEASE RING THE BELL FOR RECORDS' written on it

The first step in a witch's cunning plan to trap and kidnap me.

A scarecrow who has just watched Monty Python's The Holy Grail for the first time

A scarecrow who is feeling pleased with himself after forming a 1950s sci-fi themed surf rock band, of which he is the sole member

A scarecrow who is dolled up and ready for a night out in the fanciest part of Newcastle

A very pleasant and well-meaning scarecrow who will paint your house for a competitive rate while rhapsodising about the beauty of the land

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

Keep all of our vinyl.

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."

Isaac Asimov

Garamendi: "Trump is creating a police state. When you consider where the National Guard is deployed in Washington, it's not in those areas where there's crime."

y’all know this doesn’t end without a ton of violence right

A wintry lane

A misty autumnal lane

Sunset on a lane leading up to Dartmoor

Cattle coming home along a lane, after going to see one of the final shows on the Taylor Swift 'Eras' tour

Aren't country lanes brilliant? the-villager.ghost.io/once-upon-a-...

Kerry Bishe in costume as Donna and Mackenzie Davis in costume as Cameron Howe on the set of Halt and Catch Fire

Scoot McNairy and Lee Pace on the set of Halt and Catch Fire

Can folks do me a favor?

I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January.

I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am.

I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics.

Here’s two favorite set photos.

Repost? I am in the wilderness.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Our cat Professor Charles Cardigan, basking in the sun

CAT REPORT, 24.8.2025: it is another excellent day to be a cat.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

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Watching Sinners.

'It's a shame no one dresses like that anymore,' I say as I wear khaki shorts and a t-shirt and prop my feet in my Hello Kitty socks on the coffee table.

Bill to shield police records could keep Uvalde families from getting answers SB 15, which a state Senate panel advanced Friday, could help Texas state police withhold records on their response to the 2022 Uvalde mass school shooting.

About 20% of TX law enforcement agencies (mainly elected constables) have only one uniformed employee. Under SB15 by Sen. Phil King at the #txlege, these officers cd keep evidence of their own misconduct secret forever by choosing not to punish themselves, thus relegating the info to a secret file.

That was my first thought. Skinny legs.

Looks like he skips leg and arm day.

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?