Peter McGladdery

Galavanting around the globe, sowing your sensible oats

I'm at "just staying at home watching Adventure Time, but skipping some of ones with the more awkward plots, but wondering about Apostolic/Papal origins of the Ice King's real name" level of social anxiety

It's so good to actually have positive communications

My MP emailed me last week following earlier correspondence to say he was one of the 50 signatories to the letter to the gov about proper impact analysis and that he had a lot of concerns about how things were being done. I made sure to let him know how much his efforts were appreciated

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

I'm bringing my solo show "Susan Harrison: Should I still be doing this?" to @leicscomedyfest.bsky.social. It's my first time at Leicester Comedy Festival and I'm really looking forward to it! I'll be at The Big Difference 13th Feb at 6pm 🐼

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Another lesson for the left on both sides of the pond to note is that his campaign largely set aside the identitarian politics, which has often been a quagmire for the progressive cause in recent years. His pitch relentlessly emphasised bread-and-butter issues

Screenshot from Advocate Politics Zohran Mamdani will continue 'standing up' for transgender people as New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been elected mayor of New York City, waves a transgender flag at NYC Pride, June 29, 2025. Zohran Mamdani dominated the LGBTQ+ vote in NYC, with 82 percent of the community casting their ballots for him.

The British commentariat is so cooked that they can't even conceive of people wanting to vote for someone who thinks shitting on minorities is bad so let's just ignore it

We’re here again today.

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

Painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo dated c 1566 It shows what is clearly a head and torso of a man but all constructed using books including a fanned open book representing his hair and two large books cleverly positioned to represent his upper and lower right arm. The lower book is bent across his body and has thon bookmarks hanging from it to represent the fingers on his hand

One for the bibliophiles out there

This painting was flagged up in a book I am reading atm (Portable Magic @oldfortunatus.bsky.social ) and whilst I'm pretty sure I have seen it before it hadn't really lodged in my memory

I give you Giuseppe Arcimboldo's c 1566 painting, The Librarian

Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.

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Burt Meyer, Chicago toymaker behind classics like Mouse Trap, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, has died at 99

Burt Meyer, a Chicago toy designer behind classics like Lite-Brite, Mouse Trap, and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, died Oct. 30 at 99, leaving a joyful, generations-spanning legacy.

YouTube video by NPR Music Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert

Nova Twins
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Farmers' Almanac announces final publication after 208-year run After more than two centuries in print, the Farmers' Almanac will end its run with its 2026 edition.

WHAT

Yes, many people of my generation really did come of age in the 90s imagining themselves to be the last word in enlightened liberalism. The last man at the end of history. The emancipatory politics of the past decade struck at the heart of that self image, hence the viscerally hard reactionary turn

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Right about now, the honk shoo brother

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

In Icelandic we have 'Ókind' for monster. But the translation is un-sheep. So everything not a sheep is dangerous.

In a preamble to a work zoom meeting this morning, one of the attendees talked about recently going to the Lisbon earthquake museum.

Got a targeted Instagram ad for it at lunchtime.

Tonight at QFT Belfast!

lol

Work to start on Warwickshire Eternal Wall prayer monument Project leaders say the 51m (167ft) monument, containing one million bricks, will be open in 2028.

Apparently so www.bbc.com/news/article...

Table football table, smashed up, left out on street for rubbish collection

Tiny hooligans

Chloe quoting GL's pissy slabbering with comment "I consider this a mark of quality"

She dealt with it on her Insta with absolute class.

Related, three hunters fell into the thin ice in Kotzebue earlier this week. One brother is recovering, one body was recovered and people are still searching for the third. Warming weather in our region is deadly.
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Person on park bench in middle distance under golden autumn tree casting a golden shadow of leaves. Football pitch lines on grass

Good book

I Have No Mouse, And I Must Squeak