Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal

Black and white photo showing a kettle on the sill of a very dirty window. Immediately outside the window is the very recognisable steelwork of the Forth Bridge.

My dad has turned up this photo from a visit "many years ago" to the Forth Bridge. I think it's taken from what he calls the howff, just below track level, used by the maintenance workers.

I guess when you're engaged in a proverbially endless task, you need a wee cup of tea once in a while.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

finally had the chance to take my first hot bath since I got pregnant. no lobster was e’er more delighted to be boiled.

Proclamations The canonical bibliography of Royal proclamations is that of the Earl of Lindsey’s commission, the two volumes of ‘Tudor and Stuart Proclamations 1485-1714’: Volume 1: England and…

New Bibliography: Royal Proclamations

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#LegalHistory

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

American Idiot really holds up over two decades later. concept album of the millennium?

since I’ve had a baby I’ve read more news articles than ever before, simply because I need something one-handed to do at 2am when she’s feeding and I’ve stupidly forgotten to connect my earphones before latching her on

Thanks Sara! We’re finding our way 🥰🥰🥰

parenthood: trying to establish whether the scent of baby vomit has sunk into your cardigan or if it’s just the baby themselves (or a secret, worse third option)

a small baby in a bodysuit and undone babygro. she bears a distinct resemblance to a disheveled James Gandolfini in a bathrobe.

my kid straight up looking like Tony Soprano getting the newspaper

So the DFS sale really has been going on as long as we thought

day ??? of maternity leave. my house is an unending series of muslin hiding places and I’ve lost count of how many Waitrose mini sausage rolls I’ve eaten.

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

Rue Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions. No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial. I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called 'herb of grace' because it was used in exorcisms, by the angel to clean Adam's eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right?

Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see

Keir Starmer rushing out an immediate tweet bemoaning the death of a US fascist whose UK organization was a failure, but posting nothing about the UK fascist march at which the site he's posting on's owner called for a racist revolution.

Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London US-based tech boss was addressing the ‘unite the kingdom’ protest organised by Tommy Robinson via video link

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

watching the world descend ever further into anti-democratic, fascist mania is doing my blood pressure no good.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

BREAKING: Keir Starmer somehow comes up with the one thing that will make him less popular than he already is x

Watching everyone from Dem politicians to baseball teams venerate Kirk is like pulling back a strip of wallpaper and realizing your house is full of mold.

I think about this a lot

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Thank you for all the suggestions for attracting more hot men to the National Trust. My favourite so far was getting Hot Priest to come and hide out in some of our priest holes. If anyone knows Andrew Scott please can you raise the idea with him - just casually.

Jesus Christ alive.

This is lunatic territory.

It's really peculiar to accuse "Corbynistas" of "taking over the Green party", when Corbyn himself is literally right there, waiting for people's votes. 🤣

They just can't conceive of people - a big diverse population of them - longing for progressive politics, can they. It's a hell of a blind spot.

The father ten ‘i hear you’re…’ meme with the above post pasted in

– Graham Linehan: "It's sissy porn."
– Julia Faure Walker KC: "You must be more familiar with it than me."
– Graham Linehan: "Oh, I am — I really am."