Russell

Once upon a time I’d feel really pissed off about this. I just don’t care anymore. We’re so bad. #SaintsFC

Feel so sorry for #SWFC fans but they shouldn’t view their punishment as a 12-point deduction. They’re playing #SaintsFC soon which means it’s basically only a 9-point deduction.

‘Beach Haven is Trump's Tower
Where no Black folks come to roam
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!’

‘I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project’

Woodie Guthrie with his ‘THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS’ guitar.

🤯 Just read that in 1954 Woodie Guthrie wrote notes and lyrics about how his landlord made money by stirring up racial hatred and using discriminatory rental policies. His landlord was Fred Trump, father of Donald, who must have taught his son a thing or two about profiting from racism…

Credits: Camera Supervisor Lincoln Abraham

Shoutout to the parents of the Strictly Come Dancing Camera Supervisor:

Great to be back in my own bed last night after operation and sleepless night in hospital in Winchester. The NHS is one of this country’s greatest triumphs. The staff and the nurses - a diverse range of people from all over the world - were utterly amazing. Wonderful humans. They are superheroes.

It seems the regime actively encourages them to act this way.

Sane people: ‘We’re horrified by all these videos of the masked and armed wannabe-Gestapo ICE thugs terrorising, assaulting, killing, and disappearing their fellow human beings in America.’

The Tories: ‘Yes! ICE! ICE is exactly what we need to make Britain great again!’

God give me strength…

This is very Alan Partridge.

Bravo.

I bet corporations are loving the fact that everyone is so distracted by ‘the immigrants’ because they can just get away with ripping us off. We should be angry about their huge profits but nobody is bothered because ‘blame the immigrants’. I want my country back from the profiteering extortionists.

England Champions.

Phew!!! Heroes, every single one of them!

YouTube video by Chris Connelly Jesse Welles - Encore: War Isn’t Murder - Newport Folk Festival | July 26, 2025

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Michelle Agyemang.

National hero.

Lemmy and Ozzy.

Another legend gone. There’ll be a hell of a party going on somewhere right now…

I’m currently reading Wuthering Heights. This Heathcliff chap is a real piece of work.

Feel like I’ve aged a few years this evening. Bloody well done, England… Phew! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Bangers, burgers, kielbasa, and boerewors, all on a BBQ grill.

Tonight’s braai.

Waiting outside the library
Eager for the doors to open
Because we got here early
A bag of stories to be returned
Others yet undiscovered
Waiting for us on the shelves.

A note written by George III!

GEORGE III !!! 🤯🤯🤯

Letter written by Frederick.

Currently holding a letter written by Frederick, Prince of Wales…🤯

Newspaper snippet from 29 September 1738 reads: On Wednesday night, a baker, living within a mile of St. Bride's Church, took leave of his wife, in order to go out of town immediately; but meeting with some companions he sat up all night, and went home early in the morning, to take a little. rest before he begun his journey, when to his great surprise he saw a certain barber of his acquaintance with his wife in bed, who seeing the husband come in at the chamber door, to avoid ceremony, jump'd out of the window into the street; by which lover's leap he had the misfortune to break his leg, which is now under cure; and how the affair will end is uncertain.

Back with the newspapers today, looking at mentions of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1738. Of course, there's more there than just Frederick and Augusta. The papers yield unexpected gems like this one, from 29 September. A reminder that humans have always, always been messy and ridiculous:

"It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

Finished reading Steinbeck’s cracking Cannery Row this morning. Published in 1945, as true then as it is now.

Sam Matterface and Lee Dixon are the biggest bores in football. All the derisive, condescending, and sneering comments about the Latvians are so unnecessary.

Pile of manure.

Southampton losing to Wolves.

From shovelling shit this morning to watching it this afternoon.

It’s not for me. I think Zelenskyy’s outfit is far more fetching. Maybe Zelenskyy should have worn a black MAGA hat and a blazer over a t-shirt to the Oval Office. That’s acceptable, apparently.

Just a pic of Churchill not wearing a suit at the White House in 1942. The ungrateful bastard.

Yeah! Sod that. Don’t want to be associated with them! Glad our Russian Empire ancestors were Jewish and not Russian!!! 😂