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The great unknown romance of writer E.F. Benson’s life – Fred and George, a love story hidden in letters The pair were seen as friends but their letters reveal a more intimate life together.

So, as many of you know, Fred and George have been breaking my heart on the daily for months at this point, so I thought I'd make it everyone else's problem. (Totally writing a book).

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A full week holiday and taking these two pictures to do this was one of my top 5 main things

(incredibly, this is my very best work)

Wine tasting in France, a beginners guide:

London Transport poster. A happy picture of a sunset in the countryside with a group of children running and playing. The text reads, "Why bother about the Germans invading the country? Invade it yourself by Underground and motor-bus." Dated Easter 1915

Good morning, please have this incredibly jaunty London Underground tourism poster from 1915.

[doing my daily affirmations in the mirror]

i am the horror and i will be persisting

Indeed. A wooden bean is probably more forgiving than a steel RSJ tho, so an improvement on our previous house.

Thonk >>> CLANG

Top notch Victorian slang courtesy of a family chat with @sashagoblin.bsky.social : Got the morbs - "afflicted with temporary melancholy or sadness".

I think we need it in Palaeontology:

Q: How is your trigonotarbid?
A: Got a touch of the morbs I'm afraid. 315 million years back. Long morbs.

Watching live news coverage of the Pacific Palisades fire and Steve Guttenburg appears out of the smoke to provide a PSA.

I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

It's my favourite festive tradition: ANNUAL RUIN LOVE ACTUALLY DAY!
Festive joy to all who celebrate.

The energy I am bringing to 2025

Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement:

Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them.

The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.

Ahoy!

Picture of back garden, hedge and some plants, with about 6 inches of snow covering all. Brrr.

Sner!

You should be careful about whose blocklists you trust. That being said, I totally trust @swordsjew.bsky.social’s judgement on trolls (also on swords and sandwiches).

I made a blocklist for some of the new showing up to troll anti trans folks. No oxygen for these schmoes! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Well!

GUESS WHO'S NOT WINNING ANY MORE!

Was just writing something very pithy about having a lovely week off watching Stoke before remembering Scotland are bloody playing. And we've only bloody scored!

Ah, the sweet sweet hope before it inevitably kills.

The copyright statement from Ephemeral City which reads in part: No part of this book may be used as data for ‘training’ any large language model or as part of any machine learning or neural network architeture. Human creaivity cannot be replicated by doing maths with stolen art. Altman, Andressen, and all their cronies can get fucked. Enquires should be made to the publisher.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement?
Me: Definitely. How specific can we get?
Publisher: As specific as you like.

Slightly different wording. This is my x stitch version of live laugh love.

A casual Electrek headline reads "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night," followed by a story by longterm Tesla freak Fred Lambert, who likes to pretend from time to time that his work performs a "public service" instead of being 100% self-serving stock-pumping garbage.

Another Electrek headline from the same day (today) reads "Tesla cuts FSD price by $3K in US, $3.5K in Canada," and the story goes on to treat this dangerous scam like just any other normal feature on a normal car from a normal company. Gotta hear both sides about the system that almost killed your editor in chief!

"Full Self-Driving" may have tried to kill me at highway speeds twice, but it's also $3,000 cheaper now, so it;s impossible to say if its bad or not

Me reposting this knowing the only people who will get it are still marooned on the Twitter but cackling anyway

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Yknow what time it is

It's an entierely unoriginal thought with a sprinkling of first world problems energy, but cunting Christ alive moving house is stressful as all fuck.

me in a bar once when I couldn't hear properly

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Mr & Mrs Murder, although it may just have been they were happy finishing after one series. Nevertheless!

A screen shot of the Home Feed Preferences page showing settings can change

A Bluesky 101 🧵for recent arrivals
1. Go to three horizontal lines upper left, scroll down Settings⚙️, then Home Feed Preferences. Default has minimum likes before see replies--reset to show all. ....

Some info for @thixotropic.bsky.social and @sashagoblin.bsky.social Welcome!

Also just block the trolls, don't spend time quoting and dunking.