Janet MacKenzie

"Meine Damen und Herren, liebe angolanische Bäcker" ... 😬

The German practice of naming roads after people only once they are dead has its advantages ...

I‘ve never made sourdough, so if I did suddenly decide to make some I definitely would not know this trick - and I‘d be super grateful to you for sharing it 🙏🤗😁

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

😂I had a student holiday job in a delicatessen (the word alone was suspiciously forrin) at 18 and we sold garlic sausage. Garlic! The horror!

Short, sweet and totally correct. Love Anthony!

Not sure we’ll notice any difference. It can hardly get any worse!

It is! The Y-fronts and slippers! 😂

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Lovely! I love that some old French churches have a recording of organ music playing quietly in the background - but of course live is even better😁

Definitely the best way of looking at it!
I wonder if young people - the ones you see whirring their thumbs over the keys in a positive blur 😮 - have the same problem as us older people? Probably not.

You couldn’t have chosen two better photos! 😁

Bring back The Now Show. With Mitch Benn.

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Could we not just fast-forward to the bit where Richard Murphy is Chancellor, please?🙏😁

😁😁😁 How nice to hear that!

“Dead duck” . Don’t get my hopes up, Rich 😁

😂 Typos have cost me more Duolingo points than you can shake a stick at!

I‘m looking forward to Trump giving Mamdani his full financial support.
[hollow laugh]

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Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

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I might try buying new pans too. Sounds like an excellen plan for longevity🤗!

Followed you, Pru - you sound right up my street! I’m an optimist too, but at 76 sadly not convinced I’ll outlive all the autocratic villains 😡😰😡. Very miffed at this.

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This clearly calls for solid photographic evidence! 😉