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Sub-editor of Lær!, the Norwegian leather industry's most esteemed organ. Immerse your soul in love.

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“Wreck this journal”. How about you “treasure this journal” instead

14.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The 4yo talking to our new dog-shaped draught excluder: “You’ve got a very long back. How much fruit and vegables have you ate?”

14.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

☺️🥰

14.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🔥

14.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

14.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 487    🔁 107    💬 11    📌 11

Nothing more satisfying than putting one of these on a tightly-packed shelf and it sorting itself out

14.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you 🥰

13.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

£15 in TK Maxx 😎 they have many lovely blankets

13.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Call me Daphne, because I am sleeping with cranes

13.10.2025 20:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Me under a lovely blanket with cranes on it

Me under a lovely blanket with cranes on it

Got a new blanket

13.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Crikey

13.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Zooming right in on your crotch to see what phone you had

13.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m prepared to bet you looked way cooler in RED DUNGAREES

13.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bus driver got flashed with the ‘30’ sign while driving through a village. So cool

13.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TEENY TONY

13.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In your slimmed-down-a-bit-now era ❤️❤️❤️

13.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great question

13.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m basically the most working-class person who ever lived

13.10.2025 11:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Post you from a different era

Yes, I worked at McDonald’s, not that you’d know, I never mention it

13.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 3

I mean, they’re not wrong

13.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The way it builds and builds, and you hold your breath, certain this writer knows what’s beyond the veil, is about to precisely describe the unimaginable moment of death to us-

13.10.2025 10:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This reminds me of the end of The Mirror and the Light

13.10.2025 10:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🥰

13.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Actulol

13.10.2025 09:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

this is where you go when you are dying, when your body is telling you this is it, the end, you find yourself on this rocking chicken, with death watching you from one end, and your body, behind you, waving you goodbye

13.10.2025 09:55 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

Aww. Did you ask the friendly voice in your phone. Did it tell you how clever you are

13.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They start ranting about “the Secret Rules”

13.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So easy to wind up pro-AI people, you just say “did chatgpt write this” and they have a meltdown

13.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Today in business news, someone has tried to describe a digital advertising platform as being full of opportunity and landed on ‘opportunistic’

13.10.2025 09:47 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Returns from a chain bookshop have reduced our sales to a minus figure in the most important sales month of the year.

Please support independent bookshops this Christmas.

13.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 231    🔁 105    💬 3    📌 8

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