John Speakman

Also, Thunderbird 2 with a respray

Empty tables at Gabriel’s Wharf, London SE1, on a rainy Monday

Gabriel’s Wharf, London SE1

Also from yesterday: after visiting St. Thomas’s, I took a stroll to Gabriel’s Wharf as I heard it’s going to close within a year. It opened while I was at Tommies. We used to go there for lunch and post work food/drink. A bit sad that it’s closing.

North Wing of St. Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1

Hallway entrance to South Wing of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London SE1

Painting of Dick Whittington, one of many paintings depicting children’s folk tales and nursery rhymes in the corridor of the South Wing of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London SE1

Statue of Queen Victoria in the South Wing of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London SE1

Back to Tommies, this time as a patient for a bit of blood work. 34 years since I last darkened these doors

Rétro cars voiture 🚘 la Rover 3L Mark III, saloon & coupé

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It'd be a lot nicer if all the "RIP" posts following a celebrity just thanked the individual for what they did. Even better, if you love an elderly celebrity's work, write to them or their agent and tell them before it's too late. You'll be surprised at how often they reply.

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Are we saving the daylight *for* something or *from* something?

Rétro cars voitures 🚘 à Berlin est, 1973.

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It is the Trumpton Fire Brigade song. Just leaving that here. You can look it up and tell me I’m wrong.

True but normal is overrated

You get an extra hour’s reading time tomorrow.

Use it wisely

West End looking extremely enigmatic in the London rain

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Never again.

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’”

I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

DEVELOPING: Trio Restaurant Closing for Good Nov. 2nd or Changing Management?!?! - PoPville 1537 17th Street, NW photo by Beau Finley Something is going on here. Yesterday I broke the news that Trio was closing soon in Dupont Circle after 75 years based on announcement from the General Manag...

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Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

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Drifting towards Sarf London Private Eye

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Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one

Damn straight. My daughter loves pigeons. No other animal will do. Also handy because you don’t have to travel.

All beliefs are welcome in London – we cannot allow extremists to divide us | Sadiq Khan Attacks against Jewish and Muslim communities are on the rise, and some politicians are exacerbating tensions by appealing to our worst instincts, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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“Executive time”

Whenever anyone mentions Bari Weiss I can’t help thinking of Barry White. Sorry.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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A long shot of Edinburgh Castle on a rocky hill against a blue sky with a waning gibbous moon. Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, atop Castle Rock. Edinburgh Castle is made of tan stone and has several towers and buildings surrounded by a stone wall. A flagpole with the Union Jack flies on the top of the castle. The sun is low in the sky, casting long shadows on the hill below the castle.

🪬🧿 Edinburgh Castle this morning :)

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Agree. Absolutely not.