Lois

so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee

Europe still defaulting to supporting America after the Greenland tensions is embarrassing. Just futile clinging to the old order

Her face is terrifying

When some is St Sara Lee 😗

China Daily editorial told the US that if they let Israel manipulate them into more of this they'll get burnt. Pity the UK can't or won't

a horse, tire track, oil wells on fire, a hellscape.

From Steve McCurry’s series War, Kuwait, 1991.

www.stevemccurry.com

Every post from everywhere else in the world has to add 'but not the US' if it's not about the US?

Ads for 'A Woman of Substance' looking like a woman of shonky AI

I am heartbroken to share the devastating news of the death of my dear friend, Paul Conroy.

Paul died of a heart attack. He did not hesitate. He faced his final moments with courage and dignity.

Enjoying Seicho Matsumoto's Suspicion but the translation is a bit flat - cliches such as 'putty in her hands' or clunky 'Semkintan, a household remedy that was known throughout the country'. Polly Barton would have done a better job - her Butter was much smoother

everything from the fit of the jacket to that head tilt as he says it is so completely Brass Eye i actually cannot cope

Once tried this for cystitis treatment in Hong Kong with a Chinese pharmacist. Didn't work

Amazingly having switched over briefly, the GB News coverage this morning is actually emphasising the significance of the Green win, and the shortfall of Reform, far more than the BBC

Well, the plumber fixed the drip

Not like the delightful Guardian canteen where I was once screamed at for having an 'extra' potato

Meanwhile whoever edited that crap probably had dinner working at their desk because newspapers don't give us breaks now

Maybe he thought it was an olde timey insult - you bloody ishmael, what did you do that for? etc.

Was moaned at today for cycling on the road AND for cycling on a path. Double points

Sounds great - although the freight trains run past platform 8, which is narrow and often very busy with passengers for the Overground and C2C. Maybe they will reroute them - just now most of them are at night but this sounds like a massive expansion

Or over the dentist's face so she can't find the drill. Next time

Panic knitting in the dentists' waiting room. Now one of my Kermit socks is too long in the foot

In writing, what is important is not individual expression, but the maintenance of common language as a vital force, fortifying it against the aggregating tendencies of the cultural production that flows in and out of it, and that Gen-AI accelerates. Your 'voice' is a microbe in the gut of language.

German tourists trying to create floating sauna rescued from Swedish ice floe Authorities mounted rescue operation after group of five lost control of ice sheet in Stockholm archipelago

5 German tourists have been rescued from “an ice floe carrying a sauna tent, a motorised saw and an onboard motor after they lost control of their DIY vessel in the Stockholm archipelago.”

They attempted to “create their motor-powered floating sauna when the swell from a ferry broke the ice.”

🤪🥂

Papaya. Tasteless slimy pap, horrid dead orange colour

Sorry to hear this - we lost our old lady cat a couple of weeks ago, still haunted by her gentle presence

Tempted to buy a book titled When the Crones Fly South but no they're Cranes ho hum

Voyage of the Fucking Beagle
Amahl and the Night Visitors every Xmas (soundtrack only)
Polanski's Macbeth (oops)

Article from TBS News Dig. JP headline: 裸祭り「西大寺会陽」の宝木争奪で男性6人搬送 うち3人が意識不明の重体　500年以上続く奇祭・国の重要無形民俗文化財　岡山

Three men were knocked unconscious & at the famous Naked Festival in Okayama Prefecture yesterday as they attempted to compete with the crowd of their nude fellows for the two lucky sticks that Shinto priests throw into the crowd. Six people in total were taken to the hospital.