Both times I waited
Labour is really hard work
Best payday ever ❤️

Also, the way he's folded the stars and stripes hanky in his breast pocket, to give the impression of a medal bar...

Yes, tish happens, but
Two steps forward, one step back
Is still an advance

Or maybe it was always Tunis but briefly Turin because European was thought to be more acceptably exotic. Or perhaps (as in the famous stories of grand pianos being sent to Beirut instead of Bayreuth) the person who took the printing order just misheard/ misinterpreted Tunis. History eh?

That would make so much sense. We always had a Tunis Cake at Christmas and I never could work out what about it was Tunisian in nature. It certainly looks more like an Italian confection.

The Anatomy Lesson, 1632: seven students watch as a man in a black hat dissects a body

The People of Bluesky Crowd Round to Appreciate Andrew O’Hagan Eviscerating Mr Windsor, 2026, Rembrandt van Rijn

A selection of brooches, rings, dress clasps, buttons alongside an antique compact, nail varnish, ribbon and a tupperware box full of beads, with a couple of reels of thread to rethread the beads when I'm in the right frame of mind. Just on the edge of the picture are a bottle of rosé scent and a scented candle on a Rennie Mackintosh tile

Just some dressing table clutter. I really must get round to restringing those beads...

An old monochrome picture postcard showing a large hall with a proscenium arch stage, and chairs arranged in theatre style in front of it

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Senate House, @londonu.bsky.social

Once upon a time, in the last millennium, I trod that stage playing Algernon Moncrieff in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest

If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

This article is eviscerating in its snark, and led me down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia pages of the aristocracy that finished with this section about John Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol.

TLDR: Maybe we shouldn't eat the rich, but only because they've all got CJD.

The grand ex Duke of York
He had 12 million quid
He gave it to someone he'd never met
For something he never did

Wherfor ys the lake that you say was once so large and beautiful now todaye nothinge but a drye and bakinge expanse wyth a fewe small puddles left?

Well, you see, my childe, a lot of people reallye needed their emayles summarized.

Goodnight Hookland, wishing you easeful rest

I expect you were looking at the mud which had been painted green to resemble grass because it was filmed in the winter. That'll be what youthful you was looking at...

Absolutely 😊 From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

I suppose the other option is that the overpaid tw*ts could buy their own pair of posh shoes in the same style

Money does not equal art.

And none of them have the wit to organise a shoe swap?

But are you less than a foot tall?

There were only thirteen days between Bessie Smith's last recording and Billie Holliday's first

Said this before, but Arthur Askey's first TV appearance was on Baird's experimental transmissions and his last was on Channel Four

If you're ever in Edinburgh give me a shout. We can go and look at the tiny coffin dolls in the Museum and I know I won't be scared or put off. Of you. The tiny coffin dolls however, will likely frighten me...

Abortion is a health issue. Access to healthcare is not always straightforward. Sometimes coercive control limits access, sometimes this leads women to seek other options. This shouldn't be criminalised. It should be handled within the health and social care sectors, to stop the problem upstream.

Please take a few seconds to tell the Lords to stop putting road blocks in front of abortion decriminalisation. Nobody should be under threat of life in prison for ending their own pregnancy

Andrew, claysplained.

#EpsteinFiles

I want to do this next door so badly x

Right there...

Talk about police corruption; not one of his colleagues has brought charges with regard to his shoulder pads, clearly stolen from Alexis in Dynasty

Black and white still from Carry on Camping. Barbara Windsor's character stands pressing her bosoms to her chest after her bikini top had flown off whilst she and some other swimwear clad campers took part in outdoor exercises

Is that the follow up to Carry on Camping?

Best served with gooseberry sauce to cut the oiliness, so I'm told. I think that might be something put around by the Honourable Association of Mackerel, to dissuade folk from eating their brethren