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Hardback cover of Knits for you and your dog, with picture showing girl holding dachshund, both in matching jumpers

Book of the Day at the library.

Ok, so it's not just me that has this problem...

Street-level superstar: a year with LAWRENCE by Will Hodgkinson, paperback on orange blanket

Current reading - Street-level superstar: a year with LAWRENCE by Will Hodgkinson.

Walk the streets with the largely penniless bedsit maestro of Felt, Denim (etc) and his cups of milky tea.

Honestly, I'm not sure reading about obsessive, weird pop enigmas is even good for me, but I can't help it.

House! Have just had an Ntlworld email as well, which is surely the full set of classics unless we're counting Rocketmail.

(And no, Yahoo is still too disarmingly common to score a point.)

#OtD 12 Aug 1936 after the French government shut the border with revolutionary Spain, the first international volunteers who were going to join the fight against the fascists began crossing the Pyrenees mountains on foot shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Just passed a six or seven year old girl in the library looking at a book about whales and explaining to her babysitter her proposed policy of basically unlimited jihad against whalers. Incredibly based

TONIGHT WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING A CLOWN-DISCO.

Rimbaud: First Bleu Part Deux - back on his bullshit.

This dude was EXHAUSTING.

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Oh my god

🎵 Raccoon in a hammock / I know, I know / It's seriooouus

Original painting: art, deliberate, soulful

AI 'exploration' of original painting: not art, ghoulish, inhuman, emperor's new clothes

Putting the Doom UI over it: art, intentional, hilarious, human, quietly profound

half of the Polari Prize First Book Longlist has now pulled out in protest at the inclusion of massive TERF (and ofc historically incompetent fucker-upper of hundreds of schoolchildren's understanding of the Holocaust) John Boyne on the main prize list

plus 3 from main list and 2 judges

Yes. Thankfully, none are able to get in through the third-floor window. 😄

Vase of flowers dominated by large pink lillies

Bought some flowers for the girlfriend (yes I know, I'm such a catch), and they are the strongest, most explosively scented bastards I've ever come across. They can trigger my hayfever in just 90 seconds of being near them, and you can smell them from *outside the front door.* Potent.

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Author statement on the Polari Prize longlist We are writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who stand in solidarity with the trans community. We are profoundly disappointed by the Polari Prize’s decision to include John Boyne on the longlis...

Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Cadbury Darkmilk ice cream in dark blue wrapper on blue and white plate

I'm not on commission, lads, but these ice creams are the best thing ever made by anyone. The soft chocolatey centre is like a new science, like kissing the gods.

(Ok I'm overdoing it, but trust me on this anyway)

Rimbaud - the double life of a rebel by Edmund White, plus crisps and drink

Rimbaud and ready salted. Pub garden. Let's go.

The partial dust jacket might have been a mistake. #filmsky #booksky 📽📚

I want to make It absolutely clear that I have not been singing 'Cum Restaurant' to the tune of 'Sweet Caroline'.

Did a new poem at an event tonight. Didn't screw up. Still, provisionally, got it.

news you can use, if you are a cat

I hope other companies are paying attention to the M&S situation. They bring a vexatious complaint with no substance at all, you issue a cowardly apology and completely sell out your employee, they reject your apology and call for a boycott anyway. You can't reason with unreasonable people.

I think nostalgia was better in the old days.

I though that each Sleeping Policeman had an actual dead policeman buried within it. I did not question either the ethics or logistics of this arrangement.

What if Jesus or Judas were interviewed about The New Testament, & they were like, “You know what it doesn’t capture? How much fun we had.”

Ghost/ghostbusters: Demi Moore making pottery with the stay puff marshmallow man

Attack of the 50ft French lieutenant’s woman. Meryl Streep towering over the highway in her windswept black outfit

Allen vs Predator: woody Allen from Sleeper vs the predator from predator

Robocopolis: the metropolis poster but with robocop instead of the freaky woman android c3po was based on

From two years ago: Mash up movies

Have had emails at work from people with AOL and BlueYonder email addresses, offering the sheer Proustian rush of modem squeals, white plastic phone splitter cables, £2.30 pints and a relatively untarnished Labour government.