Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳

Reminds me of a lengthy (and unresolved) discussion about what the distinction between'fear factor' and 'horror rating' was. What was actually being measured?

As long as it's not the bizarre incarnation of Merlyn gibbering away about the beauty of capitalism who shows up in the final book of The Once and Future King.

Oh yes, the National Museum of Scotland had 'Government Property' toilet paper until around 1984 IIRC. It was the user-unfriendly shiny white interleaved Rizla type.

Yes, this was never explicitly stated but it fits my understanding of this use of floor being class-coded.

I saw Robert Jenrick in the woodshed.

I can't help seeing the guardsman silhouette on the roof here as being on a pogo stick.

I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.

Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

A group of revolting little pink humanoids like evil jelly babies carrying a sack on the shoulders in the Twilight this is an illustration from a children's picture book

Hobyahs and dismembered dogs are the true the stuff of nightmares. Even now I feel somewhat unsettled thinking about them.

Yes, these connections aren't always obvious, particularly if there's a more common modern equivalent like the way wrought has been superseded by worked, these obsolescent words get stranded in particular expressions 'hale and hearty', 'wrought iron', commonweal' etc.

There's loads of these. Weal and wealth is another where one of the two is obsolescent.

However upmarket the Orient Express is, it's, nevertheless, still *a train* so it certainly wouldn't be my first choice if I was coming up with a theme for a toilet.

"It's a crime feeding a dog human biscuits!"

I'm middle-aged and never really understood the point of Filofaxes to be honest.

You've got the gist of it, yes.

I could have sworn that this Jesus Christ Superstar rhyme was mentioned in Iona Opie's 'The People in the Playground' but I can't find any mention of it. Even the indexes of the Opie's books are an absolute joy: 'Camel, man has sex with [story]' etc.

Jesus Christ Superstar
Barry Sheen on a Yamaha
Does a skid
Kills a kid
Rattles his balls on a dustbin lid

That giraffe's head looks very grubby. Where has it been?

Justified and Ancient

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?

It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.

Something very dangerous is building here.

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

This spider almost seems like a puppeteer operating its shadow, I respect it.

I will readily admit to smiling along with this Cole cartoon from Oct 3rd’s Private Eye. It’s a Batman I can relate to.

100 years ago today Howard Carter opened Tutankamoun’s inner most coffin and saw the pharaoh’s mask for the first time. Here’s the photo taken that day.

It’s in with all the astonishing excavation papers and photos at the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social

you were were-warned #halloween

i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good

O Death, where is thy string?

I love this, now wondering when the first joke shop opened.

Where they send people to wean them off cockfighting.

The picture on the left gives us a rare view of a dog without its trousers on.