Helen Macdonald

"I'm 40 years old; I can't be dealing with this" is such a mood

YouTube video by Modo de Usar Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"

The best

#ValentinesDay

In a crowded field, spraying forever chemicals linked to cancer, liver, kidney & thyroid disorders directly on to food crops has to be one of humanity's worst thought out moves ever.

"includes 32 parts"

Model kits can be hauntology.

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Home Office @ukhomeoffice Follow Illegal migrants living in hotels have been banned from using taxpayer-funded taxis for medical appointments. Under new rules, taxi use for medical journeys will be restricted to individuals with physical disabilities and serious or chronic illnesses. ... TP + ILLEGAL MIGRANTS BANNED FROM USING TAXIS FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS

Home Offi... @ukhomeoffi... • Feb 6 The largest number of illegal migrants and foreign criminals have been removed or deported off British soil in a decade. - NEARLY - 60000 ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CRIMINALS REMOVED OR DEPORTED

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

This is amazing but missing alt text, so I'll do a thread with detailed alt text for each of the three pictures.

Back from driving across the country in all the rain and rain and rain am now curled up on a sofa in my pyjamas watching Hudson Hawk

Given the WaPo disaster, I’m re-posting my starter pack of indie journalists—it probably needs an update so give me a shout to add folks.
#wapo #journalism
go.bsky.app/A2UpMn5

I just saw a tagline for 'H is for Hawk' that simply says "time doesn't heal, it re-arranges", and I don't remember the last time, if it's ever happened before, that a tagline for a film had such impact

Screenshot of a CIA page that says, "Spotlighting the World Factbook as we bid a fond farewell," dated Feb. 4, 2026.

Add the CIA World Factbook to the long and growing list of disappearing government datasets: www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

I wore some of Gordon Brown's cufflinks to The Avengers premiere

"wait now you want to get rid of ALL the abusive & monstrous people???" Yes. Yes we do. There are more good people than bad in every industry, whole scads of people who'd never in their wildest dreams think of being systematically horrible & ask to be rewarded for it. Wild but true!

A yellow sign with "MAGIC HOOTON AN UP AND COMING MAGICIAN FOR HIRE CALL MAGIC HOOTON" written on it in black marker pen.

MAGIC HOOTON

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

And yeah, the sexual exploitation of children and trans folks is white supremacy down to its bones. Every inch of this is because of the system they and their ancestors built to crush the world and get other people to vilify the targets of their sexual exploitation.

Like, I was 100% right.

Fuck.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

YouTube video by Bob Vanderburgh Fargo - "...And it's a beautiful day"

I think of this scene all the time these days

It was a perfect afternoon <3

Two people, and a red-naped shaheen falcon held close to the camera, in a winter oilseed rape field, soft grey and blue stratocumulus, everyone including the falcon looking v happy. Second person is me.

Hooded gyr x peregrine on a glove with grass, winter wheat, and a beautifully soft grey/orange evening sky behind him

Male gyr x peregrine eating dinner on a gloved hand, winter trees, wet tarmac of a country lane, winter wheat behind him. His wings are dropped and a little open to protect his dinner.

Falconers' treats: a huge bag of Cadbury's Mis-shapes on my knees leaning against the dashboard of a landrover discovery

Went out hawking yesterday with dear old friends for the first time in years. Healed wounds in my soul I didn't even know I possessed.

YouTube video by Joseph Mellors MOIRA ROSE SAYING BÉBÉ FOR 60 SECONDS

youtu.be/w9Uw4tCRq7k?...

a post of a massively overgrown narrow straight garden with a tree, entire ground is all weeds like nettles and a chaotic bush situation at the far end. the caption says "Another job done (tickbox emoji). forgot to get the picture when finished, sorry"

another banger from nextdoor. i genuinely love this one it's pure

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

Yay! Hope you like, if you get to see it

Catherine O’Hara was beautiful. She was loud, she was assertive, she took up her space and demanded some of everyone else’s too. She will be so missed.

It’s GORGEOUS

This is objectively terrible (in Leicester) but the thread is very very funny

Ok so it’s clearly an EPGO (you need to have read Prophet to know what that is) but anyway look at this nostalgic BEAUTY from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social