Helen

‘My sore throats are worse than anyone’s’

Somebody was saying it should be allowed to fade away, but I just want it to keep going. I don’t care about the plots; I just want these guys to keep showing up with random guest stars

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino leading an FBI manhunt in the heart of Mormonland sounds like the setup for a Coen Brothers movie

My granny used to do that. We never caught her but used to make her empty her pockets when she got home

That all looks very cruel. Surely Jane Morris didn’t run up and down those on Victorian skirts?

Hiya

A lot of these first series have three episodes: the Meera Syal one did too. I wonder if it’s something to do with funding?

@ita99.bsky.social Did you see this? I liked it, especially the baby DS

YouTube video by HBO The Righteous Gemstones: Misbehavin' with Jennifer Nettles and Walton Goggins (S1 E5 Clip) | HBO

It’s a southern thing, maybe from Irish immigrants. He did it on Conan once and he does it in The Righteous Gemstones which is about crooked evangelists youtu.be/R-znj7Uf9Oo?...

I’ve seen him clogging before, but not with his mom 🤭

Anxious to find out what these bombshell stories are but could probably just text Hegseth and ask him

Not that there’s anything wrong with Josh D, but . . .

YouTube video by NOW PLAYING Raylan Has a Standoff with Two Idiots | Justified Season 3 Episode 3 | Now Playing

Josh Duhamel. Friend of mine didn’t watch Justified for ages because he thought it was JD who was in it. I sent him a link to a scene in Season 3 and he binged the whole thing. Me and dead owls don’t give a hoot youtu.be/oP7cuGdC8kU?...

Why Did Democrats Let Biden Keep Running in 2024? Chris Whipple offers an insiders’ account of a disastrous political campaign.

My review of Chris Whipple's Uncharted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...

Anyway, here is the mood in France

The Blunt Force Trauma of the Trump Tariffs Elon Musk and DOGE have taken a blowtorch to federal agencies. But the tariffs are a helpful reminder that it's Donald Trump who's fiddling while it all burns.

This is the takeaway of the tariffs announced by Trump: In addition to the penguin-occupied Heard and McDonald Islands, the tariffs target the British Indian Ocean Territory, whose sole occupants live on a joint US-UK military base.

Yes, the US is levying reciprocal tariffs against its own troops.

Big "You let Dougal do a funeral?" energy.

Why isn’t he wearing gloves?

Those guys look really interested 🥱

I haven't been able to follow the classified Signal chat debacle without thinking of Airplane.

I saw ads for that when I was watching Jack Irish, and I wondered. Will give it a go

This morning's eclipse was covered by cloud so I had to seek a consolation moonrise this evening and managed to snare it in the Granton Gasholder

YouTube video by Jerro Chiu Trooping the Colour 2017 - The British Grenadiers (no commentary)

We call that The British Grenadiers 😄 I expect everybody stole everybody else’s tunes in those days 😀 youtu.be/oemeSg3CEV0?...

What is the tune? It sounds like Scotland the Brave at first 🤔

“We wanted to learn the truth about the concerns and the science behind vaccine safety. So we talked to two uneducated, elderly, white, millionaire conspiracy theorists in a Steak & Shake.”

Ever since someone posted that he looks like a racist care bear I can't not think that whenever I see a picture.

Oh well, at least none of your trains was cancelled because of an unexploded WWII bomb on the line 🇫🇷

I’m Indian, English and live in Scotland. Will my son’s identity be as borderless after the referendum? Chitra Ramaswamy: My little boy has inherited a rich and varied heritage, and it is for his future that I am voting. But I wonder what his sense of self will be in that new world

She needs to read Chitra Ramaswamy’s wonderful piece about the paradox of identity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I remember seeing these on a library school trip before the shelves went up in 1980, and I still walk over them 40+ years later!