Tim Dixon

Abandon shipment: how an Amazon van got marooned on the UK’s ‘most dangerous path’ Driver reportedly checked with base and was told to continue when GPS directed van on to Essex mudflats

Abandon shipment: how an Amazon van got marooned on the UK’s ‘most dangerous path’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Well done Essex

If we are going to stave off the scourges of authoritarianism globally, our politics need to center the working class.

We moved.
We have now been in our new house 3 weeks and the chaos is calming down.
Therefore tonight I will be in my candle lit office, drinking fine wines and playing great records from the 1970s.
If I were younger I would live stream the vibe.
#Contentment

“If you’ve lived in Greater Manchester all your life like I have, or you came here yesterday — if you’re part of our community and you’re mucking in, you’re one of us.”

Our candidate for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, rejects the demonisation of immigrants and calls for politics that unite.

But Sky News couldn't work that out for themselves.
Be journalists Sky News.

This bloke is a numbskull. Sky, dont be pathetic. Be journalists.

Pen and watercolour illustrations of waders/shorebirds from the Hartlepool/Teesmouth area of northeast England

A not-completely-exhaustive illustration of our winter shorebirds, but these are the species that you’re most likely to see during winter around Teesmouth (northeast England).
🐡🪶
#birdingNortheast

My type, regrettably

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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Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Jason Roth @LucidJay Replying to @Hipstercrite Once Andre 3000 was on my ferry ride to Alcatraz and I said hi. My 6 y.o. autistic son came over and started talking his ear off about German Shepherds, his obsession at the time. Andre talked to him about dogs for like 20 mins. We exchanged numbers. 4 years later I got this text iMessage Aug 30, 2017, 9:38 PM Hi Jason. I was searching for a name and yours popped up. I remember our cool encounter on the boat. Ha . How's the kid ? I'm living in nyc now . So if you're ever here please reach out.

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.

This isn’t a new video, but it is, I think, a timeless one.

Turner v Constable exhibition at Tate Britain. Sensational exhibition. Turner wins hands down, of course.

2 bird similes in Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
1..wandering about the dark valleys with the stray bullets flying high overhead like redshanks whistling.
2 The position was perched on razor-back of limestone with dug-outs driven horizontally into the cliff like sand-martins' nests

From VAR to generative AI, modern life is making me think more and more the luddites were right. Smash the machines. This is technology failing to make things better.

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

Good writing here

Rejoice

The Reform mob. They'll end up in an internment camp on the Isle of Man for the duration of the war.

Richard Blair at La Granja, cook-house and store for the POUM during the siege of Huesca as his father described in Homage to Catalonia. With the Orwell Society.

I'll get my espadrilles on

Orient v Cardiff

Well that was just the sort of thoroughly good game we all needed #lofc

I was given it for Christmas - a marvellous book.

A spotted wading bird with its reflection in water (coloured by vegetation) which is out of view

Spotted sandpiper
#birdoftheday
#reflections

For the past few years each January I’ve chosen a new spot in Epping Forest to take a regular photo to mark time. Here’s 2025, an odd year of personal stasis, and distress at the state of the UK and world, with a sense of looming doom. Oh well! There is always love & hope’s thin gruel. Chin chin!

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

What a day at the Orient.
'Delight in E10'

We improved greatly after Omar came on. God moves in mysterious ways. Merry Christmas #LOFC