John Walton

And if you love a monstrance and are anywhere near New York, the place to see a LOT of them is the Cloisters uptown!

I did not name my north jersey suburban drag king character Taylor Hamm for people to do THIS

Hot damn, I wish I voted in the city and not the suburbs.

Because successive managements have outsourced far too much of their operations and backend structures to third party companies who either don't have the same interest in keeping customer data secure and/or for whom any prospective fines are just part of doing business as cheaply as possible

Instant volunteer.

What an absolutely outrageous statement.

Some airport lounges are genuinely nice places to spend an hour or two.

I've spent the last couple of days trying to read between the lines of Airbus' services forecasting numbers for "modifications & upgrades", which includes cabins.

But it really does seem like Airbus is forecasting a sharp drop in that demand. Does that make sense to you?

le french, he is a beautiful and multilayered language rich in nuance

Aha! Now that I *can* help with.

Sad professional fistbump of aviation journalist battling through Airbus' 20-year prediction numbers and compound versus year-on-year accounting maths…

oh no am i gonna be mEaN aBouT bA aGaiN

Why do those new BA lounges look like someone fed the 2014 Cathay/Ilse Crawford and Etihad/Landor/Facets lounges into an AI slop machine and said "make it a bit Union Jack-y"?

I do love jam! But now I want a @kjcharleswriter.com historical romp through this world, like one foppish English chef and the devilish railroad baron’s son and their small army of pinafored waitresses and possibly some cowboys

Nono, definitely some cowboys

Main's Wikipedia article is a Hollywood Hidden Queer CLASSIC:

• when her husband died it was "like losing a good friend. Like part of the family"

• her "marriage was a nontraditional one", "happy, but not particularly close",

and
oh yeah
also

• "had a long-term relationship with a woman"

A handsome woman with sensibly short hair leaning on a couch and looking slightly away from the camera.

Just after 1m30s you'll hear the speak-singing from the fabulously statuesque* Marjorie Main, best known as Ma Kettle from the films of the same era.

* yes, I do mean "lesbian". Main was in a long-term relationship with fellow MGM player Spring Byington, according to her (Main's) biographer.

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies Judy Garland Sings “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” (Clip) | The Harvey Girls | TCM

I dare you to listen to the 1946 Academy Award-winning On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, the best known song from the movie, and not be earwormed for the entire day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgr...

if you are only now learning about The Harvey Girls, it is a JUDY GARLAND film involving TRAINS that is also a MUSICAL revolving around the PASSENGER EXPERIENCE of catering to travellers on, I say again, TRAINS, and if you're not into at least two of those how on earth are we friends

why YES that IS a 19-year-old Angela Lansbury high-kicking it in her 1946 US début, The Harvey Girls

regrettably, for reasons lost to time that now seem astounding, Lansbury's songs were dubbed by Virginia Rees, absolutely baffling to us all now

New express trains from Narita airport to Tokyo Skytree planned for FY 2028 - The Mainichi TOKYO (Kyodo) -- New express trains linking Narita airport outside Tokyo with the Tokyo Skytree broadcasting tower in just over 30 minutes are slated

Attention Japan travellers, new "don't believe them, Narita is easier for getting into the centre of Tokyo by public transport than Haneda" reason coming soon…

mainichi.jp/english/arti...

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

while shouting « priorité à droite, motherfuckers ! »

genuinely though, I think my driving gives me away as someone who did not learn to drive in france

in this house we

~*~*~ live
laugh ~*~*~
~*~*~ yell LE CLIGNOTANT C'EST PAS DECORATIF, MERDEuuuh out the window regularly at junctions and roundabouts

i am often happy driving my 2017 citroën berlingo frenchly around france in a very french fashion

never am i so happy to be driving my 2017 citroën berlingo frenchly around france in a very french fashion as when i learn something else about driving a tesla

Le perfide Portugal !

a woman is taking a bath in a bathtub with the words `` ar nuar cleor '' written on the bottom . ALT: a woman is taking a bath in a bathtub with the words `` ar nuar cleor '' written on the bottom .

Fraiueouence, for Australians.

France.

Pretty sure that’s more likely to be Brussels than Luxembourg.

those views ain’t gonna enjoy themselves