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I haven’t been infected by any to date but will keep on eye on this. Can’t believe this is happening before I’ve even felt warmth this year

Hope the people I follow on Strava don’t have their bosses on there. More days off than Father Christmas.

First tick bite of the season 👍

It really is class that this is happening to them over Peter Mandelson. A career danger who has blackened the Labour party’s name my entire life. Pure 8 Ace storyboard

Former Tory MP from here spotted waddling outside B&Q. Small mercies that this is all he is now. Fucker.

Listened to Hugo “Riffers” Rifkind et al’s How to Win an Election podcast. It went “prove yourself to be a safe keeper of the current alignment of international capital’s interests in the UK” then went to dead air for 59 mins 52 secs!

[sat cross legged at someone or other’s digs, fumbling through a half-improvised chord progression] Oh Amber Butchart, do you like… hobbits

Sometimes you hear about a traditional animal product that’s so grim you have to laugh. I may have tofu-induced tits but you’re not going to make me repair an antique frame using “rabbit skin glue”

Stephanie Burt | Twee as Fuck The music that showed me who I wanted to be, what I wanted from life, was the music that came out on Sarah Records. The...

‘We can make space, these songs say, for the sadness that seeps into any well-lived life. Any good indiepop song rests on its hooks, but most bands stop at one per song. Heavenly load every riff with ore.’

Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) on the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

They chose to fight for the worst country on earth. They struck Iranians for merely existing.

Halifax bus station ca. 2004 ass pull quote

Read this when you’re able.

Watching Kai Madgwick singlehandedly obliterate an Imperial team

OK I’ll bite… what do I need to know about Helen Dewitt?

Went down to floorboards here for a while and you can’t do it in Cumbria. Looks and feels gash. I’m far too into cleanliness but stop here

Me and who

Where are the other three now? Those wide-eyed youngins would be at home among the volume of online, right wing Gen Z chuds

Mihály Vig - Halics / Galicia YouTube video by ilpianetanelbuio

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For the intended effect this needs to happen at 11pm when your vacuum cleaner plug needs replacing. Accept no substitutes.

My favourite bags of cornflour are the ones that aren’t sealed when I open the cardboard.

Seven readings of Green Eggs & Ham today… you can’t argue with the classics

Left a piece of Cumbria with Pasolini today. “You can hear the bones humming.”

What a thing it is, not only for this to exist, but to now have it in my hands

It’s such dreck. I was at the conference, was engaged and organised and found it an empty experience. CEC elections seemed to revolve around half-arsed online beef. I was even approached to apply for them on a slate’s backing! But I mostly cba to even engage with our local independent branch.

Actually it's just not for kids. And it has darker undertones and themes

God I saw several of these on the way down to the cricket club the other weekend! What you missed is that on most of them they couldn’t even fit CYCLING on the signs due to their appalling brushstroke game

Is this place new?

Welcome