Early stroll. Horizon like a one-bar electric fire. A curling wave of orange peel. That snail’s long journey. A blackbird’s sculpted song. A dropped piece of string as long as a piece of string.
I checked this too.
*20 seconds* of Reform logo display.
*No other* party logo displayed.
In local election purdah.
This is not normal. At all.
Sobering to think that if the current anti-protest legislation had been in place back then the peace camp would have been broken up swiftly and all of the Greenham women would have been sent to prison for years. And Labour is planning to make matters worse with its new laws on protest.
Cartoon. Two men shaking hands, one is saying to the other “Ah, Mr Featherstonehaugh! I'm so glad this is written as I have no idea how to pronounce your name.”
Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?
Packets of all four flavours of Nik Naks, together in a shop
This might not translate globally, but for UK people, this is like seeing the Beatles reform
I'm a bit behind with the episodes, but this is fabulous.
youtu.be/WdrMzx5qnHE?...
Manchester, 1976, photo by John Bulmer. The shoes!
Remembering Pete Shelley on his birthday. Here are Buzzcocks performing Love You More at Manchester's Free Trade Hall in 1978
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
Don't worry, I know a guy. He's your soulmate.
#webcomics #comicsky
Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 104 is OUT NOW… your essential guide to this week’s best DIY electronic music releases
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-104-...
Well this is a fantastic line up!
I’m walking downstairs;
Staircase as creaking keyboard
Playing morning’s song
These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...
Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?
“Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history.
A recent analysis conducted at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91% of the time.”
there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union:
"I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."
Would be nice if we could go one day without thinking about Trump.
But that's what he thrives on, I suppose.
Technical drawing of some sort of motor with a numbered key. The key says: 1 erm.. 2 no, no idea 3 the spindle? 4 a nut 5 a sort of screw 6 don't know 7 you got me 8 same as 7 9 ditto 10 the end bit 11 bobby davro 12 spindle again? 13 propellor! 14 curvy triangle 15 round bit 16 big round bit 17 see above 18 the sheath 19 another nut 20 a bolt 21 a gasket 22 too small to see 23 the helment 24 lost that bit That's the lot.
Technical drawing
This is a great thread ...
There’s a point where the “they’re inevitable” narrative just… cracks.
Orban lost - properly lost.
And suddenly a lot of other “untouchable” of the hard-right figures are looking a bit less untouchable.
A man wearing a white shirt and tie rides a bicycle that's pulling a trailer on a street. Liquid is shooting up from the trailer.
TV presenter/comedian David Letterman pilots a bike powered by mixing 648 Mentos candies into 108 two-liter Coke Zero bottles down a Manhattan street.
#BicycleBirthday David Letterman
Born April 12, 1947
Beaker of The Muppets (who would, frankly, be a better negotiator than J.D. Vance).
US Chief Negotiator hanging tough over Iran.
Not quite as exciting as the Artemis II mission, but you might enjoy this somewhat ambient track I did back in 2008, called "Living on the moon" from an album about all things spacey.
alphaseven.bandcamp.com/track/living-on-the-moon
This catalogue page features a selection of different Cameras, Flashguns and Cubes. There is both Camera equipment, and gear for cleaning and maintaining these. There are cameras from Canon, Ricoh, Cosina, Halina, Olympus, Hanimex, Kodak, and Polaroid. (+Atlas Type X Magicubes Canon 318 M Super 8 Cine Camera Cosina 35 S Compact 35 Mm Camera Halina 3000 35 Mm Camera Halina Autoflash 35 35 Mm Camera Halina Automatic Super 8 Cine Camera Hanimex Sp 35 35 Mm Camera Kodak Ek100 Instant Picture Camera Kodak Ek2 Instant Picture Camera Kodak Ek200 Instant Picture Camera Kodak Ek300 Instant Picture Camera National Pe 145 Electronic Flashgun Olympus Trip 35 Compact 35 Mm Camera Polaroid Model 10 Instant Picture Camera Polaroid Model 1000 Instant Picture Camera Revue Ex3 Camera Tripod Ricoh 500 G 35 Mm Camera and Sunpak Auto 14 Computerised Electronic Flashgun)
1979: Cameras and Camera Accessories from Argos
(+Canon 318 M Super 8 Cine Camera; Ricoh 500 G 35 Mm Camera; Cosina 35 S Compact 35 Mm Camera; Halina Autoflash 35 35 Mm Camera; Olympus Trip 35 Compact 35 Mm Camera; Hanimex Sp 35 35 Mm Camera; Kodak Ek300 Instant Picture Camera, and more)
There’s a point where even the most committed politics nerd looks at the news, sees “wipe out a civilisation,” and just… logs off.
This week, when Trump threatened to wipe out a civilisation, I found mine.
Tweet of a picture of a park run start and finish sign right next to each other. This is because it is along the seafront and goes full circle but it looks like the race is one footsteo long. Caption is, reckon I could run that easily.
Selfie with the signs.
I may have deleted twitter but I can still visit one of my most popular tweets.
