When will I just know everything?

The public history information board showing some facts about the Roman military and a large digital rendering of three naked Roman men

A close up of the digital rendering of the three naked Roman men hanging out in a bathhouse

A close up of two of the naked Roman men both have had a great deal of detail invested in their buttocks.

I went to visit the Roman Baths near Muncaster today and was impressed by how much effort had gone into rendering the naked Romans on the information board.

9x12 mixed media on canvas

Drinking this No More Tears shampoo is just making me sadder.

I wrote something today intended for the substack but now I feel it’s deserves more of a life than being blog posts.

Does anyone else get this?

Magyar on Ukraine:

"We cannot tell any country to give up territory. If they do, they are a traitor... What would you do if Russia attacked Hungary? Which counties would you be willing to give up? ...They [international community] should give security guarantees."

Big rhetoric change from Orbán.

Hey, I realize you're all busy with other stuff right now but I wanted to just take a minute to make it very clear that I am not and have never been close friends with the Boston Strangler

I am old enough to remember Bill Clinton playing saxophone on Arsenio Hall and the right wing press losing their mind that it was unpresidential.

We can’t unring the bell of an American president threatening to do genocide

I am old enough to remember Bill Clinton playing saxophone on Arsenio Hall and the right wing press losing their mind that it was unpresidential.

mastodon feels like what would happen if an HOA was also a microblogging website

Ed Miliband to give green light to first major North Sea gasfield project in decade | LBC The energy secretary is expected to approve Jackdaw drilling as the Iran war puts pressure on the government over energy security fears

A huge betrayal.

Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks.

And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

An incredibly young lamb alone in a field, nestled amongst long grass

Had to avoid this little fellow

A photo showing a series of fences with a sign on them saying “MOD Firing Range, KEEP OUT”

Life is complicated

Sir Keir Makes a Difficult Phone Call
#SNLUK

My partner just opened up their ancient Neopets account. The website is almost unusable thanks to pop up adverts and banners. Is nothing sacred?

The frogs are getting very amorous right now.

A screen shot is of the screen time app on an iPhone showing 8 hours and 3 minutes logged on Apple’s word processor “Pages”

Oh No

everyone gets to make mistakes and make amends and be forgiven but not everyone gets to then be in positions of leadership and people who genuinely have repented after significant wrongdoing understand why they should be excluded from power

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago?

interviewer: this is really interesting

I know for one I would not like a measurable traceable percentage of people who didn’t finish what I wrote.

Zero Knowledge of history, zero knowledge of philosophy, zero knowledge of literature, art, music…

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devices

All hail the Norwegian Consumer Council!

#enshittification #Forbrukerrådet

I posted again on Substack talking about Pronouncing words, the Paris review podcast, being in the middle of the countryside, and a short story.

I would love to reach more people to speak to, and follow other substacks by writers.

Share if you can.

baxterlovesyou.substack.com/p/the-labour...

Hey, mine too.

@alanbaxter.bsky.social cool surname

I think about this a lot.

Devastating report into trans lives shows we are ‘stronger together’, says Green leader Zack Polanski Green party leader speaks out as devastating report makes clear why many Trans+ people might be feeling powerless right now

“Together, we are so much stronger, and we are so much more powerful than sometimes we can feel.”

The words of Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social at the launch of a landmark report from @transactualuk.bsky.social 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/devastating-...