Excited to be sharing my first Substack article. It’s taken me a while to find the right words as it’s a subject close to my heart: autism & late diagnosis. I hope it resonates with others who’ve had similar journeys!
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#FallFriday Brix and Mark as Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson in the NME, December 1987. Photo by Derek Ridgers
Gwern y Cleppa! We must meet up soon, I want to hear all about it my dearest Fi ❤️ Xx
This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple.
They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.
I was hopeful about Bluesky, but the Syrian Revolution & Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine have changed my mind. Despite Elon’s depravity, Twitter is where the urgent stuff is happening. While here people silo themselves with blocklists like twee survivalists. It’s grim & depressing.
Just last week someone told me Trump would never shut down USAID because it buys so much US grain and I said, "I wonder if he knows that"
Screenshot of the London tube map showing the various stations of Acton
EVERYONE, ACTON STATIONS!
This is a fascinating turn of events
A large Sainsbury’s Store Front with the signs for the other shops laid out underneath. They are Argos Habitat Tu. sounds a bit Latin dunnit. lol eh The fact they left out Specsavers leads me to think they knew what they were doing, and I’m probably just explaining their own joke to them
Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts
Grow up
Soundtrack for Sunday’s chores…wallowing in 80s pop memories ☺️
It's very funny that Musk has apparently been working with Cummings. Makes perfect sense.
Canadians helping fight the LA wildfires despite Donald Trump threatening to annexe Canada is somehow extremely Canadian and I love it www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7426060
The US won’t invade Greenland.
But Trump may inspire Putin to have a little fun in Estonia while we are all too busy to get our act together, glued to our phones, waiting what kind of crazy thing the US President may say next.
Interesting. Macron is heading to London tomorrow evening for a working dinner with Starmer, focused on joint support for 🇺🇦 (as well as bilateral and 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 issues). This fits a consistent pattern of trying to bind the 🇬🇧 into European security efforts
Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...
"When America sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. And some, I assume, are good people."
--Greenland
Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Jess Phillips. Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’ - exc from @ecourea.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We stand by Jess’: Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I’m liking Tortoise more & more and this is one of the best takes on Musk’s obsession with UK politics podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Musk misinformation/disinformation just went into overdrive
“But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover u phis suspicions from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing, and tried to think nothing.”
— Ishmael, in Moby Dick, on setting sail with Ahab
“The feeling of being Welsh (as opposed to British) is rapidly increasing. Wales is, slowly but surely, asserting itself.”
An erudite assessment by everyone’s favourite adopted Cymro, @willhaycardiff.bsky.social
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Wine, women, oysters, & tobacco. Good times at the brothel complements of Jan van Bijlert.
I love London so much in that briefest of lulls between the twin madnesses of Christmas & the sales
I wrote a piece for @theguardian.com about what Gavin & Stacey has done for Barry, and that weird feeling when nobody's heard of your home town then suddenly EVERYBODY'S heard of your home town. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lots of equivocation about killing journalists here on Bluesky:
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
18/20
Good solstice morning - I hope you slept like pork-stuffed Neolithic party-goers - I'm starting with 'Stonehenge - A Showery Day', William Turner, watercolour on paper, 1840s.
#Solstice
