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Interests are photography, chess, reading, history. Intolerant to bigotry, racism & other idiocy. Dabbles in selling nice old things. Clinomaniac.
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wildflower dancing in the headlights of a truck

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

I revered Duncan Campbell as a journalist and he was impossibly glamorous, but he was also great company, with endless fantastic stories about his adventures reporting on many of the great stories of the era. He was everything you'd want a crime reporter to be. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Arabic idiom of the day: لا ناقتي في هذا ولا جملي "I have neither she-camel nor he-camel in this" = I have nothing to do with this

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

How nice is this hand carved dragon? 🐉 Crow for scale.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 18 hours ago • 70 comments

Tokyo Ironmonger - 2018 #photography #portrait

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

See, it's not all bad news.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Fun in the sun with Harry

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Never mind immigration, Kier - WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THIS?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

A guerrilla artist in Tasmania transformed part of an underpass in a Dalek.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Got serious brownie points with these fellas ♥️

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Instagram gambling dudes are scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one.

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Ernst Haas. Paris, France, 1954

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Some modelling genius made this diorama copying the cover of a Warlord Summer Special 😍

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The indestructible Adrien Carton de Wiart VC painted by William Orpen in 1919, seen today at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He threw his glass eye out of a taxi window after he was obliged to wear one for a War Office interview.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Was joined this evening by a new pal. Must bring some seeds next time.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

What we really need is one of these to make sure she doesn’t come back. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There's so much bad news in the world. So, here's some wrapping paper designed by Japanese artist Ippei Tsujio that turns everything into bread. A delightful (delicious?) distraction. More info: spoon-tamago.com/bread-wrappi...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Idea: riot re-enactments www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Post a beach pic - Greystones, Co Wicklow

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

So terrible to live in a multicultural society, eating amazing food at unbelievably reasonable prices, having an Ethiopian 🇪🇹 coffee ceremony and making friends with neighbours young and old who were strangers to begin with. #refuteracistrhetoric #strongertogether #leftnotlabour #gogreen

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Come on, don't be shy. There must be SOME people on here who are too busy scrolling to read books any more?? Tell me more, please. DMs are encouraged. Or tell me about your non-book reading friends. And take pity me on me: T*****r used to be useful for these sorts of things.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Look at this seal chasing small fish under the Lion’s Gate Bridge and having fun with it. From yesterday 🦭

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Mrs P, on honeymoon in Nerja with her 20 B&H, November 1986.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Weird German bronze hornet ashtray and match-striker.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

you know so many stupid fish are trying to nibble on an F-18 right now and getting absolutely bupkis out of it. but if just one of them figures out how to fly that thing we're fucked

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

Dad, 86 in July, in his element, holding India, one of his six great-grandkids.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t think “humanitarian situation” is an acceptable euphemism for deliberate mass starvation

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Nap time.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Footwear worn by ten groups…   10. Bakers = loafers 9. Cat burglars = sneakers 8. Politicians = flip-flops 7. Plumbers = clogs (or tap shoes) 6. Doctors = heels 5. Trappers = barefoot 4. Artists = Skechers 3. Train drivers = Jimmy Choos 2. Dog librarians = Hush Puppies 1. Chickens = Reebok-bok-bok

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments