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Editor, singer, reader, filmgoer, opera lover, cat servant... Mostly retweets from a longtime American immigrant in Paris, now largely retired. Enby, she/they. ** Men w/ few or 0 posts, no substantive bio & following mostly women will likely be blocked
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My 75 year old mother spent last night looking up wheel chair hire companies so we can go to London to protest Trump’s state visit. In case anyone was wondering how other countries were feeling about current political events in the US.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Blue hour in Bordeaux. Left London yesterday on the 09:31 eurostar, changed in Paris, and arrived at 17:15. #TrainsNotPlanes #highspeedrail

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

i hope the people running @wikipedia.org know that if they implement any kind of generative AI, many of us will never donate ever again

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Nothing says “secure masculinity” like changing the name of a boat because it’s named after a gay man.

submitted 14 days ago • 31 comments

Why I wear a rainbow watch band. Kindness is easy. Happy pride month people.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Same

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Moving house after 20 years is quite the experience. It's astonishing how much crap you accumulate over time. My new project is going to be expunging my mind of the phrase, "This could be useful some day."

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Nationalize the water companies. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I’m going to mute this almost instantly but I’m seeing conspiracies fly about this Biden cancer news. If you’ve ever been around an elderly man with metastatic prostate cancer, then you might know it happens all at once. My 77 year old grandfather was working a 5 acre garden in June. Dead in July.

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

Everything should be closed on Monday, this is a fantastic idea.

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

You guys it's simple, we all just need to pool our resources together, and purchase an even MORE expensive private jet to bribe the President of the United States to do socialism.

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

It’s not an island of strangers. It’s an island estranged from its politicians. Inevitably, because the contempt in which they hold their own supporters is breathtaking.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

He also gave us televised snooker but once again people sadly just focus on a single small part of his career.

submitted 41 days ago • 14 comments

Thomas Guy was the son of a Thames lighterman who became a bookseller and printer of Bibles in the 17thC. He made his fortune trading in South Sea Company shares. Prior to his death in 1724 he founded Guy's Hospital at Southwark. His statue stands in the hospital's courtyard.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Did you know there are still around 1,300 working gas lamps in London? An increasing number are historically-listed structures, with some lamp-posts now 200 years old. Discover the history of London’s gas lamps and where you can find them in my new video youtu.be/rq5VWPT0GF8

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw someone saying they are not in the business of shaming people for their politicial choices these days. If you aren't in that business, you are part of the problem. More people need to feel the shame of what they are doing.

submitted 47 days ago • 26 comments

Just back from seeing Sinners. Mind. Completely. Blown. 💥💥💥

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with bringing the water industry back into social ownership is that then it could invest the surplus it makes in rebuilding Victorian infrastructure, instead of handing tens of billions of pounds to shareholders

submitted 58 days ago • 13 comments

I don't know if JD Vance killed the Pope, but I think we should deport him to El Salvador just in case.

submitted 58 days ago • 19 comments

Honestly, me too.

submitted 59 days ago • 257 comments

😲😢

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Please don't ever give up on your dream that, one day, you will pull a book from a bookshelf and that secret door will finally open for you.

submitted 81 days ago • 8 comments

How capitalism actually works: American product: $10 Chinese knockoff: $9 <Trump tariffs> Chinese knockoff now: $15 American product now also $15 for some reason.

submitted 74 days ago • 29 comments

My wife just called Star Trek’s Mirror Universe “the Goatee Galaxy” cause she couldn’t remember the name

submitted 76 days ago • 10 comments

At the Barbican to see Chekhov’s Seagull, which if I remember correctly is the concept that if a saline water bird is introduced on to the stage, eventually someone’s chips are getting stolen.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment