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j1jem.bsky.social
Essentially just a dishevelled hobbit clutching a cup of tea. "Behind every man trying to work out whether his phone camera is working, stands an exasperated woman."
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Well, if it’s 17 June, it must be the 85th anniversary of Major Alfred Wintle, MC, responding to the defeat of France by starting a one-man campaign to rescue the French Air Force using methods which landed him in the Tower of London

This is FUCKING MINT

My favourite Gorg Michal song

Recent family portrait commission of a young family who often visit South Norwood Lake. Their hobbies include diving, DJing, cooking on an old metal barbecue. To enquire about commissions, please see link in bio. . . #portrait #artcommission #portraitcommission #familyportrait

traffic seems awful in france today

This cracked me up

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.

Well, I'm sure this is going to result in some interesting radio.

This is superb. 5 years old but still bang on the money

Tommy Shelby: You don’t know who you’re dealing with. Make no mistake, I have men in this city who are loyal to me and if I say the word there’s a place we send people like you. Boys, take him to the Hippodrome for two hours of interpretive dance. BY ORDER! OF THE PEAKY BLINDERS!

I told you we’d be back

Farewell Brian Wilson. His music would have made the last episode of 'Picard' perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaXE...

You're a lovely bunch - on the whole - and understand the tedious and un-British need to constantly promote or sink without trace. So if you have friends that are interested in writers, or write themselves, please let them know about the podcast & suggest they subscribe. Please, thank you & sorry 🙏🏼

This is incredible

Making Stewart Lee laugh like this is one of my bigger life achievements. For the full bonus chat, download the audiobook... www.audible.co.uk/pd/Ashes-to-...

OUT NOW for PAID SUBSCRIBERS. Writer Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch (Horrible Histories, Cursed Under London) talks about Howl’s Moving Castle, and how the Studio Ghibli film flips gender roles, while remembering to include sufficient wisecracking fireplaces and hot emo wizards. joelmorris.substack.com

Well, @j1jem.bsky.social is being VERY MODEST HERE as the creator of this PHENOMENAL GAME. Give it a go #gofaster

My capacity for dealing with any level of complication in games is severely limited these days, so I'll stick with @jakeyapp.bsky.social's Spot the Rock: str.whhoo.com

OK. On an art gallery tour in Italy. Tour guide communicated in English. He asked me what I felt about this painting. I instantly said, ‘He won’t feel the benefit’ Upshot is everyone had no idea what I said, embarrassing silence and my other half refuses to go on any other tours with me.

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

Know I’m trying to leave woso behind but, with the Euros on the horizon, if anyone needs a Euro expert, I’m as comfortable talking about Switzerland’s long term struggles for form as Iceland’s disappointing tournament history to Italy’s stability under Soncin, Sweden’s stagnation & Denmark on the up

Got sucked in to listening to the Emulator Album. Self Control as sung by @kattw.bsky.social is one of my favourite things we've done. open.spotify.com/album/65vIZH...

HA!! Brill!! buzzard1337.itch.io/walker

Got my authors comp copies of the Cursed Under London paperback AND Cursed In The Lost City today and did a silly video taking them out of their box like a millennial vm.tiktok.com/ZNdS5GeLP/

“Groimes? Groimes? Hez teken my spice ships! Ahv get nuthin lift!”

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

groimes you haeve to come get me at Geetmo

Incredible to see a tweet where Jeffrey Epstein is only the third worst person involved.