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We’re just innocent men

Just went to pay a fine for a Parking Ticket I got in Stroud last week (unfairly given imho) and it turns out the warden got my registration wrong - result!

I do enjoy the opportunities for "nosing around" that my job gives me. From the top of Worcester Cathedral to Avebury Stone Circle in a week!

Pools of light. on the mist below. Taken on Glastonbury Tor this morning.

Order cam through nice and quick and at a great price from @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - would recommend over amazon every time. Now I just need to fit in more reading time!

They’re suggesting trans men don’t use women’s OR men’s toilets though. And also this is what happens when you’re surrounded by fucking terfs (including in the media) and have totally swallowed the propaganda

A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpiece www.openculture.com/2025/04/a-me...

Discrimination, harassment and violence will increase if trans people lose access to toilets and other spaces. Many will feel driven from public life. That's what's at stake here. There's no benefit to women. Just harm to trans people and anyone who doesn’t fit gendered stereotypes.

When he came to office, Keir Starmer promised a government that would "tread more lightly" on people's lives. Bridget Phillipson's announcement that trans folks should use the wrong toilets is offensive and ignorant. It shows Labour to be no better than the US Republicans. They should be ashamed.

@hankgreen.bsky.social what's happened to your music on Spotify etc. ? All seems disappeared

Just to reiterate, TERFs who support that wizard shagging hate monster don’t give a FUCK about women. They support Trump, they tell women who don’t agree that they should be raped and actual Nazis turn up at their rallies. If you think they’re on the right side of history, you’re an idiot.

Been wondering what Georgecat's head reminded me of, then watched some John Pertwee era #DrWho

I've now won two things ever! Now a quiz champion as well as an award winning chef! (Robins Foundation Quiz 2025, Weston-super-Mare Horticultural Society Mens Rock Cakes 1st place 2003) But by god I need to lose weight - last picture of myself I will ever post until I have lost at least 4 stone!

Man Struggling to Change the Cover of a King Size Duvet. Bronze, 19th century.

Approaching a City — Edward Hopper, 1946. Oil on canvas

Are Tesla Cybertrucks real or just some concept thing that people like to laugh at? I keep seeing posts that could go either way...

While idly scrolling, I chanced upon this still from Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot, and for a brief second I thought "What, there was an American remake of Minder?!?"

Please repost if you agree with Ursula.

Ben Folds and Jeremy Irons should get together and start a dry cleaning business. They could call it Ben and Jerry's.

The Three Ages Of Man

Started reading The Book Lovers by @steveaylett.bsky.social - only a few pages in and already seen two apparent nods to The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist. I always thought it was a fairly obscure book (by my standards) but maybe it's a lot more famous in certain circles?

Had very fond memories of watching The Smoking Room (featuring @emmakennedy.bsky.social ) somewhere around 2005 and watching it now 20 years on only confirms my belief that it is one of the hidden gems of British Comedy. The biggest victim of the workplace smoking ban for sure!

Orest Georgievich Vereysky (1915 - 1993)

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.