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#VaccinesSaveLives #VaccinesWork #MedSky #IDsky

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

[spotting Great Britain out of the window has my capsule re-enters the earth's atmosphere at 17,000mph] anywhere round here is good thanks mate

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Thorpness, Suffolk, today and in 1977.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Right now, Kemi Badenoch is doing more to defend JD Vance than the US is doing to defend Ukraine.

submitted 15 days ago • 41 comments

Stansted. Has he not suffered enough?

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Because 1m-2m people died?

submitted 35 days ago • 42 comments

This story has all the makings of a Greek myth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

What will survive of us is love.

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submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

You don't need to make an emergency podcast, folks.

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments

Motivational art, Lewisham

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Going to be trying to work this into a few conversations this week.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Reigning champion

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

submitted 75 days ago • 95 comments

I'm just watching the Vincent Price cooking show (a gift for Christmas) and he's just made a chess set out of cheese.

submitted 84 days ago • 44 comments

Looking forward to the US version of Wolf Hall with Trump as Henry VIII and Mandelson as Thomas Cromwell.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

submitted 86 days ago • 123 comments

On reflection watching "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" on the way up to stay with the in-laws wasn't the best idea.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to the variety of comfortable seating options and the views of the tarmac in the BA lounge, Orlando.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

People have this misconception that we autistic people tend to take things literally. Actually it’s kleptomaniacs who do that.

submitted 100 days ago • 11 comments

In hotel in Florida. Glad to see he did have a post-governmental US career.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

This is excellent.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

When people *really* suffered for their art (film excerpt, Robert Frank at MOMA NYC).

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Belkis Ayón collography at Oxford MOMA

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Kimpton Clocktower hotel, with the Manchester bee at 6 and 12 o'clock.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Chillin' in Manc

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Undoubtedly the best band in the world at being Squeeze.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart (James Stirling, 1984).

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Carpaccio washed down with a Bellini (Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart).

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

This has a touch of Dominic Cummings about it. Remember his ad for ‘weirdos and misfits’?

submitted 125 days ago • 11 comments

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

submitted 126 days ago • 860 comments

A bright, triumphant metaphor of love

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like America decided to give the worse angels of our nature a go.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Ten years ago today I sent a moderately republican reply to the Queen’s ceremonial First Tweet. Unfortunately, I was Too Online, and it happened to be the first reply anyone sent to the tweet. At a time when Twitter replies were chronologically sorted. I got in so much trouble

submitted 147 days ago • 19 comments

HMG: We do not comment on speculation about fiscal events [that has been caused by hints that we have dropped to favoured journalists].

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Partying like it's 2020!* Over the last week have watched and read: - Goodfellas - Casino - La Règle du Jeu - Intermezzo - Never Let Me Go - The Anthologist (* I have Covid)

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

José Pizarro at the Royal Academy. Lovely place for lunch and can always just walk in.

submitted 202 days ago • 0 comments

Hold the front page - John Maynard Keynes

submitted 202 days ago • 2 comments

A 59 year-old man in an east London field, playing 36 year-old music to a crowd whose average age is about 25. And the crowd knows all the words.

submitted 208 days ago • 3 comments

Last night at a festival I took great pleasure in watching the team on a food stall efficiently turn out their product with a slick, well-practiced perfection. This is the literary equivalent.

submitted 208 days ago • 0 comments