I bring more titbits from insta.
January 19, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I bring more titbits from insta.
12 😬
a list for this most Mondayish of Mondays, attributed to Sydney Smith (1771-1845), writer and clergyman
January 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
12 😬
I always feel like a munificent philanthropist on PLR day, sprinkling pennies on the poor.
January 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I always feel like a munificent philanthropist on PLR day, sprinkling pennies on the poor.
I have been to the pictures to see Labyrinth for the first time. I think everyone here is really enjoying me speaking like David Bowie for the rest of the evening.
January 18, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I have been to the pictures to see Labyrinth for the first time. I think everyone here is really enjoying me speaking like David Bowie for the rest of the evening.
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If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 AM
If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.
I AM OUT IN THE WORLD for the first time in many weeks, wearing fashionable ‘barrel leg’ trousers. My companion says I look like a clown.
January 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I AM OUT IN THE WORLD for the first time in many weeks, wearing fashionable ‘barrel leg’ trousers. My companion says I look like a clown.
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I’m about to see a support act called Hapless Museum Worker.
January 17, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I’m about to see a support act called Hapless Museum Worker.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.
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Guildensturm und Rosendrang
January 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Guildensturm und Rosendrang
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4am salute to the person selling books on Vinted who lists the authors as Surname, Firstname rather than Firstname Surname.
January 17, 2026 at 4:06 AM
4am salute to the person selling books on Vinted who lists the authors as Surname, Firstname rather than Firstname Surname.
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19C librarians devised all manner of ingenious apparatus to make their institutions more efficient. Here’s a pioneering form of rolling stack to streamline storage systems at the British Museum, now the British Library. From the Library Chronicle, Vol. III (1886)
#AlphabetChallenge #BforBooks 💙📚
#AlphabetChallenge #BforBooks 💙📚
January 16, 2026 at 4:13 PM
19C librarians devised all manner of ingenious apparatus to make their institutions more efficient. Here’s a pioneering form of rolling stack to streamline storage systems at the British Museum, now the British Library. From the Library Chronicle, Vol. III (1886)
#AlphabetChallenge #BforBooks 💙📚
#AlphabetChallenge #BforBooks 💙📚
What does one put in a diary? Number of fags smoked? Current crushes? Meditations on the meaning of life?
January 15, 2026 at 10:34 PM
What does one put in a diary? Number of fags smoked? Current crushes? Meditations on the meaning of life?
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I watched the beautiful Peter Hujar's Day, and I now want to live in this apartment, in NY, in 1974.
January 15, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I watched the beautiful Peter Hujar's Day, and I now want to live in this apartment, in NY, in 1974.
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Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
Different wiki dips over the past couple of days have led me back to Alannah Currie.
1. This Guardian article. (Long-time followers will know I believe Hold Me Now contains one of the sexiest moments in pop.)
2. That KLF video I just reposted. AC is now married to Jimmy ‘Rockman’ Cauty.
1. This Guardian article. (Long-time followers will know I believe Hold Me Now contains one of the sexiest moments in pop.)
2. That KLF video I just reposted. AC is now married to Jimmy ‘Rockman’ Cauty.
‘It was inspired by a snog in a photo-booth’: how Thompson Twins made Hold Me Now
‘We had a disagreement that spilled over into personal insults. But we soon made up – and wrote this about the process’
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Different wiki dips over the past couple of days have led me back to Alannah Currie.
1. This Guardian article. (Long-time followers will know I believe Hold Me Now contains one of the sexiest moments in pop.)
2. That KLF video I just reposted. AC is now married to Jimmy ‘Rockman’ Cauty.
1. This Guardian article. (Long-time followers will know I believe Hold Me Now contains one of the sexiest moments in pop.)
2. That KLF video I just reposted. AC is now married to Jimmy ‘Rockman’ Cauty.
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The BBC's videotape digitization process remains unrivaled
January 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
The BBC's videotape digitization process remains unrivaled
I’ve had to stop watching The Traitors because it’s too mean. Was the last normie series this vicious? Has the luvvie version made me soft?
(I didn’t watch the ep with the Rachel/Fiona showdown. I couldn’t face it.)
(I didn’t watch the ep with the Rachel/Fiona showdown. I couldn’t face it.)
January 14, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I’ve had to stop watching The Traitors because it’s too mean. Was the last normie series this vicious? Has the luvvie version made me soft?
(I didn’t watch the ep with the Rachel/Fiona showdown. I couldn’t face it.)
(I didn’t watch the ep with the Rachel/Fiona showdown. I couldn’t face it.)
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Reminded this morning of the time my friend had abdominal surgery.
Post-op, the surgeon came to his bedside and said the surgery had been tricky but a success, they key thing now being rest.
Then she leaned in and whispered into my friend's ear, "If you mess up my work, I will fucking end you."
Post-op, the surgeon came to his bedside and said the surgery had been tricky but a success, they key thing now being rest.
Then she leaned in and whispered into my friend's ear, "If you mess up my work, I will fucking end you."
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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They're playing Howard Jones' New Song up at the Co-op. 'Throw off your mental chains!' sings the woman in the navy blue three-quarter length anorak as she drops a pack of gravy granules into her basket
January 14, 2026 at 5:51 AM
They're playing Howard Jones' New Song up at the Co-op. 'Throw off your mental chains!' sings the woman in the navy blue three-quarter length anorak as she drops a pack of gravy granules into her basket
I’m looking for something cheering to watch and by golly I think I’ve found it.
January 13, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I’m looking for something cheering to watch and by golly I think I’ve found it.