Em Splem
@emsplem.bsky.social
I like some stuff (art, poetry, history, philosophy, dogs, rhinos)
I dislike some stuff (fascists and their enablers, mosquitoes, slugs)
I do some things (gardening, walking, cycling, nursing)
I don’t do others (drive, eat meat, walk my reactive dog much)
I dislike some stuff (fascists and their enablers, mosquitoes, slugs)
I do some things (gardening, walking, cycling, nursing)
I don’t do others (drive, eat meat, walk my reactive dog much)
This is a rubbish, click-bait headline, which is a shame because the article itself is a really interesting interview with Emin.
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
This is a rubbish, click-bait headline, which is a shame because the article itself is a really interesting interview with Emin.
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The word of the day is "Apricity" - the warmth of the sun on a cold winter’s day ☀️
Enjoy the sunshine forecast today 😎
Enjoy the sunshine forecast today 😎
a met office advertisement with a cartoon cloud and sun
Alt: A met office advertisement with a cartoon cloud and sun
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:40 AM
The word of the day is "Apricity" - the warmth of the sun on a cold winter’s day ☀️
Enjoy the sunshine forecast today 😎
Enjoy the sunshine forecast today 😎
Those TV programmes where they show people from China etc being stopped from bringing food stuffs into Australia: how many Scots are whistling happily as they stroll past with their plain loaf and Lorne sausage and haggis and black pudding in their carry-on?
February 14, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Those TV programmes where they show people from China etc being stopped from bringing food stuffs into Australia: how many Scots are whistling happily as they stroll past with their plain loaf and Lorne sausage and haggis and black pudding in their carry-on?
Feeling oddly smug in the 100% belief that I totally could do this job.
Nose for trouble: Italian town seeks ‘odour evaluators’ to sniff out bad smells
Nose for trouble: Italian town seeks ‘odour evaluators’ to sniff out bad smells
Mayor of Brendola in Vicenza says he has received complaints from residents who live near industrial zones
An Italian town is seeking a crew of sniffers to identify bad smells in its quest to improve air quality.
Bruno Beltrame, the mayor of Brendola, a small town in the northern province of Vicenza, said he began the recruitment campaign for six “odour evaluators” after complaints about “unpleasant smells” from people living in neighbourhoods close to industrial zones. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Feeling oddly smug in the 100% belief that I totally could do this job.
When you plant crocuses and life gives you mushrooms.
February 14, 2026 at 11:03 AM
When you plant crocuses and life gives you mushrooms.
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@mirandakeeling.com
On a recent visit to my parents house
81yo Mum: What's this A1 thing they keep going on about?
87yo Dad: It's not A1, it's AI.
Mum: Where did you learn that?
Dad: We used to have it when I worked on a farm. The vet used to administer it
On a recent visit to my parents house
81yo Mum: What's this A1 thing they keep going on about?
87yo Dad: It's not A1, it's AI.
Mum: Where did you learn that?
Dad: We used to have it when I worked on a farm. The vet used to administer it
February 13, 2026 at 1:50 PM
@mirandakeeling.com
On a recent visit to my parents house
81yo Mum: What's this A1 thing they keep going on about?
87yo Dad: It's not A1, it's AI.
Mum: Where did you learn that?
Dad: We used to have it when I worked on a farm. The vet used to administer it
On a recent visit to my parents house
81yo Mum: What's this A1 thing they keep going on about?
87yo Dad: It's not A1, it's AI.
Mum: Where did you learn that?
Dad: We used to have it when I worked on a farm. The vet used to administer it
Dodgy, dodgy foreign donations to Reform laundered through dummy British-owned companies.
Non-paywall full article:
archive.ph/DPzO1
Non-paywall full article:
archive.ph/DPzO1
February 2, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Dodgy, dodgy foreign donations to Reform laundered through dummy British-owned companies.
Non-paywall full article:
archive.ph/DPzO1
Non-paywall full article:
archive.ph/DPzO1
They did a sterling job at the end of a night shift, moving huge amounts of patients and thereafter dealing with them in corridors etc.
But apparently I don’t get any thanks for jokes about what the bed manager would say tomorrow.
But apparently I don’t get any thanks for jokes about what the bed manager would say tomorrow.
We would like to thank hospital staff and the community for how they have responded to the major incident that was declared earlier today following a fire at Southampton General Hospital.
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February 1, 2026 at 4:52 PM
They did a sterling job at the end of a night shift, moving huge amounts of patients and thereafter dealing with them in corridors etc.
But apparently I don’t get any thanks for jokes about what the bed manager would say tomorrow.
But apparently I don’t get any thanks for jokes about what the bed manager would say tomorrow.
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Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show
The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It really is an awful human urge to publicise the thing that annoys you, and these arseholes know it.
January 25, 2026 at 1:29 PM
It really is an awful human urge to publicise the thing that annoys you, and these arseholes know it.
Apparently, Val McDermid is convening with the dead:
"The writer, who is also a national year of reading ambassador, met the Queen on Monday during the launch of a reading initiative at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh."
"The writer, who is also a national year of reading ambassador, met the Queen on Monday during the launch of a reading initiative at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh."
Val McDermid was assigned ‘sensitivity reader’ to cut offensive language from old books
Author discusses changes made to Lindsay Gordon novels from 80s and 90s to prepare for their rerelease
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Apparently, Val McDermid is convening with the dead:
"The writer, who is also a national year of reading ambassador, met the Queen on Monday during the launch of a reading initiative at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh."
"The writer, who is also a national year of reading ambassador, met the Queen on Monday during the launch of a reading initiative at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh."
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2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
January 18, 2026 at 10:12 AM
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
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"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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Rescued a week apart. Orphaned for the same tragic reason – their mothers fell off cliffs.
Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra have been healing together ever since. An unlikely pair who completed each other's family.
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...
Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra have been healing together ever since. An unlikely pair who completed each other's family.
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...
January 4, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Rescued a week apart. Orphaned for the same tragic reason – their mothers fell off cliffs.
Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra have been healing together ever since. An unlikely pair who completed each other's family.
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...
Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra have been healing together ever since. An unlikely pair who completed each other's family.
sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...
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on the tramway in Nantes and a pretty old woman gave her seat to a very old woman so I gave my seat to the pretty old woman then a man gave me his seat then a teenager gave a man his seat and then we all laughed, aren't people fantastic
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
on the tramway in Nantes and a pretty old woman gave her seat to a very old woman so I gave my seat to the pretty old woman then a man gave me his seat then a teenager gave a man his seat and then we all laughed, aren't people fantastic
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I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Mince pies, naartjies and Carols from King’s: it’s Christmastime.
December 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Mince pies, naartjies and Carols from King’s: it’s Christmastime.
"PPE Medpro filed for administration in September, a day before the order to pay."
Oh my goodness, what an incredible surprise.
Oh my goodness, what an incredible surprise.
Michelle Mone-linked PPE firm liquidated and unlikely to repay £148m
The firm led by Baroness Mone's husband Douglas Barrowman breached a contract to supply surgical gowns during the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"PPE Medpro filed for administration in September, a day before the order to pay."
Oh my goodness, what an incredible surprise.
Oh my goodness, what an incredible surprise.
This morning’s nature watch:
A hedgehog, casually ambling along the pavement in front of us, like it had nary a care in the world.
A caterpillar dropped out of the turn-up of my jeans, where it must have hitched a ride when we walked through the long grass.
City living!
A hedgehog, casually ambling along the pavement in front of us, like it had nary a care in the world.
A caterpillar dropped out of the turn-up of my jeans, where it must have hitched a ride when we walked through the long grass.
City living!
December 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This morning’s nature watch:
A hedgehog, casually ambling along the pavement in front of us, like it had nary a care in the world.
A caterpillar dropped out of the turn-up of my jeans, where it must have hitched a ride when we walked through the long grass.
City living!
A hedgehog, casually ambling along the pavement in front of us, like it had nary a care in the world.
A caterpillar dropped out of the turn-up of my jeans, where it must have hitched a ride when we walked through the long grass.
City living!
Every time I see people move out of the way for an ambulance to get through, I get a little lump in my throat. That’s society. Lots of people doing the right thing for a stranger.
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Every time I see people move out of the way for an ambulance to get through, I get a little lump in my throat. That’s society. Lots of people doing the right thing for a stranger.
In the midst of Christmas shopping hell, the Zara website once again stands out as an absolute beacon of style over useability.
And if that’s not a metaphor, I don’t know what is.
And if that’s not a metaphor, I don’t know what is.
December 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In the midst of Christmas shopping hell, the Zara website once again stands out as an absolute beacon of style over useability.
And if that’s not a metaphor, I don’t know what is.
And if that’s not a metaphor, I don’t know what is.
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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
If handing someone their arse, was a video clip
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We are now at the stage where all those who knew him in the past have warned us that Nigel Farage is unfit to be PM. About the same stage as when those who knew him in the past warned us that Boris Johnson was unfit to be PM.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We are now at the stage where all those who knew him in the past have warned us that Nigel Farage is unfit to be PM. About the same stage as when those who knew him in the past warned us that Boris Johnson was unfit to be PM.
The news is full of Christopher Harborne and his political donations. Imagine if he’d done something worthwhile for others instead, like this lovely bloke.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lottery winner funds Chichester centre for vulnerable adults
Steve Thomson, who won £105m in 2019, is funding the new charity building in Chichester.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The news is full of Christopher Harborne and his political donations. Imagine if he’d done something worthwhile for others instead, like this lovely bloke.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Look at the baby rhino.
Critically endangered eastern black rhino born at Pembrokeshire farm
There are only 1471 eastern black rhinos left in the wild and 109 in zoos across Europe.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Look at the baby rhino.