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john h
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“a queer and unaccountable creature, who must necessarily be looked at with wondering curiosity and repulsion” // glasgow
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like dropping something and it seeming like you can see it fall and hit your foot in slow motion, I realised what this was going to be between clicking and it opening
This tool's really powerful you know, if you keep zooming in it's amazing how granular the descriptors get
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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thank you also for those disappointments and failures
February 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
[texting at 22:58] I'll just finish this last government reset and then I'll head for home :)

[to myself, after speaking to my viziers] ah okay one more government reset then, I am sure my wife will not mind
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
at risk of revealing the expense involved in my silly little purchases, 1831.co.uk/Shop
Shop — 1831 Studio
Beavers in Ealing Hoodie Made to order (allow 3 days to dispatch) 440GSM Heather Grey Fits true to size All profit to Ealing Beaver...
1831.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 3:33 PM
safety wink
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
saw a woman in a 'make scotland great again' hat. unclear if she's a weirdo trump fan or a scottish nationalist? that's right, it's unclear if she's a fan of small minded provincialism with no understanding of fiscal and economic reality or if she's a supporter of donal.. [SHOTS RING OUT]
February 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
silas suddenly growing bored with a chew toy and returning to biting my ankles and hands
always a funny managed democracy dynamic when the lobby suddenly decides they are done with a government and basically suffocates it to death with the same story day after day every news bulletin
February 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
how will you show your support for the urban reintroduction of beavers today
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
February 8, 2026 at 11:03 PM
he turned the "will become apparent" on himself
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
annoying when books contain protestations like "but this is not a facile comparison between X and Y" or "however we do not take a reductive approach to this phenomenon". you can't stipulate this! I'll be the judge thank you!
February 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
just say "peat is a land of contrasts really isn't it" and nod wisely. q&a over early, can go straight to the pub
February 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
passing the dj a folded up piece of paper which reads "CAN YOU TURN THE MUSIC OFF AND ASK IF ANYONE HAS A LENS WIPE FOR MY GLASSES"
February 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
you just gotta grasp the nettle (and then go ah fuck fuck) bsky.app/profile/heli...
no, /you/ very confidently and entirely incorrectly said the name of the experimental small pipes player brìghde chaimbeul in front of your friend from the isle of skye
February 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
like that horrible cubed kittens early internet thing
February 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
oh I have just bought this! sadly may well be too busy at work talking about peat to come to this talk about peat bogs
February 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
heated ribaldry - two actors in a staging of chaucer's 'the miller's tale' start to fall for each other and their depictions of crude hijinks start to look rather less irreverent
February 7, 2026 at 9:58 AM
I don't mean to alarm anyone but my fortune cookie did not contain a fortune
February 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
tell it to the press release I copied this from
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
when the DIY electronic pop album "hints at some “about”ness through a series of discrete vignettes which sound a bit like architecture"
February 6, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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The approval ratings for "Al" are in
February 5, 2026 at 9:57 AM
silas shortly after LC left the flat to see my mum into the train station. what am I, chopped liver (SILAS: if only, right readers?)
February 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM
jury of peers (in that the defendants and the jury are all legends)
I understand that the jury in the Filton trial have refused to convict any of the defendants of any crime, despite some of them admitting in court that they smashed up Israeli-made drones.

Heroes all.
February 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM
creative scotland's wikipedia page is exhausted by the classic combo of sections
February 4, 2026 at 11:52 AM