Lois
@loismcewan.bsky.social
Deranged nihilist, heathen husk, accidental croneburger
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"We've got a Donald here of Washington, who'd like to swap a badly written letter of complaint for a billion dollars...."
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"We've got a Donald here of Washington, who'd like to swap a badly written letter of complaint for a billion dollars...."
How can someone with the charisma of a boiled ham be PM? Oh wait
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
How can someone with the charisma of a boiled ham be PM? Oh wait
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BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December.
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December.
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris
Vinted has changed sizing overnight so everything is now listed as the wrong size
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Vinted has changed sizing overnight so everything is now listed as the wrong size
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
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Ed Davey says BBC isn't perfect but "remains one of the few institutions standing between our British values and a populist, Trump-style takeover of our politics".
He says the resignations are a chance for BBC to rebuild trust and "not give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who want to destroy it"
He says the resignations are a chance for BBC to rebuild trust and "not give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who want to destroy it"
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ed Davey says BBC isn't perfect but "remains one of the few institutions standing between our British values and a populist, Trump-style takeover of our politics".
He says the resignations are a chance for BBC to rebuild trust and "not give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who want to destroy it"
He says the resignations are a chance for BBC to rebuild trust and "not give in to the likes of Nigel Farage who want to destroy it"
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These guys are doing a New York Times podcast about women in the office
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
These guys are doing a New York Times podcast about women in the office
We live here now is much more enjoyable than I expected
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We live here now is much more enjoyable than I expected
I don't mind nicknames but I didn't like being called Loys, when my parents moved to Worcester. Bit close to Lice
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I don't mind nicknames but I didn't like being called Loys, when my parents moved to Worcester. Bit close to Lice
'5 SKEINS ROWAN ISLAND BLEND FINE MAYBE POMPOUS' Seller says pompous is the colour, a 'dark avocado' but it looks purple. Maybe they mean aubergine and got confused. Do I want a pompous sweater vest telling me off for dropping food on it?
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
'5 SKEINS ROWAN ISLAND BLEND FINE MAYBE POMPOUS' Seller says pompous is the colour, a 'dark avocado' but it looks purple. Maybe they mean aubergine and got confused. Do I want a pompous sweater vest telling me off for dropping food on it?
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Some guy shouted Fanny Cradock at me in the street this morning - is it easier than just shouting fanny at random women?
In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Some guy shouted Fanny Cradock at me in the street this morning - is it easier than just shouting fanny at random women?
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THIS LOOKS IMPORTANT.
Shetland knitting group ‘shocked and saddened’ by representation in Channel 4 show
A GROUP protecting Shetland’s knitting heritage has criticised a new Channel 4 show for spreading “negative misconceptions about Fair Isle knitting...
www.shetnews.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
THIS LOOKS IMPORTANT.
Boris Mikhailov at the Photographer's Gallery. Montage sequence to Pink Floyd, quite hypnotic
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Boris Mikhailov at the Photographer's Gallery. Montage sequence to Pink Floyd, quite hypnotic
Guy so busy on the phone that he nearly missed his stop and jumped on my broken toe getting off the Tube. Fuck you
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Guy so busy on the phone that he nearly missed his stop and jumped on my broken toe getting off the Tube. Fuck you
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So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory
Amanda Holden now looks like an AI version of herself, like an avatar
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Amanda Holden now looks like an AI version of herself, like an avatar
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Felt guilty about booking a flight to Edinburgh last week instead of a train, because it was about a third of the price, but it's starting to look a better option by the day
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Felt guilty about booking a flight to Edinburgh last week instead of a train, because it was about a third of the price, but it's starting to look a better option by the day
Nightmare after watching part of Edge of Darkness, where I was using Peck's horrific kitchen to compete in Come Dine With Me
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Nightmare after watching part of Edge of Darkness, where I was using Peck's horrific kitchen to compete in Come Dine With Me
Looked at Edge of Darkness but keep getting overwhelmed by nostalgia/horror. All men! The raincoats! The rain! HP Sauce, old cookers, tinned food, all of it. Can hardly follow the plot
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Looked at Edge of Darkness but keep getting overwhelmed by nostalgia/horror. All men! The raincoats! The rain! HP Sauce, old cookers, tinned food, all of it. Can hardly follow the plot
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Things universities can make national news for:
- people on the internet are a bit upset about the speaker selection of an obscure student group,
- a member of faculty copy-pasted a sentence of boilerplate methods language in her PhD thesis 30 years ago.
Things no one cares about:
- Bombs.
- people on the internet are a bit upset about the speaker selection of an obscure student group,
- a member of faculty copy-pasted a sentence of boilerplate methods language in her PhD thesis 30 years ago.
Things no one cares about:
- Bombs.
November 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Things universities can make national news for:
- people on the internet are a bit upset about the speaker selection of an obscure student group,
- a member of faculty copy-pasted a sentence of boilerplate methods language in her PhD thesis 30 years ago.
Things no one cares about:
- Bombs.
- people on the internet are a bit upset about the speaker selection of an obscure student group,
- a member of faculty copy-pasted a sentence of boilerplate methods language in her PhD thesis 30 years ago.
Things no one cares about:
- Bombs.
I thought it just seemed like the FA Cup was on nearly all the time but no it really is
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I thought it just seemed like the FA Cup was on nearly all the time but no it really is
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto