Sabine
@sabines.bsky.social
One of those immigrants; once overran the UK. Australo-Germano Frenchie. Going back to the various places I came from.
What the internet was made for. Delightful.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
What the internet was made for. Delightful.
First try at madeleines turned out well! Flavoured with orange blossom water.
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
First try at madeleines turned out well! Flavoured with orange blossom water.
@katebevan.com Hi Kate, wondering if you or any of your techy friends have any tips re home printers that will work with an ASUS laptop running Windows 11 on Snapdragon? Having problems finding ARM compatible machines (for my dad). Thank you!
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
@katebevan.com Hi Kate, wondering if you or any of your techy friends have any tips re home printers that will work with an ASUS laptop running Windows 11 on Snapdragon? Having problems finding ARM compatible machines (for my dad). Thank you!
‘Have you heard of Zohran Mamdani?, asks my dad.
‘Of course!’
‘I knew his dad, met him a few times in Dar es Salaam’, he says, and pulls this book off a shelf.
‘Of course!’
‘I knew his dad, met him a few times in Dar es Salaam’, he says, and pulls this book off a shelf.
October 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
‘Have you heard of Zohran Mamdani?, asks my dad.
‘Of course!’
‘I knew his dad, met him a few times in Dar es Salaam’, he says, and pulls this book off a shelf.
‘Of course!’
‘I knew his dad, met him a few times in Dar es Salaam’, he says, and pulls this book off a shelf.
Summary of French PM Lecornu’s post-resignation address just now: ‘I can’t work with these clowns’.
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Summary of French PM Lecornu’s post-resignation address just now: ‘I can’t work with these clowns’.
Reading Atwood’s The Testaments. Check in on Bluesky and see someone’s posted a State Dpt tweet about moral virtue and steadfast faith in God being necessary preconditions of freedom. The book has seeped into real life.
September 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Reading Atwood’s The Testaments. Check in on Bluesky and see someone’s posted a State Dpt tweet about moral virtue and steadfast faith in God being necessary preconditions of freedom. The book has seeped into real life.
Chanced upon an exhibition of Quentin Blake drawings at the weekend. This one is ‘Balancing with the Birds’.
July 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Chanced upon an exhibition of Quentin Blake drawings at the weekend. This one is ‘Balancing with the Birds’.
It’s like we‘re living in an Armando Iannucci script.
lmao -- Netanyahu tells Trump he's nominated him for the Nobel Prize
July 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It’s like we‘re living in an Armando Iannucci script.
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Zohran Mamdani saw a cat do a big stretch without saying “big stretch” on at least four occasions: source
July 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Zohran Mamdani saw a cat do a big stretch without saying “big stretch” on at least four occasions: source
Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille
June 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Il est cinq heures, Paris s’éveille
Heard on Radio 4: ‘A man has been jailed for three years for robbing a post office in Bradford, armed with a banana.’😳🧐
June 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Heard on Radio 4: ‘A man has been jailed for three years for robbing a post office in Bradford, armed with a banana.’😳🧐
Halfway through this, on how Western leaders need to call out Trump’s authoritarianism, there was an ad with a clip of a nice lady making berry pavlova. I admit to clicking on it, as a brief escape from a terrifying reality. Excellent as ever by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social.
G7 leaders are paralysed by their fear of upsetting Donald Trump | Rafael Behr
Tyranny is contagious – and western governments’ reluctance to name the threat is helping it spread, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Halfway through this, on how Western leaders need to call out Trump’s authoritarianism, there was an ad with a clip of a nice lady making berry pavlova. I admit to clicking on it, as a brief escape from a terrifying reality. Excellent as ever by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social.
Probably thinking they’d come up with a clever pun, the Austrian rail company chooses ‘Railaxed’ as the name of their magazine…🧐 Always run it past a native speaker! 🚅🪓
June 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Probably thinking they’d come up with a clever pun, the Austrian rail company chooses ‘Railaxed’ as the name of their magazine…🧐 Always run it past a native speaker! 🚅🪓
How do I find the entrance to your flat? Got a little picture of a fox outside- you’ll know it when you see it. #foxoftheday
June 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
How do I find the entrance to your flat? Got a little picture of a fox outside- you’ll know it when you see it. #foxoftheday
Still haunted by this snippet from ABC News during the recent floods in Queensland. 😳🕷️🕷️🕷️😱 (The apostrophe mistake is pretty unpleasant too.)
June 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Still haunted by this snippet from ABC News during the recent floods in Queensland. 😳🕷️🕷️🕷️😱 (The apostrophe mistake is pretty unpleasant too.)
It’s been only four months. Four months! And we’re supposed to put up with four years of this? At this rate, that’s more than enough time to make the US completely unrecognisable. Just terrifying.
May 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It’s been only four months. Four months! And we’re supposed to put up with four years of this? At this rate, that’s more than enough time to make the US completely unrecognisable. Just terrifying.
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![Cartoon script: comic strip for Prospect magazine, by Stephen Collins:
[Scene is a suburban house. We hear a conversation coming from inside it, with the voice of the MAN who owns the house]
1
MAN:
…You only installed it two years ago!
2
[Interior scene now, we can see the MAN is talking to the GLAZIER who has come to inspect a very oddly-placed window in the man’s wall]
GLAZIER:
Yeah I can see there’s been a bit of movement in the casing…
3
MAN:
A bit of *movement in the casing*?
4
MAN:
It used to be in the bloody middle!
[The window, we see, is strangely positioned right next to the wall]
5
GLAZIER:
Well, you went for the budget line mate.
MAN:
What?
6
MAN:
Your budget windows *move across the wall*?
GLAZIER:
If you get comfortable with fascism, yeah.
MAN:
*What*?
7
GLAZIER:
Look mate, we told you up front:
Premium triple-glazed, Standard UPVC, and our budget line: ‘Overton’.
8
GLAZIER:
Which can move to the left or right depending on the political acceptability of fringe views at any given time.
9
MAN:
And what’ll it cost to put it back?
GLAZIER:
Pffff
10
GLAZIER:
Maybe a third World War?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiefoyhlc2cml34rsmpvuinypllzyctegbgngrffuatqc4xw6cx2nm@jpeg)
May 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Am no fan of this grass-coloured carpet the neighbours have put out, but the local fox seems to like it, so who am I to quibble? #foxoftheday
May 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Am no fan of this grass-coloured carpet the neighbours have put out, but the local fox seems to like it, so who am I to quibble? #foxoftheday
Loving the hardiness of these wild London poppies growing in an actual brick wall.
May 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Loving the hardiness of these wild London poppies growing in an actual brick wall.
OK what is with Americans pronouncing ‘Qatar’ like ‘cutter’?
May 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
OK what is with Americans pronouncing ‘Qatar’ like ‘cutter’?
Oh god, the Americans are up and their President has been giving another interview…🫠
May 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Oh god, the Americans are up and their President has been giving another interview…🫠
An excellent, excellent result!
😀🇦🇺
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May 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
An excellent, excellent result!
😀🇦🇺
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Some place actually elected Andrea Jenkyns to something.
May 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Some place actually elected Andrea Jenkyns to something.
Der Spiegel notification (mistakenly?) illustrating the item about the FBI arresting a judge with a photo of Witkoff shaking Putin’s hand is right on the nose.
April 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Der Spiegel notification (mistakenly?) illustrating the item about the FBI arresting a judge with a photo of Witkoff shaking Putin’s hand is right on the nose.