ValGal234
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It doesn't matter how hard you try to direct people on Instagram to a link, they act like it's not there and react solely to the photo you posted. I don't know why I'm still surprised. It's Instagramland, where people have lost the ability to read or perceive that a world exists outside Instagram.
January 28, 2026 at 7:03 AM
It doesn't matter how hard you try to direct people on Instagram to a link, they act like it's not there and react solely to the photo you posted. I don't know why I'm still surprised. It's Instagramland, where people have lost the ability to read or perceive that a world exists outside Instagram.
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Trump turned his power into a racial crusade a long time ago. Calling that out isn’t stirring division. This is telling the truth.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Trump turned his power into a racial crusade a long time ago. Calling that out isn’t stirring division. This is telling the truth.
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Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
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Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later..
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
January 27, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Neil Young. Still showing us the way all these years later..
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
If you haven't heard, he gifted his entire catalog to Greenland for free. He says he hopes it will "ease some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,”
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"Life During Wartime" (1979) - Talking Heads - Live performance "Stop Making Sense" (1984) 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟒 - 𝟒𝐊 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 #talkingheads #stopmakingsense
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January 27, 2026 at 8:21 PM
"Life During Wartime" (1979) - Talking Heads - Live performance "Stop Making Sense" (1984) 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn62...
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out
January 27, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Walz: I think Kristi Noem probably should go back to South Dakota, not have any dogs, and just kind of ride things out
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Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️
#WorldCup ⚽️
Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP
The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.
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January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling?
#WorldCup ⚽️
#WorldCup ⚽️
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There's a sign up the road that says "THINK HORSES" so that is exactly what I have been doing lately. There's been SO much think about, including great horse-themed songs, the crucial historical role of horses in work, war and culture, plus what it might be like to have a saddle and only one toe.
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM
There's a sign up the road that says "THINK HORSES" so that is exactly what I have been doing lately. There's been SO much think about, including great horse-themed songs, the crucial historical role of horses in work, war and culture, plus what it might be like to have a saddle and only one toe.
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I see you internet people, inventing another acronym which makes you look cool in front of other internet people and makes people like me confused. But have you thought about the bigger picture? What when all the acronyms run out? Have you ever considered that?
January 27, 2026 at 8:40 AM
I see you internet people, inventing another acronym which makes you look cool in front of other internet people and makes people like me confused. But have you thought about the bigger picture? What when all the acronyms run out? Have you ever considered that?
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I am more ok with February than most winter haters but it still often feels like an unwanted encore by a band who built their fame on one depressing song.
January 27, 2026 at 1:10 PM
I am more ok with February than most winter haters but it still often feels like an unwanted encore by a band who built their fame on one depressing song.
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One of the many reasons I dislike winter so much is that every day in December feels like like a Friday but in all the worst ways, and that’s followed by January, where every day feels like a Monday but in all the worst ways.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 PM
One of the many reasons I dislike winter so much is that every day in December feels like like a Friday but in all the worst ways, and that’s followed by January, where every day feels like a Monday but in all the worst ways.
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Being an enthusiastic walker and living in Devon, UK, means learning to love wet weather becomes a necessity, and I'm normally very much fine with all of that, but this is a bit different.
January 27, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Being an enthusiastic walker and living in Devon, UK, means learning to love wet weather becomes a necessity, and I'm normally very much fine with all of that, but this is a bit different.
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They always do this polite, pleading look when they want me to put 'Word Up' by Cameo on for them. But I'm staying strong. Eleven times a day is too many.
January 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
They always do this polite, pleading look when they want me to put 'Word Up' by Cameo on for them. But I'm staying strong. Eleven times a day is too many.
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Sometimes, despite my more self-preserving intentions, I do find myself thinking about the person who, when I posted this pic of Charles and Jim a year or two back on Instagram and suggested they were lovers, replied by saying "Don't be so bloody ridiculous! Cats can't be gay."
... This came across initially as an act of kindness towards a less fortunate cat who'd never known the comfort of central heating or soft duvets but we soon discovered that Charles had a more selfish motive: after much searching, he had finally found the unpaid personal valet he'd been looking for.
January 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Sometimes, despite my more self-preserving intentions, I do find myself thinking about the person who, when I posted this pic of Charles and Jim a year or two back on Instagram and suggested they were lovers, replied by saying "Don't be so bloody ridiculous! Cats can't be gay."
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Things you can get for £20 these days:
10.6 litres of unleaded fuel.
21 hours of rent of a one bedroom flat in York.
A new, sealed long-playing record, reduced in a bargain bin.
A round of drinks for four, in one of the UK's cheaper pubs.
Full access to a year of my writing, here: www.tom-cox.com
10.6 litres of unleaded fuel.
21 hours of rent of a one bedroom flat in York.
A new, sealed long-playing record, reduced in a bargain bin.
A round of drinks for four, in one of the UK's cheaper pubs.
Full access to a year of my writing, here: www.tom-cox.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Things you can get for £20 these days:
10.6 litres of unleaded fuel.
21 hours of rent of a one bedroom flat in York.
A new, sealed long-playing record, reduced in a bargain bin.
A round of drinks for four, in one of the UK's cheaper pubs.
Full access to a year of my writing, here: www.tom-cox.com
10.6 litres of unleaded fuel.
21 hours of rent of a one bedroom flat in York.
A new, sealed long-playing record, reduced in a bargain bin.
A round of drinks for four, in one of the UK's cheaper pubs.
Full access to a year of my writing, here: www.tom-cox.com
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Of niche interest but I'm preparing for house moving costs and have reluctantly decided to sell a set of pristine - v rare - original Shirley Collins (some with Dolly) LPs from the 60s and 70s. If interested, please drop me a reply below.
January 27, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Of niche interest but I'm preparing for house moving costs and have reluctantly decided to sell a set of pristine - v rare - original Shirley Collins (some with Dolly) LPs from the 60s and 70s. If interested, please drop me a reply below.
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Astounding that someone could describe Jim so accurately so many years prior to his birth.
January 27, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Astounding that someone could describe Jim so accurately so many years prior to his birth.
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What I think I will miss about my local doctor's surgery when I move house in a few weeks is the unusually jaunty and seductive intonation of the woman on the recorded message as she says "life-threatening emergency".
January 27, 2026 at 6:39 PM
What I think I will miss about my local doctor's surgery when I move house in a few weeks is the unusually jaunty and seductive intonation of the woman on the recorded message as she says "life-threatening emergency".
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I always feel a bit like the world is ending at this time of the year but I notice that feeling is somewhat exacerbated when the world is also actually ending.
January 27, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I always feel a bit like the world is ending at this time of the year but I notice that feeling is somewhat exacerbated when the world is also actually ending.
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That's the best of the four cats-and-more books, IMO.
A bridge to 21st-Century Yokel, where I loosened up a bit and almost but not quite said "Fuck it, I'm going to write in exactly the way I want to."
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A bridge to 21st-Century Yokel, where I loosened up a bit and almost but not quite said "Fuck it, I'm going to write in exactly the way I want to."
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
January 27, 2026 at 7:08 PM
That's the best of the four cats-and-more books, IMO.
A bridge to 21st-Century Yokel, where I loosened up a bit and almost but not quite said "Fuck it, I'm going to write in exactly the way I want to."
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A bridge to 21st-Century Yokel, where I loosened up a bit and almost but not quite said "Fuck it, I'm going to write in exactly the way I want to."
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Where else can you read about swimming, Abraham Lincoln, Dennis Wilson, graveyards, flooding, epic 1930s Japanese novels, Alec Guiness and pizza in one go?
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January
* Multi-person swimming lane etiquette is all entirely workable if you assume it solely involves people with average-size bodies who've been taught to swim properly, but that's not quite addressing re...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Today's newsletter.
Where else can you read about swimming, Abraham Lincoln, Dennis Wilson, graveyards, flooding, epic 1930s Japanese novels, Alec Guiness and pizza in one go?
www.tom-cox.com/january/
Where else can you read about swimming, Abraham Lincoln, Dennis Wilson, graveyards, flooding, epic 1930s Japanese novels, Alec Guiness and pizza in one go?
www.tom-cox.com/january/
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Hello new followers. This is me. I would be thrilled if a few of you might subscribe to my newsletter: www.tom-cox.com. Quite a bit of what I write is free but I try to make the rest affordable. You can read everything for just £2 a month (or £20 a year). You'll find a few samples in the replies....
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Hello new followers. This is me. I would be thrilled if a few of you might subscribe to my newsletter: www.tom-cox.com. Quite a bit of what I write is free but I try to make the rest affordable. You can read everything for just £2 a month (or £20 a year). You'll find a few samples in the replies....