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Feliz Navidad? Yeah, we’d love to bring the boy here, just trying to get the deal sealed before midnight
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Feliz Navidad? Yeah, we’d love to bring the boy here, just trying to get the deal sealed before midnight
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THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Libraries matter. Access matters.
After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.
@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.
@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.
arstechnica.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Libraries matter. Access matters.
After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.
@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.
@arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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the last thing you see before the end
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
the last thing you see before the end
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Reminder: Chris de Burgh owns the chest burster from Alien (1979)
October 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reminder: Chris de Burgh owns the chest burster from Alien (1979)
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
September 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
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It's not a peacock. It's a rocket-propelled goose.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
September 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It's not a peacock. It's a rocket-propelled goose.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!"
m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.
m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.
September 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!"
m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.
m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.
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If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.
August 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.
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‘The Library’
1960, Jacob Lawrence
1960, Jacob Lawrence
May 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
‘The Library’
1960, Jacob Lawrence
1960, Jacob Lawrence
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For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
🧵
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
🧵
May 3, 2024 at 10:25 AM
For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
🧵
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
🧵
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A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad:
1. The Swimming Pool.
1. The Swimming Pool.
April 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad:
1. The Swimming Pool.
1. The Swimming Pool.
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This is still my favourite coastal image mainly because it links what people will be doing on beaches tomorrow and what visitors would do a hundred years before it was taken. We are all different but are the same in so many ways.
March 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is still my favourite coastal image mainly because it links what people will be doing on beaches tomorrow and what visitors would do a hundred years before it was taken. We are all different but are the same in so many ways.
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Morning! This is an exclusive extract from my new book Maybe I'm Amazed, about my autistic son James & how music became our shared language. Wait for the Velvet Underground bit at the end www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘He nails it on the first take’: how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice
After John Harris’s son was diagnosed, conversation always seemed focused on the things he would struggle with. But a shared passion for playing music grew into something James could do – brilliantly
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Morning! This is an exclusive extract from my new book Maybe I'm Amazed, about my autistic son James & how music became our shared language. Wait for the Velvet Underground bit at the end www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Why do all the old-timey signs say "Ye Olde" or similar?
Because of a missing letter, thorn " þ ", which entered English as a Nordic rune, and disappeared by conversion to the letter "y" with the advent of printing.
Let's talk about it.
Because of a missing letter, thorn " þ ", which entered English as a Nordic rune, and disappeared by conversion to the letter "y" with the advent of printing.
Let's talk about it.
February 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Why do all the old-timey signs say "Ye Olde" or similar?
Because of a missing letter, thorn " þ ", which entered English as a Nordic rune, and disappeared by conversion to the letter "y" with the advent of printing.
Let's talk about it.
Because of a missing letter, thorn " þ ", which entered English as a Nordic rune, and disappeared by conversion to the letter "y" with the advent of printing.
Let's talk about it.
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If you’re a Frasier fan, take a few minutes out to read this, you won’t regret it:
open.substack.com/pub/archerpa...
open.substack.com/pub/archerpa...
Frasier's Darkest Moment
When the show turned a C-plot into a meditation on grief and compassion.
open.substack.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
If you’re a Frasier fan, take a few minutes out to read this, you won’t regret it:
open.substack.com/pub/archerpa...
open.substack.com/pub/archerpa...
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