donaldé
@donalde.bsky.social
sommelier. nascent vigneron. don’t try and pinch my phone.
had tea in my mouth reading this, I now have tea on my shirt 😂
I have a husky who "talks" when he wants something. Whilst on the phone to a then colleague, I heard a husky talking in the background & commented on having the same breed. it turned out the noise was his non-verbal daughter. I wanted the floor to swallow me up.
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
had tea in my mouth reading this, I now have tea on my shirt 😂
Read the new Maggie Nelson book yesterday and found it oddly inconsequential.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Read the new Maggie Nelson book yesterday and found it oddly inconsequential.
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(they) "believe the artwork is an attempt to humanise small boat crossings because the people walking across the water have Christmas hats on."
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
(they) "believe the artwork is an attempt to humanise small boat crossings because the people walking across the water have Christmas hats on."
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Has any EDM, House, Techno song ever started with "Forgive me father for I have Synth
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Has any EDM, House, Techno song ever started with "Forgive me father for I have Synth
Jude having all sorts of fun at the drying station (his sister looking on a trifle embarrassed for him)
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Jude having all sorts of fun at the drying station (his sister looking on a trifle embarrassed for him)
Things that never happen the day before the cleaner comes:
Spilling fishy cat food all over the floor.
The box of dried fenugreek falling out of the larder and all over the floor.
Spilling fishy cat food all over the floor.
The box of dried fenugreek falling out of the larder and all over the floor.
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Things that never happen the day before the cleaner comes:
Spilling fishy cat food all over the floor.
The box of dried fenugreek falling out of the larder and all over the floor.
Spilling fishy cat food all over the floor.
The box of dried fenugreek falling out of the larder and all over the floor.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Have we considered gold teeth? Also, what about organs. Surely refugees only need the one kidney?
Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Have we considered gold teeth? Also, what about organs. Surely refugees only need the one kidney?
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Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
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This 👇 Everywhere.
We need to push for the most "extreme" versions of things. No immigration rules *at all*, not even a passport check. No citizenship rules. You're here? You're British now.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This 👇 Everywhere.
Doris Lessing had thoughts about the English colony in Rhodesia.
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Doris Lessing had thoughts about the English colony in Rhodesia.
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The Epstein Affair Has Move From Sleaze to a Crisis for American Democracy Itself
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
The Epstein Affair Has Move From Sleaze to a Crisis for American Democracy Itself
This Epstein Affair has shown a pattern where men of wealth and power created a zone of impunity that protected them for decades while destroying vulnerable people like Virginia Guiffrey…
hartmannreport.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Epstein Affair Has Move From Sleaze to a Crisis for American Democracy Itself
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
Accidentally made quite a large leftover roast pork and celeriac rémoulade sandwich.
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Accidentally made quite a large leftover roast pork and celeriac rémoulade sandwich.
Just doing a bit of research about a wine we sell and came across the Gibbet of Montfaucon, and, lets say I understand why the French revolution took place 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
![The English travel writer Thomas Coryat saw it at about the same time and described it as "the fairest gallows that I ever saw, built on a little hillocke ... [with] fourteen pillars of free stone".[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wbkov42yk3odqsox4lmzuvtj/bafkreidshca3sixhhlhajdhfjacs7suieh3yk5n4dstldsrmvuz66mm4ge@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Just doing a bit of research about a wine we sell and came across the Gibbet of Montfaucon, and, lets say I understand why the French revolution took place 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_...
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I dreamt that Trainline had a little pop up when you were getting a ticket warning you that JK Rowling was on that train.
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I dreamt that Trainline had a little pop up when you were getting a ticket warning you that JK Rowling was on that train.
We're overlooking the convenience of not having one's bike constantly be stolen.
“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We're overlooking the convenience of not having one's bike constantly be stolen.
@dannybate.bsky.social interest piqued post your why q needs u, I picked up McWhorter's Power of Babel and am now wondering if the droll footnoting is a general habit of linguists?
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
@dannybate.bsky.social interest piqued post your why q needs u, I picked up McWhorter's Power of Babel and am now wondering if the droll footnoting is a general habit of linguists?
Roasted some pork loin to have with white beans and cavolo nero. Was a very excellent dinner last night.
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Roasted some pork loin to have with white beans and cavolo nero. Was a very excellent dinner last night.
Very cool to have a ringside seat to this. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
Doors of City of London favourite Simpson’s Tavern to swing open again
Chophouse Cloth Cornhill, which is moving into the Square Mile institution’s building, is promising to honour its history with more long, wine-fuelled lunches
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Very cool to have a ringside seat to this. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
This is brilliant. Iris Murdoch and her beer mat collection :)
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is brilliant. Iris Murdoch and her beer mat collection :)
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Putting the Red into wine
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Putting the Red into wine
Quite amazed at how many of the contributors to the Compleat imbiber were strongly socialist.
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Quite amazed at how many of the contributors to the Compleat imbiber were strongly socialist.