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Let me have books about me that are fat.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse.

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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Gosh new Colette fanfic just dropped
The cover of an Enid Blyton novel: "Claudine at St. Clare's"
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week
From BBC news: "Hotel redevelopment plans refused for fifth time" above a photo of a large three storey detached building
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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First record, bought in Radlett WH Smiths. I was always one of the cool kids 😎
LP cover: Holst's Planets Suite, the LAPO conducted by Leopold Stokowski
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Next time we complain that the theatre's overdue a refurb, the management will just point at this
Wikipedia data on the Odeion on the Acropolis in Athens: General information Type Odeon Architectural style Classical Location Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, Athens, Greece Coordinates 37.970756°N 23.724444°E Completed AD 161 Renovated 1950
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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A striking four-movie sequence from Robert Wise:
From IMDB, four successive films directed by Robert Wise: West Side Story, Two For The Seesaw, The Haunting and The Sound Of Music
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Saturday night funster Arthur Schopenhauer Prime-time entertainer Bette Davis
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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4:09 p.m.:
Lindsey Halligan: oh yeah I've just been texting Anna Bower about this

Colleague: you've been what
From Anna Bowers' Lawfaremedia story of Lindsey Halligan texting her At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know." I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect." Haligan was unpersuaded: "Yes, I do. Off record."
October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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A quick Liver Birds rabbithole received this novel approach to dramatic criticism
From an IMDB review of the BBC sitcom "The Liver Birds": Much of the dialogue between them is almost nonsensical. Far too many outrageous sex jokes, they're made out to be hippies with a new boyfriend every week, but on reality the actress who played Sandra was happily married.
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Lengths not laps

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
From the BBC article: The White House swimming pool Was converted to the White House Press Room during Richard Nixon's presidency. Briefings now still regularly take place in the room where presidents once swam laps.
October 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Bluesky crops the images, so I assumed these were unexpected windows into your home life
Two ads for Ricard pastis which have been automatically cropped, incidentally removing any sign that they're advertisements
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Arsene Lupin III, from Miyazaki's "The Castle of Cagliostro"
October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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"...in a moment of overenthusiastic gardening..."
Sir Norman Fry off of Little Britain reading his apology
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Now some people see devil's horns here, but there's a much stronger resemblance to the horned sun disk of ancient Egyptian iconography. Could Trump be an acolyte of the goddess Hathor? Or even an incarnation of Hathor herself? I think we should be told.
Trump wearing horns The goddess Hathor in cow form
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Well, @theguardian.com, at least this teaser made me rack my brains for who the hell Derek Malcolm's predecessor could have been
Teaser from the Guardian site: Related stories Derek Malcolm: my predecessor was amighty critic, flm world darling and heir to a scandal Spoiler: it's by Peter Bradshaw talking about Derek Malcolm
October 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Last thing I saw before oblivion. From hell's heart I stab at thee
Briefly becoming eligible for the vole.wtf 1% club
October 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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This passage reminded me: decades ago, The Times redesigned its Saturday media section with small woodcut-style illustrations heading each section. "Opera" showed a row of well-dressed blank-faced audience members, and in the section above a crowd of intent faces. Sadly, it disappeared very quickly.
An excerpt from the New Statesman review of "Other People's Music" by Alexandra Wilson ...of elitism. Elitist how? Is it the price? Tickets to a Taylor Swift concert are more expensive by an order of magnitude; the cheapest seats at both Covent Garden and the ENO sell out the fastest. And a ticket to watch touring
October 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Guess that answers *that* question
Two successive tweets: Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky... 2m why is my neighbor's skeleton posed like an influencer died The Onion @theonion.com New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool
October 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Told you, dude. Sea lions.
A six-panel black-and-white comic from "Wondermark" by David Malki. The comic features a vintage-style illustration with characters in Victorian-era clothing and a steam-powered vehicle. 1. A man tells a woman, "I don’t mind most marine mammals. But sea lions? I could do without sea lions." She warns, "Don’t say that out loud!" 2. A sea lion suddenly appears, saying, "Pardon me, I couldn’t help but overhear..." The woman responds, "Now you’ve done it." 3. The sea lion politely insists, "I would like to have a civil conversation about your statement. Would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sea lion has ever done to you?" 4. The woman yells, "Go away." The sea lion, undeterred, replies, "There’s no need to raise your voice, I’m right here. I’m just curious if you have any sources to back up your opinion?" 5. The sea lion follows them into their home, saying, "You made a statement in public for all to hear. Are you unable to defend the statements you make? Or simply unwilling to have a reasoned discussion?" The man, exasperated, says, "You’re in my house." 6. At the breakfast table, the man says, "Told you, dude. Sea lions." The sea lion insists, "I have been unfailingly polite, and you two have been nothing but rude." The woman, visibly annoyed, exclaims, "I am trying to eat breakfast." The sea lion concedes, "Very well. We shall resume in an hour." This comic satirizes a behavior known as "sealioning," where someone persistently demands endless "civil" debate to exhaust their opponent rather than engage in good faith discussion.
October 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Not a Sheela-na-gig, but they remind me of the original Starbucks logo before it went all "ehh maybe not suitable for a properly serious multinational"
The original 1971 Starbucks logo: a bare-breasted mermaid holding her legs/tail apart
October 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The first to come to mind. No context or history or [shudder] comparisons, just this.
The last few bars of Wolf's "Heb' auf dein blondes Haupt" from the Italian Songbook
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I laughed out loud and that was wrong and I'm sorry
Richard Parker, Mayor of the West Midlands, said: "This iconic service means people from across the West Midlands will soon be able to travel comfortably and sustainably to discover the stunning beauty of northern Scotland. "But this also means our Scottish friends can come and explore the wonderful West Midlands."
October 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Tfw there's just a few days of holiday left
View of the top of a firth near sunset
September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Curlews, robins and the neighbour ruining a pozi bit and any number of screwheads #TwilightSounds
A sunset reflected in a tiny bit of a body of water, silhouetted trees and shrubs, a table with a glass of gin and tonic and a book: readily identifiable as "Skyscraper" by Karl Sabbagh, a spinoff from a 1980s Channel 4 documentary about the building of a skyscraper in Manhattan
September 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I'm not likely to read Simon Heffer's latest huffathon on the English language, but one of the Amazon reviews is titled "How to spot the slovenliness in you writing", and that gives me more pleasure than the book ever could
Book cover: Scarcely English An A-Z of Assaults on Our Language Simon Heffer
September 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Thank you! I'm going to keep monitoring the situation this morning -
Mist rising over Dornoch Firth under a cloudless sky
September 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM