Steve Eccleston
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[tracker kneels and examines spoor]
- A herd of twits has passed this way but an hour ago.
- How can you tell?
- Look. Fresh nincompoop.
- A herd of twits has passed this way but an hour ago.
- How can you tell?
- Look. Fresh nincompoop.
December 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
[tracker kneels and examines spoor]
- A herd of twits has passed this way but an hour ago.
- How can you tell?
- Look. Fresh nincompoop.
- A herd of twits has passed this way but an hour ago.
- How can you tell?
- Look. Fresh nincompoop.
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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Staggeringly, the people who believe the answer to every problem is ‘more racism’ turn out to be a dismal failure when given a chance to actually run something.
I’m sure this comes as a shock to all.
I’m sure this comes as a shock to all.
The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
But the measures will still leave the county council with a deficit of £72mn over the coming four years
Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
But the measures will still leave the county council with a deficit of £72mn over the coming four years
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Staggeringly, the people who believe the answer to every problem is ‘more racism’ turn out to be a dismal failure when given a chance to actually run something.
I’m sure this comes as a shock to all.
I’m sure this comes as a shock to all.
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Sorry about the increased posts about my products lately everyone, the run up to Christmas is essential for my little business, to hopefully make up for a quiet year. 🙏❤️
(I'd be honoured and so grateful if you buy a gift for a nature lover from me!🥰)
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
(I'd be honoured and so grateful if you buy a gift for a nature lover from me!🥰)
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Sorry about the increased posts about my products lately everyone, the run up to Christmas is essential for my little business, to hopefully make up for a quiet year. 🙏❤️
(I'd be honoured and so grateful if you buy a gift for a nature lover from me!🥰)
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
(I'd be honoured and so grateful if you buy a gift for a nature lover from me!🥰)
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
Northern Rail train home is running very slowly. Slippy tracks, it seems. Described as, and I quote verbatim, "rail hydration"
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Northern Rail train home is running very slowly. Slippy tracks, it seems. Described as, and I quote verbatim, "rail hydration"
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"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"
(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"
January 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"
(Internally) "Is that laying it on too thick? Surely no one in the future will miss the message here"
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Schrödinger: Excuse me, miss, can I borrow that box for a science experiment?
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Schrödinger: Excuse me, miss, can I borrow that box for a science experiment?
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
Pandora: Sure, be my guest.
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It's time for the 2026 Papay calendar.
A4 folding out to an A3, a mix of Papay landcapes and birds.
Price is £17.50 inc UK postage.
Orders being taken, for fine year long view of Papay.
Papay Calendar 2026 — Jonathan Ford
www.jonathanford.org/products.../...
A4 folding out to an A3, a mix of Papay landcapes and birds.
Price is £17.50 inc UK postage.
Orders being taken, for fine year long view of Papay.
Papay Calendar 2026 — Jonathan Ford
www.jonathanford.org/products.../...
November 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's time for the 2026 Papay calendar.
A4 folding out to an A3, a mix of Papay landcapes and birds.
Price is £17.50 inc UK postage.
Orders being taken, for fine year long view of Papay.
Papay Calendar 2026 — Jonathan Ford
www.jonathanford.org/products.../...
A4 folding out to an A3, a mix of Papay landcapes and birds.
Price is £17.50 inc UK postage.
Orders being taken, for fine year long view of Papay.
Papay Calendar 2026 — Jonathan Ford
www.jonathanford.org/products.../...
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good morning gang, let’s all suffer together
November 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
good morning gang, let’s all suffer together
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New on History for Atheists: my long awaited and rather long critical review of Alice Roberts' new book *Domination*:
historyforatheists.com/2025/10/revi...
historyforatheists.com/2025/10/revi...
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
New on History for Atheists: my long awaited and rather long critical review of Alice Roberts' new book *Domination*:
historyforatheists.com/2025/10/revi...
historyforatheists.com/2025/10/revi...
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)
August 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)
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A Defense of Joy – one of the greatest poems ever written, a kind of manifesto for countercultural courage and resistance www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/04/m...
A Defense of Joy
One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite th…
www.themarginalian.org
August 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A Defense of Joy – one of the greatest poems ever written, a kind of manifesto for countercultural courage and resistance www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/04/m...
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I’d make a medieval pun but there’s no my liege in it.
July 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I’d make a medieval pun but there’s no my liege in it.
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You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
July 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
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I am selling this canvas at a special price of £225 to help raise funds to send a local girl to Namibia to work in 2026.
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
June 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I am selling this canvas at a special price of £225 to help raise funds to send a local girl to Namibia to work in 2026.
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
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How to have enough – poet, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry on creativity, love, and the art of the sabbath www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/14/w...
How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love
“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch before Kurt Vonnegut, in a sh…
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June 1, 2025 at 4:47 AM
How to have enough – poet, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry on creativity, love, and the art of the sabbath www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/14/w...
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May 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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In any other election, systematic ballot-burning by state officials would surely be a cause for concern to election observers
May 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
In any other election, systematic ballot-burning by state officials would surely be a cause for concern to election observers
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I wrote about Empire, Inequality and the Architecture of Collapse - and how different systems of imperial control created higher/lower levels of resilience 1/4
May 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I wrote about Empire, Inequality and the Architecture of Collapse - and how different systems of imperial control created higher/lower levels of resilience 1/4
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So after suffering through the "new" Outlook for some days I found that it did have one incredible feature that I found really useful, namely the ability to revert to the old Outlook.
April 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So after suffering through the "new" Outlook for some days I found that it did have one incredible feature that I found really useful, namely the ability to revert to the old Outlook.
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A meditation on the meaning of life lenses through the evolutionary history of magnolias: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
April 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A meditation on the meaning of life lenses through the evolutionary history of magnolias: mailchi.mp/themarginali...