It seems dogs are now windowsill-deployed in Avignon (don't worry the window is open)
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So shave your face with some mace in the dark
I think this is bad (absolutely awful if true), Ben-Gvir is a mad extremist, status quo shouldn't be touched while noting that the article never mentions why it is, or addresses the strangeness of, the absolute holiest site in Judaism, being forbidden to Jews and Jews only.
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 22h agoReally bad www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
It is *insane* how much better Curtis Sittenfeld's short stories are than her novels. Halfway through a collection (Show, Don't Tell) and enjoying myself immensely, such talent. Can almost forget how much Prep, American Wife and Rodham annoyed me. Thrilled to see there's another volume of them.
Thai tonight, for a change. Crying tiger, but of course without any real chilli as France.
Can't help but find this a little bit ... wtf
Can't believe I said prescient twice, what a pretentious dick. But genuinely you should all read this one. It's profoundly odd.
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦@showerabsolute.bsky.social · yesterday15. recommend and review a book. I normally do The Transit of Venus hit for this sort of question but: Party Going by Henry Green. The forgotten modernist's masterpiece, a hallucinatory, tense funny and prescient novel of a group holed up in a station hotel before going on holiday. Eerily prescient
Oh absolutely, ideal sun lounger job, like away
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Faaascinating and well, doable? Although the hope for cross-party consensus does require a 200% saner Tory party than we have now
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · yesterdayNew post out: There's going to be a lot of talk about wealth taxes in the run up to the budget. So we asked one of the country's leading experts to give us a ten year plan for doing it right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
I think my punishment for the evil of the first course was all the wasps that it attracted, such that I had to move inside. The main course was only moderately evil
Some good churches, views if you're about early. Feat. my guesthouse
I hear your mum got to name a riverboat
Without downloading new pics. What's it like dating you?
Nostalgic Things@nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 3d agowithout downloading new pics what's it like dating you?
Courtyard behind le Palais des Papes, cocktail at least some of them may have approved of (Champagne, crème du menthe, strawberry purée, it works okay)
I don't know why the French put up with the coffee situation
Touraine roi rose piglet braised "à la George Sand", île flottante with pastis in the crème anglaise. Just call me RS Archer
It’s kinda impressive for such a short phrase to be so deeply and fundamentally historically inaccurate. The mainstream centre-left were the most consistent and principled opponents of fascism in the 20s and 30s
Andrew S.@shoutingboy.bsky.social · 5d ago“Liberals will always choose fascism over socialism” is one of this website’s conventional ways of saying “I am stupid and I prefer reading the opinions of other stupid people”. It is good when stupid people self-identify, so we should not complain when they do so 
Le Grand Départ. Part 1: Salisbury to Le Shuttle. For successful road tripping I recommend matching your shoes and perfume to the car.
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦@showerabsolute.bsky.social · 5d agoEuro-trip ready with the smallest UK sticker I reckon I can get away with, a full sized one in the glovebox in case, and my Emovis tag for the autoroute tolls. Arrest-me-orange paint just something I have to deal with.
Procopius's Secret History, but only if it's directed by Armando Iannuci.
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 5d agook let's do a discourse: what historical text absolutely needs the big budget film treatment, AND will create the need for a review by a scholar in a prestige publication? for medieval Europe, either: -- Song of Roland -- Book of Margery Kempe
Euro-trip ready with the smallest UK sticker I reckon I can get away with, a full sized one in the glovebox in case, and my Emovis tag for the autoroute tolls. Arrest-me-orange paint just something I have to deal with.
🇺🇦 NEW BLOGPOST 🇺🇦 Driving to Ukraine was an incredible, exhausting experience. My lasting memory is of the people there who refused to be cowed. From the institutions adapting to new challenges to people simply embracing life - Ukraine remains strong.
"You shouldn't feel sorry for Ukraine"
The nation is a victim. The people refuse to be.
open.substack.com
Decided a little bit twee so switched to another stolen bud
Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦@showerabsolute.bsky.social · 6d agoWedding later, may have just nicked a little buttonhole on my way back from coffee
So, here’s a random question (basically after seeing @showerabsolute.bsky.social’s request for accommodation in France) we have 3 kids ranging from 18-8, eldest has a learning disability so can’t be treated as a normal 18 yo. We’d like to do a an all inclusive fly and flop, but need 3 bedrooms
Going by his "should have said 75 years" and making it "during the war" for amusement I have options: A) Brigadier in Burma campaign B) Residing at the Dorchester, drinking C) Advising on vegetables D) Student at Girton I'm going with B) and you would too.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?