The Christmas Greeting Dove is still far away, tediously lugging his ornate messages toward their recipients...
Susie M
@wrathofgodherself.bsky.social
Mammal. Actor, writer, editor, reader, sister, comedy scene survivor, older than you think. Virtual collector and junk-fiend. Dispenser of small ephemeral offerings against the prevailing horror.
Beetley characters discussing a visit to the shoe shop.
Ian McShane is 84 On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’ youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...
Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (HQ)
YouTube video by Oxygene 80
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“You could never create a single account on a single Meta service… and you still aren't safe. If you're talking to someone who has installed Muse, Meta could, presumably, access, read, analyze, and upload that information to its services.”
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 3w agoMeta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
Dear #Apple please stop fucking up your new releases by adding sneaky little moves which steal the intellectual by-catch of a user's life and thinking. Just provide usable items for professionals who are not fantasy masters of the universe. At fair cost.
People in public-facing jobs are often described as tight-lipped about incidents. Some people are ALREADY tight lipped; it is their perpetual demeanour How then do they further tighten a lip? Eh? How would one know? Think about that one.
Humpty Dumpty & the Coral Grotto - adventures in the undersea world
The White Lion washing liquid will attack your laundry just perfectly
The Joy of Floor Polishing, something new you can share with your spouse.
Vanilla Wafers, to nibble as companions to your evening Pernod
Meanwhile, in a small attic office space in a London house, a former UK Prime Minister combs his silvered hair into his trademark quiff, and rehearses lines he has been taught to say to his mirror image. 'You've still got it' 'People respect you' 'You will be fine'...
Remember that meme, with three people passing in the street, and the look...? Here it is pre-internet, with some animal characters.
Love this photo www.npr.org/2026/09/27/g...
Photos: This may be the most inspirational night school on Earth
Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A small network of schools on a shoestring budget is teaching them the ABCs.
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Miss Flora, picking up the flouting-house-rules baton from the late, great and much missed Sodoffskaya. #catsofbluesky
While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
JUMP ON, PRESS IN, STEADY THERE - WE'RE ON THE WAY TO GALERIES LAFAYETTE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerie...
Yes, yes, mysteries, proliferating, enormous mysteries, mysteries too big to delve into, frankly..
These things are called Bilboquets they're related to ancient toys of the stick-and-ball type, or more like throwing hoops at the fair to win a goldfish - anyway, a promotional item, for your endless entertainment.
[1964] Time Out - "The guns of James Bond", Sean Connery, on the Pinewood set of Goldfinger, introduces a report about the influence gun expert Geoffrey Boothroyd has had on the character of James Bond.
Remember that meme, with three people passing in the street, and the look...? Here it is pre-internet, with some animal characters.
Missy Flora is making progress. She had a slightly lairy day yesterday - full moon/frustration at being stuck indoors - but then there are lovely moments like this. She's only on her 5th day. We'll get there. #catsofbluesky
Horrible to see that - in some sense - today's financial survival options for such a singular writer are either 1) accept $175k from a prize that requires you to destroy your fragile health with promotional requirements, or 2) accept $175k with no strings from a rightwing Koch-funded thinktank :-0
Martin Shaw@thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 3w ago“When I was younger, I imagined that one of the things that people in the publishing world would enjoy most was interacting with brilliant writers. I didn’t realize that people went to great lengths to avoid discussing texts with an author.” english.elpais.com/culture/2026...
Can anyone recommend a good biography of Gertrude Jekyll?