I will 100% be reading this. Betty Davis still sounds like a future that almost happened, where the fierce women and big freaks demolished the master's house. Essential.

Zack Furness@punkademic.bsky.social · 29m ago

Hopping on for a quick second just to share news that my partner @daniellemaggio.bsky.social got a contract with @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social to do a UK version of her fabulous forthcoming book on @feministpress.bsky.social called Game is Her Middle Name: The Life & Music of Betty Davis

A library getting its opening hours EXTENDED? A rare joy indeed, friends.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 3h ago

Now that the local library is open five days a week I am using the local library more often. What a joy.

Current reading. Halfway through and not bad, maybe a touch self-aggrandising here and there. A useful history of the Left over the last 50 years (no doubt open to much dispute) with memoir, anger and jokes.

If you want to help families in Gaza receive much-needed food and fresh drinking water, you can donate here: chuffed.org/project/help...

Food & Water x The Sameer Project

Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...

chuffed.org

Well, let's get the bad news over first. Got a parking fine in Aberdeen yesterday.

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

The Björk LP is now sold, but the Françoise Hardy is still available if you wanna hit me up.

Gordon Anderson@librarygordon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Records for sale: Françoise Hardy - Et si je m'en vais avant toi (gatefold, 2016 reissue) and Björk- Vulnicura (double LP). Both in Ex cond. Let me know if you fancy either or want more info. Price details in front cover alt text. UK only.

This is my favorite picture on the internet (Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe defeats children in a game of dominoes during a visit to a school, September 2019)

I must know more about this decision.

🎶 Goose jail! Ah-wooh-ooh! 🎶

maybe the greatest "letter gone missing" instance I've ever witnessed, deeply humbling

Really enjoyed the phrase 'marine mammal medics' in this piece. Imagine being pushed out of the way by two people in wetsuits sprinting towards the beach. "MARINE MAMMAL MEDICS - stand aside!! We've got dolphins to save!" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mumbles dolphin rescue sees medics refloat stranded mammal

Two dolphins were found thrashing in shallow water with medics "refloating" one.

bbc.co.uk

Cat Island, Aoshima Island, Southern Japan. Photograph Thomas Peter. Oddly reminds me of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs.

the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor

In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone

WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront

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rip annie dillard

He is very nice & let me "have a go" on his organ last night. It is fabulous.

Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.

Waterloo station Left-luggage lockers Ev-ery Thursday night Cheating and lying Fondling some knockers He'll pay for this alright

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · last wk.

Waterloo station used to have left luggage lockers. On Wednesday lunchtime I used to buy stuff and leave it in a locker, the next day was late night shopping but I'd be meeting my lover, I'd collect the shopping from the locker and arrive home late looking innocent

Goodness! All of my double entendres have come at once.

Sophie@elseypoos.bsky.social · 6d ago

I messaged the director of my department that I was "almost home and ready to slam in the lamb" with several kisses and my stomach near on fell out of my arse when I realised what had happened. Apologised profusely and all he said was "what time's dinner?"

Told my teenage nieces that my new doctor is so young she diagnosed me as having 'mad rizz'. Highly recommend. Their looks of confusion, horror and disappointment will sustain me for quite some time.

Fantastically angry poem of the day from Summer Lopriore www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Occasionally, I'm reminded of my all time favourite piece of internet: this Reddit post from 12 years ago in which a guy claims he ruined dinner with his girlfriend's parents by refusing to admit he knew what a potato was.

Think it's time to reintroduce myself on here. Hello! I'm Gordon. I'm a library person, literary event organiser/host of ten years' experience, and am fond (can you believe) of indiepop music and a good cardigan. I also write stuff: poems, short fiction & creative essays. Pleased to meet ya. x

I'm in this and I don't like it.

DC Pierson@dcpierson.bsky.social · last wk.

Singer Sargent's paintings of Europe pre/circa WW1 are the best thing I've ever seen in person. The technique is astonishing.

Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · last wk.

John Singer Sargent spent part of several summers in the early 1900s painting open-air subjects in Italy’s Val d’Aosta. The resulting works reveal his pleasure in the description of brilliant light; here a party of climbers almost seem to merge with the rockface.

Something in the modern book world I despise is the deliberate, upfront declaration of tropes in romance book promotion, such as '...featuring opposites attract and forced proximity'. This internet-style 'YOU LIKE DAT SO YOU LIKE DIS', narrow-lane, consumer comfort-blanket shtick makes me vomit.

Nothing I like better than getting down to some funky grooves or, if time is tight, a single groof.

This is an extraordinary painting by an artist I know precisely nothing about.

Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · last wk.

'In Bed.' (1878) Frederico Zandomeneghi's paintings focus almost exclusively on the theme of women: as mothers, friends or solitary figures engaged in private 'rituals' - subjects which were also of interest to his circle of friends including Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot.

Steve Cram on the Athletics coverage is steadily becoming a sort of late-period Murray Walker figure, getting names wrong, words wrong, stumbling around in a bit of a dazed grandad fashion.