Never read Harry Potter and don't know who Dabby is
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat mundane token of modern life have you never done? I’ve never had a takeaway delivered.
Ben Austwick
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He/him benaustwick.co.uk Hold kindness in your heart like a knife at the throat of the world
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2d ago
Hopefully DSA have been watching the Labour Party and are ready for it
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4d ago..that is not their real fear. Their fear is that the left will go on to win the general election, and, like Mamdani in NYC, prove that the left can govern. They are willing to throw the general election to Republicans by smearing the left and demoralizing the Dem base to avoid that outcome.
Sucks that all the tree protesters in the 80s and 90s spent all that time chained to trees and burrowing underground when they could just have said their favourite womble was buried there.
Kent Walmer, Summer school students of Miss Margaret Morris rehearse on the beach, 21 Aug 1934.
I wonder if @economist.com listened to this podcast before publishing that article 🤔
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · yesterdayThomas Piketty wrote the hugely successful "Capital in the 21st Century." He's long been sounding the alarm on neoliberalism. It was great to sit down with him and talk economics, solutions and what's next for politics. youtu.be/d_83pFubGvQ?...
The urban realm not being so devoid of leisure utilities might help, barbecue areas in city parks for instance
Jo Kibble (Political Animal)@politicanimal.bsky.social · 21h agoFirmly of the belief, rooted in the history of those very hills around Snake, that the countryside belongs to everyone and everyone deserves to enjoy it. But sod me if people don’t make it hard to cling to that belief sometimes.
This is about me reading Kolyma Tales on a beach in Greece
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 22h agoTom Gauld on the military history dad’s holiday reading – cartoon
I do actually have a friend who draws cartoon cats for a living. He's just returned from working with children in occupied Palestine. Does a lot of that kind of thing. Stick that up your arse Gervais
Grouting the patio as a climate-conscious building surveyor is probably more complicated than it needs to be (drainage for future monsoon conditions)
Oh wow! My introduction to the internet and a site I referenced very liberally in my Politics BA (along with the Economist's annual fact book these were the only places you could reliably find things like a country's GDP)
CNN@cnn.com · 6mo agoAfter decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on February 4 with no advance notice. https://cnn.it/4kqanLy
Climate change latest from these guys is enjoy the hot weather
The Gaulstown Dolmen • Waterford This Neolithic portal tomb known as the Gaulstown Dolmen likely dates to around 3800–3400 BC. It is beautifully set in an atmospheric glade at the foot of a hill known as Cnoc na Cailligh (the Hill of the Witch) #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #DiscoverIreland
1/ Kirkgate Tenements, Huddersfield: three three-storey blocks containing two room tenements with internal WC designed by Borough Engineer KF Campbell, completed 1914. They were unusual in catering for a poorer class than most council housing at the time ...
Cyanotype Prints of The Devil's Den and The Cove, Avebury, both in Wiltshire, both Sacred Places for @stoneclub.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday. I love the way the Cyanotype picks up the texture of the stones and the blades of grass so well. haggytea.etsy.com
I just can't believe we've done this. Snuck under the culture war radar
Rachel Sylvester@rachelsylvester.bsky.social · yesterdayNew Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Really hope this realises it's potential. Could be a game changer, as they say, providing a cost effective, easy to implement, transit solution for urban environments. Go Coventry! 👨🚀 🚀 😏 www.uktram.org/post/coventr...
Coventry Very Light Rail demonstrator track enters construction phase
The Coventry Very Light Rail project has now broken ground on a 400m long construction section along Mile Lane, the first of three phases to deliver the City Centre Demonstrator Track. This section fe...
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Charles Addams ( 1912 - 1988 ) 'Woman feeding tiny men birdseed ' 1975 ♥️
yelling "we are a Christian country" as I snatch the bedsheets off a refugee
Ben Austwick@benaustwick.bsky.social · 3d agoYou massive tight arse
discovered a new bad feeling today (waved at a passing miniature railway train and no one waved back)
This is great and it's also funny if you don't like music
gooser@gooser.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s Bandcamp friday which is a good time to remind anyone that they are free to purchase 13songsworth of my bullshit. If you already did that then may all your dreams come true 💫 sarahfarrell.bandcamp.com/album/stoat-...