Just bought a 17th century oak coffer in an online auction. Unexpected turn to the day
Emma Payne
@fedbybirds.bsky.social
Screenwriting, poetry, comedy, printmaking, painting, eels, beetles, general detritus
If everyone chants ‘go away you boring little man’ simultaneously & then never reads, posts about or watches anything Ricky Gervais does again I think he will just vanish?
Find this strangely satisfying - Wordle but for paint colours
Colorfle (Paint Edition)
Colorfle: the daily color mixing game! Now in paint edition.
colorfle.com
I like the way this photo I took at Margate Pride yesterday looks a bit like a colourised Victorian postcard of the belles of Cliftonville
Do NOT advertise advent calendars to me, Liberty you fuckers
How on earth do people wear those flip flops with kitten heels?? Your whole body weight slides down & rests on a plastic cheese wire between your toes - do they have feet made of hoof material or something?
Living in a seaside place I’m really noticing how British hot weather dressing has improved recently. Billowing trousers & loose dresses instead of Lycra, sunburn & thousands of bra straps (mostly). Practice I suppose
If I was Jeremy Clarkson I’d see the reactions to the death of Rod Liddle & have a think about how I was spending my life. He won’t of course
This is enough reason to never listen to anything else this person says about anything
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 2w agoLong covid is a disputed subject, at best.
I always think, one benefit of getting older is I can handle rejection so much better, more philosophically, it’s all water under the bridge, these things are subjective after all, until I actually get rejected & then it just fucking sucks the same way it always does & these people are idiots
It's not going to become 'the norm' though, is it? That's what so fucking terrifying about it. It's going to become a lot worse, very quickly.
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w agoWould you be happy if this summer's weather became the norm? Happy: 38% Neither: 22% Unhappy: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
It also seems to be a rule that only the people who have the most boring conversations do this - I always wonder who can be on the other end enduring this tedious minutiae. It’s like it’s only the people with the shittest musical taste turn their radios etc up really loud
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2w agoseem to really be getting crankier with age but I think I've come to absolutely hate people taking lengthy phone calls basically anywhere in public? fine if you're walking but if you're in one place, no one needs to hear about your entire life? god I'm so old, everyone is so annoying
I thought, what would be a great business idea would be someone who would bring an ice cream to your house, until I realised I’d invented the ice cream van
Cancel all data centres, stop unnecessary flights, ban golf courses from watering their greens, do everything to stop this now. There's no point having capitalism if everyone is on fire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
Spanish PM warns of 'complex hours' ahead as wildfires displace 270,000 in Spain and France - follow live
Nearly 200,000 people have been evacuated in south-western France, while Spanish officials say a blaze near Madrid is "beyond the capacity" of firefighters.
bbc.co.uk
I can hear the sound of Alex James’ Britpop Classical wafting over from Dreamland & it seems to be Wonderwall mixed with I Vow to Thee My Country. Embarrassing. I imagine this will be what my old peoples home will be like
Historically accurate if the history you’re trying to recreate is watching a daytime TV movie dubbed from the original Albanian with a lead actor who looks a bit like Charlton Heston
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is the video Musk is quote-tweeting when he says he'll deliver a feature length version of The Odyssey, just in case you were curious how dogshit it is
The fact that they have the shrouds ready - ‘if it does that thing throw the blankets over it & I’ll pivot to questions, no one will notice’
badly drawn bee 🐝@soapachu.bsky.social · 3w agoperfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)
All of my professors at Goldsmiths are on strike as management tries to force involuntary redundancies and shutter courses. They're running an art raffle to support the striking workers, so if you want to support them you can buy tickets here. www.gucu-raffle.com
Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026
gucu-raffle.com
British autism sitcom attracts star names
British autism sitcom attracts star names
Fred Armisen, Penn Jillette and Patton Oswalt in audio comedy
dlvr.it
Can’t pinpoint the exact age at which each visit to the doctor turns from ‘Ah there’s nothing wrong with you, stop making a fuss’ to ‘omg probably cancer, chances are you’re a goner’ for every symptom but it definitely happens
If Spain wins the World Cup the rest of the world has to accept that 14 hours a day is the correct amount of sleep to have for the next 4 years
Sounds like I made the right decision to take no interest in that final at all & go out & forget it was on but well done Spain, Argentina seemed like a bunch of violent cheating shits who deserved to lose
Wondering if this many people who can’t recognise a joke have always existed - & before social media were just walking around silently seething at all the insults & dangerous suggestions they constantly encountered