The Dalai Farmer

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International Man of History. Heritage buildings and metalwork. A man of dreadful aspect and sorry footwear, "either an animal or a god" (Aristotle) therestlessforge.ghost.io

It is somewhat hilarious that Chris Nolan has made 2(4, technically) movies about famous heroes who are iconically known for their cleverness, brilliance, tricks, & polyamory & turned them both into heroes primarily defined by the ability to endure suffering & pain & their deep romantic commitment.

The telly people have been on again. They're almost perennially keen to have me on one of their awful 'boat life' shows, despite the fact I'd spend the whole time going "don't buy a boat". The only thing that tempts me is how cross @yakhunt.net would be if I was on his telly one night

All the 'best' or 'greatest' arguments are tedious and smack of the 'well actually' crowd of (mostly) dull men, so I don't argue of a better or worse ranking, but my contribution is summarised by this: on Saturday I bought yet another copy of Turin Brakes' The Optimist LP (2001), which I then

The Best Album of 2001@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Best Album of 2001 Round 2 Match #95 #11 Missy Elliott, MISS E... SO ADDICTIVE VS. #54 Unwound, LEAVES TURN INSIDE YOU Go here to vote: forms.gle/W6954iLjAdAQ...

First pic: A blue tinted photo of a close up of Missy Elliot, a Black woman with short black hair in what I'd call a Pat Benatar style. She wears large hoop earrings with diamonds, and a collared jacket that is vaguely like camouflage. Behind her are two spherical metal objects, covered with sharp spikes. That are reminiscent of both ocean mines and viruses.  Second pic: The image is completely dark grey. At the bottom, there appears to be the word "unwound" in a kind of Gothic, Old English kind of font/writing. Part of the word bleed out of the image on the left, right, and bottom.

It’s particularly egregious with campus bullshit, where there’s always some new trendy Afro-lesbionics researcher to hunt and shred, just as there’s forever some mean-as-fuck head-measuring crackpot who must be defended to the death over his “Rhodesia did nothing wrong” thesis, or freedom dies.

Gee whizz, is that yet another left wing/black/transgender/whatever person who has done something terrible? How fortunate we are have a national press that is ever microscopically vigilant for the crimes of uppity Bolshevik Muslims, and will not tolerate one moment of their troublemaking.

Whilst it's always nice to see Sam Altman being dunked on, the idea of talking to children on the school run is frankly preposterous; those things are fucking mental first thing in the morning when they've just been charged up and then filled with breakfast.

Woke early to the sound of deep rumbling outside. 'Oh thank god' I thought, imagining the thunder storm we are so desperate for. Turns out it was a farm trailer bouncing over a nearby canal bridge. Bollocks.

...a few years ago we did some Zippy content and were contacted by Tom Hayes, regular listener of the pod and son of Geoffrey. He informed us that Zippy and George were happily living out their retirement with Tom's mum following the passing of his dad in 2018... 2/3

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