It started off with the cat bringing in birds but now it’s got completely out of hand…
Laura-Elseplace
@laura-elseplace.bsky.social
I bake and knit and sew and grow edible things and live quietly and am happily married and will believe in egalitarian freedom til my last breath.
The excellent arrangement of chimneys at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire. This 15th century building was later home to Laurence Sterne, the 18th century author of the groundbreaking book, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 🤩
It's called the Kemi Bounce. And resembles a falling piano.
Has she really not read what she's just written, or is it a double-bluff way to make it clear how vile Rod Liddle was...?
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 15h agoNow, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.
Imagine being so dense you don’t understand Vimes’ Boot Theory of Economic Injustice, and dismissing it as a dumb idea chucked out by a mere fantasy writer for a joke.
Beautiful everyday Ladybird things The bookshop Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
God, that's deeply sinister behaviour from RTC...
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
My Gran (b.1906) was the kind of "not keen on Them simply because I have never spoken to One and am Scared by Media" but after her first-ever stay in NHS hospital in 1990s that vanished completely & she was loud in praise of lovely nurses, so kind & gentle. But none of her kind ought to exist now!
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · yesterdayAnyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.
Il va falloir arrêter d'appeler ça un "changement" climatique, cest un effondrement complet showyourstripes.info/c/europe/fra...
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What I love about Bluesky is what I loved about old Twitter: if I want to find out about something (however recondite) there will be someone here (often with a PhD in it) and the time and patience to share their knowledge. /1
Yes I acknowledge it makes sense in context but “I need my car to meet criminals” is now my favourite basis for an attempted exceptional hardship plea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is an excellent post that decimates the idea that there is a Truth Police out there actively monitoring bad faith academic work. As most academics and especially journal editors know, a system built on assuming good faith will always struggle against LaCour type fabulists.
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 3d agoNew post: those wanting Jason Arday to face 'justice' of some kind are not going to get what they want willd10.substack.com/p/how-the-ja...
A form of touch-screen interface. In a Ladybird book. In 1971 How it Works: The Computer, (1971) Artist: BH Robinson
Rod Liddle was very much like Marmite, in that you wouldn’t want him on your television screen, radio, or newspaper.
This is the kind of thing that made me want to learn how to make shawls... beautiful! Can you imagine how stunning this will look when finished, worn for a walk through autumn woods?
OfDragonflies@abitofearth.bsky.social · 2d agoMan! It’s shawl week for #showmeyourknits and I’m nowhere near done with my very first shawl project. Oh well. A WIP photo will have to do. I really need to have this done when the weather turns because I love it so much :)
Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"
The picture on the front of Reform's policy is of HMS Ocean on the River Thames in 2012. It was sold by to the Brazilian navy in 2018. Turns out you can judge a book by its cover.
Good question! Where are the other thirty-odd candidates, for balance during a by-election campaign???
Carol Hedges@riotgrandma.bsky.social · 2d agoHow come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
It was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
A totally gorgeous little staircase, and panelling, up to the gallery in the Church of St. Leonard, Old Warden, Bedfordshire 😍
At Lincoln Cathedral the “Lincoln Imp” sits cross-legged high up on the angel choir, which was built between 1250 and 1280. He’s attracted lots of legends and been adopted as the official mascot of the city. #SundayStonework #lincolncathedral
