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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷

@mudlarklives.bsky.social

Something new comes in on each daily tide, and who knows what digging will turn up? Native Tampeño. Vanderbilt and Financial Times alumnus. European. Londoner. Opera. Figs.

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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 10h ago

Charlton Athletic’s chairman has dampened speculation about the club's future after a newspaper reported that it was up for sale. Gavin Carter said it must have been "a slow news day" after The Guardian reported details of a pitch sent to potential investors. greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/08/05/c...

Charlton Athletic chairman plays down 'club for sale' report - The Greenwich Wire

Charlton Athletic’s chairman has dampened speculation about the future of the club after a newspaper reported that it was up for sale. Gavin Carter spoke out after The Guardian reported on Monday…

greenwichwire.co.uk

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 10h ago

First week in August brings the first abundance of ripe #Charlton #figs on the trees' lower, reachable branches. Jam today, jam tomorrow. Higher up, loudly but out of sight, birds have been feasting for a while and continue to feast somewhat wastefully. @shochi.bsky.social @mikeshanahan.bsky.social

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 11h ago

An anecdote that might make an opposite point than that intended. Perhaps the class *should* have shut up and paid attention (based on what can be observed about adult attitudes and behaviour now - not a reference to Scotland or any generation in particular).

James Meek@jamesmeek.bsky.social · 12h ago

Back in the 70s in Scotland an actual German ex-Nazi was wheeled into our RE class to lecture us about the perils of Naziism and within a few minutes he was shouting angrily at us for not keeping quiet and paying his story the proper respect

Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 15h ago

👉NEW -- UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding by Martin Williams Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers www.declassifieduk.org/uk-charities...

UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding

Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers

declassifieduk.org

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · yesterday

Thank goodness, I'm old and assimilated enough for "Max Miller" to mean first and foremost the Cheeky Chappie, but the current US version sounds like a man who Rod Liddle fans would praise to high heaven. Perhaps they already are.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · yesterday

Ok, that's enough world for today.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one point in our conversation he pulled up the Bristol Stool Chart, which ranges from Type 1 (“separate, hard pellets”) to Type 7 (“watery, no solid pieces”). O’Mara is consistently delivering Type 4 (“smooth, soft, like a snake”), with pointed ends, indicative of healthy rectal function, he told me. “When you start eating healthy, you don’t need toilet paper,” he claimed. “Animals in the wild have no residual stool on their anus.” He described a proper bowel movement to me this way: odorless, wipe-free, over in three to seven seconds and “nearly orgasmic.”

“I could have a bowel movement behind a sheet at a dinner party in the corner of the room,” he said, “and nobody would know.”

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · yesterday

Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social A Year Of Saying No To Everything [photo: Niall Harbison with dog, sadly unidentified] niallharbison.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...

A Year Of Saying No To Everything

Complete focus

niallharbison.substack.com

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.

Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · yesterday

To secure his seat on a burial club board in exactly 1 CE, Nepos paid for the ossuary's new mosaic floor out of his own pocket. It is a masterful display of status: funding local infrastructure so your peers literally walk all over your name in perpetuity. #EpigraphyTuesday #AncientBluesky 🏺

MOSAIC INSCRIPTION OF NEPOS, 1 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS

Here we see a rectangular mosaic panel featuring a Latin text in black tesserae against a white background, mounted on a wall among various marble funerary plaques. Originally excavated from the subterranean Columbarium of the Volusii Saturnini, the text reads: NEPOS DEC PAVIMENTVM IN OSSVARIO ET SVBSCALARIA D S P D D C CAESARE L PAVLLO COS. The inscription translates to record that Nepos, a decurion of a burial club, funded the pavement of the ossuary and the area under the stairs with his own money. The consular date line specifically anchors this public works gift, or summa honoraria, to the year 1 CE under Gaius Cæsar and Lucius Paullus. Nepos did not act alone: two other decuriones, Mellax and Lucrio, funded additional decorations for this exact same stairway. Setting his name in stone was therefore not merely a selfish desire to be remembered, but rather reflected a profound urge to embellish a shared, sacred space for the fellow members of his sodality.

The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · yesterday

Designed by celebrated architect William Merrell Vories (Vories & Co.), this interior detail from the flagship Daimaru Shinsaibashi store in Osaka captures the exquisite Art Deco and Neo-Gothic craftsmanship that defined interwar Japanese commercial architecture. part 1 of 3

The photograph highlights an illuminated marble newel-post fixture anchoring a staircase, capped with a dark sculpted canopy and set with hexagonal lanterns. The soft, backlit stained panels feature six-pointed star geometric lattice—a motif bridging Western Art Deco geometry with traditional Japanese asanoha (hemp leaf) patterns. In the background, polished marble cladding, sleek metal handrails, and mirrored reflections framed by arched, grilled openings create an impression of luminous depth and spatial elegance. Completed in phases during the 1920s and 1930s (and meticulously preserved through the building's modern restoration), Vories' decorative program remains one of Shōwa-era Osaka's most celebrated architectural treasures.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · yesterday

David Allen Green @davidallengreen.bsky.social Why Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC is not going well for him theemptycity.com/blog/2026/08...

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders 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.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · yesterday

Lucy Inglis @lucyinglis.bsky.social The One About Anniversaries lucyinglis77gmailcom.substack.com/p/the-one-ab...

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · yesterday

Question served up again just now. The drip, drip, drip of planted ideas.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 4d ago

When this question (but not "is the earth flat?") is being asked several times a week in online surveys on reputable platforms, is it surprising that a UK podcaster is expounding his Rand Paul-lite nonsense? I see that he's now questioning the existence of long covid.

Survey question. Do you think that the following is true or false?

The COVID-19 pandemic was exaggerated to control people.
Choices: definitely true, probably true, probably false, definitely false.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · yesterday

Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Liddle to be celebrated. An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

h/t @weathermizu.bsky.social [image: stock photo of back of woman's head and backs of computer monitors]

The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · 2d ago

Misinformation, including AI generated material, has been circulating online in the aftermath of the July earthquake in Kumamoto, pushing political views and conspiracy theories.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Fulsome" in its correct sense too.

Dr Neutopia@oceanclub.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today reminds me there was a UK journalist who died and received fulsome tributes from many others. It was considered the height of rudeness when some pointed out none of the tributes had mentioned he'd killed his wife. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ka...

Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 2d ago

John Kay (journalist, born 1943) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 2d ago

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

The Times full page - ‘Brilliant, provocative, inimitable’
Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, combined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit, writes Alex Farber

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

The celebration of a hate-mongering, physically violent, self-confessed luster after children and defender of child sexual abuse images is a clarifying moment about the terminal rot of British media culture.

Richard Pantis @dickpantis.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Others were afraid to confess that they have a carnal, irrepressible sexual attraction to children, or call for child pornography to be legalised. Not 'playful genius' Rod. Like a paedophile Neil Armstrong, he took one giant leap for noncekind every time he submitted his brave columns."

madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d ago

A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

[Photo of weightlifting silver medallist Madias Nzesso Ngake]

Outsports@outsports.com · 2d ago

Once a refugee living on the street, gay weightlifter wins Commonwealth Games silver medal - buff.ly/pgf0UzC

Héctor Barros 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)@snibbits.eurosky.social · 3d ago

Labour will never get my vote again.

The Guardian article:

The UK Home Office has started stripping some EU citizens of their post-Brexit residency rights, in a move that has raised concerns about Britain’s compliance with its withdrawal agreement with Europe.

The UK internal affairs authority has told at least 100 people that they were given residency rights “in error”, disrupting their lives just as they come to the end of their five-year “pre-settled status” and prepare to upgrade to the permanent “settled status”.

A Portuguese woman working in the NHS and researching a PhD in Britain says her life has been turned upside down after being told by the Home Office she was granted post-Brexit rights to live in the country “in error”.

She was granted pre-settled status under the EU settlement scheme, similar to 1.3 million others who had been in the country for fewer than five years before the UK left the EU.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

A model of informative ALT text. A great account for many reasons.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

A model of informative ALT text. A great account for many reasons.

The Kimono Gallery@roger1952.bsky.social · 2d ago

September, 1957, Japan

Captured in September 1957, this evocative street photograph offers a candid and affectionate glimpse into daily life and generational camaraderie during Japan's post-war Shōwa era. The image highlights a fascinating sartorial blend of traditional Japanese folk workwear and Western accessories typical of the mid-20th century. On the left, one man pairs a crisp Western-style fedora with a dark outer coat, work kimono, and fitted momohiki (working trousers), leaning casually on a long black umbrella used as a walking stick. Beside him, his companion wears a soft cloth sun hat, a short striped work jacket (hanten or donfuku) bound at the waist, momohiki leggings, and split-toe jika-tabi, steadying his stride with a slender bamboo cane. Set against a wooden storefront with sliding glass windows and retro painted shop signage featuring a four-digit telephone number, the scene anchors the men in the quiet, everyday rhythms of a provincial town, capturing the enduring warmth and dignity of an older generation navigating rapid modern transition.

@context776.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Reminder, the only time Trump played a golf tournament where he couldn't cheat, the American Century celebrity tournament in 2006, he shot 52 over par in 3 rounds and finished in 62nd place out of 80 celebrities," a golfer noted.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2d ago

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social @popular.info After the Mamdani 9/11 smear, a cover-up. Media outlets pushed a false narrative about the number of family members of 9/11 victims who signed a petition targeting Mamdani - and then tried to cover their tracks. popular.info/p/update-aft...

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago

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

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷@mudlarklives.bsky.social · 3d ago

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Unseen Japan@unseenjapan.com · 3d ago

Confirmed: 22yo Ōtake Kurumi, an employee at variety store Habita, was ordered back into Aeon Mall Kumamoto by a manager after the quake to secure the cash. Minutes later it exploded, killing her. A Habita exec said: "Looking back now, it wasn't worth a life" (ya think??)