Blackrock US Billionaire is using 13,000 gallons of water a day to keep his grass green and trees watered in Wessex, England, where drought has been declared. They just think they can use everything up because the rules only apply to you.
Paul Garrard
@paulgarrard.bsky.social
Artist. In exile. Laconic. Flâneur. Brexit refugee. Immigrant in France Atheist/Pacifist/Socialist I rarely follow big accounts People who 'don't do politics', grow up. Breathing is a political act. DMs welcome. https://linktr.ee/paulgarrard
LOVE Objet Trouvé á Fürth Photography Meister Jeder, Dadaist and Photographer 8/26 #dada #photography #Fürth
FREE/PWYW: @darrenhayman.bsky.social's 'Ukulele Songs from the North Devon Coast' added to @bandcamp.com to accompany your rainy Summer holiday. darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/album/ukulel... 'Great British Holiday EPs' CD/DVD set also available. "Rain All Summertime" Video: youtu.be/WUErNQzpr50?...
Ukulele Songs from the North Devon Coast EP, by Darren Hayman
4 track album
darrenhayman.bandcamp.com
I think ‘bideebumbum chick’ is my favourite type of guitar lick and Hefner were expert at it. open.spotify.com/track/69aPlE...
The Hymn for the Cigarettes
Hefner, Darren Hayman · The Fidelity Wars · Song · 1999
open.spotify.com
En 1890, Vincent van Gogh (neerlandés 1853-1890) pintó a prisioneros haciendo ejercicio, copiando el grabado de Doré de 1872. Bajo altos muros, los reclusos rodean el patio; una figura pelirroja, con la cabeza descubierta, podría representar al propio Van Gogh.
Bluesky is not a "liberal bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Nazis get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.
The story of An Englishman Abroad takes place in Moscow, but the Caird Hall and Whitehall Theatre in Dundee were used in the production as were several places in Glasgow. Worth a watch tonight on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
Pick: 'An Englishman Abroad' is on Talking Pictures TV at 2035. @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Alan Bennett's TV film about a post-defection Guy Burgess and his run-ins with Coral Browne, who plays herself despite the passing of twenty-five years. Good for her. buff.ly/d0vN5zH
A new project, England’s Glory, it’s a subsection of my project, National Anthem, Land of Hope and Glory. I have completed nine boxes at the moment. These are vintage matchboxes I have been sourcing on eBay. The second disclosure: England’s Glory: Fatherland-ism ©️Linda Hubbard 2026
This one's a bit less subtle. 19yo daughter says that me and OH are too immature to come to Sweden.
Transport Scotland working group explores options for international Caledonian Sleeper services https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/2026/08/05/transport-scotland-working-group-explores-options-for-international-caledonian-sleeper-services/
Transport Scotland working group explores options for international Caledonian Sleeper services
The Scottish government’s delivery body Transport Scotland has begun exploring the possibility of launching direct overnight passenger services to and from destinations in continental Europe, in line with a commitment made by the government in its most recent election campaign. Transport Scotland announced on August 4 that a working group had met for the first…
railwaygazette.com
Morning all Smoke-Stack, Slaithwaite, Yorkshire, England. Photographer Michael Kenna, 1984.
Introducing/reminding people of the wonderment that is Dave Berry. As a young, impressionable lad I thought he was the height of cool. youtu.be/_5Md137mMFQ?... #music
Dave Berry - Little Things (1966)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
youtu.be
The Tories, Reform UK, Restore Britain want to shred worker' rights won over decades even rescind minimal protection of people on zero hour contracts who need all our help & support "Stamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitation" www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitation
The government has launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts.
megaphone.org.uk
I see we're just littering the moon now on top of everything else. Booo everything