Not Anyone You Know
@slowcrush.bsky.social
Theatre-making, rock climbing, Hull dweller 🏴
Okay we all have criticism for the hegemonic goliath that is American culture but one thing that I love is the continued practice of treating the Muppets, including the denizens of Sesame Street, as if they are real, living entities. I dunno I think it's a charming bit of collective whimsy.
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 18h agoCookie Monster is in the booth with Boog at Wrigley, will be singing Take Me Out (to the ballgame, not the Franz Ferdinand song, unfortunately) in the 7th
Me and my friends would have killed the LNER puppets with hammers, I can tell you that much
Fascists are organised. Get fucking organised too.
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.
Jesus appeared to me in a picnic bench by the minster
Turns out all I need to do to get people to come see theatre is trap them on a floating shopping mall
If I write a column saying it’s time to bomb the Spectator garden party, will the sensibles praise my *wink* contentious *wink* bravery, or will I receive a knock at my door?
Was driving back from London when I heard the news but if I could have done a backflip on the A1 I would have done.
People in London really love using AI huh? This weekend has given me whiplash
When there’s a toddler at a wedding and all the adults are doting and showering them with love and taking turns to dance and cuddle 🥹
Drove into central London unscathed, despite the best efforts of a Waymo, ambulance on a five lane roundabout and an SUV driver who doesn’t know about blind spots 🙌🏻
Had bad vibes about padel since seeing two applications to turn local five-a-side pitches into courts
Padel is exploding across the UK. So why can booking a court cost £100 an hour? - BBC News
Padel is exploding across the UK. So why can booking a court cost £100 an hour?
bbc.co.uk
Worth remembering that this government is subsidising a theme park to the tune of £1.3bn. An amount that would go some way to preserving the intellectual and economic footprint of our universities.
James Woodfield@jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 5d agoAccording to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...
#OtD 1 Aug 1907 Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto, a coal miner and anarchist later executed for attempting to assassinate Mussolini, was born. This is a short biography: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8046...
Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
theguardian.com
The team was: two surfing instructors, a carpenter, a shop assistant… we ran into an Air France cabin crew member out there in the wood… all locals who couldn’t stand by and see their home area burn
I joined a night watch patrol with some of the army of volunteers working to keep the Gironde wildfire outside Bordeaux from reigniting.
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Been called up for jury duty when I’m meant to be seeing England play Sri Lanka 😡
This is what I got into theatre for: to spend literally days working on a spreadsheet of box office data, for just one show, that the Arts Council insist we upload to their platform, only to get this helpful error message. There are 20,000+ cells, you're gonna have to be more precise.
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
