Susan E Barsby
@susanebarsby.bsky.social
Writer, reader, runner, mum, knitter. I like coffee, cake and conkers. I miss the sea.
This. And if that isn’t enough the same people park their vehicles on the pavement because they can’t be arsed.
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · 3d agoThinking today of all the water-absorbing front gardens torn out and paved over to park cars on - all without any government oversight or regulation.
"Something happened on the day he died..." All our heroes and legendes are passinge. Thei have done so much. Thei have given us so much. Thei have showne us the waye. It ys tyme for us to be our owne heroes and legendes. Ich knowe, Ich am not at all readye eyther! But heere we go. Hande yn hande.
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
I have spent 3 hours this evening in a phone repair shop getting data transferred from my wreck of a phone and emerge to Tim Curry news. A day after Dolly, why does the universe do this to us?
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
Whenever I’m down I watch this video of Dolly Parton joining Kenny Rogers during their joint 1985 tour. The crowd pop when she comes onstage mid-song is unlike anything I’ve ever heard.
We Got Tonight - Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers live 1985
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Time for this. What a woman. Thanks Dolly. youtu.be/x87Zx3XAIsI?...
Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again (Official Video)
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We need more talented cricketers in Iceland. If you can play a bit and have an Icelandic grandparent or fifth cousin, get in touch. If you have even watched some films by Baltasar Kormákur, we will think about it.
Alright, I've tried to do the 100 favourite films thing and I've managed 20. I have a separate list of 'things I'll watch and enjoy if they're on but wouldn't class as favourites' which is longer.
Travelling from Nottingham to Kent today. I've seen people on Race Across The World traverse Uzbekistan with more ease than we've experienced so far. 🙄
‘I turned down Gandhi because I’m terrified of snakes’: the amazing movie memories of Bruce Dern
‘I turned down Gandhi because I’m terrified of snakes’: the amazing movie memories of Bruce Dern
Famed for playing loners, cranks and wayward angels, the Hollywood star is now a wolfish 90 – but he still jogs daily. As he takes his latest film to Edinburgh, we meet the man Hitchcock called ‘the golden calf’
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i've been chewing on why i think this is so great, and i think at bottom it's that it's such *ordinary* speech. clearly she's thought about this, clearly she has values she's comfortable expressing, but she's not speaking as though she's Making A Political Statement. just plain, earnest language
Your Evil Twin, Skippy@twinskippy.bsky.social · 3w agoGolden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
"Straight Man Brought To Tears After Coming To Understand Just 0.00000001% Of The Magnificence Of Lesbians"
𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · last mo.can't stop laughing😭
My great grandparents 100 years ago - working as a variety artist and I have no idea. 75 years my grandparents were an insurance salesman and amateur musical actor, or working for the fire brigade.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last mo.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
This, the Odyssey discourse, so much angry nerd shit online: it's weird how insistent some people are that things they like must be praised by everyone else, universally acclaimed as Good Like what you fucken like. Let people dislike what they will. For chrissakes, it's so tedious
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last mo.Personally I would say "enough with yet another sneering op-ed about people using a term you don't like," but you do you
Tbh, I subscribed for the summer holidays and they'd survive better if most of their content wasn't terrible. E wants to watch Heartstopper but there's v little else that interests us.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.‘Netflix has to evolve’: can the upstart survive the end of the binge-watch era?
E has returned from her Dof E expedition. It was warm enough to melt her Tangfastics. She has also sacrificed (lost) a hoodie and a hat to the Derbyshire countryside so if you find them, make good use of them.
There are many cinematic ways to pay tribute to the genius of Sam Neill, but can I suggest Hunt for the Wilderpeople? Not one of his box office mega-smashes, but utterly wonderful and Neill is, of course, brilliant and very moving.
The movie holds up. As does this great anecdote courtesy of Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum.
Right, I've managed the first half which is good going for me but it's too boring to stay for the rest. Wake me if there's penalties.
Trying to decide my holiday reading. Last year I got through 7 books while also sightseeing a lot. Any recommendations from this list?
As an MP Ann Widdecombe came into my school once to be grilled by my A level sociology class. She did not charm.
I really need people to understand that being shitty to women is not separate from a person's politics. Contempt for those seen as weaker, resentment towards people who get something you think you're entitled to, using power to dominate or intimidate—these are the foundations of someone's"politics."
