Big thanks to @redemmas.org in Baltimore for giving us the perfect tote bag for the End Times Fascism book tour. Out today! @astra.bsky.social naomiklein.org/end-times-fa...
Nathan Human
@thehumanish.co.uk
Curious asker of questions for fun and work. Sometime storyteller. thehumanish.co.uk
I don’t trust any content creator that can’t flip a video the right way round.
@wormito.bsky.social Phew. Bills save the weekend! And your prediction could easily have come to pass!
Why no bank holidays from now until Christmas? This is why.
![Scene is a Victorian drawing room; a group of gentlemen is assembled for a meeting. At the front of the room, stood at a large blackboard, is SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, the inventor of bank holidays. The board has a calendar drawn on it. Also in the room is a SMALL DOG sat on the floor.
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LUBBOCK:
And so gentlemen, I, Sir John Lubbock, hereby announce
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LUBBOCK:
The invention of ‘bank holidays’!
Legally protected days off work, for the whole nation to rest.
AUDIENCE:
CLAP CLAP CLAP
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LUBBOCK (marking days on the calendar):
My first two bank holidays shall be at Easter...
and then another straight after in May...
4
LUBBOCK:
And then - what the hell - another one in May!
And then one in August!
AUDIENCE:
Hurrah!
5
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
So many, Sir John?
LUBBOCK (grabbing him by the lapel, his face ecstatic)
Life is for living, man!
6
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
And then in the Autumn, sir….?
7
[Lubbock looks sideways. He is distracted by the SMALL DOG. It has started scooting its bum across the floor]
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LUBBOCK:
Ugh.
[his face has dropped, it's totally grossed him out]
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LUBBOCK:
OK that'll do
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
What?
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Is that it? You’ve put loads in the summer…
LUBBOCK:
Yeah
no more bank holidays till Christmas.
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AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Sir - have you just condemned future generations to long winters of unalleviated toil... because you saw my dog scooting its arse and it killed your vibe?
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LUBBOCK:
It's so gross
AUDIENCE MEMBER:
Rollo can’t help it!
[dog continues to scoot across floor]
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*Adds to list of reasons not to go where people are.
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 6d agoApple announces 'Live Rewind' for the new Apple Watch, letting users pull up the last 15 seconds of nearby conversation.
Absolutely fascinating to think that every single one of us is descended from either Fred & Wilma Flinstone or Barney & Betty Rubble.
This whole series is fascinating and sad and depressing. The reliance so many people have on chatbots should be way more worrying than whether AI is going to set off a nuke. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Black Box: The Chatbots
Documentary Podcast · Series · People are becoming convinced they have made scientific breakthroughs, cured diseases or invented new technologies using AI chatbots. What does this reveal about a techn...
podcasts.apple.com
Morning. My first cheesecake was a success yesterday. Might make a banana cake today. (The job hunt is going great, not sure why you ask.)
I asked AI what was wrong with AI creating posters/flyers for businesses, and it wrote a piece on The Loss of Human Intent.
I don’t want to cause any trouble, but I think I’m going to make a cheesecake today.
And this is why we need comedians (his name is Clayton English)
Trying to imagine the excitment of preppers seeing this news story today: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/03/angela-eagle-uk-stock-up-supplies-el-nino-warning
Good morning. It is September and still dark but also still warm at 5.30am It is confusing.
[police car passes on the motorway] POLICEMAN (mouthing): pull over ME (mouthing): no, it's a cardy. Do you like it?
Good morning. I have acccepted middle age and let this series add some big laughs to my last few days.
Bought myself a big Toblerone & I feel like I’ve broken an unspoken law of the universe, as if nothing is sacred & there are no rules in the world. They are a present, a thing people bring you back from holiday: one does not just buy a big Toblerone, the same as one does not simply walk into Mordor
Good morning. I shall be checking if the pears are ready for picking this morning. I know you’ve been wondering.
I like Omar Marmoush, cos my mum says his name like she’s Kate Bush.
If I say something happened "the other day" that can mean any time between 1990 and yesterday