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holy shit this is actually brilliant

So when you find a vulnerable population where response rates are merely very low - confused old people, horny middle aged men, authors - of course you quickly set up an entire micro industry to exploit it

great time of year for swimming in brockwell lido

delightful last evening in st ives

really terrible news. if the bbc can’t uphold and sustain intellectual life then it’s failing one of its critical purposes. removing your purposes and things you do well is an act of self harm. an extended In Our Time is not recompense for a plurality of programming!

i tell you what, being on holiday and all “I’m Burlington Bertie I rise at 10:30” is v good for the soul. they need to give me an ample stipend to do it on the regular.

I knew I couldn't have come up with this myself. here's your big bowl of raw minced beef, delicious

Harry Redknapp is a phenomenal choice as brand ambassador for legal and employment organisational compliance software.

by god the first side of the purple mountains album is absolutely incontrovertible. margaritas at the mall could be a top five track for me.

omfg this is the fourth or fifth time i’ve heard love and happiness being played while i’m out and about. is there some sort of marketing or algo push of it happening? why am i hearing it all the time! it’s a good song! why am i hearing it so much!

@grimpen.bsky.social see this reply has directly led to me listening to Dalbergia Retusa which it turns out is *exactly* what i needed this morning 🙏

to follow up, not my local pub (though it would have been-ish once) is playing The Groundhogs.

café les deux gares really is an excellent place to have a meal if you’re heading back from gare du nord, five minutes (rather full) stroll from eurostar check-in, but tucked around the side from the main station areas.

tell you who would be incredibly embarrassingly bad at celebrity traitors: adam tooze.

People won't have been actually crossing once it got to be a large area of saltmarsh. They'll have lived on higher bits of ground and made fishing trips into the marsh which was more productive. Like the fens before they were drained.

it is unfortunate that the nirosta steel imbroglio has put a load of nirosta steel tracks into my head.

just saw someone wearing a sultans of ping t shirt and feel like i need some counselling.

do love the classic gallimard look. and finally picked up a french copy of vies minuscules!

Saw a very inspiring news video this morning about a man jailed for attempting to throw drugs into HMP Hull. I've been thinking about it all day and felt a tribute was merited.

must be a reason why… King of My Castle by Wamdue Project just periodically f’ing pops into my head for *no damn reason*.

my morning laugh. “take 78. look amazed Harry!” “ok ok i got it this time”

is this *quite* the use case? i do remember being at a german broadcaster for a conference and they did one of these every day and if you didn’t acknowledge it it would keep going off. that was fun.