Jameson Tucker

Once again, I have no idea how they do it. What an account.

Working towards the estate Halloween display. Just need to convince this one to sit still in the window an hour

an accidental and spectacular death

There’s two kinds of prog rock: prog rock that makes you smart, and prog rock that makes you stupid. And you can’t tell the difference until it’s too late, and the polarities are reversing all the time

Hugely proud to have been a part of this! We are LIVE! 🎉 ⚓️ 🍾

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Look what I got at the grocery store where it was on extreme clearance for some reason

I listen to the Wilco a lot more these days, but in actual factual 2001 I absolutely loved Vespertine, and apparently that's my voting criteria here.

If I get EU status back while the UK stays Brexited...

I'm going to set a google alert for all the names in this story and 'firey wreck'

An intruiging mention of haunted holiday chalets in the recent West Country Modernism newsletter, which now makes me immediately think @raynewman.bsky.social

St Bartholomew's Day Massacre today, 1572. I really enjoyed this little note from a Folger curator about their acquiring a Hogenberg print of the event (I would not have had a problem having my name attached to the collection!) www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Love to travel through Italy

We have just had proper rain here for the first time since June - and I have just come to realise that the purpose of Test cricket as a ritual in England is TO MAKE IT RAIN IN THE SUMMER. We have angered the gods with The Hundred and we must return to the old ways.

Ghost houses. The houses on Pape just north of the tracks have been expropriated by Metrolinx due to Ontario Line construction. They leave the lights on, so you can see into the abandoned houses at night. Still with bits of their former lives sometimes.

Eclipse at the cricket tonight. Someone had tons of extra glasses and our whole section got a good look

I'm a member of two different cricket club group chats trying to figure out if they're going to be able to keep playing through the eclipse this evening or how many overs they might lose to light.

I really like Cake; I am grateful that I can just vote for them without having to defend this notion at any sort of length.

I cannot imagine enjoying an album less than I do SoaD, so Josie it is!

this is my new belief system btw i’m going chud but from an unexpected angle. ‘driving is soy’

CANADIAN TRAIN ETIQUETTE UPDATE: the woman opposite me has just taken a phone call and said 'I can't really talk on the train, so you just tell me things and I'll keep going mmm-hmm.'

'Main Sewage Treatment Playground' always had a certain Springfieldian vibe to it.

If we're doing 100 years, I guess... armoured car driver, railway engineer, or various kinds of company clerk?

Turns out if you're in power you can do things

That Bouie is the exception when it comes to American commentators who grasp how deep the distrust of the US now is among Canadians is telling about how much this problem in America is about more than Trump

Just realised that the King must feel the same sense of 'well, it's not what I would pick but it makes me remember my childhood' about this kind of interior as I do about, say, woodchip wallpaper.

It's the absolute confidence in the tech that these chancers have that gets me. Ten minutes would establish that it's not ready for use!

Increasingly coming to the view that the Harvard referencing system is the death of stylish academic writing. Flow as a reader is impossible when the text is littered with regular occurrences of (Boggins and Zuglinsky 2022).

A week back in Toronto and there's good interest in the World Cup, but above all every third person is now wearing a Blue Jays. Hat

The dream.

It turned out his girlfriend really DID go to another school.

One of my colleagues is doing a presentation on how great AI is, and to prove the point he got AI to create the slides for him, and he asked AI to save the presentation and I think you can all guess where this is going... Anyway, we've all learned an important lesson about using AI.

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

@edsbs.bsky.social great call on Kapuściński-- I've not read that one but his little reports from 60s Poland are incredible (in both senses). Was without anything to read in Krakow once and was steered right to his stuff.

Now *there's* a job title!

I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism

I remember a curator at the National Museum in Dublin telling me about the storage space wasted on the vast amounts of 1916-related junk they received from the public. The Cricket Bat That Died For Ireland was a favourite (it was in a shop window and got a bullet through it.)

I've been watching so much sports lately that I accidentally googled "weather score" to see what the weather is today

Alright, I'm pleased with that one: www.maptap.gg May 13 95🏅 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 Final score: 992

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

I'm old enough to have occasionally caught one of these PCCs on the 506 on my way to school, which makes me feel 100 years old.

Me as an undergraduate: 'I really think that we shouldn't be so quick to assume that these ridiculous claims about how the next village over was meeting with devils were read as truth not fairytale' Me, now: 'They 100 per cent believed people in the next village were meeting with devils'