Simon L

'From Pentonville Road Looking West, London, Evening' (1884) by John O'Connor (London Museum)

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The clocks go back this weekend. Ideally, at this point, you should be lining your den with high tog duvets & all the books you can carry. Any negative space around your bed or sofa should be filled with snacks. Put your phone on silent.

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

A joyful thread to lift the heart

Fechan Point on the coast path southwest of Borth-y-Gest

#MondayPortal Blaenau Ffestiniog #aofoto

"Trans Lives are Real. Harry Potter is Not" Sticker spotted in NYC

The highlight of my weekend? Watching the 4k restored version of Ken Russell's The Devils. My god, what a film.

I reckon you could convince someone who’d never seen the Day of the Jackal that this was the sequel, and then they’d really want to see both.

Oh god, a local multiplex is showing #Whalefall in #4DX. Are they going to spray us with sperm whale mucus and digestive juices for 2 hours?

The Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian data centre (that stopped all the far right online bot traffic) has proved just how “inevitable” all this ugly unwelcome tech is. Truly inevitable things (rain, time etc) aren’t that easy to switch off at the plug.

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

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Bus Painting: On the way home from The Railway, Saffron Walden #BlueSkyArtShow #Weather #aofoto

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This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...

Autumn Red wild blueberry heather and yellow mountain birch #ColorADay #RedWed #mountains #photography

Ah yes, a floor design that looks like spilt blood. Just what you want in a hospital.

First wash your hands

Pub Portraits: Steve, Three Horseshoes #PubsPintsPeople

Today's purchases #BandcampFriday

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This morning’s misty scenes

Just sent a Whatsapp message to a business and got an immediate AI-generated reply, the gist of which was "Would you like us to connect you to a human who can deal with this?" What is the point of that?

I find it strange that some people refuse to believe this is the way our decentralised culture works now, that it's possible to be completely ignorant of hugely popular things that don't match your tastes and interests. People aren't lying about that because they think it makes them look cool.

The dying days of September.

Happy Friday! #scape #treescape #ForestFriday #photography #ECK

One of the advantages of reading a book (In One Ear by Simon Raymonde) by someone who runs a music label is that you get loads of new band recommendations. Currently enjoying this Danish lot very much. tidal.com/track/703026...

Two kids persuaded the head teacher that they’d “written a song” and he let them perform it in assembly. The song was a keyboard ‘funk’ preset with them repeating the words “electro chicken” in vocoder voices for five minutes.

Yessss #bookpost @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

People ask “Do you still play Don’t Let’s Start?” And the answer is YES.

WINNERS of @cinemagaleries.bsky.social movie quiz night

The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra.

Young colleagues refer to travel and accommodation arrangements as "T & A". I had to explain to them why this made me giggle. youtu.be/FhsFZDrRvoM?...

Improving your Monday morning with this Bearded Tit. You are welcome. 📷️ @ronpon22.bsky.social

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

WHY NOT? WHY ELSE?

Genuinely - *genuinely* - thought this was a @theonion.com headline. Holy shit.

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

I don’t think I’m hearing this in my head the way they expected me to.

Where I do my posting from

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Still annoyed that the 2006 Thing prequel wasn’t called “And Another Thing.”

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!