DMHardc
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Interested in everything. Gen X, further left than you think, exhausted. 🇯🇲🇬🇧
This is also good. This, in particular, made me do a double take, for some reason I wasn’t aware of this lunacy:
Some joy in the neighbourhood tonight with the balloons going so low over the houses. Props to the people stood dangerously on their roofs to wave and the man on top of the postbox
Every woman who has made my life at work a wretched misery of racism looks pretty much like this woman and pulls this same face. Some sort of ur-Karen that populates senior and relatively senior positions, inexplicably, and tells you to Be Kind while destroying you from the soul out
Saw this on the door of a house round the corner. This is why we moved here. Where we used to live must be bloody choking with lamppost flags at the moment.
Looking at the Government press release for the publication of the Lammy Review. An interesting quote from Theresa May who was Home Secretary and then Prime Minister overseeing the Hostile Environment, Go Home vans and the errors leading to the deportation of Black British citizens to the Caribbean
Mighty work here by @legacyrussell.bsky.social via @versobooks.bsky.social. Recommended.
Two recommendations from this issue of @wasafirimag.bsky.social, it is a very good one. This time a fantastic essay from Anshuman A Mondal about…well, about reality and and ways of thinking that delight me, nodded so much my head nearly fell off. Deeply brilliant. “the ethics of erasure”
What was your #childhoodcinema Esso Cinema, Hardley, Hampshire Can’t find a colour photo of it on the whole internet!
Today’s book haul courtesy of @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social and @bookhaus.bsky.social via @bookshop.org
CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone. We can’t have a cat (husband’s allergies) but I compensate by compulsively photographing other people’s
I am alarmingly close to it. This website has various other UK sitcom characters and I’m delighted to discover I am closest to Rene Artois (and his twin brother). Meldrew point calculator here: bit.ly/4sZ2bWk
A good call on the part of @weirdbristol.bsky.social in his latest non-fiction outing
This hits different now. We are losing the latter and we valued it, we did value it and we used it. The cat photos were a wonderful added extra but to lose the first will be a tragedy
It’s been a dreadful week in a rough year…decade…forever, and the only solution for the weekend is to finally treat myself to this wonderful book by @municipaldreams.bsky.social. Bookmark from the mighty @bookhaus.bsky.social. A refuge for a couple of days
I had to look it up. The horror! Like living in a premier inn. I note the price is “from” as well, so I expect there’s one in the whole block at that rent and the rest are more
He is what I would do if I had the chance to go back in time. High rise trousers and all. He had an older brother as well who was apparently the one who taught him how to move
The American fashion for wearing light coloured chinos with a navy blazer always makes me think of Pontin’s ‘bluecoats’ (staff at low-cost uk holiday resorts that were popular in the ‘80s alongside the slightly more expensive Butlin’s (red) & satirised on the TV series hi de hi (jackets yellow))