wondering how LNER would feel about me smuggling this onto the train

pretty exciting to spot an elephant hawk-moth flying around the garden this morning 🦋

happy birthday to me 🌞

is this the greatest offence against Arab culture since chocolate hummus

Nice to see a staff endorsement for Yasmin Zaher's The Coin in Birmingham Foyles earlier.

'a gentleman and a druid', Warstone Lane Cemetery, Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham - this one is for @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social

I'm chairing the launch of @rosavcampbell.bsky.social's new book at @lighthousebks.bsky.social on Wed! Recommended to all interested in feminist politics, social history, and anyone who likes turning heads on public transport. Come along: lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...

why is tim burton designing for tesco

most tempting item I've ever seen on vinted

omg I must look! This is not a surprise. Wonderful. I like to think of it as a literary embodiment of the midwit meme

The 2026 James Tait Black Prize shortlists spotlight some of the most exciting work being published today: james-tait-black.ed.ac.uk/indie-talent...

when a student submits an entirely AI-written proposal and the bibliography entries are also written by academics using AI

Charlotte once sent me some peanut crisps in the post because she liked them so much, and I sometimes get them from an international supermarket. Tom is less of a fan.

Current fave is dill and chive, dill only is also good. Difficult to get hold of but occasionally appear in Lidl!

tfw the Telegraph makes a notorious creep answer for his actions

On the subject of graphic novels: I picked up Eva Müller's Plouquette in Marseille at the end of summer and would really recommend it to French readers! It's about work, class and adolescence in West Germany, published by small press Editions Même Pas Mal. I hope it's translated into English soon.

Seems odd to say that Zionism has a 'reformulated myth of the Black rapist' at its core, when the whole tradition of monstering Arab male sexuality seems more relevant (see...Orientalism)

Strange to see my granddad looking out from the centre of this photo of workers at Donisthorpe Colliery (black hat, hands at his chest)

Is this a solidarity frog I spy on Leith Walk

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

I make the argument via a reading of Jumana Manna's documentary Foragers, which focuses on struggles over food and in turn, land, in the West Bank. If you haven't seen this wonderful film, I would urge you to! I know how much affection people have for it and hope the article does it justice.

coleus cuttings from a local plant swap page this weekend waiting to grow roots, with cuttings from my prolific purple heart plants 🌱

it's a yeastocene alright

Lots of good discussion in here, but this bit, on infrastructure, toilets and gendered impacts, is especially interesting because of its implications for urban design:

Do you want to live in an all-male community? A community of men going their own way, perhaps?

had a great time at the pen museum, have now completed the trio of niche Birmingham industrial history museums (coffin museum, back to backs)

not sure it would pass the Indian granny test, but I find this pretty good

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Went to see Sami Tamimi talk about his new book and cook some recipes from it! Excited to try it out in the kitchen soon 🌱