KateW

Move the music box, Sian.
Goodnight Hookland; wishing you a relaxed and restful one.

The Menu just finished on Film4, with a link to "support for the issues raised". I'mm not really sure what to make of that.

Ugh; have just looked and that's bleak.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty

For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.

Fantastic.

Doesn't cover all those creatures, but I can offer you a map of capybaras: bsky.app/profile/jont...

Future Naomi thanks you.

A lone, grey chaise longue, in the corner of a hotel room, featuring a long patterned cushion which looks like someone sucked the colour out of a 1980s bus seat. The carpet is grey. The curtains are grey. The walls are bare and white. There is far too much space. The vibes are in absolute shambles on this one

This Premier Inn features the bleakest, most haunted chaise longue I have ever encountered

It doth - ich hope The Bride wreaketh her vengeance.

And - brilliantly, for a freelance writer - one of his final poems was A Complaint To His Purse, complaining about his invoice not being paid.

You're Dead to Me - Geoffrey Chaucer: the medieval father of English literature - BBC Sounds Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the life of medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer.

I knew a bit about Chaucer, but learned loads from this! He coined lots of new words "so newfangled he invented the word newfangled" and was the first to use an early form of iambic pentameter and I did NOT know Katherine Swynford was his sister-in-law.

Colour photograph of what will now be known as The Rex. The old venue has the words 'Zap Space' in pink lettering above pink doors set into an orange wall.

A new music venue will open in East London in late 2027. The Rex will be housed inside the defunct Stratford theatre of the same name, and will have a capacity of 2,300 people.

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Very important to keep the box fully catted at all times.

Ugh, nope.

Circumstances can definitely make it worse, sometimes quite suddenly. I hope things get easier for you.

Shuffling round in a line waiting to look at things is my least favourite way to do museums/galleries. I get really curmudgeonly, really quickly.

Easy, tiger...

I think it's pretty important to understand that algorithmically-run platforms have long understood anger and argument drives much more engagement than just showing you stuff you like, and if you find yourself being made to despair at what a platform shows you, that is the system working as intended

Legacy.

💡 Tips needed!
Trip coming up, based nr Whitby & edge of North York Moors NP - tell me your fav prehistoric /historic sites round there to visit!

Someone should let CBP know a big chunk of the world's airspace is currently closed and 'irregular' routes may well be the only way to get home.

That's so interesting, thank you! I didn't think they drank tea in the Indian/Chinese sense, but fascinating that herbal teas are a possibility.

"How do I always manage to sound like a tool?" You are so close to figuring it out! So close!!

61 years ago today, a group of 600 peaceful protestors began a 54-mile march from Selma to the steps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery— in response to the police murder of 26-year-old Army veteran Jimmie Lee Jackson during an attempted march in Marion, AL two weeks prior.

With Minotaur(ine).

World Service: The Dark İs Rising

World Service a bit on the nose this morning

I hope the force is strong with it.

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Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

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