They'd just come back from Iraq, if I remember rightly, and the families were allowed on board. Crew thought it would be really funny to let me have a go.
Also, I think the funnel was dressed up as Saddam. They'd even given it a moustache.
Colloquial phrase updated for modern usage
That is so cool.
Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury
The image is an old-style black-and-white illustration showing a woman walking near a balustrade. She reaches out towards a tree with one hand, while an urn on a pedestal stands nearby. Below the image, the text reads: "She walks among the tombs."
#WorldBookDay 📚
"She walks among the tombs" 🪦
'A Picture Book for Little Children' • 1812 📚
#History
I was too tall for one of those yellow and red plastic cars, so things just escalated really fast.
100 girls are dead because of generative AI
There's never any context, just "I am DISGUSTED!"
First vehicle I ever drove was HMS Brecon. I was four.
East Anglian Daily Times headline “Ipswich: The tree that looks like Postman Pat”, 5TH MARCH 2014. A photo of a tree with scars where limbs have been cut, which somewhat resemble eyes and a nose, but in no way bear any resemblance to the cartoon postal worker. A caption says, inaccurately: “Quite un-nerving. A face in a tree trunk at Christchurch Park in Ipswich.”
Happy 12th anniversary of the day all the people of East Anglia did rise up and speak with one voice and say unto their phones “Fuck off does it”
I am very much here as a safe space for everyone’s incredibly bad experiences with idiots applying CBT worksheets at them.
I think every clever/sensitive/both person I know in the UK has had some experience like this. It is proper medical harm.
Uphill both ways to JFK's head exploding
Unsure why Instagram is showing me loads of authors getting all tied in knots over some YA book with alleged necrophilia in it. My primary school library had a book with close-up photos of JFK's head exploding. I am not the audience for this drama.
He's been privatised.
On a background of crumpled vintage paper rests a paperback book: Cheer The Sick. The cover features an early modern plague doctor dropping an oversized posey of flowers. The tagline reads "What ails you?"
For #WomenInHorror month, I'm obliged to share my collection, Cheer The Sick. Tales include:
🗝️ What happens when you snort powdered faun
🗝️ There's a man inside the boiler and he knows you're gay
🗝️ Don't wear the fairy meth helmet
🗝️ Chelsea Flower Show vampires
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/cheer-the-si...
I'm pretty sure that's exactly how it went down, yes.
Blackbeard's flag, very useful for hiding crates of crafting materials.
Oh bugger, alt text: A white office wall is decorated with framed prints including a purple-toned poster of Florence from Florence + The Machine emerging from the darkness in a flowing gown, her head obscured and her hands outstretched.
New Florence poster. Gradually making the office a bit more 'me'. (It was formerly a child's bedroom, yellow with Thomas the Tank Engine stickers all over the show.)
Welcome back, Johnny!
Being moved to tears by the homunculi in Small Prophets probably isn't a good sign.
It's on my Patreon for £1! Such a bonkers story. www.patreon.com/posts/greeti...
A powerpoint slide reading: Modern problems require ancient solutions, or ‘How about a pyramid scheme?’
I just did a talk about this, and I'm kind of sad they never built it.
I cannot type the words I'm thinking.
That feeling when the ghouls show up.
1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
FELICITATIONS 🎂
I remember reading the word 'psychedelic' in the Beano and asking the adults what it meant.
Video game image of a military looking guy in a jacket and black shades from the opening of the video game "Bad Dudes" saying "Are you a psychic enough lesbian to spend the summer in Hill House?"
nobody:
A cold solicitation letter arriving from the mysterious Dr. Montague:
A young female model wearing a brown dress so comically large she looks like a lost child
"I forgot my PE kit."
