It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

Think we underestimate how much of social media is like going to the kitchen to fetch something, forgetting why you came and then shrugging and eating all the crackers

Keir the OK, Kemi the Dreadful. My SKETCH of Today In Is The Middle East Actually Quite Simple?
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missed this yesterday, it's GOOD

Too German; Didn't Read but are bridge players a bit fash because that looks like a card swastika no why don't YOU shut up?

Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg, Masquerade, 1959-1961

A gathering of shadow puppeteers applauds and in the candle light a flickering menagerie takes flight across the walls.

yes, this has been noted

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"Oz came swimming to us out of history, because we needed it, because it needed to be. A book, a film, a television ritual, a thousand icons scattered through advertising, journalism, political cartoons, music, poetry."

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

hahaha

WELL THEN IT'S NOT MEANINGFUL IS IT, NICK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A visit to a garden centre closing down. A melancholic place; picked as barren as a whale carcass; flowers faded, with a photo of their spring pomp; trees waving their pale bare branches in the hope to please,

An empty polytunnel which was like being under ice, the autumn leaves skating overhead.

Yeah, there’s an enemy within all right.

I’ve just watched a tribute that Meryl Streep gave to Diane Keaton in which she said that Keaton had “a stream of consciousness like a hummingbird” & my goodness that’s it, that was her entirely.

Baby Boom! We all loved this when the kids were small. Everybody adored Diane Keaton. Death, the great Sorting System innit.

I always loved this picture.

aye, for a' that

Whatever that's a metaphor for, you deserve it.

Oh, put a wasp nest up your arse.

Praying Mantis, caught in tree resin/amber, 12 million years ago. Poor thing.

I have COPD. Got the jab free last year and in Spring this year, had to pay yesterday.