Soph
@lasophista.bsky.social
I ask once again: if you can’t sing in tune, why the fuck are you in a choir?
December 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I ask once again: if you can’t sing in tune, why the fuck are you in a choir?
Once again, I wonder: why are they all watching top of the pops?
December 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Once again, I wonder: why are they all watching top of the pops?
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Layering it up in England, c. 1640-1660 Boot hose were worn over silk hose to protect them from the rough interior of leather boots, during the seventeenth century. The large tops of this pair extended over the full breeches. (V&A Museum, London)
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Layering it up in England, c. 1640-1660 Boot hose were worn over silk hose to protect them from the rough interior of leather boots, during the seventeenth century. The large tops of this pair extended over the full breeches. (V&A Museum, London)
Am I the only person whose grandparents aren’t super cuddly affirming lovepigs or something?
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Am I the only person whose grandparents aren’t super cuddly affirming lovepigs or something?
thanks I love it
A Mughal depiction, c. 1610 of a European man
(V&A Museum, London)
(V&A Museum, London)
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
thanks I love it
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CHRISTMAS RAFFLE LAUNCH!
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
CHRISTMAS RAFFLE LAUNCH!
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
I'm doing a raffle.
Tickets are just £2 each!
You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.
More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.
TWO POUNDS.
More here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...
Please share.
I must know: is the food and drink situation in the Scottish parliament unreasonably excellent in the same manner as Westminster and others or is it crap to own the colonisers?
December 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I must know: is the food and drink situation in the Scottish parliament unreasonably excellent in the same manner as Westminster and others or is it crap to own the colonisers?
The black one in the middle because she wants to tell me a really cool secret, prolly where all the rabbits are.
We're celebrating 12 Days of Medieval Illuminations. Today, 7 medieval dogs. Which would you adopt? 🐕
December 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The black one in the middle because she wants to tell me a really cool secret, prolly where all the rabbits are.
Not in love with neurodivergence being characterised as mental illness by the BBC.
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Not in love with neurodivergence being characterised as mental illness by the BBC.
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A system of lethal, on the spot law enforcement, where officers would act as judge, jury and executioner, and dispense instant summary justice. Give them huge motorbikes. Probably be fine.
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
The reforms are being brought in to tackle unprecedented delays in the Crown Court.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A system of lethal, on the spot law enforcement, where officers would act as judge, jury and executioner, and dispense instant summary justice. Give them huge motorbikes. Probably be fine.
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Fundamentally the Labour Party is like the Catholic Church. You can stop turning up and paying your dues, you can change the entirety of your belief system, but on a deep spiritual level, you can never truly leave the Labour Party
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Fundamentally the Labour Party is like the Catholic Church. You can stop turning up and paying your dues, you can change the entirety of your belief system, but on a deep spiritual level, you can never truly leave the Labour Party
Amazing how long this style of hat stayed in the mix despite being absolutely hideous.
I guess it was really good for keeping your ears and back of your neck warm at the frost fair etc?
I think I’d just stay home by the fire though.
I guess it was really good for keeping your ears and back of your neck warm at the frost fair etc?
I think I’d just stay home by the fire though.
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Amazing how long this style of hat stayed in the mix despite being absolutely hideous.
I guess it was really good for keeping your ears and back of your neck warm at the frost fair etc?
I think I’d just stay home by the fire though.
I guess it was really good for keeping your ears and back of your neck warm at the frost fair etc?
I think I’d just stay home by the fire though.
Bach for writing essays to: Ruth Holton’s treatment of this music is just perfect and heavenly
classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/133...
classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/133...
Bach: Cantatas by John Eliot Gardiner — Apple Music Classical
Listen to Bach: Cantatas by John Eliot Gardiner. 2000. 39 tracks. 1 hour, 51 minutes.
classical.music.apple.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Bach for writing essays to: Ruth Holton’s treatment of this music is just perfect and heavenly
classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/133...
classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/133...
Well fine, but this is clearly a photograph of Clive Anderson.
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Well fine, but this is clearly a photograph of Clive Anderson.
Kemi Badenoch is reviving my adolescent belief that I could be prime minister when I grow up.
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Kemi Badenoch is reviving my adolescent belief that I could be prime minister when I grow up.
- hares (Scotland)
- scalloped hammerhead sharks (Fiji)
- hoopoe (India)
- flamingoes (France)
- this excellent giraffe (Uganda)
- scalloped hammerhead sharks (Fiji)
- hoopoe (India)
- flamingoes (France)
- this excellent giraffe (Uganda)
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
- hares (Scotland)
- scalloped hammerhead sharks (Fiji)
- hoopoe (India)
- flamingoes (France)
- this excellent giraffe (Uganda)
- scalloped hammerhead sharks (Fiji)
- hoopoe (India)
- flamingoes (France)
- this excellent giraffe (Uganda)
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𝐓𝐇𝐄
𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒
𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓
𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐
🔊 The traditional stages of Ashes grief
🔊 Expected leaves
🔊 Driving "on the up"
🔊 Cricket's leading absolutists
@norcrosscricket.bsky.social
@tickerscricket.bsky.social
@danielgallan.bsky.social
🧢 Charlie Reynolds
𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒
𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓
𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐
🔊 The traditional stages of Ashes grief
🔊 Expected leaves
🔊 Driving "on the up"
🔊 Cricket's leading absolutists
@norcrosscricket.bsky.social
@tickerscricket.bsky.social
@danielgallan.bsky.social
🧢 Charlie Reynolds
New: Football Clichés: Expected leaves, driving "on the up" & absolute Ebony Rainford-Brent
It’s the second test for the Cricket Cliches crew featuring our first change as cricket writer Charlie Reynolds steps in for Nick Miller.On the agenda today; Ashes misery, who deserves more sympa...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
𝐓𝐇𝐄
𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒
𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓
𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐
🔊 The traditional stages of Ashes grief
🔊 Expected leaves
🔊 Driving "on the up"
🔊 Cricket's leading absolutists
@norcrosscricket.bsky.social
@tickerscricket.bsky.social
@danielgallan.bsky.social
🧢 Charlie Reynolds
𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒
𝐏𝐎𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓
𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐
🔊 The traditional stages of Ashes grief
🔊 Expected leaves
🔊 Driving "on the up"
🔊 Cricket's leading absolutists
@norcrosscricket.bsky.social
@tickerscricket.bsky.social
@danielgallan.bsky.social
🧢 Charlie Reynolds
Mel really was a sexy lad though.
Running! Mel Gibson! Pointless sacrifice! Leopards*! This week, we're watching the amazing Gallipoli, one of the best films about WW1 and trying to outrun a big cat.
*(no actual leopards)
champ.ly/zTuwgmef
*(no actual leopards)
champ.ly/zTuwgmef
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Mel really was a sexy lad though.
Memo Badenoch has just claimed that in the time of St Paul there was no state. I am dead.
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Memo Badenoch has just claimed that in the time of St Paul there was no state. I am dead.
The people who did this should be in fucking irons.
And I'm sorry to get off the gym topic but what the hell is this? sothebysrealty.co.uk/properties/b...
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The people who did this should be in fucking irons.
Do companies still do those industrial scholarships for university?
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Do companies still do those industrial scholarships for university?
Every time I see the word “Enron”, I’m reminded of how smug the absolute worst bitch in my class at school was about her Arthur Anderson industrial scholarship to university and the utter delight of seeing her moping along the Strand just after it all went to shit.
This is how Enron did its accounting (seriously)
On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own.
So it's net positive.
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Every time I see the word “Enron”, I’m reminded of how smug the absolute worst bitch in my class at school was about her Arthur Anderson industrial scholarship to university and the utter delight of seeing her moping along the Strand just after it all went to shit.
Yet another rail journey between London and Glasgow, fucked.
The distressed state of this country’s infrastructure is so tiresome and its failures so very wasteful.
The distressed state of this country’s infrastructure is so tiresome and its failures so very wasteful.
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Yet another rail journey between London and Glasgow, fucked.
The distressed state of this country’s infrastructure is so tiresome and its failures so very wasteful.
The distressed state of this country’s infrastructure is so tiresome and its failures so very wasteful.
I’ve just realised I don’t know what the word “feature” means and am quite alarmed.
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I’ve just realised I don’t know what the word “feature” means and am quite alarmed.
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80% Beakspear 🥢
17% Fish 🍽️
26% Sophistication 🪩
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123% Heron
17% Fish 🍽️
26% Sophistication 🪩
_____
123% Heron
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
80% Beakspear 🥢
17% Fish 🍽️
26% Sophistication 🪩
_____
123% Heron
17% Fish 🍽️
26% Sophistication 🪩
_____
123% Heron