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Under the paving stones, the beach.
Call me sentimental and naive, but this gives me an unbearable sense of melancholy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Crying horse' toys go viral in China ahead of Lunar New Year
Shop owners say the frowning toys - originally made in error - are resonating with young workers.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 31, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Saw Anna von Hausswolff at Brixton and she blasted out the bangers.

A truly unique talent.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iS8...
Anna von Hausswolff - Funeral For My Future Children (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Financial Times: „Lutnick told his audience that the world should focus on coal as an energy source rather than renewables“
Lagarde simply left the room.
#WEF

www.ft.com/content/e2ae... Howard Lutnick heckled at Davos dinner as Christine Lagarde walks out
Howard Lutnick heckled at Davos dinner as Christine Lagarde walks out
Event hosted by Larry Fink descended into uproar after combative remarks by US commerce secretary
www.ft.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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of course now you'd triggered me @quantick.bsky.social it resulted in this.
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
A time lapse photo of Creme Egg melting.
#stranglysatisfying

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-YF...
melting cream egg
YouTube video by Jan-Hendrik Ewers
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Bought a little pamphlet from @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social on Beckenham Place.
It quotes A Voice Through A Cloud whose first few pages describe taking a melancholic tea there just before the fateful meeting with an automobile.

"..I was given a vague uneasy feeling of universal damage and loss"
January 18, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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I could put up with this haunted palazzo in Venice. www.evprivateoffice.com/property-ev/...
Venice, Italy Luxury Real Estate Property - Engel & Völkers
View luxury real estate property details for Venice, Italy (MLS#: ) at Engel & Völkers.
www.evprivateoffice.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Another image that sums up the protest.
January 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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No notes
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Then try your hand at predicting what will happen in 2026.

50 questions - simply say how likely each is to occur, on a range of 0% (won't happen) to 100% (will definitely happen).

Any question can be skipped.

www.edrith.co.uk/p/2026-forec...
2026 Forecasting Contest
A forecasting contest for 2026, featuring UK politics and global events.
www.edrith.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 10:53 AM
I have always been a fan of the band Comus, particularly intricate tracks like Diana and Drip Drip.

But I could never work out the choice of HR Geiger style cover art for a hippy-ish 60s folk band
January 7, 2026 at 9:41 PM
My first ticket acquired to visit @thenickelcinema.bsky.social

..to see Ben Wheatley's Bulk. Introduced by the man himself.

Love a good yarn about string theory branes.

Have a really good feeling about this place.

thenickel.co.uk/screening/88
BULK + BEN WHEATLEY INTRO (15 Jan) | The Nickel
Freelance journalist Corey Harlan is pulled into a bizarre experiment gone wrong when a string‑theory brane explodes, sending him to rescue its creator. Each door he opens leads to another reality, an...
thenickel.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Rothko untitled, 1950 (yellow and blue)
January 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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JACK LEMMON wrote incredibly entertaining letters, like this one to his good friend BURT REYNOLDS in 1982.
December 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The name rings a bell.. Didn't he used to be someone?
Boris who?
2025: Boris Johnson, "If Labour MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire"

2019: Boris Johnson, "We must all be clear that violence and intimidation anywhere is wholly unacceptable in this country"
December 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
@newsagents.bsky.social

Can I recommend you guys find an abbrev. for "For balance we have to say that XXXX denies all wrong-doing"
oft found after mentions of Andrew Mountbatten etc.
Quite wordy & redundant

Can I recommend MRDA: "Mandy Rice Davies Applies" ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_he...
Well he would, wouldn't he? - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Remembering Tracy Pew. 🖤

Born #otd 19/12/57

📷 Peter Anderson.
December 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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My mother has this taped to the door of one of her bathrooms
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The Guardian crossword setter has had it with Michelle Mone
December 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I am reading a lot about the Cave of the Golden Calf at the moment.

My goodness, these Edwardians knew how to have a good time

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cav...
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Agree fully with the point here, but I think the error is, perhaps, assuming consistency of thought among Trumpists.

They hate Europe for ideological reasons. And haters gonna hate.
Dissing European stagnation also raises a problem for Trumpist economics: the EU runs a trade surplus, the US a deficit, and Trumpists profess to believe that trade deficits make you poorer. If the US is much richer than Europe (it is!), that would seem to be false (it is!).
Luckily, economists have a way around this, which adjusts for purchasing-power (ie how many baguettes can you buy with that €1).

Do this and the EU looks all of a sudden much better. It's in effect keeping up with America rather well in fact.
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Quote from idle wiki browsing (said of Euphemia Lamb)

John Maynard Keynes commented that Euphemia had more of a sex life "than the rest of us put together".

Coming from Keynes that is quite a statement!!
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM