Schattenfroh arrived. *dog for scale*

“In Max Lawton’s ambitious translation from the German, the prose leaps across a range of styles and registers. Archaic diction, lengthy poems, lists of handwritten names, archival materials, multilingual puns and enigmatic symbols litter the text.” Max Lawton

The skiers look like musical notes

"We have to stop making mistakes and start listening." Locks off replies

This was Barry when the government alarm went off

Has anyone had psychosis from covid during the initial infection or like directly after? I've had it with my last infection that gave me long covid and I'm very worried I'm starting to develop it again

When a Telegraph journalist says this is the most right-wing government of his lifetime, it should make people stop and think. Tory MP Andrew Bowie : “I do find some of the tone of the debate quite troubling”. #EmergencyAlert #England

I honestly feel like the only thing that can save the government is Burnham staging a coup and then setting a framed photo of Starmer symbolically on fire on the steps of number ten

British people: there’s three masterpieces of melancholy and achingly tender Japanese art cinema to watch right now on Film4, get on it.

It’s begun.

The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a proscribed terrorist group. Yet its band marched through Belfast on 12 July 2025 without arrest. Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 were detained yesterday for solidarity with Palestine Action. The law is clearly not being applied evenly.

I'm not!! We can all learn loads from working-class autodidact culture, I recommend this book

Truly shocking. The raw emotion and anger and frustration as masked unaccountable agents grab people off the street and bundle them into vans to be disappeared. Soviet times

Just loving the exquisite new Netflix Italy adaptation of The Leopard/Il Gattopardo. Best thing on TV for months if not years. Pitch-perfect costume drama with top notch scripting, filming & brilliant performances, especially from the Leopard himself. youtu.be/q-aZV95YSr0?si…

💥Netanyahu is on trial for corruption, remember? It goes without saying that he cancelled his long-awaited testimony scheduled for today and instead of court, is at the site of the Jerusalem terror attack.

Mustn't upset the feelings of war criminal Isaac Herzog, under Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood's watch at least. Banksy:

There is a feeling by me, by my members, by workers across the board, that The Labour Party is moving so far away from Project #Labour that it’s hard to justify being affiliated to them. They may not think that’s a problem but it will be a problem.

A bag of 30-20 years worth of odd cables, chargers, wires ...I put it on Facebook marketplace as free, and someone collected it! People will take anything, it seems.

Painting: One: Number 31, 1950 Pollock Music: St Matthew Passion Novel: Search Lost Time, Proust Poem: can't decide