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Dyeing yarn and telling stories in the Suffolk countryside

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Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

Renationalise the water industry.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

07.03.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Well, fifty is looking lovely!

13.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Likewise, still waiting for my in depth knowledge of the Repeal of the Corn Laws to come in handy…

10.02.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck. I’ve read, enjoyed, even praised LC’s books. I’d no idea she was such a hideous piece of transphobic crap. Reparations will be made!

27.01.2026 12:35 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wild dark shore by Charlotte McConaghy, a near-future eco-dystopia set in the Antarctic should round things off nicely (I’m off to reserve the Louis de Berniers from the library)

24.01.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Read that as "Barbies have umbilical cords" and thought this was going off somewhere wild for a moment!

17.01.2026 10:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"use the full length of the platform" is not an instruction you can personally put into practice, unless you are an anaconda, in which case you should not be on the piccadilly line for other reasons

16.01.2026 13:07 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

When you're about to answer and then you see Nigella beat you to it... 😏

12.01.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you cared about teenagers' mental health, you'd be campaigning for more skate-parks and cycle-paths, subsidised music courses and access to sports-centres, rather than moaning about smartphones.

12.01.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 284 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0
Billy Binion tweet, it reads:
"Politicians shgouldn't say "fuck" in public. Unbecoming, reeks of pick-me energy. You're the mayor. Act like it." 

It's QTing @Acyn who is quoting the Mayor Frey saying "I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

Billy Binion tweet, it reads: "Politicians shgouldn't say "fuck" in public. Unbecoming, reeks of pick-me energy. You're the mayor. Act like it." It's QTing @Acyn who is quoting the Mayor Frey saying "I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

07.01.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 4078 πŸ” 1098 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 49

And getting a stiletto heel caught in the wooden floor grooves.

07.01.2026 09:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You'd think BBC sports extra would be able to work out what time to start their 'full' replay of the overnight ashes action so that it doesn't get abruptly cut off by the rugby/football/whatever else is in the afternoon schedule – but it seems not. Again.

04.01.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The jewellery shop will be for all the drunken, unplanned proposals that happened at midnight and now require an emergency ring!

01.01.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh my god, I’d completely forgotten that Judith Krantz even existed until I read this but I just had a very strange sensory flashback to this book mingled with some Jackie Collins and a sprinkle of James Herbert. Could explain almost everything!

29.12.2025 08:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley

An extraordinary thing, this.

A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.

Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk

28.11.2025 12:10 πŸ‘ 638 πŸ” 240 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 34

Your cricket posts are confirmation (if it were needed) that blue sky is my new home. So many cricket fans emerging from behind their academic/artist/musician facades today. It's great!

21.11.2025 09:51 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"

21.11.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 270 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 9

That β€˜ashes in oz’ feeling of impending doom as you switch on the radio at 7 in the morning to find out what happened overnight… πŸ˜†

21.11.2025 08:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

03.11.2025 03:03 πŸ‘ 415 πŸ” 123 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Totally read that as UEA. Which also makes perfect sense…

31.10.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Every now and then it works, as if by magic, and I’ve no idea how/why, and it is still no more likely to work the next time.

28.10.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

18.10.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 3298 πŸ” 1084 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 27

And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

02.10.2025 08:48 πŸ‘ 206 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine receiving a pay rise 18 times more than the average UK salary of Β£37,800.....

30.09.2025 10:32 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

26.09.2025 08:27 πŸ‘ 3673 πŸ” 1520 πŸ’¬ 133 πŸ“Œ 131

Love it! Was about to ask if there was any 'cheeky Monk' on the set list... πŸ˜† Kids love live music don't they, and they're often frowned upon at performances, especially of 'serious' music, which is shockingly short-sighted given the average age of the audience at most classical/jazz gigs!

21.09.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can’t out-fash the fash.

Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.

01.09.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 451 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 3

I can take or leave the middle class puff pieces, it’s the rampant transphobia that I’ll never support.

28.08.2025 07:20 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She doesn't! And I'd completely forgotten too but am now recalling the very familiar struggle to get it into the boot of the car (all our car purchases start with 'can we get a double bass in the back of it'!) She's about to head off to London to spend four years studying jazz, exciting times!

25.08.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can govt please explain to those of us who aren’t racist or anti-immigration, who’ve protested peacefully in far greater numbers against Brexit and in support of Palestine… why we are not worth representing at all? Why is it ok to doggedly ignore us in favour of a minority of ignorant haters?

25.08.2025 10:40 πŸ‘ 512 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 9