A Rachel for all seasons

Don’t be like this guy!

Anyway Popeyes is EXPENSIVE

Me, normally: Huh, there are a lot of chicken shops in my local high streets, and like, sure, South London innit, but do we really need *that* many?!
Me, about once every two months: I have a burning desire for the tastiest wings and I simply CANNOT be arsed to walk more than 100 metres, MEAT NOW

Yeah, have to say it’s nice plonking myself on the H&C/District out east for like 40 mins to see @salvey1.bsky.social as I get time to properly get into a book (as long as there are no phone cinemas blaring out TikToks to me in the vicinity)

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Even granted that the Home Office makes ministers at least 50% more evil, there’s something unnerving about Mahmood’s performative cruelty

Oh I must watch this! The first series was sooo good

Signage for "Excel Church"

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

make me ready, Lord, for whatever

Same pattern in UK polling. YouGov's last big poll on trans issues also indexed respondents' views on other social prejudices, and what do you know - pro-trans respondents were much more likely to recognise misogyny and see it as a problem, anti-trans respondents more likely to dismiss it!

This is very important and a major pet peeve of mine. If you don’t know what you’re doing- and if you learned on the internet, then sorry, you don’t know what you’re doing- please leave old gravestones well enough alone.

This is one of those things that both makes perfect sense and also reminds me how much the sex ed videos in primary school, um, over-simplified.

London tube drivers to strike across 12 days in spring, says RMT Union opposed to London Underground pushing ahead with four-day week despite members’ opposition Tube drivers in London are to strike across 12 days in the spring in a row over a four-day working week, the RMT has announced. The union said that London Underground bosses were pushing ahead with plans to condense the number of working days in the week, despite their members rejecting the proposals. Continue reading...

London tube drivers to strike across 12 days in spring, says RMT

Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

The spring Interrail sale has rolled round - 15% off all passes bought before end of March.
(Amusingly for me, this has launched during the 7-day free cancellation period for some passes I bought on Saturday. I will definitely not *ahem* be acting accordingly.) allaboard.eu/interrail

Side note: idea for a horrible TikTok series. Going round the houses of people who last bought before the market plateaued and didn’t notice that it has. Ask them to guess the value of their house, send in an estate agent who gives the true value and film their reaction!

oh my god i think someone's altered their car to make the car horn a duck quack noise hold on hold on I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS POSSIBLE

As I've said before, it's one bit of ignorance to broadcast something like this and another on top to also clip it up for social media approval. Like a cat bringing in a dead mouse.

I am going round in circles. Can anyone remind me of the name of the illustrator/screen printer who does two tone illustrations of Bible verses? He is married with I think three or four children and has a beard. He does art exhibitions and talks on the content of his art.

Just reading this I feel like Marge in the bit of the opening to the Simpsons where she loses then immediately finds Maggie.

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

'About 10,000 writers have contributed to Don’t Steal This Book, in which the only content is a list of their names. Copies of the work are being distributed to attenders at the London book fair on Tuesday'. 1/2

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site

every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

LMAO

the cry of the human heart here is just undeniable

Nailed it

How I've learned that certainty is the thing to really fear After five decades hosting radio phone-ins and debates, Nicky Campbell reflects on the state of public debate

I found this really frustrating to read.

Mainstream media, including the BBC, prioritised the battle of ideas/2 sides argument as a popular means of coverage. This piece suggests it happened accidentally, or even at the behest of those pushed into these scenarios /1

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...