Nikki Coates

Thornberry imagines a Labour Party that values human dignity.

Cabin fever latest: just cut about 30cm length off my hair with a pair of paper scissors. Regret nothing.

I skimmed the linked report yesterday. I will admit that I am not at a peak of optimism rn & I spent a bit of time thinking about what I could find in the UK to be proud of. Later, reruns on Dave provided at least one answer: Taskmaster.

Declared victory too early, ONCE AGAIN. Fuck this illness, I’m supposed to be urgently putting a raspberry pi into a 1970 dial phone this week for my homework & I’m running out of time. Also it is lonely, squalid, painful and tiring and doesn’t allow for e.g. reading diverting books.

when authoritarian top-down politicians get their rationalisation from focus groups. the humane treatment of refugees is not Mahmood‘s problem to solve, it is our societal problem. Sometimes that will mean reminding some voters to grow up cos civilisation is a bargain.

Recuperation review: I really liked the 2020 version of Emma, nicely done

Ha ha ha got cocky and tried drinking some sugar free vimto. I’ll just lie down within reach of some paracetamol for a while instead then.

Must be recovering cos am sitting up, can post, was able to watch The Lady Vanishes (fun!), was back to insomniac Wikipedia overnight (new knowledge incl: the largest canary breed is the Lancastrian, a beluga whale called NOC could mimic human speech). Now for the guilt & worry over 5 missed days.

Look I’m not generally a paranoid person I would just like to understand how so many people on different sides of an ocean know when I am at my lowest ebb so they can start firing off salvos in the US-UK food discourse again.

A Public Apology to Sadiq Khan: I’m sorry, I should have realised earlier a) I was right in the first place & I did really want a mostly-boring politician that got on with things b) ULEZ is a big deal actually c) immunity to most strains of brainworm is a huge asset for the 21stC politician. Soz. 💐

Since Tuesday night my immune system has been performing a little analogy of Starmerism by fiercely attacking something largely responsible for its continued existence. There are other ways having IBD puts me in mind of the current Labour Party but I don’t wish to dwell.

Typo. Obvs.

Any country that doesn’t want to protect, sustain and support the creativity I see around me at Cental Saint Martins during the week has given up. Why don’t our politicians try to love the country we actually have? Where’s the self-respect?

‘What is the biggest dog?’

‘What, Ray, breed, individual, what?’

‘What is the biggest dog?’

6th January

Say what you like but you can’t beat the Winter Olympics for sporting innovation. Ski-mountaineering final currently on and it makes the modern pentathlon look prosaic. Uphill on skis through hairpin turns, skis off for some stairs, skis on with uphill skins off for the downhill bit including a jump

Maybe *sigh* I should spend the time *sigh* doing some interesting research for the remarkably fun course I am doing. Pfft.

Update: if this project has not completely stalled it is not making much forward movement. The small models you can install locally are an offensive mixture of dumb and chirpy and the install has too many fragile dependencies and trying to machete through the thicket is too tedious.

A thing that I keep thinking about is the conversation with my beloved on Sunday night where he said that when he describes my MA course to other people he thinks he keeps being tempted to make it sound more ‘respectable’.

Shouldn’t take too long to create the prompt for dead me: You are a person who used to post once a year on 7th March to acknowledge birthday greetings and now fears entanglement in the past and will not open Facebook.

Slatey is what I meant but perhaps you can think of a dark blue that is commonly criticised, who knows?

I did okay at this and a surprising thing to me is that it seemed to be a negotiation between visual and verbal memory in my head: ‘no I don’t think 10s-ago-me would have described that as a slated navy quite’ etc

I think the thing that has held me back from being a world-class athlete the most is the amount of hugging expected

Networks break economic regulators’ brains, exhibit 5629

Groeningemuesum, Bruges: Madonna crowned by two angels

Strongly visible rainbow against a grey sky. Trees in the middle distance are picked out by late afternoon sun & their boughs glow yellow-green

A moment before the hail arrived

I didn’t see it but yeah it’s difficult to think of anyone on British telly more obviously sincerely empathetic than CB I think

Post a tree you photographed:

See I did think that it was going to be for the kitchen but another route is to connect a tiny printer and make the Box of Lies. Ask it a question, wait for the fib, if particularly inventive get it to print out.

Earlier me: going to Greenwich, any tips?
Qwen3: why not visit the British Museum?