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I loved this handy dandy guide decoding the clothing clues in the Bayeux Tapestry. Absolutely fascinating www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

Absolutely beautiful piece from Gaby, which exactly articulated my own experience

I don't know how long it took Edith Pritchett to create this absolute masterpiece of a modern Bayeux Tapestry, but thank goodness she did www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... Also, side-eye horse is my new favourite thing

The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷

In a sea of grim news, this article was lovely www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

My daughter has just sent me this lovely photo where you get an even better view of the puffin.

One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.

The view from where I am is usually a procession of flights departing LHR, but not a sausage tonight. Where’d everyone go?!

As trying as they can be, I will never stop loving The Guardian

Goodness me I love this man

This whole piece is excellent, and this single sentence summed up my years of experience helping regular folks use tech, and explaining to tech teams why this is hard: "it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people." www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

I know the feeling, Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I Dicorus

This is the country I want. This, not genocidal threats from a man who is palpably losing his mind in front of the whole world.

Watched this and immediately said to my husband 'ah, how to hunt your neighbours'. Absolutely hideous idea

Everything is awful so I backed something fabulous on kickstarter to bring a bit loveliness to life www.kickstarter.com/projects/116...

If you're a government who gets offended when you're compared to fascists and dictators, then arresting journalists for just doing their jobs seems like a step in the WRONG direction...

I was in Daunt Books in Marylebone on Friday. This is startlingly accurate - it's only missing tourists taking photos 😂 www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Didn't expect to laugh out loud at a piece on people and shopping carts: behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo... "I spent dozens of weekend hours hunched over my computer pausing and replaying YouTube videos. People in my life called this “concerning” and a “waste of time.” I called it research."

Absolutely beautiful tribute to Rachel Cooke, who wrote like a dream. How lovely to be remembered for "her extraordinary standards and work ethic and sense of fun." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Duo being absolutely batshit again

I used to adore Choose Your Own Adventure books, and this is a fascinating read (and the maps are beautiful) www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cyo...

I do realise this isn't the world's most pressing issue, but why does Ed Sheeran think it's a good idea to write a song that contains the phrase "your eyes exploding"? I am finding this very disconcerting

Duo you've gone too far this time

Poor Deimos, described by the Guardian as 'small and lumpy'. RUDE. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

When you miss a crucial step in the recipe www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This made me cry a little bit (in a good way).

literally every time I talk to friends

I'm 5,000 miles away from this news story, but listening to a foghorn right now. Over the years I've grown to find it comforting. Still feel sorry for the poor folks near Land's End in Cornwall though! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This piece resonates even more after seeing that disgraceful display in the Oval Office. Nothing describes Trump better than "changeable, highly emotional, susceptible to whatever he last heard and clearly instinctively pro-autocrat." Thank you Ian for giving me a little hope.

Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

Oh good, another day where it's extremely fucking embarrassing to be an American. #StandWithUkraine

The front page of the New European says it all.

Felt my despair lift a little bit after reading this: robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reason...

Still thinking this is a good option at this point. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I miss the days when very rich people used their money to fund libraries, public art and philanthropic endeavors rather than launching slow-motion coups against the federal government.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

Only 10 days into this administration and I find myself rooting for asteroid oblivion www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Tina Brown is never boring, but her latest is especially brilliant, particularly "In his seven decades of global media power, Murdoch has degraded journalism on three continents and given us a president who has made transactional cynicism the new normal". tinabrown.substack.com/p/melanias-m...

I am so tired of finding out when I was not the one who fucked around.

Undisputably the hottest tv kiss of all time

Irrationally irritated that this headline is not 'drunk-flying' a drone www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

the word of the day is “kuebiko,” a feeling of being overcome with exhaustion at all the world’s horrors and a sense of resignation at your own inability to fix things.

A bit of much needed light in an increasingly dark January.

He’s Führious.

Credit to @glasgapaul on Threads (not sure if he's here) but he's just called the hideous Tesla trucks "Swasticars" and yes, that'll be sticking.