Nick Fitzsimons

True that they have rarely been less cluttered up with messy shipping, I guess.

The problem with the British right is once out of power, they are a bunch of hyperbolic hysterics. This is trying enough in normal times, but in the current environment it’s genuinely exhausting

With my usual impeccable timing, I moved my Cash ISA to a Stocks & Shares ISA in January. It’s certainly made the last couple of weeks more interesting, watching the wild undulations of the graph in the phone app. It went negative for the first time yesterday, but it's very slightly ahead today 📈

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

Why the fuck would he put himself on view? His entire family has been killed by US missiles. He presumably realises that going on TV and saying “Here I am!” is a really bad idea under the circumstances 🙄

Thanks for writing it!

About printing and the history of print and a lot of ideas from my letterpress work overflowing in probably not terribly academic ways!

(I don’t think you have to be any sort of an academic or historian to make sense of this!)

This is a great article if you’re interested in letterpress printing. If you aren’t, read it anyway; you will be afterwards 🙂

I think we can do wildlife and iconic British at the same time: City pigeon eating a dropped sandwich on £5.
Herring Gull stealing chips on £10.
Urban Fox going through a bin on £20.
Mute swan breaking a man’s arm on the £50.

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

expertoptout@superhuman.com

Great story about one of the many paintings in the Harp in Covent Garden (which is one of my favourite pubs).

I mean, Jesus Christ, have some self respect.

Black and white photo of a british ww2 minesweeper, who looks like she could pass as french with a bit of posh makeup and a nice dress.

As mines are in the news:

Meet HMS Manxman. Spent a chunk of 1941/1942 laying mines off Italy in WW2.

Why wasn't she sunk?

Looked like a Vichy destroyer if you squinted. So they did a "paint me like one of your French girls" on her.

Extra funnel. Fake bow.

"Bonny jour mez ameees eye-talians!"

2 panel comic Panel 1 is titled “Client Feedback (2012) Red Guy sits at his desk typing on his laptop. There is a bubble on the right hand side of the panel showing his screen. A small text panel says “and the”. There is an arrow pointing to the bottom of the words with a correction box that reads: “Text is slightly misaligned. Please fix” Panel 2 is titled “Client feedback (2026) Red Guy is slouched on chair typing into his phone. His phone screen shows a panel of text that is complete gibberish. This time the correction reads “not alphabet but who give a fuck”

client feedback in the GenAI era

Ask them “But if it’s your idea and you use AI to create it, is that not the same thing?” most of them see right through it. As one of them put it, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, “Nah, bruv. Cause you didn’t *make* it.”

But my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”

Hi Tom The books arrived safely this morning, thank you. If you are looking for the top of your pen, I have it! Cheers, Diane

Wondering, instead of the standard procedure of including quotes by celebs and newspapers on the jacket of my next book, printing a selection of comments and reviews by readers on there instead. I think this one is an absolute must.

A photograph psted by the Iris Centre for Poetry Studies showing the page on which Alvy Carrager's poem Library is printed, from Carrager's collection What Remains the Same (Gallery Books). The book sits open on a wooden table, and a gold pen rests above it.

....And this gives me an excuse to post one of my favourite poems about the importance of books: "Library" by Alvy Carragher. She's a Dublin-based Irish poet, but her poem perfectly describes my troubled, library-loving young mother in New Jersey/Pennsylvania too.

museum curators describing literally any portrait of a woman: she boldly meets the viewer's eye, confronting our gaze

US watching a movie where a vigilante’s entire family is wiped out: “Oh yeah, time for fucking vengeance, this dude will never stop. Get them!”

US watching Iran pick a Supreme Leader who just had his entire family wiped out: “This guy is plainly going to be reasonable and fold.”

Another vote for “Well I read it somewhere in the 1970s so I don’t know why you didn’t; get with the programme.”

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

The immune system is not a muscle.

It is a cleansing fire.

It causes collateral damage.

It has a limited supply of fuel.

It can get out of control.

Don’t burn your whole house down every time by catching every disease without caution.

I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty

it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you

Grumpy Arthur is expressing disapproval at his lazy hooman..

Hahahaha 😂 😹😸

#cats #complain #lol

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

Many of us feeling the same today 😕

Tweet from ‘Gregory Mammal-Friend’ (@cat_beltane): “america is good at blasting off its own dick with a shotgun and as a yank i am utterly fascinated by britain's ability to carefully place its dick in a drawer and slowly but firmly push it closed for two years straight” 11/03/2019, 00:21

Well, er… happy seventh anniversary to this tweet, I suppose