What is that film, the title maybe a city name, maybe a Polish film, where a pair of people have such a queasy love bond they end up going mad. She has blonde hair and is a dancer.
Haha @josephfitz.bsky.social nothingβs changed x
Iβm here thinking these thoughts so you donβt have to.
And at midnight, the creature panting, growling, oozing slowly round the local allotments, eating all the cabbages. The neighbourhood whatsapp discussing the humanity of beer traps, salt.
Tough guys walking to the park with their ferocious pet, all slobbery dog jaw up front, slimy wet tail behind. Huge shell spray-painted with intimidating acronyms. Other pedestrians avoiding alleyways with glistening concrete.
Very confused listening to someone talk about a pit bull crossbred with a mollusc, until I realised it was short for βmolossusβ β an intimidating guard dog like a mastiff.
Sorry, I hadnβt checked back. Iβd assumed you meant a machine that, while harmless, injures non-experts. But now I read it and can see you just mean straightforward mechanical weaponry. Many happy returns! π
Mincer. Glue gun.
Absolutely obsessed with pets gumtree now, but Iβve got to warn you not to go on it after the pub. You might wake up to find youβve bought 40-50 budgies and a βvery loveableβ python.
How is this even a thing?
Nice.
Or as the George Barker character from By Grand Central Station. Or the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper.
I was thinking I might go as Prince Harry from βSpareβ
Yes, I was going to say, I feel the opposite: what's the point in only learning new ways of behaving (as in good behaviour)?
A letter from Humphrey Gilbert-Carter to Harry Richardson Creswick, 3 May 1927, containing a pressed plant with yellow flowers.
A letter from Humphrey Gilbert-Carter to Harry Richardson Creswick, 3 May 1927, containing a pressed plant, on top of a 15th-century Bible.
The smell of old books. βQuite a small piece of Fenugreek would make your Bible smell like a ripe cheese.β
Humphrey Gilbert-Carter, Director of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social to Harry Creswick @theul.bsky.social, identifying a plant in a 15th-century Bible as Helichrysum stoechas. Inc.1.A.7.2[860]
Great lesson
I'm not sure, it's up his street isn't it. (Hello btw!)
yes, who needs AI?
Would you be interested? Spotted by a friend in London
A copy of The Translations of Seamus Heaney on a wooden surface.
New post!
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
I am so happy her beautiful voice has been picked up by something that will reach a lot of people.
I haven't seen the new Wuthering Heights film, but the main thing is I'm so excited for my childhood friend, also called Olivia, whose music was used for its keynote song! www.instagram.com/oliviachaney...
Happy Valentineβs β₯οΈ
The common reader will now be glad to forget about these curious spirits as they slink back into the shadows, waiting patiently for the next Valent's Eve.
All Valent's Eve
This knowledge is now mostly lost, but it used to be understood that when you get a Friday 13th directly before Valentineβs day (14th) a number of unusual spirits awake. These are just a few of them:
ππ©π¦ πππΆπ¨π¦. The Cluge is a paranormal superconductive flux state that gets activated by especially passionate kissing. As Farah North's 2024 article shows:
ππ€ππͺπ―π΅πΊ. If McGinty senses an insincere encounter, he will scream at 101 decibels and all the champagne flutes will shatter.
I wonder what will happen, whether it'll reverse and we'll have a summer drought. It doesn't feel like a good weather rhythm.
This looks so nice. We basically live in a swamp here, our houses are mouldy and our bones ache.
Where is this?
