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Naught can assail me.
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macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988

elliott erwitt
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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In the UK we celebrate Misgiving, a year-round festival of formless dread and unease
November 23, 2023 at 8:49 AM
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Somehow found myself on the Simple English Wikipedia entry for Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and more program notes should be like this tbh
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Feeling personally attacked by tonight’s episode of Shetland.
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My hearty rustic soup is so thick it’s essentially carrot purée. Delicious orange baby food.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Why doesn’t anyone like my favourite emoji? 🧐 I use it to poke fun at myself if I’m saying anything borderline pretentious or clever-clever.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"My first introduction to Ivor Cutler was his 1975 album, Velvet Donkey. It sounded like I’d stumbled upon some ancient relic; a pre-historic recording that only a select few had ever been granted the golden opportunity to hear"

Why #IvorCutler is my Spirit Guide, by Hamish Hawk

buff.ly/bAdAbks
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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oh no did somebody undermine the grand theatre of the budget reveal
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Enjoyed the mist this morning.
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Good morning.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I ASSUMED THEY WERE REFERRING TO THE GIANT BOW ON HER HEAD

Couldn’t click on the link fast enough. (It was for the frock.)
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When a nail snags the wool on our cardigan sleeve.

- Trad.
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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In our corner shop they have Cadbury’s Crème Eggs and it feels a bit last minute for next Easter compared to the trailing this budget has had
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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You can keep your Poirots and your Marples, the greatest murder mystery moment on tv is when John Nettles discovers Selina Cadell has been popped into a tumble drier
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Nowt more sexy than a good cardi.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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*tiny voice*

Please shop small.
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The baby discovers fire.
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Naught can assail me”
Another divine Jill McDonald Puffin Post cover, full of her characteristic sense of capering, madcap motion and joyful atmosphere always edged with something a little darker & more surreal
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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ha
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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#InsideNo9 book cover postcards, modelled by someone or other, available to purchase from here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop. Soon be Christmas!
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Can I interest anyone in a spare seated ticket for My Bloody Valentine in Glasgow on Thursday? Open to offers, happy to take less than face value.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
How glorious to see Penguin Cafe perform music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra this evening. Just the most wonderful night.
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM