JL Kaufmann
@jlkaufmann.bsky.social
Overcaffeinated scribbling person
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Is this Starmer finally realising that the people he had around him advising him were turning him into a monster, or just boring old arse-covering?
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elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall
Alt: Elmo the little red Muppet from Sesame Street does a great big shrug.
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Is this Starmer finally realising that the people he had around him advising him were turning him into a monster, or just boring old arse-covering?
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My neck and shoulder hurt like hecking bejeepers. I reek of Tiger Balm.
February 8, 2026 at 10:37 PM
My neck and shoulder hurt like hecking bejeepers. I reek of Tiger Balm.
Look, if you couldn‘t be arsed to write it, I can’t be arsed to read it.
I CERTAINLY cannot be arsed to pay you for it.
I CERTAINLY cannot be arsed to pay you for it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Look, if you couldn‘t be arsed to write it, I can’t be arsed to read it.
I CERTAINLY cannot be arsed to pay you for it.
I CERTAINLY cannot be arsed to pay you for it.
This one made me laugh rather a lot.
Stupid Lore Sunday
The galaxy is a strange and terrifying place. When ancient cartographers created their maps they would mark the unknown ‘here be monsters’. In the grim dark future the maps are infinitely larger but there be monsters still.
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The galaxy is a strange and terrifying place. When ancient cartographers created their maps they would mark the unknown ‘here be monsters’. In the grim dark future the maps are infinitely larger but there be monsters still.
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February 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This one made me laugh rather a lot.
OK that took 20 minutes. The child simply cannot hold a grudge.
February 8, 2026 at 2:44 PM
OK that took 20 minutes. The child simply cannot hold a grudge.
I am home!
The Squoof appeared briefly at the top of the stairs as I came in and gave me A Look and now she’s under the sofa and won’t even come out for churu. I am in such trouble. I am being so scolded.
The Squoof appeared briefly at the top of the stairs as I came in and gave me A Look and now she’s under the sofa and won’t even come out for churu. I am in such trouble. I am being so scolded.
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I am home!
The Squoof appeared briefly at the top of the stairs as I came in and gave me A Look and now she’s under the sofa and won’t even come out for churu. I am in such trouble. I am being so scolded.
The Squoof appeared briefly at the top of the stairs as I came in and gave me A Look and now she’s under the sofa and won’t even come out for churu. I am in such trouble. I am being so scolded.
I, as a white Jewish queer woman, feel SAFER in a very diverse area with people from many cultures and languages. Because we’re all good at tolerance and being reasonable and letting people be. Whereas monocultures tend to excuse and enable their elites at the cost of everyone else.
February 8, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I, as a white Jewish queer woman, feel SAFER in a very diverse area with people from many cultures and languages. Because we’re all good at tolerance and being reasonable and letting people be. Whereas monocultures tend to excuse and enable their elites at the cost of everyone else.
I am on a train! Again! Apparently I live here now!
February 8, 2026 at 12:23 PM
I am on a train! Again! Apparently I live here now!
Reposted by JL Kaufmann
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.
Me: *explaining freeski slopestyle with excited handgestures*
Sib: Who the hell are you and what have you done with my sister?
Sib: Who the hell are you and what have you done with my sister?
February 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Me: *explaining freeski slopestyle with excited handgestures*
Sib: Who the hell are you and what have you done with my sister?
Sib: Who the hell are you and what have you done with my sister?
Sincerely WTF is going on with British journalism? WTActualTapdancingF?
Like almost everyone else, I thought this was a spoof - but no
February 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Sincerely WTF is going on with British journalism? WTActualTapdancingF?
Reposted by JL Kaufmann
I would really like to see 'X* is a genius. It's just a shame he** can't write decent women characters' reframed as 'It's a shame X can't write decent women characters. If he could, he'd be a genius'.
* said of plenty of authors and film makers.
** I considered 'they' but every one I recall is 'he'.
* said of plenty of authors and film makers.
** I considered 'they' but every one I recall is 'he'.
August 26, 2023 at 5:16 PM
I would really like to see 'X* is a genius. It's just a shame he** can't write decent women characters' reframed as 'It's a shame X can't write decent women characters. If he could, he'd be a genius'.
* said of plenty of authors and film makers.
** I considered 'they' but every one I recall is 'he'.
* said of plenty of authors and film makers.
** I considered 'they' but every one I recall is 'he'.
It is pouring with rain. Again. Sofa weather.
I am watching absolute lunatics fling themselves down snowy slopes in beautiful sunshine.
I am watching absolute lunatics fling themselves down snowy slopes in beautiful sunshine.
February 7, 2026 at 9:42 AM
It is pouring with rain. Again. Sofa weather.
I am watching absolute lunatics fling themselves down snowy slopes in beautiful sunshine.
I am watching absolute lunatics fling themselves down snowy slopes in beautiful sunshine.
Winter Olympics opening ceremony continues - Rossini, Puccini and Verdi disco-dancing are… a vibe.
February 6, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Winter Olympics opening ceremony continues - Rossini, Puccini and Verdi disco-dancing are… a vibe.
Every single person carrying the Olympic flag tonight is a direct spit in the eye of Trump and Vance. Ha. Hahahaha.
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Every single person carrying the Olympic flag tonight is a direct spit in the eye of Trump and Vance. Ha. Hahahaha.
Apologies for mentioning the creep, but is Vance wearing lipstick? I thought the MAGA lot were extremely anti gender-nonconformism.
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Apologies for mentioning the creep, but is Vance wearing lipstick? I thought the MAGA lot were extremely anti gender-nonconformism.
I support:
Italy because I was raised there
Canada because my grandpa was Canadian
GB because I live here
Underdogs and cute backstories
….
…
Satan
Cat-poop
The USA and Israel.
I love my American friends and family dearly BUT
Italy because I was raised there
Canada because my grandpa was Canadian
GB because I live here
Underdogs and cute backstories
….
…
Satan
Cat-poop
The USA and Israel.
I love my American friends and family dearly BUT
So the cats and my sibling and I have settled down to watch the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
I have been looking forward to this for FOUR FREAKING YEARS.
I have been looking forward to this for FOUR FREAKING YEARS.
February 6, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I support:
Italy because I was raised there
Canada because my grandpa was Canadian
GB because I live here
Underdogs and cute backstories
….
…
Satan
Cat-poop
The USA and Israel.
I love my American friends and family dearly BUT
Italy because I was raised there
Canada because my grandpa was Canadian
GB because I live here
Underdogs and cute backstories
….
…
Satan
Cat-poop
The USA and Israel.
I love my American friends and family dearly BUT
So the cats and my sibling and I have settled down to watch the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
I have been looking forward to this for FOUR FREAKING YEARS.
I have been looking forward to this for FOUR FREAKING YEARS.
February 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
So the cats and my sibling and I have settled down to watch the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
I have been looking forward to this for FOUR FREAKING YEARS.
I have been looking forward to this for FOUR FREAKING YEARS.
The Parental Cats are clearly starving neglected cold little orflings, despite the photographic evidence Sib sent me of lovely full bowls of treats and biscuits. How can I believe a mere TEXT from a human who also loves them over the evidence of their little pleading faces?
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The Parental Cats are clearly starving neglected cold little orflings, despite the photographic evidence Sib sent me of lovely full bowls of treats and biscuits. How can I believe a mere TEXT from a human who also loves them over the evidence of their little pleading faces?
I have just seen six wild bunnies by the side of the train tracks. Five fled and one carried right on eating.
February 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
I have just seen six wild bunnies by the side of the train tracks. Five fled and one carried right on eating.
I got to the station on time, good good.
The trains aren’t.
I bought a latte to wait with. Its relation to coffee is tenuous at best. It tastes of brown.
The trains aren’t.
I bought a latte to wait with. Its relation to coffee is tenuous at best. It tastes of brown.
I am now on a bus, stuck in heavy traffic, and there’s a young chap on the phone trying to explain that he’s not still in bed, he got up ages ago, he’s on the bus. Eventually he takes a selfie, I assume to prove it.
February 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I got to the station on time, good good.
The trains aren’t.
I bought a latte to wait with. Its relation to coffee is tenuous at best. It tastes of brown.
The trains aren’t.
I bought a latte to wait with. Its relation to coffee is tenuous at best. It tastes of brown.
I am now on a bus, stuck in heavy traffic, and there’s a young chap on the phone trying to explain that he’s not still in bed, he got up ages ago, he’s on the bus. Eventually he takes a selfie, I assume to prove it.
February 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I am now on a bus, stuck in heavy traffic, and there’s a young chap on the phone trying to explain that he’s not still in bed, he got up ages ago, he’s on the bus. Eventually he takes a selfie, I assume to prove it.
Right. This afternoon I am going back to the parents' place - sorry Squoofie - so I need to do various boring household tasks and get my head together.
Right.
Right.
*is caught watching the figure-skating, still in pyjamas*
Right.
Right.
*is caught watching the figure-skating, still in pyjamas*
February 6, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Right. This afternoon I am going back to the parents' place - sorry Squoofie - so I need to do various boring household tasks and get my head together.
Right.
Right.
*is caught watching the figure-skating, still in pyjamas*
Right.
Right.
*is caught watching the figure-skating, still in pyjamas*
I suddenly realised the time and started cooking dinner and now dinner is nearly ready I feel a little sick and don’t want it.
February 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I suddenly realised the time and started cooking dinner and now dinner is nearly ready I feel a little sick and don’t want it.