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It strikes me that not everyone has read Quentin Crisp on the sex lives of American GIs stationed in London in the Second World War, and that's a shame.
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Mar 23
Or perhaps the lampposts of Shaftesbury Avenue, as immortalised by Quentin Crisp in this fever dream of desire
• Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, (|968): "Into the feast of love and death that St. Adolf had set before the palates of the English - parched these long dark twenty-five years - Mr Roosevelt began, with Olympian hands, to shower the American forces. This brand new army of (no) occupation flowed through the streets of London like cream on strawberries, like melted butter over green peas. Labelled "with love from Uncle Sam" and packaged in uniforms so tight that in them their owners could fight for nothing but their honour, these bundles for Britain" leaned against the lamp posts of Shaftesbury Avenue or lolled on the steps of thin-lipped statues of dead English statesmen. As they sat in cafés or stood in the pubs, their bodies bulged through every straining khaki fibre toward our feverish hands. Their voices were like warm milk, their skins as flawless as expensive India rubber, and their eyes as beautiful as glass. Above all it was the liberality of their natures that was so marvellous. Never in the history of sex was so much offered to so many by so few."
March 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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He’s literally travelling by Papal Fiat.
Pope Francis arrives home to the Vatican after five-week hospital stay
The Pope appeared on a public balcony at Rome's Gemelli hospital to bless the crowd shortly before being discharged, in his first public outing in five weeks.
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March 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Ohhh I'm in love
aresluna.org Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · Feb 14
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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February 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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The new interactive maps of Scotland's census data were released this week. They are fascinating! I have already spent hours exploring them, and there is so much more to look at!

www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/atlas/
Image of a map of data from Scotland's census. This one shows the percentage of people who travel to work by bus, in part of Edinburgh.
December 14, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM