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Loved the Turner always contemporary exhibition at the Walker - some very interesting connections made across artists. Sadly my favourite Simone Martini painting has not yet made it back into the main collection.
January 31, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Loved the Turner always contemporary exhibition at the Walker - some very interesting connections made across artists. Sadly my favourite Simone Martini painting has not yet made it back into the main collection.
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rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
Annual church panto trip - this year Sleeping Beauty. Fun with a couple of good jokes and a script that ensured the prince had met the princess and got consent before he had to kiss her to wake her!
January 4, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Annual church panto trip - this year Sleeping Beauty. Fun with a couple of good jokes and a script that ensured the prince had met the princess and got consent before he had to kiss her to wake her!
Loved the Forsyte saga at the RSC but honestly imagine it’s a completely different thing if you don’t see Pt 1 before Pt 2.
January 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Loved the Forsyte saga at the RSC but honestly imagine it’s a completely different thing if you don’t see Pt 1 before Pt 2.
Oh I am loving the Forsyte saga at the RSC - it’s really well done. They’ve left us on another ‘cue Eastenders drum beats’ for tomorrow (NB they are way too classy to actually play Eastenders drum beats)
January 2, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Oh I am loving the Forsyte saga at the RSC - it’s really well done. They’ve left us on another ‘cue Eastenders drum beats’ for tomorrow (NB they are way too classy to actually play Eastenders drum beats)
Forsyte saga has just left us on a proper Eastenders drum beat #intervalskeet
January 2, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Forsyte saga has just left us on a proper Eastenders drum beat #intervalskeet
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It's time for the passing year!
✨🌟✨Happy new year!!✨🌟✨
Wishing you the best as always, health and success for you through 2026!
Keep it up!
✨🌟✨Happy new year!!✨🌟✨
Wishing you the best as always, health and success for you through 2026!
Keep it up!
December 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It's time for the passing year!
✨🌟✨Happy new year!!✨🌟✨
Wishing you the best as always, health and success for you through 2026!
Keep it up!
✨🌟✨Happy new year!!✨🌟✨
Wishing you the best as always, health and success for you through 2026!
Keep it up!
Loved Young Frankenstein at the Playhouse. Excellent performances and genuine laughs (btw make sure you stay to watch the credits which are hilarious).
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Loved Young Frankenstein at the Playhouse. Excellent performances and genuine laughs (btw make sure you stay to watch the credits which are hilarious).
Church on form. Went in to go to a funeral, came out with a packet of short date raspberries because we had a donation and the freezers couldn’t fit everything.
December 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Church on form. Went in to go to a funeral, came out with a packet of short date raspberries because we had a donation and the freezers couldn’t fit everything.
Cousin’s cat is being very brave with all of us in the house and has even tried out my lap (briefly). Possibly we will get a Christmas where he isn’t stressed out of his very tiny ginger mind or holding a grudge!
December 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Cousin’s cat is being very brave with all of us in the house and has even tried out my lap (briefly). Possibly we will get a Christmas where he isn’t stressed out of his very tiny ginger mind or holding a grudge!
Some of the congregation got me chocolate dinosaurs for my birthday! I love my church!
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Some of the congregation got me chocolate dinosaurs for my birthday! I love my church!
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The thing is, you can't make trans and intersex people nonexistent, you can only make them suffer.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The thing is, you can't make trans and intersex people nonexistent, you can only make them suffer.
Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
One of my smaller Sunday School boys made me a loom band bracelet. It has made my day!
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One of my smaller Sunday School boys made me a loom band bracelet. It has made my day!
RIP Brian Patten. Presumably it now IS celestial music!
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
RIP Brian Patten. Presumably it now IS celestial music!
One of my Sunday School children said his favourite things about church were ‘food and Laura’. On the one hand, not what I was going for, on the other, stupidly proud of myself!
September 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One of my Sunday School children said his favourite things about church were ‘food and Laura’. On the one hand, not what I was going for, on the other, stupidly proud of myself!
I always find something to love at the John Moores painting prize and today was no different - so lucky to live near it! Thanks to the Walker Art Gallery for a lovely evening 😀
September 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I always find something to love at the John Moores painting prize and today was no different - so lucky to live near it! Thanks to the Walker Art Gallery for a lovely evening 😀
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@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
Fringe reviews: Darren McGarvey Trauma Industrial Complex. Thoughtful exploration of how fitting trauma into a standard narrative structure is probably not telling the whole truth and may not be remotely helpful.
August 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Fringe reviews: Darren McGarvey Trauma Industrial Complex. Thoughtful exploration of how fitting trauma into a standard narrative structure is probably not telling the whole truth and may not be remotely helpful.
Fringe reviews: Red like fruit. Cleverly constructed play about the difference between what gets said and whether or how it gets heard. Liked it a lot.
August 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Fringe reviews: Red like fruit. Cleverly constructed play about the difference between what gets said and whether or how it gets heard. Liked it a lot.
Fringe reviews: Faustine. It’s got the Faust story. It’s got synthesisers. It’s got really really really clunky rhymes. I mean REALLY clunky. Sigh.
August 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Fringe reviews: Faustine. It’s got the Faust story. It’s got synthesisers. It’s got really really really clunky rhymes. I mean REALLY clunky. Sigh.
Fringe reviews: Amazons. Engaging one woman show exploring the history of the Amazon through her personal history as someone of indigenous descent.
August 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Fringe reviews: Amazons. Engaging one woman show exploring the history of the Amazon through her personal history as someone of indigenous descent.
Fringe reviews: Count Dykula. Not as fun as Lesbian Space Crime.
August 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Fringe reviews: Count Dykula. Not as fun as Lesbian Space Crime.
Fringe reviews: Ways of knowing. Yikes this is weird. The bit that works best is an evocation of caving done in the dark lit by the two performers’ head torches.
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Fringe reviews: Ways of knowing. Yikes this is weird. The bit that works best is an evocation of caving done in the dark lit by the two performers’ head torches.