Penny Briers
@pocketdisco.bsky.social
Hobbies, many. Master of none. Stitching and chatting mostly. Stares out of window. Pours tea.
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Penny Briers
@pocketdisco.bsky.social
· Apr 10
a woman is laying in bed eating a piece of bread
Alt: a happy woman lying in bed eating a piece of toast
media.tenor.com
Dreamt about taking a toaster on a train and making breakfast for the whole carriage. Became a business called Toast Station. Made myself so hungry I couldn’t get back to sleep.
Wonderful. To think of finding something the master had worked on, handled, just sitting in a drawer.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Wonderful. To think of finding something the master had worked on, handled, just sitting in a drawer.
Crazy weather for London in mid November 🥵
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Crazy weather for London in mid November 🥵
Reposted by Penny Briers
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
Can this be rendered in coloured wool? Wish me luck 🪡
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Can this be rendered in coloured wool? Wish me luck 🪡
Something Amis haiku
It’s not so much that
We are splitting up that she
Keeps quoting Martin
It’s not so much that
We are splitting up that she
Keeps quoting Martin
From the archive, 2004: fiction by Jackie Kay.
‘I wondered furiously if Martin Amis had put her up to that too. Perhaps there was something in one of his books that advised people in long-term relationships to stop doing everything that they used to enjoy doing.’
granta.com/you-go-when-...
‘I wondered furiously if Martin Amis had put her up to that too. Perhaps there was something in one of his books that advised people in long-term relationships to stop doing everything that they used to enjoy doing.’
granta.com/you-go-when-...
You go When You Can No Longer Stay | Jackie Kay | Granta Magazine
'It is not so much that we are splitting up that is really worrying me, it is the fact that she keeps quoting Martin Amis', Jackie Kay in 'You Go When You Can No Longer Stay' published in Granta 85:…
granta.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Something Amis haiku
It’s not so much that
We are splitting up that she
Keeps quoting Martin
It’s not so much that
We are splitting up that she
Keeps quoting Martin
What’s it going to be?
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
What’s it going to be?
Seeing Yoko Ono’s show at Tate Modern was so inspiring. It struck me that war has been a major subject of art since ancient times; she is almost unique in choosing peace as a theme. Rare and precious.
Yoko Ono's interactive MCA retrospective breaks the museum mold
www.axios.com/local/chicag...
Billed as one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of the multi-media creator's work, tracing back to the 1950s through her time with John Lennon, and as one of the key members of the Fluxus movement.
www.axios.com/local/chicag...
Billed as one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of the multi-media creator's work, tracing back to the 1950s through her time with John Lennon, and as one of the key members of the Fluxus movement.
Chicago is currently the only U.S. city to see Yoko Ono retrospective
The MCA is the only U.S. venue for Yoko Ono's "Music of the Mind," offering over 200 works and immersive art across 70 years.
www.axios.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Seeing Yoko Ono’s show at Tate Modern was so inspiring. It struck me that war has been a major subject of art since ancient times; she is almost unique in choosing peace as a theme. Rare and precious.
Epic cottage pie tonight
October 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Epic cottage pie tonight
Reposted by Penny Briers
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
I hereby suggest donations to Wikipedia as the ideal gift for those hard-to-buy-for people. Not to mention the pedants, quiz setters and know alls in our lives.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I hereby suggest donations to Wikipedia as the ideal gift for those hard-to-buy-for people. Not to mention the pedants, quiz setters and know alls in our lives.
Sincerely hope *their* parents aren’t having any more children. They’ve done quite enough damage.
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
October 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Sincerely hope *their* parents aren’t having any more children. They’ve done quite enough damage.
I saw Lee Miller’s retrospective at the Tate today. Her photos of the devastation of Europe and the barbarity of Buchenwald camp moved me to tears. To see them is to stand in Lee’s shoes and witness the horrific results of Nazi beliefs, as she did. These c**ts should be forced to do the same.
Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after we published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.
‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies
POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I saw Lee Miller’s retrospective at the Tate today. Her photos of the devastation of Europe and the barbarity of Buchenwald camp moved me to tears. To see them is to stand in Lee’s shoes and witness the horrific results of Nazi beliefs, as she did. These c**ts should be forced to do the same.
Venezuela studies have to start somewhere
October 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Venezuela studies have to start somewhere
Just realised last time I felt this exhausted, I had Covid 🙁
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Just realised last time I felt this exhausted, I had Covid 🙁
Wretched spelling error
Forgettable message
And as a final flourish, a pathetic Tr*mpish signature
Forgettable message
And as a final flourish, a pathetic Tr*mpish signature
October 7, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Wretched spelling error
Forgettable message
And as a final flourish, a pathetic Tr*mpish signature
Forgettable message
And as a final flourish, a pathetic Tr*mpish signature
Connections
Puzzle #848
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October 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Connections
Puzzle #848
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Reposted by Penny Briers
Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service
Sarah Mullally has been named as the first female leader of the Church of England as Downing Street announced the 106th archbishop of Canterbury nearly a year on from Justin Welby’s resignation over the handling of a safeguarding scandal.
This is the first time an archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen since the Church of England allowed women to become bishops in 2014. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
BLIMEY ORILEY One Battle After Another. WHAT ARE YOU DOING I SAID RUN TO THE CINEMA YOU BOZOS
October 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
BLIMEY ORILEY One Battle After Another. WHAT ARE YOU DOING I SAID RUN TO THE CINEMA YOU BOZOS
What if the rapture has happened, just not to any Americans? Wouldn’t that be a laugh
September 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
What if the rapture has happened, just not to any Americans? Wouldn’t that be a laugh
September 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Penny Briers
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
In need of some English eccentricity to lighten the mood? The Bonzo’s My pink half of the drainpipe youtu.be/-daYplQj5CE?...
My Pink Half of the Drainpipe (2007 Remaster)
YouTube video by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Topic
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
In need of some English eccentricity to lighten the mood? The Bonzo’s My pink half of the drainpipe youtu.be/-daYplQj5CE?...
Oh my. Why didn’t someone tell me how good this is?
September 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Oh my. Why didn’t someone tell me how good this is?
Sunday to do list
Empty entire wardrobe ✔️
Vacuum, spray interior with moth killer✔️
Sort everything for damage/ donation/ bin. Shoes and bags same✔️
Launder all autumn knitwear✔️
Sort summer stuff for storage✔️
Put everything back beautifully ☑️
#autumnready #still-hot-outside
Empty entire wardrobe ✔️
Vacuum, spray interior with moth killer✔️
Sort everything for damage/ donation/ bin. Shoes and bags same✔️
Launder all autumn knitwear✔️
Sort summer stuff for storage✔️
Put everything back beautifully ☑️
#autumnready #still-hot-outside
September 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Sunday to do list
Empty entire wardrobe ✔️
Vacuum, spray interior with moth killer✔️
Sort everything for damage/ donation/ bin. Shoes and bags same✔️
Launder all autumn knitwear✔️
Sort summer stuff for storage✔️
Put everything back beautifully ☑️
#autumnready #still-hot-outside
Empty entire wardrobe ✔️
Vacuum, spray interior with moth killer✔️
Sort everything for damage/ donation/ bin. Shoes and bags same✔️
Launder all autumn knitwear✔️
Sort summer stuff for storage✔️
Put everything back beautifully ☑️
#autumnready #still-hot-outside
