Reposted by AlexanderJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 16hWhat a heartless, cruel thing for an elected representative to say. 6385494
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Every time I listen to This Is Spa Town! It does in fact get better and better and I’m still annoyed I didn’t buy White Hotel tickets for next week as they’re now out and it will be sick 000
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A baby seagull tentatively picking at an avocado 020
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The clip of him performing at it Big Weekend in Derry where he stands up on the crowd for the Middle Eight goes so incredibly hard 000
Reposted by AlexanderAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Pop Bands in the News, day two: The time actual OMD took a detour in their tour bus just to pick up a copy of this headline. Elite level snacking. 823147
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Being called in to work again. This is why we don’t take double On Calls Alex 010
Reposted by AlexanderHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I thought this was really good. Increasingly, online shopping is beginning to look and feel like online gambling, and what's worse is the feeling that you'll always win www.newstatesman.com/special-repo...newstatesman.comVinted BrainHow Britain lost its mind to online shopping addiction 3263
Reposted by AlexanderFlo 🔶 @faz.ms · 05/08/2026There should be legal consequences if you let an AI agent do supply chain attacks. 111724
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh for sure. But again, I feel like this is kind of the case with everyone 010
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One thing I do feel like they do still have is the whole thing about “it just works”. They would rather wait and get the folding phone right and that makes me more likely to consider buying it (just as an example, once again the relative dimensions of the folding phone seem mad to me) 010
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Have considered leaving but I still feel there are security things that I like, plus the ecosystem, just to make it all feel like a lot of effort and money to leave, and probably still be disappointed with anyone else 110
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Would not describe myself as die hard but have been on iPhone for 15 years, and it definitely feels like there are things they’ve got complacent on/things that are just annoying. But mostly it’s quite subtle stuff in settings and set up that I don’t like. ‘You can do this, but you can’t do that’ etc 110
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Added a folder for in between apps and just put Bluesky in it 040
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Thinking of reorganising my phone folders into Good Apps and Bad Apps 130
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It did take me around 10 years to learn this lesson and even then I’m still frequently very bad at it. I don’t think I have anything useable from the whole weekend either 020
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Wolf Alice got the crowd to howl at it mid set last night 120
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I did for a while and felt immeasurably worse the whole time. Do not recommend 010
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 17/08/2026How do I make WhatsApp animating the emojis? It’s so unchic 110
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I sat here for a good minute wondering who you meant. I do concur though hahaha 010
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 13/08/2026New Carly Rae Jensen sounds like a mashup between Robyn and Abba 020
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Once again pulled in and punished for forgetting music critics fucking love jazz 000
Reposted by Alexanderlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi 153128873254
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 09/08/2026He’s currently hoovering the flat with the finesse of Mr Blobby 080
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Every time I go to Lidl I think I should come here more often. Then every time I get to the till I remember why I don’t. 020
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Undecided if I like ‘What if Slayyyter but Lorde instead’ 000
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 03/08/2026*tiktok edit of Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway to After’s Promise (When You Go)* 010
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 01/08/2026new Now You See Me is So Bad. I was hoping for a romp like the others but it’s really poor. So many crap moments that take you out of the film. Rosamund Pike phoning it the fuck in. Dumb dumb dumb 000
Reposted by Alexanderghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them 252413336
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Last time ours did a round of ‘Guess this Eminem song from this “shakespearean” language translation. Never again. 010
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Also School kinda just sounds like those Self Esteem tracks (derogatory). 000
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Okay overall it’s very good and a stunning surprise. I think it’s greater than the sum of its parts (complimentary). I Feel So Free and Everything probably my highlights currently. Not sure I’m following the love for Bizarre currently 130
Reposted by AlexanderJ @joealouder.bsky.social · 10/07/2026ANYWAY www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/m...officialcharts.comMadonna becomes the first US female ever to earn Number 1 albums across five decades with CONFESSIONS IIMadonna becomes the first US female artist to earn Number 1 albums across five decades, as CONFESSIONS II earns her a 13th UK chart-topping record. 152
Reposted by Alexanderweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Not gonna pierce these baking potatoes with a fork, in fact I hope they explode. I hope it takes out the whole neighborhood. 1042072282
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is sort of the thing for me. Gigs and events all come through instagram now. Esp since twitter died. Also use it to message a lot of people. V annoying 020
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Coventry and Birmingham aren’t really competing on the same scale though are they? That’s sort of what I mean 110
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Being from Birmingham and now living in Liverpool. I have always said it’s the lack of want/need to shout about itself. Birmingham doesn’t have a rivalry with anyone else whereas Liverpool and Manchester are close enough and both big enough to shout about themselves. Brummies are just too chill imo 5381
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It’s the whole no one is an actual artist or craftsman any more. They are all content creators. The job is not to paint/carve/pot/draw/play/conduct/design/build etc. it is to make videos of themselves doing these things 020
Reposted by AlexanderJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026No Keir! This is too dramaturgical! James Graham is going to write a terrible play about this weekend! 16211
Reposted by AlexanderJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/06/2026It is the official stance of the UK government that you're mature enough at 16 to vote in general elections, but not mature enough to go on YouTube after dark. 1728690
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Listening to Alex Warren? He’s crashed out for me 120
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Watching all the stories from Primavera where all you can hear is people chatting. Last year was the last ever and I am sticking by it. 010
Reposted by AlexanderBrett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 04/06/2026meanwhile (and also from the FT), it's hard to see this as anything other than catastrophic: 1238
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Don’t try the Nigel Slater recipe. Does not compare 010
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Well in that case I think we should definitely have another olympics 130
Alexander @1029alexander.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Something about a lot of Europe where they’re not suspicious and hateful of buildings they built between 1945 and, essentially, now. Impressive ability to not shit on their own built environment 030
![Painting: Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" (1943), oil on canvas — a lean young workman in a suede jacket and blue plaid shirt stands to speak at a town meeting, chin raised, while seated older men in suits and ties look up at him; a folded blue booklet juts from his pocket. Signed top right "NORMAN ROCKWELL"; the blue pamphlet held at bottom centre reads "ANNUAL REPORT of the TOWN of [MONT]", i.e. a Vermont town report.
The picture starts with FDR’s January 1941 State of the Union, which named four freedoms worth fighting for. Rockwell wanted to illustrate them but could not find a handle on the abstraction until he attended a town meeting in Arlington, Vermont, where a neighbour — Jim Edgerton — stood and argued against a new school building that everyone else wanted. The others heard him out. That was the picture.
He used Arlington neighbours as models. The standing man is Carl Hess, a local garage owner. Rockwell put himself at the far left edge. He repainted the canvas four times, fighting the composition; the final solution was to drop the viewer’s eye below the speaker, so we look up at him along with the crowd, and to leave the background empty and dark so nothing competes.
The Office of War Information turned Rockwell down when he offered the series. The Saturday Evening Post ran them instead, one a week from 20 February 1943, each paired with an essay. The Treasury then reversed the government’s position and built the Second War Loan Drive around the paintings: a sixteen-city touring show that drew over a million visitors and sold on the order of $130 million in bonds. Millions of poster reprints followed.
Everyone in that room is white and the scene is a New England idyll, at a moment when Black Americans were running the Double V campaign against fascism abroad and segregation at home. Later artists — Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur’s 2018 restaging among them — have reshot the series precisely to widen who gets to stand up.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:huocg7zsbthk54vjai56wd27/bafkreiclxzc7bbno6rokdv56ni56pxwwfvbzl4lueiitwceqps65p2jmb4)
