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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 01/12/2025

I thought it was going to be “fofoca, diz-me”, as in “gossip, talk to me”

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 26/09/2025

No way does that get top billing

Newtowncashel (Irish: Baile Nua an Chaisil, meaning 'new town of the fort')[1] is a village located near Lough Ree in County Longford, Ireland. Newtowncashel won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1980.[2]

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 05/09/2025

The caesura into “Sonst” is a big sonnet move, but the stumbling-over-itself rhyme scheme of the tercets and the short last sentence obscure its sonnetry

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 13/08/2025

I like the Standard’s Backlash vertical standard.co.uk/topic/backlash

Screenshot of the Standard’s “Backlash” vertical

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 20/07/2025

An absolute punch in the gut for anyone, an additional smack around the face for someone who worked as a graphic designer/frontend developer in Berlin & Lisbon in 2016–17 (me). 5*

Photo of ‘Perfection’ by Vicenzo Latronico

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/07/2025

“LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES” – players just don’t write columns like this anymore

A clipping of “Captian Gary’s Chat” from the “Red All Over” fanzine, reading “I am Gary Brabin who recently was given the great honour to be Captain of Doncaster Rovers. I can't really explain the feeling of leading the team out.
There is more to being Captain than just wearing an arm band. I would just like to thank the Boss Sammy Chung and Ken Richardson for standing by me and giving me this great honour.
As fans will know I have got bags of ambition and would love to be the Captain when Rovers get promotion this season. Although I am Liverpool born and "bread" I now class myself as a Donny Lad.
My biggest disappointment was our exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Mansfield Town, but hopefully this can be put right by winning promotion for the supporters who l'd like to think I've got close to during my time at the Club.
LOTS OF LOVE AND SEXY KISSES.
GARY BRABIN”

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 15/04/2025

Seashell Flowers, Max Ernst (1929)

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/03/2025

Evil bollocks as ever from Labour’s most committed pro-misery activist: a) Are those ‘better paid jobs’... vacant? b) Aren’t mental health problems overdiagnosed (Wes)? c) If mental health support is so essential, why slash PIP for mental health support? d) “If you can work” What if you can’t?

Kendall replied:

I’ve spent years chairing Feeding Leicester, the programme to end hunger in my city and I know that I can look my constituents in the eye and say to them, I know that getting more people into better paid jobs is the key to their future success, I know dealing with their mental health problems which we know are so prevalent is so essential.

We, the Labour party, believe that if you can work, we will give you the help to get back on your feet, because that is the long-term route to tackling poverty, tackling inequality which is what this Labour party is all about.

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 22/02/2025

Was reminded to read it by the black kites crowding the skies over Mumbai & Delhi (as Richard points out, we all love urban birds of prey), so I was glad to see them make an appearance! Here’s a picture of one who’s just plundered the dining area at the Delhi Golf Club and is looking for seconds:

A black kite perches on the end of the stone gable of Delhi Golf Club’s clubhouse

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 22/02/2025

Finally gave myself a morning to read @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social’s An Indifference of Birds. A real pleasure, a temporal-spatial panorama of things things I’ve always loved about birds and things I never knew. Recommended to bird people and people who should be (i.e. everyone)

The cover of ‘An Indifference of Birds’ by Richard Smyth

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/02/2025

I’m not sure I’d ever seen this view:

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 18/02/2025

I’ve been admiring pictures of Corbusier’s Chandigarh for as long as I can remember – but it’s somehow even better in person:

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 28/01/2025

Drew a G-splitting robot to illustrate @roisinlanigan.bsky.social’s guide to whether your local pub’s gentrifying – or if you’re gentrifying it. See the whole thing on the @thefence.bsky.social insta: www.instagram.com/thefencemag/...

First slide of “Gentri-bot 5000” carousel. Black-and-white illustration features a robot wearing a 1990s Manchester United shirt and a cap, sporting a stick-and-poke tattoo, and holding a pint of Guinness at a pub table with a dog sitting on a Thonet wooden chair

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 16/12/2024

Really enjoyed seeing this sign – not only for the implication that you’re not allowed to flush anything you’ve done in there, but also for the fact that they’ve not typed it out on Word and printed it, they’ve got it from www.free-printable-signs.com and it’s a 656px bitmap

Printed A4 sign reading “PLEASE ONLY FLUSH TOILET PAPER” with metadata in the corner that says “please-only-flush-toilet-paper-sign.png 848x656 pixels” and “www.free-printable-signs.com”

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 28/11/2024

Ewe & Friends. “They’re the business”

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 27/11/2024

Kiran Leonard. “He’s the business”

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Alex Christian @alexschristian.com · 26/11/2024

[me, 2011] you could portal up there so easily

Google Street View screenshot showing a white wall outside East Putney station

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