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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 24/09/2026

I respect British culture. DO YOU?

The tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery

Some nice Battenberg cake crumbs arranged in lines

A mattress against a tree on a street, possibly in Walthamstow

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 23/09/2026

this is what i've been saying

It says "Olde English" technically so I assume they're just making a Ye Olde joke

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 19/09/2026

starting to write a new doctor who fanfiction

No Escape

“Come on Ace, we’ve got work to do!”

“Work, professor?” said Ace. “After all that I could do with a holiday! What’s in this hedgerow anyway?”

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 04/09/2026

the other one thought I was from Rhode Island this one thinks I'm from Noo Yawk, which I have at least been to.

Map showing I'm from New York apparently

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 02/09/2026

this is so funny. it's Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council's proposals for unitaries for Staffordshire - four of them, with the only district being unchanged being Newcastle under Lyme. they might as well have proposed they be given birthday cake every day and patted on the head.

4 unitary authorities

"Unitary A"
Newcastle-under-Lyme

"Unitary B"
Cannock Chase, South Staffordshire, Stafford

"Unitary C"
Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent

"Unitary D"
East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Tamworth

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 20/08/2026

Want to see something that will make you anxious?

It's an inbox with 68,705 unread messages

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 12/08/2026

do you remember the sun we used to have? not like the harsh white sun we have now. the one that used to be yellow and warm and have baby's face trapped in it. it doesn't look like this now.

the sun from teletubbies, a baby's face with yellow rays eminating from it, in a beautiful blue sky (with a few wispy clouds), over rolling green hills

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 04/08/2026

the next major threshold is this one. again, it's revealed loads of things that don't have city status! Reading! Swindon! Basingstoke! Worthing! Crawley! Guildford!

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 04/08/2026

on the south coast we get Bournemouth (a town in a unitary authority) and not Southampton or Portsmouth (cities with city status). zoom in further, still no Brighton but still more other non-towns! Poole! Eastbourne! Various places in cornwall! Ipswich! Weston-super-Mare! Luton! If they somehow...

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 04/08/2026

those are probably chosen by population of agglomeration (plus Edinburgh and Cardiff, although no Belfast). if we zoom in a tiny bit more we get a bunch of other centers of agglomerations. you will note that Leeds is appearing in the same size text as Manchester and then all the others are smaller.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 04/08/2026

this "Brighton doesn't show on Google Maps solely because Wikipedia are being annoying pedants" thing really doesn't stand up to closer examination. let's look at what actually happens with their prioritsation of place names. at this level, we just get a few places...

map showing UK and Ireland with Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Dublin highlighted

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 28/07/2026

this is the area in question (fig 1). preston's boundary is the river ribble, and there's the districts of south ribble and chorley to the south of it. these are very much part of the preston travel to work area (fig 2). instead, preston is being paired with lancaster, way off to the north.

map showing preston area and district boundaries

map showing preston and blackpool travel to work areas along with some adjacent ones

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 28/07/2026

massive surprise in the count binface manifesto

"17. The hand-dryer in the gents' toilet at the Great Himalayas restaurant, Southport, to be moved to a more sensible position."

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 21/07/2026

we have now had so many primes ministers that i personally created wikipedia articles about two of them (May and Burnham) and am praying I don't achieve a third (Farage). [there is an error in my stub for Farage. he had contested 3 parliamentary elections and lost his deposit once at that point.]

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Theresa May (born 1956) is a British politician, chairman of the Conservative Party, and MP for Maidenhead.

She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford and obtained a Geography MA. From 1985 to 1997, she was a consultant for a financial institution, and in 1997 became the Tory MP for Maidenhead - she had in 1992 stood for Durham North West, a safe Labour seat. She soon became a member of William Hague's team, with her appointment shadow minister for schools in 1998.

She joined the Shadow Cabinet proper in 1999 as Shadow Education and Employment Secretary, and since then, under Iain Duncan Smith has been in a variety of shadow cabinet posts. She is perhaps the most prominent woman in the Conservative Party since Margaret Thatcher.

She courted controversy within the party at the 2002 Party Conference by warning that the Tories were seen as the nasty party and that they needed to shed this image.

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Andrew Murray Burnham is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Labour member of Parliament for Leigh.

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Nigel Paul Farage is an English politician, and United Kingdom Independence Party member of the European Parliament for South East England. He is a founder member of the party, and has contested Parliamentary elections two times, losing his deposit on both.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 10/07/2026

fucking yeah. bit earlier than street date, which makes up for the time I went to try and buy The Last Human in 1994. (which ended up not existing in the form we were being promised.)

the cover of Red Dwarf: Titan, by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 15/06/2026

keep finding weird things. what's this, an au pairs listing from 1996 at the Astoria 2, when they were supposed to be broken up?

Saturday 26: Au-Pairs: Midlands new wave originals. Astoria 2: Charing Cross Road WC2 [phone number] Tottenham Court Road 7pm, £8.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 15/06/2026

from July 1995, a Pullover + Cecil + Kenickie gig at the Garage in London. this one feels like it's probably the Wearside Kenickie, although it being in the Fulham and Hammersmith Chronicle did make me wonder if it could be the south london one.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 15/06/2026

found a bunch of other listings of that gig, and also a second (well, earlier, so first) one, on March 9th 1994! and then I have a live review of a gig in Beckenham in 1995 that mentions "support band Kenickie deserve a mention for their interpretation of [...] Sympathy for ther Devil".

Amersham Arms, New Cross Road, SE14: Big Face, Hyperactive, Kenickie (Mar 9, 8pm)

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 15/06/2026

just discovered evidence for a second Kenickie. (a gig at the half moon in putney a month before they did they did their debut gig up in tyne & wear)

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 14/06/2026

in case you think i'm making this up....

my browser showing a racewalker (David Mejia) and with browser history showing another race walker (Tim Lewis), embedded in a list

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 20/05/2026

Hallelujah! Definitely not buzzcocks, certainly not seen by many people, (not clear if 500 is the studio audience or the audience at home), possibly entirely made up.

But our favourite festive TV moment has to be when Lauren Laverne informed 500 puzzled infants on The Children’s Channel that THE SPICE GIRLS are “Tory scum”. She’s got a point. Isn’t it time that THE TWO MELS went duo?

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 14/05/2026

well, it's an oldie where i come from.

The Independent tweeting "Keir Starmer has resigned" on 27 June 2016.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 13/05/2026

seven years to the day since i posted this to a facebook group late at night. by the time i woke up sober i was banned from the group.

Hi. We recently got emailed by an evil spirit promising us a small pot of gold coins if we play a support slot at the Bull and Gate, which is strange because we don’t even have an email address, or even a computer. I was just wondering if sounds like a scam? We previously played for an only slightly malicious gnome at the Purple Turtle, and he initially refused to pay us our originally agreed £50 support fee, so we had to find out his name and say it backwards, at which point he relented and somehow found the money. Also he’d booked our band (neo-electroswing tending towards witch house), alongside some other bands that dress identically to us and use many of the same instruments but are in fact severely philosophically opposed to us, which caused a major existential crisis as well as an argument about how to arrange the candles in the green room.

Anyway, thanks in advance.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 14/04/2026

post a picture of yourself as a doctor

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 03/04/2026

bit suspicious of Nick Briggs's appearance in the Daleks' Master Plan episode 1 tbh.

a screencap of the Doctor Who episode "The Nightmare Begins", from the Daleks' Master Plan serial. a bunch of bald ben are working at a circular desk, with headsets. one of them looks a lot like Nick Briggs.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 26/03/2026

regret to inform my readers the government have not gone for the "three seaxes" option in essex.

map showing the five new unitarity authorities that will be created in Essex in 2028 : two in the urban south and three in the rest of the county.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 23/03/2026

map of Essex County Council proposals for local authorities in Essex vs. flag of Essex

the county has been split into three sections, a northern section, a middle section and a southern section. they are wider than they are tall and a bit curved.

the tree seaxes of essex on a red field. they are laid out a bit like the districts.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 15/03/2026

just invented the monologue box.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 07/03/2026

this is one of these situations where you should not use the company's silly capitalisation

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 03/03/2026

worked on an in-game dynamic mapper for cryosphere this evening!

it's a map of a mud! there are a bunch of rooms with icons in linked by corridors of varying length.

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Abigail Brady @morwen.net · 27/02/2026

so sad to hear about Rob Grant's death; co-creator of what was basically my first fandom, it's inestimable how much influence he had on my life, my writing, maybe even my career path. thoughts with his family and with andrew. (and only the other day I stuck (yet another) reference into the MUD.)