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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 11/10/2026

Which led to an afternoon of the police escorting a bunch of crusties around town and then start frantically running up and down the street knocking on doors to get the cars moved when we started eyeing one up.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 11/10/2026

A friend of mine had a kid and got royally pissed off at this so organised a gang of us to follow him round one day and bounce the cars out of the way when we found the pavement blocked. This naturally led to the police being called at which point we pointed out that it was illegal parking.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 08/10/2026

Apropos of nothing, I do like a good apron and that is a splendid example. I am ticked at thought that it's a special book handling apron.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 05/10/2026

Inscribe a grant application deadline on parchment, seal it well, then bury it at midnight in a secret location.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 25/09/2026

Maybe bottom right just needs a hammer and pen

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 22/09/2026

The same view today (well yesterday)

View along Bowes St in Moss Side. A tree lined street with modern developments

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 21/09/2026

What/where is/was this glorious bit of the future they stole from us? It looks like it belongs in a lost northern version of Radio On.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 21/09/2026

The Old tram depot. Taken on Bowes St looking east, with the old Maine Road stadium in the background. I cycle along here everyday and it looks very different now, except for the houses at the end of the street. Still very recognisable as this part of Moss Side (or Fallowfield for some).

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 16/09/2026

Yeah, I think that definitely comes into play . All part of the (post '60s) reconfiguration of social norms and cultural habits, shifting towards the informal (where social capital is what you know) and the long cultural shadow of Habitat.

5 people dining al fresco, french style, somewhere in continental Europe, reproduced from the 1977-78 Habitat catalogue in Ben Highmore, Lifestyle Revolution.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 16/09/2026

Its interesting that it now feels informal, whereas the only meal that used to be served this was was Sunday dinner, the most formal meal of all. It's worth noting that part of why was the cost of generating extra washing up. Now the dishwasher does that (a status symbol all of its own).

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 16/09/2026

To be clear eating at a table puts us on a minority, but French style service necessitates this. Whereas lap eating would always be Russian style or serve yourself from the pan. French style might seem informal, "help yourself", but has dining at table at its unspoken heart, with all that connotes.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 16/09/2026

I wonder if it's not something like a gesture to domestic equality—to be served implies someone is acting as a servant—even if it doesn't represent its actuality (since women still do the bulk of the cooking).

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 16/09/2026

I suspect this has less to do with architecture and more to do with the shift in women's domestic roles during, and since the '70's, partial as that's been.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 16/09/2026

Russian to French, for me, but the opposite way round for housing. Grew up in an interwar council house where the 'dining room' was really just the space in the kitchen, now live (as family of 2) in an Edwardian two-up, two-down where the kitchen is tacked on the back as a separate room.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 13/09/2026

Third place runner-up in the Oswald Mosley lookalike competition.

Posh twat with dubious view about immigration a.k.a Oswald Mosley

Posh twat with dubious view about immigration who merely looks like Oswald Mosley

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 08/09/2026

I've still never forgiven my Dad for buying one of these (also in the UK) and them refusing to get the Basic cartridge for reasons known only to himself.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 08/09/2026

Presumably the boundaries are inherited from the old London borough of St Pancras, which in turn inherited them from the ancient parish of the same. The parish boundary used to cut Rathbone street in half obliquely, but was moved in 1900. Maybe they were avoiding a stubborn cow originally?

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 08/09/2026

Presuming sestinas and villanelles are not outré enough? Try a Ghazal written in Rajaz metre.

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Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Adventure playground, Moss Side; 1973.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 05/09/2026

It's a charity run leasing scheme: you can lease the car in place of certain benefits given for mobility needs.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 05/09/2026

For anyone wondering about the reference to cars, attacking the Motability scheme has been one of the hobby horses du jour for various professional opinion havers in the UK recently.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 05/09/2026

Surely two of the best things about Pizza in one. Now you are making me hungry.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 03/09/2026

I'm extremely short-sighted, have astigmatism, and thanks to the wonders of ageing I am also long-sighted and have double vision. So they make a noticeable difference for me but ymmv.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 03/09/2026

More expensive lens are a different shape: they grind both sides of the lens which means they can be thinner (don't protrude from frames) and lighter. The benefit will depend on the strength and complexity the prescription.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 26/08/2026

Somewhat to this point Joyce's Ulysses is rated 3.76 stars on Goodreads, but the guides to Ulysses it says readers also enjoyed are consistently rated higher. Take that James!

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 26/08/2026

There's a sort of implication that people are secretly rating books they haven't read: the missing stars that would drag the mean to the median. What is the case, I think, is that ratings seem to measure books but are actually measuring people's reaction to books (a very different thing).

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 14/08/2026

That's what your forks look like if you run into something head-on. I do hope they were alright.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 13/08/2026

My workplace abolished its reasonable accommodations policy in favour of one saying that *anyone* can ask for something if they feel they need it to do their job. This happened because they found disabled folk weren't asking for accommodations for fear of being singled out.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 12/08/2026

Definitely take a look at Lifestyle Revolution then. There is a whole chapter on Habitat with some very orange photos to illustrate it. (Habitat would probably be a decent one word answer).

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 12/08/2026

Ben Highmore's Lifestyle Revolution: How taste changed class in later 20th century Britain mentions 'flair' being used in '68 as a way to sell a particular form of taste. (Not sure you wanted a straight answer but fashion as an intellectual history of everyday life is a special interest so...)

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 12/08/2026

Roughly, the reaction against (post-)war austerity and the rise in consumerism, the availability of synthetic materials and cheap colour printing lead to a rise in brighter colours that could be marketed to consumers as a marker of taste (which was in itself fairly new as a mass phenomenon).

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 12/08/2026

Nah, evolution is mostly driven by chances of surviving to reproduce, rather than how often when you do. Also the cool sunglasses = reproducing more often thesis is highly disputable.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 12/08/2026

There's no evolutionary pressure *to* have developed this. Instead we have involved a mechanism to tell to stop doing a thing we have no need to do. Lots of animals can see UV but there's no reproductive advantage to humans so we can't.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 08/08/2026

One summer there was a Jehovah's Witness who would come round every Sunday before he went to church. This went on for weeks. He was so crestfallen when he finally realised he wasn't going to get anywhere I was almost tempted to go church with him that one time, as I felt so sorry for him.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 06/08/2026

The colours in the photo are poor but it bears a resemblance to the flags used by Spanish Republicans.

Bandera de la marina mercante: flag of the merchant marine in the Second Spanish Republic showing a horizontal red stripe at the top with a yellow stripe below and a maroon-ish purple stripe at bottom. Illustrating the typical colours of Spanish Republicans flags.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 04/08/2026

Weirder still, he was posting about it today. I stumbled across a barely watched Youtube interview where's he talking about organ harvesting, grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and the White Helmets. He seems to have fallen down some deep rabbit hole around White Helmet conspiracy theories around 2018.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 04/08/2026

It's particularly weird given this was someone who did a whole project that was a guide to illegal border crossing.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 28/07/2026

Try this: blade.sk/projects/ctre/ - it's a browser extension that allows you to select and permanently remove elements on a web page without having to faff around with CSS

blade.sk

Click To Remove Element - blade.sk

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 27/07/2026

It's quite common. Some small presses do it for new books as well. It stops the corners getting bumped etc.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 23/07/2026

I think that's a household/reading lamp, too, it;s pointing downwards.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 23/07/2026

I'm guessing electric lamps were still novel enough to have been included.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 23/07/2026

That's not the most practical design but land yachts are definitely a thing, my uncle used to sell them in his bike shop. www.britishlandsailing.org.uk/land-yachts....

britishlandsailing.org.uk

Land Yachts

There are 4 main types of land yacht each offering a different level of enjoyment and speed to suit your individual needs. Standart The Standart yachts are all identical and race...

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 20/07/2026

Hacienda tribute act for you know who?

Interior shot of the Hacienda Nightclub showing crowds dancing and distinctive yellow and black striped columns

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 18/07/2026

The greek situation is kinda wild. Golden Dawn, who, as recently as 2015, where the third most popular party in parliament, were in open collusion with the police and got caught running actual death squads.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 18/07/2026

Not really. Modern Greece has its own particular history. It was ruled by a right-wing military junta from 1967-74 which its far right hark back too. Further back the civil war and the actions of the British at the end of WWII cast a long shadow.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 18/07/2026

I used to go to a bar that would show dock diving and it was a great combination.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 18/07/2026

Norway has one of the lowest population densities in Europe, but the highest public transport usage per that map.

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Subfusc @subfuscous.org · 17/07/2026

Looking at page histories for the trending topics it appears to have stopped the 24th or 25th of April. There's an accepted edit for Albert Einstein on the 23rd and a pending one for the 16th in the page history.

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