swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 25/04/2025no Valerie NO :(((theguardian.comValerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian islandRescuers on Kangaroo Island off South Australia say they are ‘overjoyed’ after the dog walked into one of their traps 3110
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 26/03/2025well, sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the water and I think of all the things, what you're doin' and in my head, I paint a picturetheguardian.comExperts ‘amazed’ at survival of Valerie the miniature dachshund – on the run on South Australian island for more than a yearPet escaped from her pen when her owners were holidaying on Kangaroo Island, which is famous for its native wildlife 0120
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025really struggling to put into words the curdled mixture of envy and extreme anxiety that this has elicited in metheguardian.comOutside in: the extraordinary home inside a giant greenhouse in NorwayAn architect has designed a sustainable home inside a glass box, where fruit and veg grow, and their family can thrive 13615
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 09/03/2025dear god though the painful accuracy of this frame. the tone of voice, the angle of arms, the self-satisfied complacency, the peevishness, the self-regard 24311
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Workers in the asparagus line at Harvest Foods factory in Melbourne in 1957 (photo by Wolfgang Sievers, National Library of Australia) 1327
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025classic Blinkinsopp, what an absolute ledge 161
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialDean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 08/03/2025For #InternationalWomensDay, my favourite photos by my favourite women photographers Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida, 1947 📷 Toni Frissell This shot was used on the cover of Bill Evans & Jim Hall's 1962 LP Undercurrent This morning's soundtrack: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIly... 1247
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialKirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I've nearly got this down to an almost non-linguistic closed system collage of meaningless in-jokes, and that is a sweet sweet feeling 151
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025literally me in restaurants. seductive, a bon vivant, worldly, seigneurial? omg check, check, check, CHECK 2130
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialVictoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Accidental Renaissance painting in The Guardian this morning. 510831
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 08/03/2025ahahaha loving the idea of her just losing patience every so often and getting it wrong on purpose rather than by mistake. *tippytippytap* and then the Fellowship came to the Kingdom of *tippetysigh* blahblah Lothboringen and fought idk fucking twelve-headed undead marsh spiggots or something 291
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 07/03/2025what a wonderful time the late-60s-late-70s window was for green mannish stuff. although a shame it was typically played for shrieks because in many ways this is the dream, really, isn't it 160
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialS.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"Cole Porter: The Cthulhu Years" 141
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 07/03/2025She stood on the cliff top and witnessed an angel hovering in a shaft of light 941745
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 06/03/2025there's nothing better than a game of crowquet 1110
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 06/03/2025the trouble with alec guinness was that he just couldn't enunciate 1100
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 06/03/2025why do you all want to know how much swearing you've done just have a fucking guess 4191
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 06/03/2025*instant loud explosion of Nyman music* 030
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 05/03/2025wow ok geez what did yesterday me know 150
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Liam Neeson IS Rene Artois 3282
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 05/03/2025a recurrent dream of rescuing the brick, in your pyjamas, for the advanced swimming badge 140
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 05/03/2025the idea of not reading this properly and bringing only a miniature tent. the dog looking at you silently, hurt, disappointed. it starts to rain. "we'll make the best of it," you lie. somewhere, out in the dark, there is a snapping, stepping sound, and a rasp of breathing, drawing nearer 1102
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 05/03/2025a man with a criminal past, but *ahem-hem* no criminal future *heh-heh-heh-hemmm* 020
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialBen Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Vivid image of Pine-Coffin senior shouting through his beard 'enough! It's never done me any harm, and neither did it father!' over a breakfast of boiled ham. Young pine-coffin across the table, flushed with rebellion. 131
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 05/03/2025to be honest this has been my working assumption for a number of years 050
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I mean obviously but good christ the news is depressing this evening 050
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 04/03/2025this kind of situation is truly the ancient greek dramatic arc of our age 130
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 04/03/2025One from 1854. TL;DR version: 🐈⬛ 1143
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 04/03/2025I am sat outside in the spring sunshine with a cup of coffee, this has literally been my sole ambition for five months, never give up on your dreams 3120
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialhoney i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"please lord, just give us a sign" 1175
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 03/03/2025@regretteruane.bsky.social this is the crossover event for sure. I think it's A Sign 140
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Me, an octopus in a mariana trench coat, standing at the bar, pretending to be a human. My internal monologue: this is taking a while, I wonder if they'd mind me just reaching over and helping myself 4202
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 03/03/2025a drive along rural high-hedged lanes this morning beneath a spring-blue sky. resplendent pheasants dashing at the last moment in front of the car, partridges, like nervous articulated boiled sweets, scuttling under gates, dark-earthed ploughed fields scattered with white gulls 171
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialRRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"Barbara! Call the Institute!" 182
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 03/03/2025always happy to be reminded of the ballachulish figure, an object so profoundly frightening that I had to immediately walk away from it at high speed when I saw it in the national museum of scotland 120
swaefastide.bsky.social @swaefastide.bsky.social · 02/03/2025quickly, quickly, sit down and watch The Wicked Lady on Old Person's Telly. You will expire of Camp 2122
Reposted by @swaefastide.bsky.socialDouglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 02/03/2025I was sent down from italic school for getting straight A’s in my exams. 0124
