I don’t like photographs of the rabbits taken with flash, especially when it looks like we’re poking then with a stick (it’s tasty fresh hay), but Lav looks so perfectly evil here…
Status:
Flu vaccine today, in anticipation of a particularly bad season. Since the British learned nothing from Covid it’s probably best to be prepared for the worst. I’m not sure how much it costs as the pharmacist said I was probably immunocompromised given my history so didn’t charge me, but I don’t think it’s much. £25?
Haven’t have any notable side effects but to be honest they’re probably no different to a standard day with chronic fatigue. LOL!
The pharmacy was a little chaotic, at least to my mostly agrophobic senses. I always forget to bring earplugs etc and should really prep a leaving the house go-bag.
Overnight listening:
Music:
- Dawn Terry live at Supersonic Festival 2025
- Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy and Cameo - Word Up to check if one sampled the other (they didn’t). That Cameo video though… Phew!
- The United States of America - The United States of America - new to me (via Couthart, natch) and very reminiscent of Broadcast, etc.
Reading:
- Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani - Journalists gonna journalist.
- The populist assault on the BBC - You can’t appease fascists. Stop trying to appease fascists.
- Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne
- temple of doom - A review of their first Sunn0))) gig. I’ve seen them three or four times now. The first couple were ecstatic, joyful, transformative experiences. The last I had to leave early. I think it’s an age thing.
- ‘The most desolate place in the world’: The sea of ice that inspired Frankenstein
Filing away
- Community Rules - PDF book - a collection of examples of how communities have organised themselves to avoid “the tyranny of structurelessness”.
Watching:
- Why Didn’t Disease Flow Both Ways in 1492?
- Edible Acres - Free Water Heater for farm - A twist on the old trick of passing water through a compost heap to heat it up.