Theophile Escargot @TheoEsc@mastodon.social

SMBC: beautiful
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beautiful-2

Charles Stross blog on modern book titles
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/05/cmap-16-book-title-blues.html

Tried on various pairs including aviators to mildly disapproving looks by the attendant, ended up ordering similar ones to the last pair.

Need to get new glasses. Are aviator frames actually back? I think I've been reading that they are every year for the last decade.

Anarchist press sets up Big Issue-style free newspaper for sale by homeless people
https://www.thecanary.co/feature/2019/05/18/a-radical-publisher-has-set-up-an-anarchist-big-issue-scheme-in-london-and-its-thriving/
http://dogsection.org/about/

Took kid to Natural History Museum as he's currently dinosaur-obsessed. Had to take bus as District Line not running, which went past a funfair so had to go there too: dodgems were his favourite. Got most of rest of cleaning done. Next: homework then cooking dinner.

Did farmers market, supermarket shop, took kid to library & playground, hoovered most of house, cleaned most of bathroom, ironed, shined shoes, made & washed up every meal as usual. Tomorrow will be tricky as promised to take kid to museum but also have to finish cleaning house. Tired.

Drawn From Life: Artist and campaigner Margaret Gillies, friend of Dickens
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/may/drawn-from-life

Despair deaths and regional inequality
http://www.coppolacomment.com/2019/05/despair-deaths-and-regional-inequality.html

"Richer Sounds" chain of shops to become worker owned
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48269171

Signed up for this 10k in central London, should be fun #running
https://www.vitalitylondon10000.co.uk/

Holy cow! Starting work today I actually looked at the board and picked the first committed work item, rather than respond to a frantic and confused email/phone call/message #coderlife

Slow run in the rain today, pleasant once warmed up. Also tried the outdoor gym equipment: shame can't adjust resistance but a few machines OK, the assisted pull-up machine might be useful. Did dumb-bells at home. #running #exercise

Worked past my normal bedtime last night with caffeine assistance. Managed a decent run this morning, but brain & body now extracting revenge for their ill-treatment.

The UK is still failing to enforce company law, making it a paradise for crooks of every sort
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/05/07/the-uk-is-still-failing-to-enforce-company-law-making-it-a-paradise-for-crooks-of-every-sort/

The Eurozone's Long Depression
http://www.coppolacomment.com/2019/05/the-eurozones-long-depression.html?m=1

Funfairs are another thing that seemed magical as a kid but are pinched & shabby now. Don't know if that was innocence & nostalgia or if they just got crap.