Ira Lightman

I have a new book out on Kindle, a sort of pastiche of Briggflatts (in its mode, and haunted by its music). amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CQ78DSL4

She faked insanity to get in... but she didn't know if she could get out. In 1887, 23-year-old Nellie Bly got herself committed to a notorious asylum to expose the truth. But the moment she dropped the act and spoke normally, the doctors ignored her. She was trapped. For 10 days, she documented ice-cold baths, beatings, and sane women locked away just for being poor. She escaped, exposed the horror, and saved 1,600 women. She didn't just write history—she changed it.

@chelsea_boy @jayroo69 @supertolerant I couldn't care less about random responses. I meant for anyone who might benefit

@iralightman @jayroo69 @supertolerant It hasn't worked.

This is honestly one the best verbal shellackings I've ever seen in my life. Nose-ring was absolutely flummoxed and had her head spinning after this brutal beat down.

@chelsea_boy @jayroo69 @supertolerant And her other points. I was simply bringing the whole clip in rather than inviting the "dumbass posho" response she was getting

@iralightman @jayroo69 @supertolerant Crop failure isn't coming form climate change Ira, it's coming from geo engineering under the guise of climate change. You've been hood winked.

A clip of Lowri Turner "pushing back" against a Just Stop Oil campaigner is doing the rounds. It doesn't include the things about coming crop failure rises in temperature, and unliveable conditions for the poor. I thought I'd share the whole segment youtu.be/-M0jRaOOkT8?si…

What the Duck!

This short film has won more than 100 awards worldwide.

Are Chinese people in Britain chased down the street for what Beijing does to Uighurs? Are Russians here hunted for Ukraine? Are Afghans attacked over how women are treated back home? No. But Jews are singled out, blamed, and targeted for Israel. The hypocrisy isn’t even subtle.

In 1984, a woman in the UK was treated for auditory hallucinations (hearing voices). During this period, the voices told her she had a brain tumour and were medically specific and urged her to have a scan. Although she had no obvious neurological symptoms, her psychiatrist ordered a CT scan, mainly to reassure her. The scan unexpectedly revealed a meningioma (a type of brain tumour). The tumour was surgically removed, and the hallucinations reportedly stopped. The case was later described in the British Medical Journal.

How different actors fall 📹 daniellabelle1

This STAR WARS teaser trailer was screened before ‘King Kong’ in December of 1976. The special effects weren’t finished, the music is NOT John Williams, and all in all it gives off a very different much darker vibe. Interesting.

My dad always used to say “when you’re in a hole, stop digging.” Lovely man, terrible archaeologist.

Me flicking through the menu at an Indian restaurant pretending to be open minded when I know full well I’m going to order the chicken tikka masala

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Larkin’s father died on 26 March 1948. A week the following Sunday it snowed in Warwick. This beautiful elegy was never printed in the poet’s lifetime and yet, arguably, it is his first great poem.

Sorry love I can't come over tonight I've

At art college I got straight A's, which is why I failed Calligraphy.

@PAllatson @vjoshuaadams That's not Prynne

RIP Jeremy Prynne, one of the true greats

@birdscolour56 I call it my photograph, that you didn't credit me with or ask to use..

Take a break from nature look at your phone