PS I love your pseudonym - as a fan of Myles.
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PS I love your pseudonym - as a fan of Myles.
Vile.
💥 Iceberg calving is a natural process. But scientists say the rate at which they were being lost from #Antarctica is increasing, probably because of human induced #ClimateChange 💥 @raymodraco.bsky.social @tomshakespeare.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I asked my Finnish friend if UK in danger of repeating their mistake with True Finns: if is motivated by ignorance, racism, parochialism, and fear of anything that would make one look at things from different perspectives, probably yes.
🚨🚨‘Wasted time, effort and money’: Britain’s £800M Brexit border debacle". If anyone forgot about it, this is a reminder of the still disastrous effects of #brexit that still brings misery and pain to Britain. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/brex...
This slaps so hard. Great. 💚
More Lords to enable the governing party to pass their legislatiom is not the answer. A smaller, more democratic House is. Less peerage - more steerage!
Oh well done that Donald! India, China, Russia & North Korea are friends! And everyone tariffed now resents USA. Way to go! Dickhead.
Pete wins todays "standing normally" contest
In again. Left a review.
Yes! But I forgot my password.
This is how dictatorships behave
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
Burkina Faso bans homosexuality with threats of prison terms and fines It joins over half of Africa’s 54 countries that have laws banning homosexuality www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Moderation was never my middle name.
Good point.
Similarly, the wasteful never know the precision & joy of using up leftovers.
Banning refugees – people whose asylum claims have been processed by a hostile system and found to be legitimate – from bringing family members has one predictable and awful effect: instead of travelling alone, men will bring their wives and children on small boats, and some will drown.
h/t to TLDR NEWS for the slides used in my thread. @tldrnews.bsky.social This is their vid about same. Useful to share with reform / tory voter types maybe?
quick thread on how support for the r/w reform type party in Finland collapsed completely 👆 TL;DR: r/w voters "I didn't think the leopards would eat My Face!" @profjacob.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social @vivamjm.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social @pmdfoster.bsky.social 📌
You are doing all the right things. Holding you in the Light.
No better moment to re-share @siennarodgers.bsky.social & @sophiealichurch.bsky.social's June piece on the Greens' crossroads moment Unsurprisingly, they opt for eco-populist Polanski Supporters say he'll hover up ex-Labour urban voters, but critics fear an unwise descent into student politics
Truly disgusting stuff, and re-confirms that this government are truly even worse than their predecessors on migration and asylum. Vicious, racist, cruel and cowardly policymaking to chase imagined votes they will never win. Unforgivable.
They certainly said nasty things. But did they do this?
He has also been critical of far right flag-shaggers. I suppose he is trying to appeal to the voters who support Reform.
it's a common mistake but actually Dr Frankenstein was the monster
abolish the Home Office
It was a joke! It is a wonderful thing.
I feel sorry for the retired folk who never know the joy of a cancelled set of meetings.
The scarecrows are terrifying...the captions are adorable...
I saw 2 Proms in one day & spent the next 2 days lying down!
#Bookish is also 99p on (Canada-based) Kobo www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
This is pants.
This is my favourite of her books for adults.
Wow! This was the late sixties, I think.
Aged about three, a sat on a table with a union jack tea towel on it because a member of the Royal family was going down our road (don't blame me, I was only a child, I knew no better). That is the one & only time I was in close proximity to the UK flag.
You can’t out-fash the fash. Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.
The world's largest sand battery just launched in Finland! Developed by Polar Night Energy, this is a massive step for clean energy. It stores 100 MWh of thermal energy in sand, providing cost-effective alternative to LI batteries for long-term heat storage. www.pv-magazine.com/2025/08/28/w...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49B...
This is a parody, right?
We don't need this fascist groove thing.
Yes. One thinks one can do everything, but then collapses and can do nothing.
I heard somebody in the Home Office say recently that this was the most reactionary Home Secretary they have served under, and that includes T May and D.Blunkett.
I would love that! (The company I mean, not just the cake).
Yes, it would. I have given papers while reclining. If I come to tea, please suggest it
A friend feels the same about people as I do about sitting. She gets easily "peopled out", and needa a solitary break. So whether it is spoons, sits, or people, life comes with a cost for many of us. We can do it, but we have limits, which are more pressing than most people's [5/5].
Instead of spoons, I have sits. They are limited. Each event I choose to sit through has to be worth the inevitable recovery time. [4/x].
So I have to chose what I do. I can't do everything. I can't do unlimited days of sitting. Each event (or sit) needs to be foĺliwed by downtime. I need to choose which events or activities are worth sitting through, knowing soreness will follow. [3/?]
But I don't have fatigue, I have pain. The more I sit, the more pain I have. A day or evening of sitting is followed by one or more days of lying around recovering. [2/?]
I like spoon theory, how a person with fatigue has only a limited number of spoons, and has to decide which activities to spend them on. They have a limit beyond which they cannot go. [1/x]
Happy reading!
There is an Isla, Ruby & Violet in the extended family. Stormy weather ahead!
Wanstead Fringe is delighted that @tomshakespeare.bsky.social is coming to our “ends” on Monday 8th September. This is a rare chance to hear from one of Britain’s most engaging thinkers as he discusses storytelling, justice, and his move into crime fiction. wansteadfringe.org/event/tom-sh...
I should have finished well before they are ten!
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Meet Colonel (ret.) Chris Romberg, former British army officer (29 Commando Regiment), military attache at UK embassies in Egypt & Jordan, & son of a Holocaust survivor Chris was arrested three weeks ago, wearing his regimental tie & blazer Chris has a simple message, as both a British army...
I love Durning Library, Lambeth. A great collection & a good place to write.
Cathy Reay's book "How to be disabled & proud" is great. If you want a novel, I am writing it.
Very good.
My Penultimate Prom tonight (good title!).
At least I was in no hurry!
10 minute wait at Crouch End because first W7 was full of prams
30 minute diversion because lift out of order at Vauxhall.
Breaking News: The White House is moving to cancel $4.9 billion that lawmakers approved for foreign aid programs, using a legally untested maneuver to slash spending without congressional approval.
It's all borsht, from here on in.
Up before 7am making soup which can mean only one thing: it's a writing morning!
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
If I had said, in 2005, that 20 years later the Republican Party would be even *more* systematically opposed, not only to domestic action on climate change, but to action on climate change anywhere in the world, I would have been dismissed as a hysterical partisan.
I mean, nothing matters any more, but it's worth pointing out that preventing demagogic leaders from controlling the money supply was one of the *central issues in the American Revolution*.
Okay, I accept that. I was eyeing up chips, eggs & beans for tea.
Better than hash browns WHICH DO NOT BELONG ON A FULL ENGLISH.
Chips, eggs, beans. (Obviously).
I have a book out in TWO WEEKS. Preorders are unicorn blessings upon authors so if you want to be the vehicle of such a blessing, preorder here: www.walker.co.uk/978152951581... #UKKidlit @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
I will be signing copies of my new book/latest essay collection In Extremis (published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) at Woodbridge Books, Friday 12th September from 11am
Very succinct WSJ summary of the staggering migration shock that successive Tory governments inflicted on Britain as they tried to mitigate and hide the economic consequences of the Brexit disaster
FFS
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
Sympathies.
Found my laptop cable, a last box of catheters & had a cup of coffee. Ready to put the world to rights.
Such a great film - shows that laughter is central to being human.
Farage is the biggest threat our NHS has ever faced. He wants to replace it with a US-style insurance system. Most bankruptcies in the US are for unpaid medical bills – of people WITH medical insurance. What happens to those without medical insurance? You don't want to know.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
This is a wild ride of a read for all kinds of reasons. Researchers and people who read about research on the internet should all find some valuable stuff in here. The incidental note that THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF OBJECTS ON A TYPICAL FRIDGE IS 55 is just the icing on the cake for me.
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Said no one (and he doesn't).
Oh, not again...
"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." Isaac Asimov
heads up to the Proust crowd Chantal Akerman's film of "The Prisoner" will soon be up on BFI Player
“Palestinian journalists right now are crying. If I show you my colleagues that are sitting between their reporting and live shifts, they’re trying to hold their tears, trying to find the words to describe what is going on. Our colleagues were killed live on air" said journalist Hind Khoudary.
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Delulu is official.
Britain’s top philanthropist slams ‘cruel’ #foreignaid cuts And tries to fill the void with additional generous donations. But private philanthropy is not the remedy for these troubling state retreats from global #aid #ODA responsibilities
UBF riccardo 