Mick Jagger & his Aston Martin DB6 in 1966

This striking, powerful Assyrian lioness’s head is made from lapis lazuli. It dates to C9th-8th BC Mesopotamia.

Why is women’s work so often neglected within traditional economic theory? How have pensions become affected by gender? Why does the gender pay gap still exist? This weeks podcast with Dr Daniella Jenkins - Executive Director of the Womens Budget Group. youtu.be/9zeGy4BNOhY?...

Remembering the late, great, Oscar-nominated JAMES GARNER - who left us 12yrs ago today, aged 86.

This is massive! A wave of Ukrainian drones just struck deep inside Russia, leaving major Wildberries hubs and an oil depot engulfed in towering plumes of black smoke. Kyiv targeted these specific logistics centers because they were supplying sanctioned electronics for Russian drone production.

In the original 1950 story, the date was August 4, 2026.

*It's like the sad old Ray Bradbury fable "There Will Come Soft Rains" where the robot house is still being intensely servile while all the family members have been fried in a nuclear apocalypse *It's not that Ray is a prophet, more that every 8-year-old and 80-year-old in the house is Ray Bradbury

Canada's Boreal Forest isn't a neighborhood park—it’s one of the largest intact ecosystems on Earth. 🌲 It covers roughly 1.3 billion acres (526 million hectares). That is an area comparable to the entire United States.

Pompeii exhibition small but extremely effective

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

"I don't like being called cis" "I don't like being called white" "I don't like being called abled" That's because you view yourself as "normal" or "the default" and everyone else as *not*. Viewing yourself as the baseline is just another form of prejudice. It's just a more implicit type.

The Godmother of rock ‘n’ roll. Something few people actually know.

16yr old BRIAN MAY — 79 Candles 🎂 today — in 1963, with the new “Red Special” guitar he and his father made with wood from an 18th century fireplace.

“hundreds of North Sea licenses granted by the Conservatives over 14 years have produced the equivalent of just 36 days of gas for the UK. The North Sea reserves have been in terminal decline for years. This is a feature of geology, not a piece of political spin” www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

One thing I'm noticing from a lot of people here, and the media reports surrounding the arrest of the Tates, is how many are using the term "child pornography" Children cannot consent and therefore it is not pornography It is Child Sexual Abuse Material or CSAM and it's vital to call it that

@petergknight.bsky.social This looks rather fun

REVIEW: Maureen Beattie strides onto the stage of this gender-swapped, modern-dress version of Shakespeare’s King Lear attired in a power-projecting trouser suit and a sculpted hairdo that evokes the late Margaret Thatcher

"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue

Museums/art galleries are still free in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I noticed the trend of expensive "touring" exhibitions in Stockholm about 25 years ago, when there were two - Leonardo and Frida Kahlo - in one year. Both were shockingly expensive, had only a couple of minor originals, otherwise just reproductions!

Did not have “the return of diseases and conditions I learned about from the “‘Oregon Trail video game’ I played in elementary school” on my 2026 bingo card.

See also Rockwell's playful pastiche of Jackson Pollock in his 1961 picture "The Connoisseur"

*Good news, those climate-crisis rains might clear some of the climate-crisis smoke out *Whilst the planet watches footie and eats popcorn

The criticism Palantir fear more than any other is that they are not any good. Whistleblowers from within the NHS said Palantir software was far too slow, not fit for purpose, and that the NHS's own software was far better. Get rid of Palantir from all UK institutions www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPz...

Orchard https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28458

So Wales and Scotland can rejoin the EU and leave England marinating in their own xenophobic choices? Seems like poetry.

🎯 Loneliness has no gender. We just cope with it differently.

I have never related more to a video

The majority for Scotland’s Independence is there already.

yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

This really gives me hope.

I currently live in the far north of mainland Scotland. It's neither hot nor cold, just "meh". No forest fires this year as yet, no flooding, sea level rise as yet unapparent. You almost get the impression that the locals here are envious of the hot weather elsewhere and the exciting fires.

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Destroying in a second the illusion of a well-fed peaceful life

Context on North Sea Oil “From 2016 to 2020, the government provided over £13 billion in support to the UK oil and gas industry, and in 2020 a third of significant North Sea operators paid negative UK tax” www.upliftuk.org/post/the-dec...

Officer rips off car door handle, smashes window to save driver from burning vehicle #Ontario www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...

@gillyarcht.bsky.social The weirdest and most unexpected fire I've ever seen just ripped through a suburb of terraced houses in Norway, of all places. With all their regulations! At least the press are acknowledging the role of climate change. The photos are mindblowing - www.nrk.no/norge/katast...

One of the biggest misunderstandings of politics in our time is that the Left has become all about identity politics. The opposite is the case. The Left has (nearly everywhere) completely given up on shaping, representing, and mobilizing identities. Instead, the far right has successfully done it.

A @supermathskid.bsky.social post inspires a repost of this:

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The current price of gasoline is just over four dollars a gallon plus or minus the survival of the species.

When I learned then—and carry with me now—is a maxim you can't forget once it's internalized: America gets around to accepting the fucking truth when it feels like it, not when that truth is available. Everything is about what our Big Important Feelings are *prepared* to accept.

The interesting thing about targeting Wildberries is that it doesn't directly kill Russian civilians but it still brings the war into their home.

Soon to be in your lungs, yay!

CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.

Billionaires having much more success making Earth like Mars than the other way around