If you live in the UK... please sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.

Oh my God. Bluesky, you know what to do!! @shakespeare.lol beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Boots cancelled my flu jab and told me to rebook it. Which I've done. For the same store, date, and time. 👀

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

Sorry to post an Unherd article but surely emboldened by how trans rights have been sucessfully undermined - and her support from many UK philosophy colleagues - Kathleen Stock is now starting to question abortion rights. It is important to recognise the trajectory here. unherd.com/2025/11/what...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

If the UK government was really serious about online safety they would have banned Twitter/X instead of implementing the Online Safety Act. That would've removed a major source of extremist hate but preserved small website communities and forums that offer safe aid and advice.

Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11... FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new #Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm. @primevideo.bsky.social

We're all set up at University of Nottingham Djanogly Terrace for the Farmer's Market. Here until 3pm! #nature #art #photography #prints #coasters #cards #greetingcards #tshirts

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

Blooming love Gasgow. This is brilliant. Love it. Duke of Wellington in Glasgow sees traffic cone replaced with statue of a pigeon reading a newspaper | STV News share.google/kv699qIaUvD8...

I don't know if this is any more monstrous than the rest of the asylum changes but it *feels* cartoonishly evil, like fleecing a Holocaust victim.

I appreciate this article on the principle of specifically giving Space: Above and Beyond its plaudits

Huge congratulations to Forever Stars who do incredible work supporting and advocating for bereaved families in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Well deserved recognition to Richard, Michelle and the fabulous Forever Stars Team👏🏾🥳🌟🥂🎈🪄

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Anyone who has a problem with this has provably never read the book. There is an entire chapter where Rat and Mole help Otter to look for their missing son. Who they find sleeping peacefully at the feet of Pan. PAN. THAT PAN. There is no nuance. There’s No metaphor. It’s just Pan.

'After vigorous and partially successful attempts to save modern languages degrees at Cardiff...and the University of Aberdeen in the past two years, linguists are now called upon to point out the equally obvious folly of cutting modern languages at the universities of Nottingham and Leicester.' 1/3

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

Ok. This cooks. This I’m excited about. But I do demand that Jarnathan be canonized as a Trek alien.

Where we are on budget now👇 - Treasury confirms stronger than expected OBR forecasts means fiscal gap nearer £20bn than £30-£40bn. Reeves also wants headroom of £15bn - Reeves doesn’t need to become first chancellor in 50 years to raise basic rate income tax - breaching central manifesto promise

You know they’re going to add a door lock to the fridge, and initially they’re going to justify it as a child safety lock, but then it will engage whenever they want you to watch a one-minute-long video ad on the door screen

this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict

I don't know how successful Channel 5's attempt to revive "Play for today" will be, but the first in the strand is in tonight at 9pm. Play for Today: The revival hoping to save British TV from a class crisis | The Independent share.google/yEfJce1mrje0...

I'd say that it's reasonable that mods might miss that this was a reference to a Johnny Cash lyric, or even think that, absent of a Cash-related context, it still might be a threat. But it was a post commenting on an article about Johnny Cash. She quoted Johnny Cash in response to a piece on Cash.

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

The V for Vendetta show already exists and it is Mr. Robot

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Me, giggling like a goblin, strapping myself into the BBC Boss chair, commissioning non-celeb sitcom & sketch show after another. High concept narrative comedies by women! 100 shows with writers rooms! Tell whatever celeb blokes are doing a travel show they can make their own way back from Bordeaux!

Tim Davie and Deborah Turness both resigning at the BBC. 💥

Cyndi Lauper delivered a powerful call to action during her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "Look at us: We are a community of light. Don't forget that, in case it gets really dark." Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for RRHOF

The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... This is just horrendous. An environmental disaster.

Issue 1 of the New Nottingham Journal (@nottinghamjournal.bsky.social) has arrived 🥳

I took UoN evening classes in German for a couple of years. There were students there for reasons like the below, people planning to emigrate, people who had married into families with German relatives, retired people keeping active. A real cross section of society. A blow for Nottingham.

If Keir Starmer’s election campaign was carrying a ming vase across an ice rink, then this budget – according to one minister – is like “wrestling a squirrel across a minefield”. The squirrel is not the markets, but the PLP. Our weekend read www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

10/10 take. No notes.

as long as we always remember the context behind the quote: supporting the basic human rights and dignity of trans folk

Day 16 of inserting a random Muppet into a random Star Trek screenshot #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TheMuppets

I'm sorry but she made the sculpture 100% better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...