This news has now broken officially so I can stop squealing to myself and squeal out loud: Oxon County Council’s move to the mid 20th Speedwell House has been halted by the discovery of a Saxon Barn- possibly 6th!! Century!! In the cellar

Spice wishes to inform you that she has chosen this yarn octopus as her new favorite toy. Please alert the media.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality. The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

My experience is that there was a an absolutely huge gap between people’s beliefs about how their immigration systems work and how they actually work, and if you’ve had experience of the immigration system in the US or UK, you’ll spend a lot of time with one raised eyebrow when the topic comes up!

French always got to try and beat us at stuff. Well, did you think to livestream a croissant going stale, huh?

French governmental churn rate currently making Liz Truss look like Tony Blair

Cory Doctorow is in today's Guardian explaining how Amazon's relationship with its sellers motivates this sort of behaviour. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I think this is also the award ceremony where if your speech runs on too long a little girl walks on to stage shouting I’M BORED I’M BORED STOP TALKING NOW

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does. E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

Self promo plug to say if you’re interested in this & wanna invite me to your dept, esp if your city is nice - then invite me!! I am a good value seminar guest 😅

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“Madeline why is all your stuff out on counters” so I remember it exists

people without ADHD don’t understand how EXPENSIVE it is to clean the house. If I put it away I will literally NEVER SEE IT AGAIN and now I have to buy all new stuff and my house is EVEN MESSIER

Incredible work. Reminds me (on a much smaller scale) of the client who drove to court to be sentenced for a large fraud and false documents conspiracy and told me he’d only paid for 3 hours’ parking. As he’d previously been advised, he’d have needed 3 years’.

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Incredible

But if we allow the state to employ lethal force in situations where it is merited, we should also subject those decisions to the highest level of scrutiny. Bystander casualties happen, but we should never treat them as a regrettable inevitably.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe cst.org.uk/donate-now

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Gorgeous photo! They’re like two different worlds in so many ways! We feel it even more when we light our hypocaust and you leave a smoky roundhouse and arrive in a room with a warm mosaic floor and invisible heat! #hypocaust

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

If you don't agree that Space Marines are Omegaverse you have to at least admit Space Marine is its own gender

Anyway, I now have “woke Marxist Pope” going round and round in my head again to the tune of Pink Pony Club and I blame the Daily Mail. “Woke Yankee Pope” also scans.

*Laughs hollowly in 2025*

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.* www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

One of my favourite ongoing history bits is the 800 years of attempts and failures to establish regular transport links between Oxford and Cambridge. it’s hilarious

our housing just gets more urgent that we sort it by the day, and once again I feel utterly unsupported in it at all. I wish my family were even slightly reminiscent of the term.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

I was going to say that he isn't happy because they never are, but actually Farage seems to be the exception. He genuinely is having a great time being a total piece of shit, which may account for his longevity in the position of Official Right Wing Figurehead.

No. Racism is not a “legitimate concern”. It’s an immoral attitude that needs to be stamped out

Hognose snakes are known for their dramatic ability to feign death, which makes predators less interested, but they're very committed to the bit. In the wild, they mostly eat toads & other amphibians. Honestly, we need an Oscar category for "Best Performance by a Snake".

50% of the time is complaining about snowflakes, the rest of their time is being snowflakier than any lefty or liberal would dare.

the fact that leveraged buyouts exist at all is a truly stunning example of "capitalist market efficiency". no change to the core business nor new means of making revenue, except now it has 20 billion in debt because Reasons. what a system

Guess what? We saved Squiggle. She's coming home 😭😭😭

I dunno about the rest of you, but I want my cardiologist to relax and rest rather than spend her off-time picking litter and sweeping the streets.

It is time for the ancient ritual of Awakening the Green Day.

If you wondered how many of the major newsrooms covering the Pentagon would give in to Pete Hegseth and sign a new agreement if they wanted to maintain access, it looks like the answer is... none. So far. Via @status.news

wrote about Comey, arguably the first capitulator in advance. trying to palliate trump led to the destruction of basically everything he was trying to preserve. it feels like we should learn from that. www.publicnotice.co/p/comey-indi...

Laying the groundwork for the post-Reform strategy already: it's the Left's fault we lost. This is a government that, less than a year after taking power, has already accepted it will be defeated by the far right.

“why don’t we make buildings pointlessly beautiful anymore?” LOOK AT THIS. just LOOK at THIS.

www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar... Cat.

we don’t need to talk about whether people are *really* or *inherently* racist, if they’re doing and saying racist things. I mean firstly: they clearly are! what you do is who you are! but also: it doesn’t really matter whether their hearts are racist if they’re happy to support racist politicians

As someone on the spectrum, I can tell you, people don't want unapologetically weird, they want socially acceptable quirky.

Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits