Wow.

I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition asking the government to put climate before profit and end secret corporate courts – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

‘One moment it was a little blip. The next, our friends are dying’: the gay porn soundtrack composers lost to the Aids crisis www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Stockport WW2 Air Raid Shelter tour, 3/2/2026. #Stockport

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

An image of a planning notice detailing a new application to house up to 800 asylum seekers in Greater Manchester has been circulating online. But the planning notice is fake, and Stockport Council has confirmed no such application has been submitted.

Post box knitted topper. Bury, Ramsey, Huntingdon. #Huntingdon #Christmas #Knitted_postbox_topper

If you listen to one thing this December (and if you want to know why this song makes me weep at least 14 times over the Christmas period) - make it this excellent edition of Soul Music from the BBC - about the song I Believe in Father Christmas

York, UK #photography

Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️ That's what I call great ambassador

Beatles, Bowie, Dylan, Mercury and more: rock’n’roll royalty – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Farage: epic grifter

Autumn rose.

Surfdom by Yankel Muromachi on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/8PO7yu08nUxS...

Cybertruck seen recently in Stockport.

Correct headline: "Vulnerable Floridia pensioner realises he's been scammed by Russian mobster"

A Great Horned Owl leaves her increasingly cramped nest located in the hollow of a tree. #wildlife #birds #owls

❗️🇯🇵Japan agreed to provide satellite images to 🇺🇦Ukrainian intelligence

Love the nostalgic vibe. Reminds me of a period UK railway poster.

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

I just signed the petition urging the Government to invest in research to help those suffering from Long Covid. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...

Adventine I by Yankel Muromachi on #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/TWPvMshK1aMj...

I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton. (Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

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Kemi can eat whatever she wants, but can we please stop lionising working through lunch? We've all done it on occasion but it doesn't make you some productivity hero, and it's a terrible message to send to staff under you when you make it clear, as she does, that it's an expectation.