I wrote a new poem, inspired by Trump's executive order on plastic straws.

Watching The Dog House ... A pooch appears (cocker-cross) with a waggle bum. "Oh it's another waggle bum!" Says the hubby. Cue our own waggle bum waking, and jumping on the sofa to see why we are calling him .🤣

This feels an important take. Is the US essentially changing sides after 75 years?

Good idea. It's frankly unproductive and a deterrent to professional government. BBC News - MPs call for end to booing and jeering in Commons www.bbc.com/news/article...

Excellently informative thread.

Staggering sales drops, swastika-daubed EVs, companies culling fleet models, and fan-forum owners selling their cars—Elon Musk's alt-right antics are seriously impacting his electric car business.

These people who say they are the defenders of sovereignty... When it comes to the crunch they will sell anyone down the river 👏👏👏👏👏💥

Thinking it's weird that I've seen no reporting of the impact on US unemployment stats of all these DOGE layoffs. Surely that'll bite them with the electorate in a month?

Is it just me who thinks Haribo jelly babies look like little Medieval pilgrims?

Omg please tell me this isn't real???

How so? Because they are brown skinned not Eastern European? Or because escaping a war zone is only a thing down to a certain latitude?

Here’s an interesting and important study on how fact-checking social media can lead to accusations of bias against right wing discourse - but it’s actually because that discourse is more likely to contain misinformation to start with. Paging @sheencr.bsky.social

Badenoch: “The govt is recruiting a new chief inspector of borders, who lives in Finland & wants to WFH, this is not serious” Starmer: “He was appointed in 2019 by the last govt, he then worked from Finland. He’ll now be working from the UK full time” #PMQs #PoliticsLive

Powerful long read.

There's got to be a middle ground between US media being completely in the pocket of government and UK media never having anything good to say. Neither is actually supportive of informed democracy.

Despite the fact that Reform MPs are always shouting about immigration, not one of them could be arsed to turn up for the debate on the Border Security Bill last night. Probably exhausted after a hard day cosplaying at being farmers.

93,000...

I emailed the data privacy team at YouGov to execute my right to get all the data they hold on me deleted. I emailed in English. The reply is in German??

So that Nobel peace prize people tried to reassure us he really really wanted (to the point, we were told, it would moderate his behaviour...) that goal is parked, right? Hideous statements. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

🤣🤣🤣 Just read a post on linkedin from a Comms person using Zuckerberg's "cool" transformation as a best practice case study. 🤣🤣🤣

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

England wins the Netball Nations Cup... And the BBC sports story is about another country's league game in a sport we don't even play/follow here. WTF. Back women's sports already! www.englandnetball.co.uk/report/final...

Sorry, what????

I will never understand how US news agencies are SO RELUCTANT to call people outwardly being nazis "Nazis" like.. you know what you call a "group with Nazi flags"? "A group of Nazis"

I know Butter is critically acclaimed.... But I'm really really struggling to push through it. Is it just me? #booksky

I'm constantly surprised at the lack of outcry at the bullying of Meghan by powerful men.

Spent my Saturday night in the curry house then pub with 2x 11 year olds. If you want to understand the implications of lockdown the listen. Utterly unexpected and fascinating.

Stumbled upon this from yonks ago. Owl identification made easy

Spent a couple of hours embroidering my mantra. Be calm, be kind. Gets me through a lot of challenging times.

Very happy to not be an Apple customer but under no illusion Google has avoided the same demands. What did happen to our right to privacy? It's completely gone. Also, doesn't this break GDPR? www.theverge.com/news/608145/...

I love seeing what things prompt my husband to say "This is the Britain I'm proud to live in". Tonight it was the 100th replay of this. A true joyful delight. youtu.be/e1vlLJCr9Lo?...

Just had my first GREENFINCH visitor on the feeder. Cue: me sending texts to all and sundry just shouting GREENFINCH.

Robin, bluetit and sparrow all came by the feeder for their breakfast as I ate my own, looking on.

Anyone remember when they pledged "Do no evil"?

Jesse Eissenberg is doing an excellent job of two things 1) unashamedly using his platform to call out bad stuff 2) as a result getting extra press to promote his movie. Which, I will repeat, IS BRILLIANT. Go see A Real Pain. 90 mins of excellence. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Remind me ... Who is the president? BBC News - Musk says he's working to shut down USAID as employees told to stay home www.bbc.com/news/article...

@theresthistory.bsky.social one for the members Q&A... Could you recap some of the major trade wars in history... And how they went for everyone involved?

Sunday morning from the top of Glastonbury Tor. Beautiful. In the tower was a barefoot kiwi man with a didgeridoo, loving the vibrations. Outside was a Muslim woman praying / meditating. Loudly stomping down the hill were some non-local northern accents bemoaning "people not from here".

In Bath/Wells for the weekend and have seen loads of Xmas trees still up in living rooms. Is this a west country thing?

Love this a lot.

Went to Be@One for cocktails last night (I'm 43, but it's a weekend away). Was in trainers and a TayTay T from travelling. Expected to feel ridiculous but had my eyes opened to how differently the youth approach a night out. A short thread 1/

Even by her own blisteringly brilliant standards, this may conclude with Marina Hyde’s best punchline yet. Enjoy 🔥🔥🔥 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just wondering when the US music scene will give us an awesome protest song. Where's the new Bob Dylan? Or will they sing about girls and dancing through all this crap?

I know it's the most basic of birds, but I'm very fond of our resident wood pigeons. They simply cannot access these feeders, yet they never stop trying. The result is a clown-like wobbly performance outside of my window daily. A delight.

Trump blames diversity for the Washington plane crash. At moments of national tragedy most democratic leaders see it as their duty to bring the nation together. How can the Republican party tolerate this?

When we were kids it was trolls. Right now it's tiny plastic ducks that apparently 1 girl bought 1,000 of from temu...

The first starling has arrived at the bird feeder!! 💥💥💥

Oh YES Latitude Festival. Kaiser Chiefs!! I saw them at V in Sydney and it's one of my best gigs ever!! 💥💥💥 (I've specifically been hoping for this name on the line up this year!)

Well this is exciting news. The Rest Is History coming to a TV near you (very few details at this stage). @theresthistory.bsky.social www.rte.ie/entertainmen...