a longer read, but will written and worth the time Britons aged over 65 now spend a record three hours and 20 minutes a day online, and are slipping into radicalisation partly the platforms and algorithms — but feeding on real world issues of isolation, fear of irrelevance, yearning for community

find someone who loves you as much as God loves creating bats and beetles 😻

Grikes running through the Burren limestone layers. Fractures caused by tectonic activity 290 million years ago and widened by water erosion after being exposed by glacial activity during the last iceage OR the train track junction of an ancient civilisation 🤷‍♂️ County Clare, Ireland.

😻 much nicer than mbwa kali

I also display a 'living tilt' 😹

Cannot wait for this! I'll be at Dark Peak Books, Glossop, to launch the paperback of Wildly Different on 29 April, then Durham on the 30th. I'll be telling the amazing story of how Ethel Haythornthwaite secured National Park status for the Peak and also the other 4 inspirational women in the book.

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon

“I get offended when I hear the argument made that it is working class. Working-class people are fed up with gambling companies being able to wreak havoc in people’s lives.”

"Between 2018 and 2023, 2,700 greyhounds died and more than 26,500 injuries to greyhounds were recorded." And many people and communitues suffered great harm from gambling www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New Absolute Units is out now! We're joined by the fantastic author and campaigner @guyshrubsole.bsky.social to explore the question: who owns England? We travel as far back as the Norman conquest, through to the Tudors, Brexit, and right up to the present day. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

And I'll be with him (I know you will) On that midnight train to Mordor (Leaving on a midnight train to Mordor)

Hot-damn, ho — here we go again Suckas steal a ring when you know they can't win You stole my ring, are you having fun? Now me and Smeagol's gonna show you how it's done...

one milkshake to bring them all and in the yardness bind them

Thanks to @left-foot-forward.bsky.social for this chance to respond to the BBC's deeply flawed 'investigation' into the UK asylum system. leftfootforward.org/2026/04/we-n...

Helmut Smits www.helmutsmits.nl

Zimbabwe at 46, ain't that something? I'm glad I was born into a post colonial land, but we still have a long way to go to freedom. Happy Birthday Zimbabwe 🇿🇼🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFXL... #Zimbabwe #ZimbabweIndependenceDay

tiny intensely metal object (with a coin) 😻

We saw our first little red eft of the year today. If you see one please do not pick it up! Their skin is highly porous and the salt, oils, lotion, sunblock, bug spray, etc. from your hands can make them sick. Use a leaf to move them if they must be relocated for their safety. ❤️

A particularly evil week for ICE flights in Africa. Since Tuesday, ICE has deported people to Algeria, Ethiopia and Kenya, plus two possible third-country removal trips to Ghana, and one confirmed third-country removal trip of 15 Latin American nationals to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Space truly brings us all together as humanity, doesn't it?

Just heard a report in The World about Cape Town's Muslim community. (Dates back to the 1650s.) It was oppressed under apartheid & remains marginalized in democratic South Africa. Gentrification, a curse in so many places, threatens its literal centrality in a city it did so much to create.

They were careless people, Adam and Eve -

It's an odd and extreme comparison, but I think this is like the difference for me between driving around a safari park, and walking or riding around in one (with people who know what they are doing) Or cycling on roads rather than driving, and feeling like we actually belong outside, we are ok

‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers’

rude 😾

when these go back up again, it should be with a new and updated sign, to mark how the struggle is ongoing

Trains Don't Scale (making a note of this thought for later...)

my bullshitometer™ immediately exploded, so this checks out

Now officially my most read post on there, hopefully helpful for anyone planning to do a complaint (which I am going to sit down and do next week, once rested)

i founds it ∴ i keeps it

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Lots of interesting pieces in👇, as usual for @ippr.org’s Progressive Review Suspect many ppl following me will appreciate this from Anna Coote (@neweconomics.bsky.social) arguing ‘abundance’ should mean sufficiency: everyone having what the need to survive & flourish (the ‘everyday necessities’)

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

John T. Williams was given 5 seconds to comply before a Seattle cop put 5 rounds into him. He was hearing impaired and carrying a whittling knife.

"I'd sleep with anyone! Why are women intolerant?"

Can some jeweller make me a version of this that says "6,7"? www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Danube Fashion Week looks lit 😻

😻 going on a bear safari in rewilded England might fix me, and various ecosystem issues

just one quick peek...

The Goddess Kali (240 BCE) [Ashokan; bronze statue; obverse; held in the British Museum for safekeeping until stolen; 1887,0708.2427]

aren't there Richard III stans, mooching around select car parks?

I too have taken exams, and completed interviews, in the normal way I've yet to be appointed Ambassador the the USA

Was not expecting that last sentence.

I visited a Warhammer shop for the first time in decades yesterday, still slightly mind blown no more delicious lead figurines, and the detail on the plastic casts is extraordinary I'm not interested in gaming, but stuff for modelling environments, but a Cursed Clergy set would be hilarious

taste like chips, apparently

I could fix him 😻

IF your team don't tell you essential things then you aren't leading well

I've had a car totalled in an accident with an uninsured driver, thankfully no injuries but still a blow, infuriating I see a wider issue too, of poor people driving worthless old wrecks (endangering themselves and others) but with few other options to survive something much bigger needs to change

I actually want to keep pushing until we get digital roads* but this is a huge change * EVs are still heavy, large, lethal, resource intensive, require prohibitively expensive road infrastructure, and amplify social and geographical inequalities. We need to aim higher. We can do better.