"He's a serial pub killer ... a danger to urban life as we know it" Billionare developer Asif Aziz has bought and shut dozens of London pubs for redevelopment. Good reporting by @andrewkersley.bsky.social for @londonermag.bsky.social

Well. That was a morning. Today living up to it's stressful promise...

Watching the World Games Super Heavyweight lifters. Honestly seeing fat women on the platform lifting insanely heavy weights (one record broken at 325.5kg squat) just makes my heart happy.

This is conservative media. This is who is being welcomed and likely be rewarded by Krasnov. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3622206...

Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Inequality is at the root of all our problems. Let's invest in our public services.

Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance. His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed. Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Hey friends, any independent whisky bottlers out there who'd like to talk to me for a story in Decanter? Doesn't matter if you're new to the game or been at it for ages. #whisky #journorequest

This morning is mostly going to be spent herding cats, whilst watching powerlifting at the World Games.

"I'm only gonna give you two half-assed breakfast twirls this morning because I didn't sleep well last night and I have a lot on my mind." — Steve, who didn't sleep well last night and has a lot on his mind #dogsofbluesky #AdoptDontShop

He’s doing it again. Cosplaying Reform is a validation of Reform.

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

Both exhibitions done. That was amazing. I feel a little wrung out. But worth it. Resting my feet for a few before I head back to catch my train home

It happened again

Morning morning. On an early train to London to visit a couple of exhibitions today. Going to be a very fleeting visit, but couldn't miss them.

Let's not use "hallucinate" or "lie" when we talk about ChatGPT. It can't make decisions, it doesn't have a conscious thought, it's not having a conversation with you. It's regurgitating false information based on stolen content without context or nuance.

Dean Cain in an abandoned phone booth, sewing a second S onto his old uniform...

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW

Why was I dreaming about making sourdough bread last night? So weird.

Ohh grief is a weird thing. With my mum it was all encompassing and led to crying in the bath. With my dad it's melancholic. Just tired and sad.

This is not caused primarily by "screen time". It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Ah that's lovely news. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

I can't believe I have my office cardigan on in August.

i don’t know if rowlf singing “what a wonderful world” to a sleeping puppy is soothing or lie-on-the-floor-and-sob heartbreaking. maybe it’s both. i think I needed both.

SCIENCE FACT: the deepest that human beings have ever tunnelled is the Kola Superdeep Borehole near the Russian border with Norway, which plunges 12,262 metres into the Earth's crust, and that's still not deep enough for the best place we could put Nigel Farage. Thanks for reading my science fact.

And she's back. After a week off, including the British Championships (yes I won my category), it's very much back to reality.

From Popbitch: Yeah, that’ll do it. That’ll make the staff and especially freelancers who are terrified of or harassed by their colleagues and management feel much better. That’ll achieve what the inquiries and multiple ‘culture reviews’ (I’ve contributed to three of them) haven’t … FFS 😠

please meet Alex the Great, a therapy bunny who works at the San Fran airport and now Giants games to help people who are overwhelmed LOOK AT HIS TINY BALLCAP. LOOK AT IT.

When the thread of an argument has no blocked or muted posts

Navajo (or Diné bizaad, if you favour endonyms) is one of the most inventive of all languages (in my opinion) in that it has often created neologisms for new things, rather than borrowing terms from other languages. Here are ten of my favourite Navajo / Diné words (and their meanings) for animals…

Do you know who would know what is in the Epstein files? The lawyer who prosecuted the case. Oh, wait.👀

great scientific quotes of our times www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

You quit the Waitrose magazine after you responded to a pitch from a vegan by joking vegans should be "trapped, interrogated, and killed"

And happy heavenly birthday to the ex with the heart of gold. Miss you Mick x

OK, the other team member has the fun of trawling a university website for links, while I can wade through other pieces on my to do list, like prep for the induction week. Now to start trying to herd cats. Again.

What a week. Spent last week elbow deep in competition prep, and prep for the new academic year, no change to that this week, except I've only got a week to drag everything to conclusion as much as possible before I go on leave and actually compete.

I love that part of my job means I have to go out into the sunshine and take pictures of a building, rather than just sitting at my desk.

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

Been editing a student handbook since about half eight this morning. My brain is mush.

So. Much. Life. Admin. New credit card applied for as my rate is going up (fuck that). Fixed the login for my ISAs so can maybe withdraw one to clear a debt (once this months payment has gone through). New phone ordered, then I can recycle this one. Review left for apartment in Poland finally.

What a way to celebrate Manchester’s cosmic legacy 🤩 Students from our Physics Society have constructed a remarkable 30,500-piece LEGO model of the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. @jodrellbank.bsky.social