This evening's Limousin sunset.

Not an ideal start to Sunday evening. Spotted intruder armed with hammer in back garden, intruder tried to smash back door to get into house. I called police from back bedroom while observing perp climbing fences to get from one neighbour's garden to the next. I ended up giving statement to police.

Snoozy #Caturday.

'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3

M. Goodwin: "... the progressives were told how to vote, ...what you saw was a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives that came together..." To him, "progressive" is a derogatory term for Reforms opponents. RefUK clearly opposes progress, so what do they call their supporters: Retrogressives?

Interesting Chinese art law case: family of donor to state-run museum of Ming Dynasty hand-scroll spot it in auction catalogue and take legal action. Museum's defence: they de-accessioned and disposed of it after post-acquisiton determination that it's a fake: www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...

Ireland launches world first scheme to provide basic income for artists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Schnork looking very cosy in her table-bed. Originally one of those cat-shelves attached to a window, but Scnork turned her nose up at it - too awkward to jump up there and don't think she thought it looked all that she safe, so now it's a table-bed and she loves it! #Caturday

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

Brilliant.

Very close to my heart and so inspired by our brilliant Law Society President running the marathon to support LawCare, the mental health charity for the legal profession. Pls support if you can. Looking to my #LawSky friends in particular. 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/mark-evans

Lecturer in Early #Medieval History, King's College London www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH751/l... #skystorians 🗃️

Say NO to Palantir in the UK.

Good morning, BlueSky. First snow of winter in our corner of Birmingham.

I’m a *lot* fed up with the constant gaslighting about what this Labour government has been like. I’d love a good Labour government. I’d be right behind it - if it stopped the xenophobic bollocks, started treating disabled people with respect etc etc. Currently, Starmer is Farage’s best recruiter

Don’t know who needs to hear this but “taking back control” from a Union you’re a member of, with full voting rights, to hand it to an American lunatic you bent over backwards to flatter yet he publicly humiliates you, is not taking back control at all, it’s relinquishing it.

for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism

Prisoner 4 Palestine Qesser Zuhrah is at imminent risk of death! I've contacted people at HMP Bronzefield They have 2 doctors with them trying to get an ambulance in to take her to hospital The prison has refused to transfer her Justice Secretary David Lammy you must step in. Show humanity

Huge respect @robinince.bsky.social

Schnork says "Happy #caturday, everyone!"

A 123% increase in tribunal receipts, predominately driven by asylum appeals, majority successful, caused by poor initial decision making. This is what happens when you focus on denials over processing applications properly. It doesn't cut the "backlog", just shifts it. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Creme Egg car parked outside, Cadbury's factory, Bournville.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Snoozy #caturday.

I try to be as measured as possible on social media, but everyone in the art world—including art historians!—who in recent years has focused incessantly on "the contemporary" is at fault for developments like this. This is what happens when you fail to value history hyperallergic.com/1058320/why-...

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

Interesting pre-sunset orange glowing sky over Stirchley.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Yesterday I helped give a presentation on immigration law options to a room full of people trapped by the Health and Care Visa. Promised work, paid £££, unable to work and can't find new sponsors. This crisis i wrote a thread on 5 months ago isn't going away.

Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday. It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

unconscionable

Excited to try a new (to us) (seasonal?) flavour.

Whenever I hear someone talking about the popularity of K-Pop, I always think I had no idea kapok was so popular.

I just discovered that a certain supermarket doesn't let visitors leave their stores until they buy something (or at least you have to find a member of staff and ask them to let you out, if e. g. you haven't found what you've gone in for, so wish to leave without making a purchase). Thanks, LIDL!

This morning's birds, according to our Merlin app, heard from our bedroom window.

The basis on which Farage tells RTE that there will be no problem changing GFA to remove ECHR reference is, unsurprisingly, spurious. Human Rights safeguards were a feature of the 1990s negotiations from the outset, they weren't a last minute thought: share.google/sh5iziocla5L...

👏 STOP 👏 TREATING 👏 UNIVERSITIES 👏 AS 👏 A 👏 BUSINESS 👏 Provosts/chancelors/etc should be members of the academic community and paid as such. 👏 STOP 👏 PAYING 👏 HIGHER 👏 EDUCATION 👏 BUREAUCRATS 👏 LIKE 👏 THEY 👏 ARE 👏 CEOS 👏 #AcademicSky

While the mainstream discussions are depressingly about *how* best to remove and stop immigrants, it’s a revolutionary act nowadays to say that immigration is actually a positive thing and an essential component of a thriving country, so please join me in doing so!

When mainstream media entirely ignores 100,000 people marching in support of trans people, but breathlessly hangs on every word Farage utters, it's reasonable to assume they are fully wedded to fascism. They believe, erroneously, that this somehow won't impact them.

The UK media is obsessed with trying to promote the rank-smelling Poundstore Powell. The coverage in the past 24 hours has been dribbling and lustful for his literally nonsense 'plan'. Sharing articles or even clicking on them is REWARDING these hacks, whatever the reason. Just stop.

Not for the first time I am wondering why there is so little understanding in the UK of common law - particularly among those who seem to think this would be part of what makes Britain great if only judges didn't keep making law...

Good luck to anyone waiting for A Level results this morning.

BBC Weather website stubbornly continuing to insist that local weather is currently dry with a 0% chance of rain. It is in fact currently raining here.

What an utter absurdity our Home Secretary has created - Destroying British free speech, right to protest and with it undermining democracy. It is not for the government to terrorise the public for political opinions they don’t want to hear.

(1) Schnorkie (no flash) iooking cute, (2) Seconds later, Schnorkie (with flash) looking demonic.

En deux! Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1307 2/6 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me

#SpotTheScammer @williamtomi.bsky.social - using pics of British baker Paul Hollywood, stolen from his Instagram account, whose images are in prolific use by romance scammers. www.instagram.com/paul.hollywood