Stuck in central London this afternoon because the buses are full because tube strike? Come to King's College on the Strand instead for a free talk by Samira Ahmed on "Analogue tech: Our storytelling saviour or nostalgic retreat?" and a drinks reception. www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

She's ancient in cat years, deaf and a bit dotty, but I love her all the more. #ProofOfCat

I strongly recommend reading this thread.

A picture that captures your essence

#MasterchefUK . . Spoilers . . . . He made a fucking cake. Off he goes.

I would REALLY like to see the cat road collisions petition actually get somewhere this time. Two weeks left to get it over the 100k line so ministers can't just shrug and go "nah that's just for dogs" as they have previously. Please sign and share:

Read the latest Thursday Murder Club book in a single afternoon, sat in a campervan in a rainy field, eating chocolate and drinking red wine. British holidaying at its best.

'Cancel it', Trump says after artists drop out of US Freedom 250 festival. He's talking about a giant MAGA rally instead. I can't be the only one thinking about Nuremberg. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well... It's not AI flooding us with slop. It's HUMANS telling the AI to do stupid shit to make money. The *result* is slop.

Wow, the Red Arrows just flew incredibly low over my house! ✈️ Or we've been invaded and I've missed the memo. 🤷‍♀️

This role looks fascinating! And *praise* to Full Fact for including a salary!

I'm calling POETS. Bye!

After all these years, there's still no more effective way to copy-review a document than a printed copy, a highlighter and a red pen. Damn.

Ooh the rain has arrived

Just watched the season finale of #TheTestaments. Initially I was pissed off about the changes from the book. BUT if they take it where I think they're going to take it next season, it sets things up *beautifully*. Fantastic work from all the new cast, too. Illegitimi non carborundum!

Yes. This is the framing I've been looking for. It's vile. I've lost a lot of people at a young age, but this is not the way. To cheesily quote Marvel, grief is love persevering. A crappy holo avatar devalues that process and what you keep alive about that person in your psyche.

This also sucks. A LOT.

I know I'm a bit behind the news, but this is crappy. One key reason I went with Oura rather than other smart wearable brands is that it was a European firm rather than a US one. The underpinning story is illuminating and frustrating. www.fairedih.fi/en/2026/02/1...

Everybody be quiet and look at this baby toucan.

It's true! When you live in hot countries, you gotta slow your life down. Walk slowly, stay out of the direct sun, don't carry on doing all the things you'd do at the speed you'd do them when it's 16C outside. There's a reason "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" exists as a song.

Timeline cleanse (absolute classic, requires sound)

It's so rare I watch any actual telly with ads, but when I do I'm very aware of how normalised online gambling has become.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

True facts

Non-alcoholic Pimm's-a-like: 1/3 tonic water 2/3 lemonade Splash of balsamic vinegar Add fruit Don't knock it til you try it 😎

I know it's unfashionable to say but I'M REALLY ENJOYING THE WEATHER. Move slowly, stay in the shade.... Or like me go off to the gym which is only 20C and be both happy and not sweaty 😎 PS living in a stone cottage in the middle of nowhere definitely helps

The kind you find in a second hand store.

Twenty-something years ago, I joined an online bulletin board run by and for kidney disease patients. After a while of being very active, I became an admin, trying to provide as much support as I had received there. Facebook meant it gradually dropped in activity, but new members still joined. 1/n

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/music acts you've seen live! 1. James Brown 2. Chumbawumba 3. Kelly Lee Owens 4. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine 5. Nine Inch Nails 6. Muse 7. Pearl Jam 8. Skunk Anansie 9. Henge 10. She Drew The Gun

How the fuck tho

Feminism is a project that holds that men and women are similar in most ways and should therefore be treated equally in most cases. TERFism is a project that holds that men and women are fundamentally and irrevocably different any must always be treated differently.

If you’re cis and you’re asked to do this, resist it. If you’re cis and you see it happening, intervene. Disrupting this now seems to be around the idea of cis people being inconvenienced, to have any impact, so show them how annoyed and upset it makes you. It’s the least cis people can do.

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I'm not embarrassed to say I love this so much for them.

First Dog nails it again. “Mayor Mamdani is proof that if your political representatives don’t fix stuff, strengthen your community and make people’s lives better, it is simply and only because they do not want to” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I will leap up and over a wall to snoop or gather good gossip. They call me Nosy Parkour.

not now strange under-ice structures, can’t you see there’s enough weird shit going on

I think I just got shat on by a hornet.

Or… stable housing is hard to find, employment is insecure, and the wider state of the planet seems terrifying. But maybe it’s just the damn phones.

I got home just in time for the audience votes to be announced. Working out the total number of available votes and subtracting each country's vote rather takes the jeopardy out of it.. 😉 But it was nice to know in advance that Israel couldn't win 😁 (and I quite like the Bulgarian one!)

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

I'm in London today. Feeling the love! These assholes will not win.

Fuck. I really want that to be true. Is it though?

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

WHEN WILL THE MEDIA COVER THESE STORIES? www.ft.com

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

I expect a PM called Wes to have the same longevity as one called Liz. 👀

A few years ago when I worked in a Press Office I'd have been glued to the Leadership psychodrama. Now I can honestly say I give not a fuck who ends up in Number 10 (unless NF obvs). That's a bit sad, really. Politics needs folk to care about the country and who leads it. But I just don't.

The problem is the job of Leader of the Labour Party is about winning the next election whereas the job of Prime Minister is about making hard choices in the face of wicked problems. They are diametrically opposed.

I would give just about anything for a day when I didn't have to read a puff piece in some outlet or other about "the rise of AI" 🙄