If you don't follow @actualnames.bsky.social I recommend you review your position There's a childish humour in some of these (this one induced a broad grin) and also so much inspiration for writers Pig Chin McIntosh - gangster or jazz musician? You decide ...

I have fond memories of working at Froebel in the School of Education some years ago, not quite as long as this though!

Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump. Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

But that is not enough. No.10 should never have been in a position to install Gibb in the first place. It shouldn't control the board membership, the DG appointment, or the purse strings. What's required is genuine independence for the BBC.

I love it when a plan comes together! This is going to brighten my office no end #lego

I've signed 👍🏻

What would we no longer have if fireworks were banned? Terrified pets, yet more pointless plastic released into the environment, antisocial moronic noise. Call me crazy but I reckon we can just about cope with that kind of loss, as a species.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Whitelands College, now part of @uni-roehampton.bsky.social The card shows the May Day procession, which was (and who knows, maybe still is?) A Thing at the college If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

That Oval Office photograph explained.

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @rcmlondon.bsky.social - the Royal College of Music Yes, it looks a bit like Manchester University, but no, it isn't part of it If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

A warning from August 1941: Thompson wrote it for Harper's magazine. She had written her book "I saw Hitler" in 1932 having interviewed Hitler as head of the New York Post's Berlin bureau. Message -post war generation vulnerable to nazism- prescient!. harpers.org/archive/1941... @lbc.co.uk

This is the only pertinent point to be made, really.

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

What the heck?!

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

Another sign of madness of British parliamentary system when skills white paper - trailed as being published today - yet to see light of day on eve of 5pm because education secretary hasn't yet been able to stand up and make a statement about it in Commons (which didn't start sitting until 2.30pm)

As It's happy harvest mice day today here are some harvest mice on some berries linktr.ee/vickyouten... #wildlife #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #ThePhotoHour #photography #vickyoutenphoto #harvestmice

Beautiful 🥰

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

feel like if you had a super long work day and you get home feeling exhausted but still make the healthy meal you had planned for dinner instead of just eating some slop then there should be a procession in your honour in your neighbourhood, and the mayor should give you the keys to the city

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Harriet knows what you've done and is not amused 🪶

Incredibly, the Mail is currently madder & more dishonest than it was in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

That first photo, I think I love her 🥰

😂😂😂 brilliant!

Here’s how I sometimes start a new project. First I buy a fancy new notebook. Second I write some very well-ordered notes in my best handwriting on the first page. Third I never look at it again.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Having mispronounced Azerbaijan & mistaken Armenia for Albania last time he mentioned this conflict, Trump has now settled on a formulation of words he is much happier with. And after all, what’s 4000 miles between friends? As the expression goes…

Yoga

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

It's a lovely sunny day and Digby is taking full advantage of the autumn warmth 😻 #cats

Sound on 🐈‍⬛

"Hobbyist" is a truly breathtaking choice of phrase. It encapsulates a profound sense of contempt for the labour of academics in the UK, who already have to navigate an underfunded system dominated by precarity and overwork. "Knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" springs to mind

Cracklin Rosie and the store bought woman 🎵🎶

“Tory party is dead!” blasts out one of the foghorns of vanity, ignorance and prejudice that killed it off.

When you're struggling to sleep so you get up and just sit with a purring furry friend instead and all is well with the world ❤️ #cats

#WomensRights ✊🏾 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

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Sure Nick, it's just a coincidence that your old boss is in bed with Trump 🤮 🤔