Kent County Council latest: Seven KCC councillors have defected to Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain tonight. They are Paul Thomas, Brian Black, Oliver Bradshaw, Maxine Fothergill, Isabella Kemp, Robert Ford, and Dean Burns. Most had already been kicked out of Reform, with the exception of Burns.

The Goodies on the left?

Cycling Silhouette 🎨Emil Kneiss

Imagine a bond that transcends life itself, where dogs were companions even on the journey to the afterlife—and unexpected helpers in daily chores! At the heart of Central #Asia, archaeological sites unveil touching and surprising stories about the roles of ancient #dogs. #dogsofbluesky #archaeology

The invidious replacement of fried bread by hash browns is, for me at least, wholly symptomatic of England's decline.

Apparently it’s 10 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

I wore socks and sandals by accident when I went to the shop tonight and the security guard followed me around.

Playing around with a close-up B&W edit of the best footage I have ever captured on this Earth. Hoping compression doesn't prevent y'all from seeing the incredible rain of debris. Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala (March 2023)

This is probably my favourite account on here. The morning rush hour is the perfect start to my day.

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... I've been listening to these on the commute this week and really enjoying them.

Chucked off the train at Newcastle because a tree blocks the line North to Berwick where I was supposed to be picked up. Don’t suppose anyone happens to be driving from Newcastle to Melrose and can give me a lift?

Serviced the car. I smell of swarfega. Feeling pretty manly.

I am selling this canvas at a special price of £225 to help raise funds to send a local girl to Namibia to work in 2026. www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...

The best thing that happened today was walking past a hedge, and accidentally disturbing a family of freshly fledged blue tits. They all fluttered around and chirped in alarm and then vanished again.

One of my favorite Bible stories is the one where that leper came to Jesus asking for healing and Jesus said why bother "we all are going to die."

Well this is lovely.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

I assume we know when the Liberal Party conclave has elected a new leader when we see white bloke emerging from the building

This is a hell of a fascinating thread. Remember, real science and history is was weirder and cooler then any conspiracy theory.

I recall hearing that when Bobby and Jackie Charlton were playing in the final of the World Cup, their fatha was putting in his shift down Ashington Pit.

Just lifted the toilet lid and discovered a fly in there. Obviously going to have to put a spider in the toilet to deal with the fly situation but I'm a bit worried about the escalation. Where would I even purchase a horse in this economy?

I remember a Sunday morning in March shooting clays and the hares were so busy being mad, they were running round the field we were shooting in. I don't think any decent sportsman/woman would think this unreasonable.

I saw my first swallow of the summer today and it made me feel joyous.

Duelling red deer stags, Rien Poortvliet.

Napoleon's Toothbrush, c.1805. Napoleon brushed his teeth regularly using opium-based toothpaste. His toothbrush has a silver gilt handle and bristles made of horsehair, which would have been very rough on the gums. Photo: Wellcome Collection, London

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

A film that takes place where you're from

Sound on for the aggressive, hissing goose content that's just triggered a little childhood PTSD.

At the Senkwekwe Center, the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned mountain #gorillas, a caregiver and a gorilla share a moment of play.

It's not something I was aware of but I'm 100% up for it.

markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

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Good Morning! (German Messerschmitt Me 262, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. 1,430 were built. #WW2 #HISTORY

📢ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 3.6% in 2024 to lowest since 1872 🏭Coal lowest since 1666, when Great Fire ravaged London 🚗EVs pushed oil down despite more traffic, saving £1.7bn 🌇Gas down on "cleanest ever" power 📈📉Since 1990, CO2 -54% / GDP +84% www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/9

🧪 🦊 A pademelon, Thylogale billardierii, cleans itself in the morning sun outside my study window.

I like dogs and, atrocious as it is, find Crufts compelling. The humans are awful.

Remembering Ronald Searle on his birthday 🎂 📷 Bill Brandt "His drawing style, though flamboyantly assured, on closer inspection is an accumulation of nuanced, even hesitant marks, as though even the act of drawing a single line is an experiment in possibilities." - M. Plimmer

Is there anything more beautiful than a perfectly bound book?

12th February 1942: Victoria Cross action of Lt Cdr Eugene Esmonde. As part of Operation FULLER, the British plan to prevent German warships based in Brest from passing through the Channel, he was based at RAF Manston commanding 6 Swordfish of 825 Naval Air Squadron. 🧵1/12

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Whitefronted geese at Malltraeth beach’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

NEW A close look at Truss's legal threat to Starmer The former Prime Minister has sent a glorious but seemingly hopeless cease-and-desist letter By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-lo... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/a-cl...

Was pleased to see this headline - always good to hear of Russian missiles being shot down - but I also spared a thought for Squadron Leader Joseph Berry, a British fighter pilot who downed almost 60 V-1 flying bombs in July-August 1944, including 7 in one night.

This year will be the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives 🚂🚋🚋🚋🚋

Christmas games night usually involves a game of Risk. This year's was brutal as usual.

“Holy infant so tender and mild” will never not be funny, don’t write lyrics when you’re hungry.