Nice.

This looks like (and feels like) the dance floor at a really amazing party.

Fewer than 100 signatures needed to get to 10k :)

Honestly, it's like looking in the mirror after two hours' solid work on the allotment.

The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Just FYI in case anyone's interested, when you put a bunch of emojis after your screen name it makes it unnecessarily challenging for people who use screen readers to read your posts and follow you. The screen reader will read out every single emoji description every time you pop up in their feed.

They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. Go you down that way towards the Capitol

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Okay what the actual fuck this actually looks hilarious youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

Last bit (I think!) from the "views from my music stand" (or views up my nostrils!) from the recent Solomon's Knot "Bach's Horn" disc. Here's a bit of Diana's aria "Jagen ist die Lust der Götter" from Bach's Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd. Cantata BWV 208

Exactly. You may not be interested in politics, but politics is certainly interested in you.

Brilliant. Maybe Stoppard saved *my* life!

Remember those lost. Fight the stigma. Educate.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

In a nutshell! 🌰

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

Exactly this!

Epic.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

The bad news is the world is terrible. The good news is, I’ve managed to turn the cat into a laser gun.

What a contrast... m.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzH...

I long for a broomstick.

Here are my top 10 dog sneezes!

I probably don't have many local contacts on here, but anyway... this is the concert I'm giving in aid of the Milton Keynes Cancer Centre on 4th October at Stantonbury Theatre with the fabulous Charlie Lovell-Jones. The Filgrastim Philharmonia is named after a chemo drug. Details in the alt text.

My rapture outfit.

In London, hate will never win.

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

Oo, luvly

OMFG please all vote for Gary Lineker! (And the other good ones as well)

Mein guter Freund, das wird sich alles geben; Sobald du dir vertraust, sobald weißt du zu leben.

Exactly

I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.

Natural England hails recovery of 150 struggling species

Anas al-Sharif, the Al Jazeera journalist accused by the IDF of working for Hamas, was previously part of a Reuters group which won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage. I haven’t seen any accusations against the other reporters and cameramen who were killed with him.

Hindoyan seems to have a bus to catch. Fortunately the RLPO is reminding him that they have plenty of time.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Motherfucking wind farms…

I'm starting to become obssesed with flamenco. This woman is an extraordinary artist - the embodiment of music and dance and rhythm and passion. Probably too late for me to start learning... m.youtube.com/watch?v=GP3G...

This is a great book and I love it.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

Listening to this with a very loud backdrop of reggae from my neighbour's birthday party. Not sure how much I can stand...

If you want some Ashes nostalgia accompanied by the likes of Shostakovich, Holst, Adams, Mendelssohn, Stravinsky and Adès performed by the BBC Phil, I’ve got just the thing. #cricket #classicalmusic

This piece is proving to be a very tiring listen, especially after watching the cricket highlights. I want to send it to have a lie-down in a darkened room for half an hour.

Parents of 12 year olds! Your children will be able to vote at the next General Election. Please make sure they’re getting a rounded education about politics from today.

I cannot stress enough how very much OK it is to be wrong, and to admit it. It is of no value to you intellectually or psychically to refuse new information or to be unwilling to defer. That momentary ache of pride is meaningless when compared to the joy of learning something new.

As we head into the 3rd heatwave of the summer, *please* take just 2 moments to sign this petition calling on government to help our communities adapt & prepare for the impacts of #climate change. We are not safe — we need to be #SAFER @climatemajority.bsky.social