This is a fascinating 19 film about Sirdar brand of knitting yarn, based in Wakefield from 1969 that takes you through all the processes including the twisting, reeling, the laboratory, design, packaging & distribution. 👇 www.yfanefa.com/record/11344...

For almost a year The Sunday Times has been running a campaign on vaccines. This week we were nominated for a UK Press Award (having won a British Journalism Award in Dec for our vaccines work). That we report this today saddens me greatly:

My twin brother called me from prison.. He said, “You know that thing where we finish each other’s sentences?”.

Our local priest rides around our town on a motorbike all day.. We just call him Rev.

Suffragette leader Christabel Pankhurst. c.1910, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.

From mastodon

My child is passively aggressively tidying up

👇🇺🇦"Growing up under constant Russian attack: ‘My 4-year-old can tell bombs apart’" #UkraineWar

Winetavern Street, 1934, in the medieval heart of Dublin close to Christchurch Cathedral, painting by Harry Kernoff (1900-77), Irish artist of Jewish-Russian heritage.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... NIMBYS alive and well, all this nonsense about industrialised landscapes when the moors look that way because of centuries of industrial activity particularly sheep grazing.

Words written anonymously in MSFs, MTRs and other feedback mechanisms especially to resident doctors can cause months, sometimes years of harm. I've provided pastoral support to many literally wounded by harsh negative words without comeback. Resident doctors (and others) are humans with feelings...

A writer I follow whose work focuses on happy singledom while being open to relationships is rapidly getting more and more angry with men in general, which feels unhelpful. The focus should be on harvesting their souls to trap in the gems of a necklace that bestows you with infinite, terrible power.

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

Three word reviews?

I was applying for Australian citizenship and the interviewer asked whether I had a criminal record. I replied: "No. Is that still a requirement?"

A thief was stealing clothes by size.. Apparently he's still at large

Sadly bluesky has so far failed to provide a polling option, OR A FUCKING EDIT BUTTON, so I can only ask. The national dish of the English is? A. Mince on toast. B. Avocado surprise. C. Nigel Farage is a cunt. D. Yo Momma.

Well well well Rochdale finally drop points Click the image York and Yeovils results are at the bottom

Honouring and remembering our sisters, missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and trans community members, across North America today. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'll be at Huddersfield Literature Festival @huddlitfest.bsky.social talking about 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales', Fri 15th May, 2pm-3pm, Heritage Quay. Book here: www.huddlitfest.org.uk/event/these-... (Book due out Feb 26th, can be preordered.)

Bristol Docks, painting by Moira Huntly, Scottish artist.

You go girl, if you've got it flaunt it!

Last night I received this ridiculous racist anonymous email via my payhip site. "You cannot defend or protect our heritage if you support Greens mass immigration, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and other anti-English/anti white policies and politics." Where do I start? 1/3

Give her what she really wants for Valentine’s Day: A bookshelf with a rolling ladder, a vintage bottle of Château Margaux, a basket of fresh pastries, and a candlelight meal where she can dine on the hearts of all who've wronged her.

I got one of Gail's Tshirts for Christmas its great. I love the 80s tape recorder design.

To mark Valentine’s Day, here is what is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem, written 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus.

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

Audit oversight at Middlesbrough and South Tees MDCs collapsed in 2024/25, as missed meetings and weak controls trigger crisis reports northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...

This is what Edinburgh should be doing @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social "...the project also supports a wider housing strategy. By enabling older residents to downsize into high-quality, purpose-designed homes, larger family houses elsewhere in the association’s stock are released back into use..."

Vaping in cars carrying children to be banned in England Rising evidence that secondhand vapour from e-cigarettes poses health risks, government says www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Passing my train journey with @ronanhession.bsky.social Loving the deceptively simple prose, and the quirky characters. Reminiscent of an Irish Under Milkwood.

Pain is very common in hospital patients. As is delirium. As is distress associated with delirium. Pain is also commonly present in patients with delirium. So: always assess for pain in delirium, including using observation as well as directly asking the patient.

Just been accused by the 12 year old of being "cringey" whilst dancing in my front room (big windows looking out onto the street) to Siouxsie and The Banshees. My work here is done

Better than the real ones!!!

Let's look at delirium and dementia: Episodes of delirium: more rapid progression of dementia. Delirium survivors: x3-fold higher risk of future dementia. ➡️ We really need the support of dementia charities in helping improve delirium care. #delirium #dementia #medtwitter

Listening to (evil streaming service)choosing random tracks started off with Smokey - Living Next Door to Alice. Currently on Joe Dolce

A screen shot of a screen shot from my elderly mother😆

This is wonderful

Britain isn’t being “colonised.” It’s living with the consequences of the empire it built. If Britain didn’t colonise the world, the world wouldn’t be in Britain. History isn’t inversion. It’s accountability.

"Although I have no doubts whatsoever that the care I received was of the highest order, I still feel today that my #delirium was seen as an acceptable side effect of my illness and treatment."

Last night the waiter filled our water glasses and said "This is still water" So I said "Apparently you're not Jesus"

My son had an English quiz today where they asked him the past tense for "think".. He told me, he "thought and thought and thought and finally responded with thank"

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-... Well well well

I think the first time I went to the Ingleton waterfall trail must have been in the late 60s early 70s. I would be about eleven. I remember it was a red hot day and the four and a half miles seemed an awful long way. Part way round though, there was a stall/hut selling homemade lemonade.

Shocking reality: 1 in 4 older hospital patients develop #delirium, yet most families have never heard the word. We need to do much better in improving public awareness of delirium.

Women are not protected by the law. I discovered this at the age of 18 when I was doing a qualification in journalism (in a gap year before university) & was required to do some court reporting. I sat in on a couple of rape cases & a child rape. It was a real eye opener. System favours the perps.

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