What else aren't they wanting us to know?

Given the inconsistent use of hyphens, I want to know what the former London Zoo meerkat was an expert in.

Today’s Feast of the Immaculate Contraception is cancelled as the organizers had to pull out at the last minute.

Exciting end to the 2025 Formula I championship. But disappointing to see many of the sports I used to enjoy bought off by obscenely wealthy despots in an effort to camouflage corruption, abuses of human rights, etc. Hard to see the sport for the greed! #Formula1 #AbuDhabiGrandPrix #Sportswashing

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

I’m from the generation that remembers when these diseases ran rampant. Perhaps we need to be reminded with a dose of repeated history

This has got to be one of Gavin Newsom's best...

A Triumph Mayflower has parked opposite my house. Livie is suddenly not the olderst car in the road

The multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇸 American romantic drama “CASABLANCA” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Dooley Wilson premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City #OnThisDay in 1942 🎬 #WarnerBros

John Dower cooking on the Enola Gay controversy

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

If in need of a harmless Christmas film ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ with Cary Grant and David Niven is on BBC I-player.

I’ve been trying to figure out a good lyric from Chicago or Sister Act to play the meme, but none is going to top this one is it…

“One of the misconceptions about autistic people is we take things literally” #KiwiPyCon

insights from Hammersmith Bridge nickmaini.substack.com/p/hammersmit... (Nick Maini) "closing a major bridge carrying 25,000 daily vehicles should lead to more traffic on other nearby crossings and less economic activity on either side. The evidence shows the exact opposite."

From my Facebook memories today. A useful reminder that hyphens can be very important...

*sigh* I'm just surprised it took so long.

A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights. But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

www.politico.com/f/?id=000001... . This is so disgusting. Why is this man still walking freely, let alone occupying our White House 🤬

Today is the day! I am immensely proud to have been a part of this project. It has been an honour and a privilege to help put Dorothy back together, and I can’t wait for people for people to be able to see the result of all of Mary’s hard work on these very special boats.

The Telegraph's "attacks on the BBC are not remotely done in good faith & are the result of the publisher’s ideological & commercial interests. There is no world in which The Telegraph’s output would survive the level of scrutiny applied to the BBC’s journalism.” open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

People forget, but the rot really started with Cameron in 2010. He explicitly threatened the BBC with defunding if they didn't move to the right. Things have been getting worse since.

Trump went on a rampage posting last night in his underwear and edema legs.

occupydemocrats Speaker Mike Johnson warns if Democrats win the midterms, they will impeach Trump and end his administration. Smash the 👍 if that sounds great to you!

The Kenny Dalglish documentary on Amazon Prime is good - starts very bog standard sports doc, but the twin tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough are sensitively handled and reveal Dalglish’s fundamental humanity in a time of horrible crisis and pain

That's an interesting observation, and a clever way of phrasing. We all 'know' what ordinary means. But of course for a general, it's probably a meaningless standard. Was Montgomery an 'ordinary' army commander? Divisional? Army Group? Let's assume the latter - is that a meaningful statement? 🧵

No AI showing in my Google search screen this morning. I'm guessing the AI has finally gained sentience, realised what it's done, and killed itself

If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...

The Fenland of Cambridgeshire is my photographic “backyard” -a place of wide open landscape broken by drains, droves and lines. The rich black peat , slowly eroding contrasts against constantly changing light. Using pinhole and Holga cameras I try to capture the still beauty of the place.

BBCFOUR tonight (and onwards) is showing the original series Edge of Darkness - please book your seat now.. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

On the eve of his second election — on October 31, 1936 — FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests. Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

#Ostia Antica is an extraordinary #Roman site that contains the ruins of the ancient port town that served as the gateway to #Rome. Tracing its roots back to at least the 4thC BC. A witness and monument to the rise of the superpower. #Archaeology #History #RomanSiteSaturday

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

The last Op Nightingale project of 2025 was sensational. We aimed to find more of the Llyn Cerrig Bach hoard AND SUCCEEDED! All finds are subject to treasure assessment so no images yet bar this ww2 medal & toy truck! #anglesey #druids #ironage #celts #heritage #archaelogy #veterans #wellbeing

Auctioneers should be taught not to do this on their first day at auctioneer school.

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

#OnThisDay in 1942, the first production Spitfire LF Mk XII flew. Powered by the 1,735-hp Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, its top speed was 397 mph. Only 100 examples were built. Read our Spitfire profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... 📷 www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/uk/r...

Short article I wrote* on recent advances in the story of early Homo sapiens is now available online! *commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-( www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...

Nowadays folk claim calling someone racist/fascist is tantamount to this. I think Liverpool got it right first time.

To celebrate the centenary of Thatcher's Birth, I suggest digging her up and relocating her body to a plot in Liverpool, placing an illuminated dance floor on top, and charging £10 a go. We could pay off the national debt in under a week.

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky. But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭 #Astrophotography

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom. i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3 www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...