We are beyond excited to announce that making her first trip to Stirling as Denise Mina's next special guest is one of the world’s most lauded crime writers, Tana French (The Keeper - out now @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social). Snap up your tickets here: bloodyscotland.com/event/denise...

The Pinnacle Book Tour - kicking off soon! Tickets available here: abirmukherjee.com/speaking-and...

Man throws giant rock at endangered seal, gets repeatedly punched in the head and arrested - boingboing.net/2026/05/18/m... "When confronted, the man claimed he was rich and "could pay the fine,"

Kids, amirite (via @wlos-13.bsky.social on Instagram)

via Reform Watch Cymru

Well, no shock I guess. The sub category had me as civic nationalist (or some such) for wanting to rejoin the EU, and wanting independence for the devolved nations. quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani—better known as Muslim al-Socialist to everyone who remembers what America used to be—has single-handedly ruined the greatest hellhole on Earth in just 100 days, exactly as every hedge-fund manager warned he would. www.normalisland.co.uk/p/muslim-soc...

daaaamn london

The #birdoftheday theme is #WaterDroplets and I think this Black-crested Coquette fits the bill. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds

If you see this, post a tree

Stoppe callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "shitty plagiarism hellmouths" calmatters.org/environment/...

Amazinge how the manye techbro "defenders of civilization" on X clamoringe about the importance of understandinge the Odyssey (which thei do not: thei are wronge & racist) are also the same people yn favor of dismantlinge classics departmentes and humanityes researche. Illiterati. Fuckinge amateurs.

Elon Musk probablye doth not even knowe Latin

can confirm. and no one mewled about it!

A nice surprise - Snow Bunting! I’ve seen them a few times, and *always* among rocks along the edge of a lake/river/reservoir #birds

Just got home from visiting my wife in hospital following major surgery The medical team have done an incredible job and we’re extremely grateful But this surgery was after a 3 year wait and 3 cancellations When Streeting claims he's done wonders for the NHS, stories like my wife's are the reality

Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to march in London on Saturday in commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the Nakba and to call for an end to Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza.

"the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is understood to have told supportive MPs in the Red Wall that he is not going to be “going big on Europe” in his pitch to voters and the country." well, that disqualifies him for a start... he would just be reheated #starmer...

One qualitative value of posting and reading posts over here versus other platforms for me is that when women are victimized and killed in horrific ways I can see human beings responding with grief and respect instead of the most vile misogynistic rhetoric that makes my soul curdle

Why "AI Data Center" when "Shitty Plagiarism Nexus" was righte ther?

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

This is brilliant...... “Tommy Robinson’s far right march has unwittingly raised over £100k for refugees. “Over 2,000 of you have chipped in to make tomorrow’s far right march the biggest sponsored walk for refugees EVER.”

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Hows about a newsletter to go with your Friday lunch? Only a couple of weeks late, but who's counting, eh? mailchi.mp/23d1ab1c67fb...

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeathersInFoliage any bird pictured in or near foliage. The alt theme is #CormorantOrHeron either or. I’ve went with a rainy day Goldfinch. Good luck. #birds #photography #ECK

Japanese warning signs: a small selection…

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Olive shows off her new bling.

He gets a £5mn bonus and the rest of us get poorer. Who was Brexit really for? is the question people should be asking themselves

Farage did say Brexit would make us richer… We should have known that by us, he meant him £5,000,000 richer.

People are being too harsh on Nigel Farage. I mean who hasn't received an unconditional £5 million gift from a cyrpto millionaire, forgot to declare it, and then bought themselves a £1.4 million mansion? This could literally happen to anyone!

Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.

Farage now insisting he is “not and has never been a crook”. Lucky there’s no political history of “I am not a crook” as a line of defence coming back to bite anyone.

‼️BREAKING | Greens have taken leadership of Worcestershire Council from Reform in a shock vote Conservatives (12 seats), Greens (8), LDs (7) and independents (3) have formed a rainbow coalition and ousted Reform at the annual meeting. Greens' Matt Jenkins will be leader. 🗳️ x.com/LeftieStats/...

Thanks @mrjamesob.bsky.social

As Trump has discovered with Iran and Putin in Ukraine, a new, cheap method of warfare has come along to make those ultra-high-tech, ultra-expensive, weapons redundant ✏️ Andy Pemberton

The Burning Grounds - Out in paperback today. Click on the link to buy a copy: abirmukherjee.com/book/the-bur...

It's time to reveal @damedenisemina.bsky.social's first special guest who will be joining us in September, and they don't come any more special than the absolute legend that is LEE CHILD. Get your tickets here before they're all gone: bloodyscotland.com/event/denise...

There's always the next scam.

We already have a Reform UK government, and no, that's not an exaggeration

So far we've had quite a few 'normal coloured' calves (gingery brown), but this wee one has bucked the trend with a white patchy face! Face markings are usually inherited so you often see whole familes with matching patchy faces.

They protected rich pedophiles while retraumatizing victims. Think about that.

Read an extract from @tariqashkanani.bsky.social's gripping new thriller, following the fallout after two boys go missing in a dying rust-belt town. #TheHollowBoys is out tomorrow! viperbooks.co.uk/2026/05/13/t...

Metaphors don't have to be literalized but it's not entirely surprising this one has been

Read more books 😎 And.. #fdt

NHS staff increasingly believe Wes Streeting is doing a bad job as health secretary and that the Labour government is handling the NHS badly Streeting as health secretary Good job: 22% (-3 from 19-28 Feb 2025) Bad job: 53% (+13) Labour handling of NHS Well: 24% (-6) Badly: 66% (+13)

A male Baltimore Oriole bopping around a flowering Crabapple tree.

A couple of the first Great Blue Heron nestlings at the rookery. The nestlings look a bit like muppets.