when every other person on social media saw the aurora borealis but you

Paper by Sylvaine Tuncer and me on what more there is to rapport in cafe service. How tensions between conviviality and instrumentality play out in small talk. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

I think organisations should take unsolicited, murkily-funded 'reports' from people who used to work for a rival that has made your destruction a life's mission a little more sceptically.

good morning I failed to sleep on my red eye but just managed a three-hour nap at home

sam altman’s wife after sex: wow, you were… actually pretty bad sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars

TAXIS WILL BE REPLACED BY CAMELS

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Until a white Anglo-Saxon Christian with a private education runs amok, there’ll be people willing to blame minorities for every crime. And when the posh bloke does it they’ll say he was pushed into it by VAT on school fees.

Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

Sound driving advice from the BBC, for when driving towards headlamps that have a face. I mean, they've got a head, so why not a face as well? Wear glasses and keep them glasses. nb Glasses also useful for when writing BBC factboxes. If you've not left them in the car.

Farage: epic grifter

I want to support the BBC, but when this story is the headline for 24 hours while there's complete silence about a Reform MP making blatantly racist comments, they make it really hard.

I love that courtroom sketches are still a thing. Leaves open the possibility that a smurf or two was there

Another classic case of getting hacked after two bottles of wine.

Started listening to a podcast about narcissism and the sole host spent so long talking about themselves that I gave up....

“There is a lack of vision and leadership, for which politicians blame the electorate’s attention span. But you can’t run the country like a corner shop and then complain people only buy gum. That’s all you’re selling. Try to sell something bigger, more substantial, and voters may surprise you.”

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills. The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Incredible paragraph 👏🏼

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday. Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

As MAGA shows us, all the modern right knows how to do is destroy

I’m not saying it would fix everything, but have we considered a nationwide dance craze

imagine being a consultant doctor here and having to go out litter picking to be given your citizenship lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Earlier this year I spent several days in the largest Muslim majority city in the world. Not once did I feel unsafe or have anyone telling me to behave a certain way. Did eat some great food though.

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

"Fascists can’t dance. Fascists can’t create. They can only silence, steal, or twist what’s alive into something hallow and dead. ... Joy is dangerous. Expression is dangerous. Difference is dangerous. That's why fascists try to kill it."

That fateful night in October of 1982:

Mate, are you alright? It’s OK if you’re not.. Every 90 minutes, someone in the UK takes their own life. Kick off the conversation. youtube.com/watch?v=atrt...

improving films with muppets: thread

They just get giddy and think it will solve all their problems, choosing not to reckon with the *politics* of the AI revolution. Instead they allow AI companies to do it for them, risking the creation of a new set of oligarchs, the like and power of which we’ve not yet seen.

NEW: Weekend News Agents No-one can be certain how transformational AI will be:to the economy, to human psychology, to the human experience. I am absolutely certain our politicians haven’t thought about it enough or begun to properly grapple with the economic, regulatory and political implications

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Lads, I’m not sure you’ve quite got the hang of this secrecy stuff.

I wrote something about feeling like a guest in a country that is my home. bestforbritain.substack.com/p/my-place-o...

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun 911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great me: so who do we call 911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

“Rather than getting despondent - which is easy, at the moment - we’ve got to mobilise, we’ve got to get active." — HOPE not hate CEO @nicklowles.bsky.social, speaking to @theguardian.com today.

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.