Naturally this isn't nearly as important as people no longer dying preventable deaths, etc - but one major change I have seen in London since moving here in 2009 is that you can routinely see the stars at night, even outside the parks (yes, LED streetlights are a part of this as well).

The sound editing on this is amazing. youtu.be/rEbLomDm35U?...

In what I think might be peak South London, a pop-up Kneecap merch store has opened next to Chatsworth Bakehouse.

I still don’t get why you’d get mad about the Northern Ireland veterans stuff despite standing for election for a party with a manifesto commitment to resolve said Northern Ireland veterans stuff, and serve in the Ministry handling the Northern Ireland veterans stuff.

This one lives rent free in my head.

Every hometown's got the ominous megastructure, what's yours?

Just had my second magnum of the day. This one was a rather decent Alsatian Riesling.

You read between the lines on most autobiographies of the man (even Simon Heffer's turgid hagiography) and the whole "classicist who is slightly too interested in Ancient Greek pederasty" stuff does rather stand out.

Always irks me that these chuds are named after a Pope who would have roundly disliked them. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The AfD leader in Saxony-Anhalt being named "Ulrich Siegmund" is a bit on the nose, isn't it? Inherently evil sounding name that one.

Of course it's Madrí, something I am convinced is a Portuguese false-flag operation to discredit genuine Spanish beers by proxy.

I recall getting given some local cider from @liam-hill.bsky.social after we'd gone to visit his folks in Devon. It was literally decanted into some old milk cartons. I was looking forward to having a nice train picnic with my four pint carton of Ol’ Farmer Pissflaps’ Twatted Bulbasaur.

Thinking about the cast for Muppet Agent Lavender. Jason Watkins as Harold Wilson, the only human character. Mrs Piggy: Mrs Thatcher Gonzo: Tony Benn Sam the Eagle: Jerry Ford Scooter: Roy Jenkins Kermit: Chris Mullin/Narrator Dr Bunson Honeydew: Enoch Powell

Rumours about splitting up HM Treasury, again?

Incredible “people die when they are killed” vibes.

Most left-wing Australian news anchor.

HYDRATION BREAK

This is the future of the global economy, apparently.

oh my fucking GOD

GUYS THERE IS A BREEZE AND IT IS GLORIOUS

people reading Dante’s Inferno in 1321

Made a courgette pasta which I think was about as much time as I could manage in the kitchen.

My dad walked through a pyroclastic flow to get to work in 1976, in a full tweed suit, and didn't have a single drop of water to drink for eleventeen weeks, but apparently that's something that today's "snowflake" generation cannot handle.

I think the most telling thing about this is the casual Sinophobia.

Every British man today.

I think this allowed.

Going back to Potsdam and having a quiet word with Attlee why this is a bad thing.

If he moves it to Canada that would actually push us into the Code Geass timeline which at this point might be an improvement.

That doesn't sound very "Resilient Cities" of you.

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

Another way hobbies become unaffordable as even in the article it says that stops reselling. I didn’t buy new games when I was a kid. Used to wait until they were being sold for a third of a price or less in GameStop.

I know that this makes me sound like the aged millennial I am, but one of the joys of playing video games when I was a teenager was reading the manual and getting excited by the map/character cards on the bus home. You don't really get that any more. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is obviously a very critical story about how hard it is to keep hospitals safe to work in during a heatwave but this so much looks like a still from a 1970s sci-fi film where the ending is just a load of matt paintings of unsettling alien planetscapes set to a Brian Eno track.

Periodic reminder that the plural is actually "Funnys Foot", it's a compound noun, like Attorneys-General.

Reminded of when Brighton briefly had an SNP councillor: www.theargus.co.uk/news/5168774...

This is one of those photos that you keep looking at and every time find something funnier about it.

trueeeee

Barry from Eastenders as the headliner. Calling it.

Really annoyed that James Purnell scans perfectly to Thomas King. “I’m going to take the three point nine / And give them faces just like miiiiine.”

So James here has found that Kerry-Anne Mendoza, the ousted founder of The Canary, is now working for... ...an AI consultancy

A lovely healthy salad in the hot weather.

Sorry to hear the sad news about your mum.

What a cunt.

I do remember being in a bit of a fugue state and basically made £500 of free money because the Betting markets were so slow to react.

Low-stakes conspiracy theory: All of those properties for sale that look normal on the outside but have stuff like a torture chamber in the basement, or today’s “Lincolnshire’s Tribute to the Einsatzgruppen” are actually deliberately decorated like they the estate agents themselves to go viral.

it was