I wasn't aware that the Boots meal deal could transport you back to the 1970s! Should I get a foil wrapped potato and some cocktail sticks to make one of those hedgehogs?

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Come and work with us! Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover) Please share! jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...

I want to actually own the music, books and films I pay for rather than being granted temporary access to them which may disappear at any moment

The models for Grant Wood's 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘎𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 (1930) in front of the iconic painting, 1942.

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

Tell me honestly - how are the buses right now in #London? So crowded you can't get on? Or not so bad now rush hour is over?

Like many people, I didn't get the super secret access code for Radiohead tickets. Maybe it's guessable? Could be P@b1O_H0n€¥?

#Deaflympics GB's Deaf Women's football team Lucy Bronze has donated £10,000 to finance their kits, nutritions and stuff. But it seems sponsors are hard to find for them as they aren't government funded.

www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/... Help Great Britain's Deaf Women's football team reach the Deaflympics! They don't receive government funding so although they have qualified, they rely on donations to fund their travel to Japan in November. They are currently £50k short. Please share!

www.peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/... Help Great Britain's Deaf Women's football team reach the Deaflympics! They don't receive government funding so although they have qualified, they rely on donations to fund their travel to Japan in November. They are currently £50k short. Please share!

Right I'll do the lunch run, what do you want in your croissant - fish fingers, chicken tikka or doner meat?

Today's family Lego build is going really well thanks to this guy

Am I being pessimistic or is there no coming back from this?

What happens when you click verify? "Select all the photos of traffic lights while describing what it feels like to eat your favourite childhood meal"

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

It's 2600 time!! 👾 Birmingham 2600 Meetup 📍 The Wellington, Bennetts Hill 🕡 First Friday, 6:30PM 🍻 Hackers, devs, students, curious minds welcome No agenda—just great convo, pub vibes, & tech talk 🔗 5 min walk from New St 📲 @2600Brum 💻#2600Meetup

For the Lionesses' victory parade tomorrow, I've only seen information about it going down the Mall and then ending at the Queen Victoria statue. So is the route less than a mile long? londonist.com/london/sport...

The Mona Lisa of shithousery

This is tragic - please please vaccinate your children against measles! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... here is Indie SAGE report on preventable childhood diseases - including measles! Screenshot from report below. please share! independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

I don't know which agent of chaos has put a pomegranate in the supermarket box of free fruit for kids, but I like your style. Some kid is going to be an absolute *mess* by the time they reach the checkout.

This counts as a continental breakfast, right?

I had to break this news to my children. Their first experience of a show they love being cancelled (even though it won an Emmy this year) Go well, Tiny Chef 🥺

An interesting thread precedes this poat, but just wanted to highlight this bit and say that I would like all financial information presented in terms of Colin the Caterpillar please. All bar charts to be shown as segments of Colin. How much is a pint of beer? Two Colins?? You're joking

OH NO I just remembered I've got a document to finish by tomorrow morning for a committee I volunteer for but I've spent the last hour and a half scrolling on here 😭 I can log out and look again in the morning and not miss much, right?

Just found my 2001 assignment brief for the Information Technology module I did at school. We had to make a webpage using (I think) Dreamweaver and demonstrate that we could either use a search engine, send an email or contribute to an online discussion group. I recall being taught to Ask Jeeves!

I am of the Transitional Time, where AA route planner generated printable pages of directions that were extremely hard to follow while driving

Well, with no other incredibly well-known historical information to hand, my guess is that she pulls off a daring escape and lives out the rest of her decades partying in London. Let's see if I'm right!

All You Need Is Moderate Affection

Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a hard boiled egg! #gnuTerryPratchett

It's that time of year again

Hmm ok how do I get my kids to go to sleep now? Their usual bedtime was 2 hours ago but this evening their heads have been filled with European dance music and they are WIRED #Eurovision

Sauna! (This is the purest distillation of #Eurovision tonight, for my money)

And again!

Oooo a dragon. Are we drinking for a dragon sighting? I think we're drinking for a dragon sighting #Eurovision

The BSL during Finland was sensational #Eurovision

If Enya had cloned herself #Eurovision #Latvia

Happytoast is doing all the entries all night, live. This is what we want!

Well, Iceland always brings a party #Eurovision

Bucks Fizz skirt pull - drink! #eurovision

Ok who's been organised enough to do a printable Eurovision score sheet we can all use? #eurovision

I was sorting through a box of childhood stuff today and found £30 of book tokens from Waterstones c.1998 with no expiry date that I can see. Do you think Waterstones would still take them? Obviously worth a lot less now!

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

But do you think the kid would record a Tate Modern audio tour so we could all join in?

Well done to this social media team

What should you actually do when you find an abandoned smartphone on a bench in the middle of a town? I saw a phone today that had clearly fallen out of someone's pocket, it was locked and had no identifying features. I wanted to get it back to the owner but had no idea how to actually do that.

Could I just check if anyone else knows school children who have replaced the word 'literally' with 'literal'? E.g. Where are my shoes? I have literal just seen them. I was correcting my kids but they said literal everyone says it like that.

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵