they are not in it.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Agree that this is troubling. So what is to be done about this accelerating loss of our shared heritage? The clue may be in this chap's name.

Queen Elizabeth loaned £7 million to paedophile connected to sex trafficking ring www.normalisland.co.uk/p/queen-eliz...

Things a Labour government is willing to bail out - Banks. Things a Labour government is not willing to bail our - Universities. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

• Your friendly reminder that Lord Mandelson is still a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and retains the Labour Whip. • Worth reflecting on all the MPs who lost the Labour Whip are were suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party for voting against the 2 Child Cap.

"Our study revealing university degrees are a net drain on the rest of society turns out to contain an error. PPEs from Oxford are an outlier and should not have been included."

Trump's mind works like this: In Wales, they speak Welsh. In Belgium, they speak Belch.

A joke for the history buffs.

Nothing demonstrates the amount of time to train astronauts than the fact that NASA's next crew to be launched into space includes a black guy, a woman, and a Canadian. It is an echo of a previous USA and a reminder of what has been lost.

"this is what we could have won"

So it turns out that the US seizure of an tanker off the coast of Scotland used RAF Mildenhall in #England and #Wick airport (owned by the #Scottish Government). Is it too much to hope that those assets would not be available for an attack on #Greenland? Starmer and Swinney must make that clear.

With this regime anything is possible…

Arrived at Bristol Airport yesterday after a fantastic few days in the Highlands. Taxi driver: "where have you flown from?" Me: "Inverness" Him: "is that in Spain?"

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

After last year's weeks of closures due to flooding at Chipping Sodbury, @gwr.com have done even better this year and reduced their service today "in anticipation of flooding". As far as I can tell the line is still above water but the mere idea of flooding has cancelled dozens of trains. FFS!

Learnt today, that the first patent I drafted unsupervised as a newly-qualified attorney in 2006 is being litigated in Texas! Feeling a mixture of pride (they must have thought it was strong enough to sue under) and shit-scared-ness (what if its isn't).

Camp? Us eider drakes? How very dare you!

Remember, if you vote Labour rather than Green, you'll let Reform in 😁

Spoiler alert: Mone to get away with it buff.ly/9X2A3KZ

Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Let's all pretend that this wasn't the plan of these evil people all along...

A lovely review article (and my first dissertation citation🍾) on Scottish archaeological mollusc exploitation from @jenniferbones.bsky.social & @mlaw.bsky.social. Makes the point that culture ("taste" if you like) may be just as important as economic considerations www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

From the MetroWest website. I can spot an obvious barrier to accessibility at Lawrence Hill station if this photo is anything to go by.

Forensic Architecture unpacks the architecture of Israel’s genocidal starvation of Gaza.

A brilliant article. Clear and legally correct. People need to calm TF down about people using toilets as toilets and not fall for the artificial panic whipped up by the right.

And remember kids we have to pretend like this wasn't the plan all along....

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

Massive support for Miriam Margolyes as pro-Israel lobby tries to cancel her As the Zionist lobby comes for Miriam Margolyes, it exposes itself as the cynical, colonialist operation it really is. Disgraceful. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Koch's Postulate > that Cock's Postulate.

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

Nick Clegg has a bloody cheek piping up at all. It was the austerity he enabled that is most responsible for Brexit & the continued unravelling of our social fabric. Then he swanned off to piss around at meta. Twat.

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

It's Starmer's "island of strangers" idea that pisses me off the most. The fact that an unlikeable man struggles to make friends on an island of 65 million is not really the fault of immigration is it?

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

#dodecabakeof @tessmachling.bsky.social I did have a dodecahedron. Went to get my phone for a photo, and this happened! Still tastes good but I am not expecting to meddle.

When I ask her opinion about this moment the historian, who studies the dark times, tells me she is worried that the end is in sight, and I tell myself that she is just talking about the end of the semester, yes, I tell myself, that must be what she means.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... A joint library. The US thinks they have the upper hand because they control the entrance. But all the books are located in Canada.

Hitler hated lawyers too.

Deeply shameful of the @royalsociety.org . All decent members must now resign.

Trading standards are warning people not buy Welshcakes from unlicensed vendors. This couple are travelling South Wales selling Welshcakes from the back of a K reg Ford Transit. Analysis of the Welshcakes confirms that half the currants have been replaced with dead flies.

In honour of #EastEnders 40th anniversary, here’s its first gay kiss, which sparked tabloid outrage at the time. Brace yourself, it’s a bit racy!

By now you’ve probably heard CDC investigators say “Asymptomatic Cases of Bird Flu in Humans Are Flying Under the Radar,” but you need not worry about hearing more of this frightening news, for those investigators laboring at the CDC are all getting fired.

Something has changed with the BSky algorithm. It has switched from offering me inane posts from attractive young pouting women to inane posts from pumped-up guys in gyms. I guess my lack of engagement with the former leads it to try its luck with the latter. I don't actually come here for either.

Where The Oscar Wilde Things Are #watercolor #queerartist #gayartist #popart