The Fairy King

I absolutely love this Also, the knitting too 🚑🧶 #knit

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

Love this time of year so much Sunday Stunday #bluebells

it's really an extraordinary statement of where we are - and of what ideas are circulating in some circles - that a prominent public company said this out loud

Evidence here of a recent outbreak of fun

This sort of conspiracist nonsense is an insult to the dead and to survivors.

There was a young woman called Aoife Who said of the great Burj Khalaoife, “If you’re okay with heights And can climb all those flights Then you’ll love just how far you can saoife!”

fun fact: the source of nutmeg(Banda islands) was one of the most fiercely guarded literal trade secrets in the history of our species, like people were tortured, killed and died to keep this knowledge from first Arabs and then Europeans because everyone wanted to be the seller

How did all these fuckos read LOTR and get EXACTLY the wrong message from it

JD Vance not only responding to "is the pope Catholic?" like it's a serious question, but also coming up with the wrong answer.

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess." A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

Look, I am not normally one to support the immolation of heretics, but...

22 seconds of a willow warbler and a robin in a wood in the Lake District. Sound on.

I do not think most Americans understand how their relationship with religion is out of kilter with the rest of the west

If evangelicals think Pope Leo is too”woke” just wait until they hear about this fellow called Jesus.

Hey JD Vance, fancy coming over here to help Reform with their campaigning?

for the international ideological movement.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Peter Magyar’s party has soundly defeated Viktor Orban in today’s election. Congrats to the Hungarian people for vanquishing a corrupt Putin puppet, and rejecting Trump, Vance and Rubio’s desperate and foolish attempt to tamper in your democracy.

Hajrá Magyarország. You can do it. Get rid of the man who has been dragging you down for 16 years. 🇭🇺

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

A THREAD. Which I have decided to call 'Reasons Why Owls Are Excellent'. 1. They are always putting the needs of others before their own.

The plan to demonize creativity, the arts and entrepreneurship while simultaneously shoving AI products down our throats that seemingly make 99% of things worse isn't going to work. We need the robots do the laundry while the people make stuff robots can't dream of. That's a good future.

I would like it if the people seeking the highest office in the land had a vision for the country that goes beyond a belief that power is good and they should be the one in charge.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

Victory rally in Margate this evening *and* an announcement! @greenparty.org.uk now has 225,000 members! That's an extra 25,000 since Hannah Spencer won last month and 2000 new members in the last 10 days. Join the movement! Join.greenparty.org.uk

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

BBC picked up the story, great to see it getting more visibility - I just hope it leads to action: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

The time it takes to write a joke, from conception to birth, is the jestation period.

What is she playing at ? Is she about to divorce the Moron and throw him under the bus ? Is a terrible story about to break about her ? All very weird.

Most bike riders, like me, follow the rules of the road. Some don’t, and they give the rest of us a bad name. I give those knuckleheads a good tongue lashing every time.

we’ve all seen cyclists pull some outrageous shit, but may i suggest that a prevailing sense of entitlement to the streets can interfere with some motorists’ capacity to perceive the manifold and routine abuses they commit?

...it's a reminder of why protected, separated infrastructure is so important. Physically keeping cars away reduces the stress and anxiety that comes with biking in the road. If you feel unsafe you are less likely to bike! That constant awareness takes a mental toll.

Something I was thinking about this morning on my ride is how hyper aware I am every time I bike: Checking for passing cars, parked cars, road furniture, pedestrians, potholes, road debris, etc. This is something people should consider when they see victim blaming PSAs about cyclists. But also...

Hyper vigilance when cycling on UK roads is a pre-requisite. It both takes it’s toll on those who persist, whilst being an insurmountable barrier to those who would like to cycle but feel it’s too dangerous. It shouldn’t be like this, but for too long we’ve had politicians who pander to motorists.

also we didn't appreciate Zeta for the truly banger middle name it was enough at the time till and now we have an army of Waynes and Pauls and other vanilla entries from Hollywood. This is our fault

We're living through the doom loop once again.

The President of the United States is a madman.

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

I’m excited to see what our beavers get up to at warleighnaturereserve.org because we’ve got big plans for em. So far they’re just nibbling branches on the edge but we’re giving them more dams and water to play with and loads more alder and willow to do it with. Wet and beavery is the whole game.

If you’re telling ME to “cry harder” right now because the guy who promised YOU “no new foreign wars” is threatening to commit genocide in a country of 90M people half way around the world, congratulations, because you are an idiot, and an asshole, and you’re in a fucking cult.

And irony died.

Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.

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Either you understand that America can't have a president who gives a bloodthirsty speech about war crimes he wants to commit while standing next to the Easter Bunny and addressing 50+ children or you don't Those are the two types of people on Earth—sorry, I don't make the rules

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been