Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Every broadcaster should stop editing Trump for clarity or coherence

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Tim Davie was, AFAICT, genuinely committed to the belief that if you have two people making competing claims, telling the viewer which claim is true is editorialising and should be avoided. They want to replace him with someone who'll actively push the right's lies as truth.

It seems to me that BBC News' problem lies in its catchphrase "We get criticised from both sides so we must be right". No: when you allow someone to say 2+2=5, you are as wrong as when you allow someone else to say 2+2=3.

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

he's gone full City Watch oath

Abuse survivor took his own life after being refused anonymity by the Scottish Child Abuse inquiry www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.

Love that anything that doesnt call me slurs or advocates for me to be pushed out of society as unwanted scum now counts as unduly biased

I think if you understand what’s happening here as basically the usual reactionary crackpots seizing any excuse at all to crack down further upon what the public is permitted to hear, using whatever tools and excuses happen to be lying around at the time, then that is the closest to what’s going on.

You'd think people would learn that you can never pander to the right wing enough to stop them turning on you the second it's convenient

It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.

he looks pretty good for a guy whose face is being gnarled by leopards.

The fact that the right wing press is now coming for Tory appointees to the public service broadcaster demonstrates precisely how far right they have gone. Overton window exiting stage left (audience right), pursued by a bunch of howling Nazis.

It's pretty embarrassing that Britain is even oursourcing its state-controlled media to the US

I cannot believe Tim Davie had to quit for left-wing bias news.stv.tv/world/bbc-di...

This is wild enough to me; I cannot imagine how weird it sounds to people whose main language doesn't even have gendered pronouns

‘Biological pronouns’, now part of a decision in the US courts, was workshopped in plain sight by British GCs. British GCs have been ascendant in large part due to US funding of their associated fake charities and activist orgs. Transphobia is an organised, international war effort.

10/10 take. No notes.

I like coats with big pockets but it does mean occasionally it's like "ah yes, there's that sausage roll I forgot to eat"

Which means of course that the UK Gov removing such access from almost everyone is a deliberate decision to kill people.

What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.

WAC wrong-headedness (that's the BBC Written Archives Centre) I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...

I have inside information that this is the Your Party venue

I suspect a lot of the loudest poppy people aren't aware poppies are historically for charity fundraising, and not for signalling your support for Are Boys

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

I, for one, believe him.

Usual rules with reality / constructed TV. The financial security of the subjects is the difference between battery farmed entertainment and free range trash.

Machine translations never work anyways. It's a glorified dictionary that doesn't understand context Best example for English is unironically, "shit." A native English speaker knows batshit, apeshit, dogshit, horseshit, and bullshit are all different concepts. A dictionary thinks you're at a zoo.

She felt within her rights to use the women's changing room on account of the fact that it was within her rights and also, as the article admits, following NHS policy. But it's so cool that British state media is going full Ministry of Truth to pretend the last 20 years never happened

Going down a rabbit hole of mistaken prison releases. They've definitely got up recently, but between 40 and 115 offenders were incorrectly released *every year* from 2011 to 2024 (so over 800 while the Tories were in government). It just doesn't normally make the news news.sky.com/story/how-ma...

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

There better be really big warnings on these saying they're machine translated

For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980

"Rose Henderson felt within her rights" SHE WAS WITHIN HER RIGHTS

the absolute gall of these bigots to complain about someone allegedly giving them evil looks AFTER THEY HAVE DECIDED SHE IS A DANGER TO THEM AND THEY'VE TRIED TO GET HER FIRED AND/OR BANNED FROM USING THE BATHROMS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is really fucking dangerous to allow victims' families to run about demonising the families of attackers

Bring back the stocks for Reform voters tbh And possibly politicians in general

The Scottish Greens stand with Rockstar's workers. ✊

Can you imagine being the kind of person who complains in public about not being allowed to disrespect people's dead bodies at work

Joyce is utterly devoid of empathy, compassion or comprehension. It makes me weep that her GC (trans-hating) beliefs are protected and ‘worthy of respect in a democratic society’ when part of this belief is that trans people and those that love them are not worthy of respect at the undertakers.

WHITESTOWN

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

I like that Mamdani is introducing baby boxes in NY just cos I like to watch Scottish left-wing unionists squirm. It's good when Mamdani does it but bad when the SNP do it for REASONS, alright?!

Rockstar Games Employee posts about recent union-busting efforts

Good thread on the revised assessment of the previously-presumed 'Pictish-to-Norse' transition site at Buckquoy, Orkney. It looks like that interpretation needs to be put to bed.

This is everything wrong with Starmer in one social media post. COP is about protecting the planet from becoming uninhabitable. It needs a coordinated international effort, yet Starmer is playing the nationalism and economic growth card, which is the opposite of what is needed on multiple levels.