My mum has been making needle felted mice for a few years and enjoys challenging herself with new themes and ideas. She's just set up her first exhibition at the stately home she volunteers at, with a family of period mice. Incredible.

Nintendo’s new Switch 2 compatibility site is a secret treasure trove containing tens of thousands of video game wallpapers. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintend...

Be careful of Vinted scams. Got hit with one today, so I've detailed it here

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

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A colleague was recommending this earlier today!

📣 Reminder: The consultation on new enhanced dismissal protections for pregnant women & new mothers (via the “Make Work Pay” review) is now open. Make your voice heard! www.gov.uk/government/c...

How have two Traitors at different times gotten away with forgetting they have a shield? #CelebrityTraitors

Oh nooooo why did he admit to that #CelebrityTraitors

Painful to watch #CelebrityTraitors

@jim.londoncentric.media Love your work, but I think you've confused Catford and Lewisham shopping centres in your latest newsletter..? BTW a story well worth digging into locally is why the brand new section of the Lewisham Gateway development has been closed since Feb.

All OK now, turns out this was my personal canary in the coalmine for the AWS outage affecting loads of sites

Will sit tight in that case!

Have Wordle and Connections suddenly gone behind a paywall for anyone else, or is the NYT coming for me specifically this drizzly Monday morning?

I think this is the weirdest story I've ever reported. www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work! ⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer. 🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote. Let's chat! hannahnicklin.com linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin

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This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Self Esteem Brixton nights 1 and 2 done, one left 🥲 A privilege to see her, her band and her wonderful support Moonchild Sanelly and Nadine Shah. Still tickets for Sheffield on Sat 18 Oct if you have fomo...

Show us the last four albums you listened to

Guys, you're never gonna guess where the pot of gold is

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Self Esteem was of course fantastic at Manchester last night. Our first of four shows this tour 🥰

Self Esteem has clearly made it, there's a bloke selling knockoff merch by the queue for the gig

London exclusive: Competition between big money e-bike operators has hit the point where Hackney residents will now get flat fare £1.75 journeys within the borough, with Lime and Voi winning a contract that predicts *up to £93m* in revenue from one borough. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bike-...

Medicine is incredible 💕

This is really lovely! 😍

The two genders

You may not have heard about the protests against the arms fair in London this week. This is an interesting read on how they succeeded in disrupting events

The 185 bus has new patronising announcements. They tell passengers to stay seated, hold the handrails, and that the doors are open "so you can now exit safely". They are significantly louder than the stop announcements.

I felt ashamed in myself how long it took me to remember the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband. It was three months ago!

I think it says as much about Paul as our relationship that I correctly guessed all four favourite films first time with two small clues. I, on the other hand, have absolutely no idea what my favourite films are

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Weird work day today. The half talking to different colleagues in my team was lovely. We work remotely all over the place so often don't find the time. The half dealing with issues with an ongoing project was incredibly frustrating and left me feeling gaslit, or like I speak a different language.

Somehow, @bitoclass.uk and I have been married for 20 years?!

“These buses are beautiful, London is beautiful.’ Incredibly wholesome content. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

Take a break from doomscrolling and look at my stretching hare icon. She’s going to be available in my exhibition here in Pembrokeshire from September 11th-14th if you want to take a closer look

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

I feel like I'm through the looking glass. A year ago in the UK, there were racist riots and attacks on hotels where asylum seekers are housed. Everyone agreed it was Very Bad. Now far right racists protest the hotels, and it is the asylum seekers that are frightening?! Councils are joining in?!

Any UK library or archive folks got any ideas? 📚

I can guarantee you will not regret a single second you spend watching this

Anyone with leads (sorry) in Northern Ireland?

Optician dilemma. A local one two years ago did a decent eye test and I'm happy with lenses in my glasses. But their frames are limited in range, and their front of house didn't help me choose the best options for me at all. Now regularly texting and calling to get me to book in. Do I go back?

Delighted to see Hanako Footman has withdrawn. I read Mongrel last year and highly recommend it

Cultural recommendation for UK folk: Artworks art docs on BBC Sounds. Enjoying one about recorders by Susan Calman (expires tomorrow). Also beautiful Souvenirs by @helenzaltzman.bsky.social and @martinaustwick.bsky.social, and a doc about Leigh Bowery by Nick Grimshaw www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Polari book prize included a proud transphobe (John Boyne). Now 9 of 12 first book nominees and 5 of 12 main prize nominees have pulled out in protest. See thread for updates, plus suggested places to get their books (check your local library and their ebook apps too!) Solidarity! 📚

“The Committee to Protect Journalists last month said it was gravely concerned for the journalist’s safety as he was being ‘targeted by an Israeli military smear campaign’.”