Heron.

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Shit specs sketch.

I read this on Tuesday. Gone back to read it again today. Absolutely knocked my socks off.

If you think Keir Starmer is a 'decent' person, you need to speak to the many, many minorities his government has targeted mercilessly. You can't speak to all of them, however, because many of them are dead because of choices Keir Starmer's government made

One of my favorite parts of this project was scooping up the www.nytimes.lgbt domain and using it to host the data dashboard. Check it out!

Tiny and beautiful!

This women's group wanted to raise £1,000 to help the victims of last night's attacks in Belfast. It's already at £56,000. chuffed.org/project/1854...

This meeting could have been a lightsaber duel

A point I've been making for a while in work contexts is that no organisation wants to bear any risk, or do any of the hard work of developing juniors. Much easier to let others train people up, or let people train themselves, then poach them once they've become experienced seniors.

From 3 years ago today. A mossy pathway in Coedydd Maentwrog in North Wales. Pen and watercolour.

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the single most sanity-warping print error ever committed to print. The gnawing, eldritch, Lovecraftian horror of this Peterborough Standard society page from April 18, 1980. Theremony at tremony at the liremony indeed.

You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole

The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this. Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.

slow down and fix stuff

As part of measures to protect the nation’s most valuable resource – its money – minister Karen Hoyland, 42, announced the construction of a £4Bn Thunderdome, where children with autism will earn their educational support by “duking it out to the death”.

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

The English national mood in the 2020s. 📷

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

The key point here is that NHS England is forcing conversion therapy on trans youth (and NHS Wales has no service for trans youth).

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus/Happy St Dwynwen’s Day!

I've started printing portable water bottle based eye wash stations too (www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...) in addition to whistles. I'll be bringing 10 to Strike ICE on Friday the 23rd for those who need.

A friendly Cardiff pigeon for @maggietokudahall.bsky.social .

Stanley Spencer painted about a dozen landscapes in and around Leonard Stanley in Gloucestershire during the early 1940s. The village, not far from Stroud, contains the remains of a Benedictine priory which lies at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment.

Here are a couple of photos I've taken that prove GHOSTS ARE REAL.

Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.

This is what genuine, courageous allyship looks like.

In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell. By @piperbomb.bsky.social

Ah fuck.

Note that equivalent men's and boys' organisations like the Scouts and the Men and Boys Coalition (for whatever criticisms you can make of them) aren't feeling compelled to expel trans men and boys. Weird how this is only effecting women's and girl's organisations.

Are trans people allowed to visit other people's houses at Xmas this year or does some randomer think that's an issue, too, so we're banned?

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

Tiny and remarkably affecting! Go on, read it, it’s only small, and worth the time.

In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party

Tactical ketchup. Performance mustard. Weapons grade sriracha.

The world is so much brighter for the work she did in life.

love this absolute moonshot of humor & joy from Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com — read “A Home Run,” new on hex today !!! 👇🥎🏟️🔥

Read the thread for further context. The original guidance was terrible and this is terrible.

OH HELLO BEAUTIFUL BOOK FANCY MEETING YOU ON MY DOORMAT

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel