You learn something new every day... I had a new mattress upside down - it is a 'rotate head-to-toe only' mattress that should always be used label side up!

Project Hail Mary ⭐ PrimeVideo Silly science fiction comedy Worth watching for the first 3 minutes - Ryan Gosling does laugh out loud physical comedy (one ⭐ for that) Overall, the plot has been written by a 6-year-old I bailed out after half an hour

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 independence campaign accounts? £1.5m appeared to have "just gone" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Because you’re lying

Ukraine has the initiative Russia is losing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A vote on Wednesday on my motion to ask Carlisle residents on whether we should have a Carlisle City Council (just like Workington and Whitehaven have their own town councils). www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2625226...

County homicide detectives in the United States showing their usual high standards of professionalism during a murder interview 🙃 #FartInChurch #WorstNeighborEver

Bigly deathly

On this day in 1877, a Czech Jewish woman was born. A widow, on the 18 Jan 1942 she was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto and on the 28 Apr 1942 to the Zamošč Ghetto which was liquidated in Nov 1942. She perished in the Shoah. Her name was Ida Neubauerová

Happy Birthday, Mr President...

"A Nottinghamshire council spokesperson said that, seven months later, no sponsors had been found, with the council paying for the scheme" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Coercive control in the courtroom Fascinating parallels in how these two women were manipulated Initial trials fell to pieces when they failed to give evidence against their ex

Dentist today used a new iTero 3D imaging tool and display - very impressive - it makes a 3D rotatable image of the teeth and you can see everything in microscopic detail from all angles.

"...and her department" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

a) David Gilmour sells his guitar collection at auction for $21m b) He donates all the money to Client earth c) ClientEarth complains to Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) about neonicotinoids d) OEP concludes 4 failures to comply with environmental law www.theguardian.com/environment/...

LOL indeed

Late in doing the right thing... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Idiot 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.

"This is stottie cake, is it? Delicious!"

ChatGPT gets it right A.I. 1 Human GP 0 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10,000 new homes in St Cuthbert's Garden Village in Carlisle - Giving evidence to planning inspector at the public hearing in the Civic Centre at 09:30am • 20% Biodiversity Net Gain not 10%. • Infrastructure delivered before each phase of housing, not afterwards • Strong, enforceable planning

Our friends in The North ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Drama series 1996 iPlayer Malcolm McDowell playing a vicious Soho store owner Daniel Craig with outrageous hair

"Ugboaja is also a registered nurse at South Texas Health System, Riojas confirmed. She also worked previously for 10 years as a certified nursing assistant at DHR Health in Edinburg, Texas" I wonder why the ICE officers arrested her? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Cartoon by Pat Byrnes @patbyrnes.bsky.social

4/ Putin continues to make greatly exaggerated claims of Russian advances that do not match battlefield realities in order to construct a narrative of pervasive Russian military success.

"the Supreme Court's decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E Jean Carroll". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Great British...' ???

Did you catch me on BBC Politics South West this morning? Ten years on from the referendum, we spoke about how Brexit has cost communities like ours, and what I want to see from our next Prime Minister. Watch here: 📺👇 buff.ly/Zex0dSl #BBC #Politics #Somerset #Devon

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

"none carry the public filings federal privacy law required under laws including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the E-Government Act of 2002" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The United States reimposed sanctions against Russian seaborne oil exports after temporary sanctions waivers expired and were not renewed" understandingwar.org/research/rus...

"Russian forces lack sufficient Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft to maintain surveillance and detect low-flying missiles. Ukrainian forces have struck Russian AWACS aircraft at several points throughout the war, contributing to shortages" bsky.app/profile/thes...

Passive bias against Lib Dems in The Guardian (again) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"This is an act of vandalism pure and simple" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

OMG "In the United States, federal law allows employers to pay some tipped employees as little as US$2.13 per hour in direct wages if their tips bring them up to at least the federal minimum wage" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer's government imploding First the defence ministers, now a junior immigration minister rebels... www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Waving goodbye to the people in the unreserved queue #citylinkbus #Glasgow

Galloway lives in Russia and has done since last year. Feel this has rather gone under the radar.

Elephant & the bus www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits amid boot camp outbreak Move comes after Hegseth made shot optional for military in April Texas outbreak sickened nearly 300 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Keeping cool (26⁰) in a south facing room (32⁰) outside £100 reflective window film and other measures No air conditioning required #PassiveCooling

Horrific case studies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'extremely laboral' perhaps? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Brexit? "bonkers that your Swiss wife, not a dual national, can travel to the UK on her Swiss passport with a £16 electronic travel authorisation, while your son can’t" www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

2 minutes into doing a few searches on BRCA cancer books and Amazon starts offering me these things

One premature baby had been disposed of as clinical waste www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

2021, Ben Fletcher, the head of Logistics UK and then at Make UK, described Brexit as “Dante’s fifth circle of hell”. Five years later? “We got even further down, to Dante’s seventh or eighth circle of hell, at its worst,” he says. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...