That “gaslighting” doesn’t mean “lying” and it’s vital we have a word to describe the phenomenon we call gaslighting. But that might be too important.

One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector. 100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land. That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.

“City Hall Conservatives hate central London, want tube to be intrusive and claustrophobic” feels like a better headline, right?

Look, no one’s going to be writing that Gringlish genitive case for Manolis if they’ve never done it before. Apple needs to realise this.

Looks like she died by falling into a giant Viennetta.

This is a really good and thoughtful thread on a lot of the problems we have right now.

Median age is 40, so most people here wish they’d never been born? I mean, it’s a rainy Friday in November, so yeah, plausible.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Bravo! This is my favourite footpath signage

But now Celine Dion might win. #donotwritein #maiertrap

Three weeks ago, bought myself a nice tweed jacket, second hand (never owned one before) Youngest son(age 17) says, as I put it on, “alright, Dead Poets Society” Put it on the next day and he follows it up with “captain, my captaIn” Anyway. I‘m too proud to be angry.

so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of bond yields. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on syntagma square.

The last annual review concluded the SS Richard Montgomery was perfectly safe! And as a demonstration of exactly how safe it is it also banned aircraft from flying anywhere near it in case, y'know, the wreck spontaneously makes itself a lot safer in a manner incompatible with continued aviation...

What they took from us.

More woke attempts to redefine common words. As any fule kno, the British concept of class is 25% Marxism, 25% ritual cleanliness of certain professions, 25% ritual cleanliness of various regions and 25% adult literacy

This Underwood typewriter, likely the first with Irish characters, was used by the Gaelic League around 1905. Now on display in the newly opened Changing Ireland Galleries in Collins Barracks, it’s a powerful symbol of everyday tools shaping Irish identity. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

what i want is to be able to queue up like ten movies and just have them play in a random order so i don't need to decide

I love how often holiday postcards are sent from the other side of the country from what they’re depicting.

Not because I had a small part to play but because now more than ever we need to amplify kindness and human connection, let me share with you the Tale of Kathleen & John After I had given directions to Kathleen (as I was to learn was her name) she headed off with her trusty walking frame, Esmeralda

It's shockingly naïve to want to see Russia denuclearise. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ra...

them: you're on bluesky? what do you post about? me: policy ideas, mostly

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Men will literally record the seminal album Nebraska by themselves in a Colts Neck bedroom before semi-reluctantly going to therapy

A Bristly Crab (Pilumnus hirtellus). A pretty wee crab species that I don't bump into that often 😍 County Clare, Ireland.

Darren Jones MP doing the @internethippo.bsky.social cosplay.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Once again, my apologies if I have ever remembered too much detail about you.

Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cú Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment

Zack Polanski has changed emphasis on this and very much is saying taxing billionaires is necessary but not sufficient.

I have spent my entire professional life understanding the British point of view on foreign policy. I get certain historic and cultural differences. But the wilder the world gets the more infuriated I become by the dismissive attitude many Brits have towards the EU as a peace project./

New Travelling Turtle video! Delighted to be premiering episode one (of two) of our adventure across Europe, trying to make the longest possible public transport journey in the Schengen zone in 200 hours. Lots of boats, trains, buses, pastries, mountains and Grieg. #Schengen200 youtu.be/qSQapm0UyWU

gordon ramsay: you're telling me you lost him after he ran through this tunnel? [wile e coyote nods vigorously] well let's have a look at the tunnel then [he faceplants into the wall] fuck me it's painted. that's brilliant. he painted a tunnel onto the wall. incredible linework.

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

Who remembers the 1850s? Going down t’market in Bradford and getting sweets off William Hardaker! “Humbug Billy”, we used to call him. Made his sweets hisself, like. Proper handmade stuff not like you get nowadays.

I feel like there’s a Christian version of this which takes account of e.g. the first council of Nicæa, though.

I love the fact that the clock on my computer can just randomly* stop nowadays.

Paying for parking at a suburban supermarket? Impossible! (But hey, it looks like the car park’s half empty anyway)

Was it the fact that it was sweary that meant the chancellor answered my request? www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o... bsky.app/profile/ambr...

“Same procedure as last year?”

Wikipedia's most useful map

The thing is, you can critique Green party policy on NATO, but this is explicitly not what the Green policy on NATO is. This is just a form of wishcasting.

Budget airline bosses agree that flight tax increases are an effective form of climate change mitigation. From @financialtimes.com

I wonder* if the A&E knife injury stats include accidental injuries. *but am too lazy to look up

Tell me how your bus journeys are going since Oxford's Congestion Charge was launched! Just had the below message. "Oh my God... The buses on Cowley Road are so much faster. Like my journey to the station this morning was fully 20-25 mins faster than pre charge."

Not dismissing the overall problem, but you can subscribe to the labeller at @xblock.aendra.dev and hide Twitter screenshots. Which improves one aspect of things.

Europeans simply don't appreciate how large the US. The whole place fits within the outline of West Virginia.

Honestly, I feel like this is a good thing. Neither as inhuman as ghost kitchens and based in neighbourhood shopping streets not city centres, why not let people get more money out of their griddles and deep fryers? www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch... Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.