I have a share in Kirk Hill and can confirm, it is not being dismantled. Ridiculous and harmful misinformation from the Times, which should really know better.

Oxford Street should have been this for the last couple of decades at least. I know Oxford Street is just for tourists but shouldn't we show visitors our best face?

This website was created by its founders but it was "made" by trans people, by queer people, by marginalized people who told their friends that it was a safe harbor from the collapse of the website sold to a man who would sieg heil on camera. Someone told people to come here & it wasn't Bluesky.

Cooked on gas for the first time in a long time, in this lovely floating caravan. Simplest thing I could think of - carbonara 🍜

Saw this and thought of @dreadships.bsky.social

This is an excellent piece.

I always really enjoy these!

How is it that Computer Weekly has not only survived but thrived when investigative journalism generally has been gutted? They do amazing work on what must be a tiny budget. If you're struggling to place the name they did the grunt work on the Post Office/Horizon scandal.

Watch this space for a computer game themed episode in the next couple of weeks!

Ran an Autotrader search earlier because of reasons and the cheapest Niro you can buy in the UK today is £7.5k and it's done 250k miles. They are brilliant cars. A younger version of me would buy it and see if I could get it to 500k miles.

The lost world of really serious magazine publishing. The sheer ambition of Future Publishing in the 90s was amazing. Imagine talking to your audience with this level of respect today. I loved Amiga Format but have no memory of them doing video, truly ahead of their time! youtu.be/KR-ATgn3Vjs?...

Reposting to assist Rob but I'd also like to see this - it's a period I'm interested in, and I know lots of bits about bits, but I also feel like I'm lacking an overview.

This is why Star Trek is important to me. I can criticise individual episodes or films but Takei - who was there right from the start - knows why it's so important. Do look out his graphic biographies.

#GBBO and #MasterChef are on at the same time and even apart from the behaviour of the judges I've felt that MasterChef has been due for an update for a little while. Watching them on the same day really throws it into relief.

After last week's well deserved criticism tonight's #StrangeNewWorlds is an absolute banger.

Most people probably don't realise but on a day like this there will be hundreds of fallen trees. They last a very long time but not forever. I'm going to guess this one was a sapling when the bungalows were built.

Glinner's statement following his arrest is one of the (unintentionally) funniest things he's written in years. The jokes are lame but the excuses are hilarious. I especially enjoyed him insulting a female police officer while "defending women." www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

@marcusbrig.bsky.social I present to you, without comment, an episode of my second-favourite podcast. pca.st/episode/83e1...

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

This is an unbelievably stupid car. If the battery has the capabilities in the headline why on earth does it need to lug a redundant petrol engine and fuel tank around? I've done a quick Google but can't see any evidence of a BEV version. PHEVs are a dumb idea, never buy one.

Detailed thread about energy policy, but you could apply the broader point to everything that Labour's getting wrong with its PR. The bad things are getting a load of coverage, absolute zero on the good things.

I saw Leoni Jane Kennedy as support and in the band for The Anchoress back in 2023. I thought she was a phenomenal guitarist and singer then and this new single is even better. youtu.be/3j6NY9lASbQ?...

So I went on holiday to the Vendee, about a third of the way down France’s west coast, and it made me think a lot about @duncanrobinson.bsky.social’s “Britain, accept you’re a hot country” argument…

This is such an incredible poster.

I used to know Ian very slightly, back in the old Citroën BX/Bangernomics days and I could not be more thrilled to learn that e-Niros are entering their Hubnut era. youtu.be/QZT_G8zD96Q?...

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

All right, I saw this today then read the thread and I have to say @anguirus.bsky.social has expressed exactly what I felt.

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

This is a really good article. It describes exactly how many of us feel about Morris and the folk world in general. Little mention of Brighton Morris and local hero Shirley Collins too. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Very important point at the heart of this - there's no point telling people to use public transport without providing information on how to do so, or providing easy-to-use options. Onus should not be on the individual.

I was a bit meh about the last couple of episodes but tonight's #StrangeNewWorlds was amazing. Too soon for spoilers but I felt it was a really brilliant piece of character work.

We were away at the weekend and I haven't seen or heard any swifts since we got back so I think this is the end of the season. This blog post is a lovely au revoir - I look forward to hearing my first scream next year!

It's worth remembering that the number of female Star Trek novelists once FAR exceeded the number of male ones. The guys who made it into our exclusive fellowship in those days were invariably the really good ones. John M. (Mike) Ford. Peter David. (And yeah, @peter.petermorwood.com.) (1/2)

It's so easy to replace gas boilers and fossil fuel cars - plus heat pumps and EVs are just nicer! I'm really surprised at what a difference those two things would make.

I think this is an excellent idea.

Back from a road trip! My favourite weekend of the year, the Cropredy music festival.

The word "gotten" is perfectly acceptable British English, if used correctly. It's not an Americanism.

Look look look! Good things can happen! I love this.

There are lots of other reasons to avoid Meta but honestly this is the main reason I never go on Facebook any more. I *loved* it when it was new - what a great way to keep up with friends! - but it's absolute dross now.

As the very silly "wind farms are ugly" discourse is doing the rounds again I thought I'd share a couple of shots from the tour of the Rampion that we did back in 2020. Just bask in these glorious, quiet and elegant machines.

Simon Jenkins being wrong alert. This is far from the worst thing about this piece, which comes close to praising fascism, but this detail caught my eye - why is a lighthouse beautiful and a wind turbine not (a desecration, elsewhere in the piece). Does he think nobody objected to the lighthouse?

Good news alert In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4% Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7% assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...

I really enjoyed this article. Everyone knows about them in central London of course but I've seen them as far out as Hersham! As always, the carefully researched truth is much more interesting than the myths.

Steeleye Span are absolutely on fire at the moment - genuinely, their gigs over the last few years have been among their career finest, and I speak as a new fan who started going to their gigs in the 90s. We'll be at Shoreham, do catch them if you get the opportunity!

It's rare that this genre throws up a Good News story but I really like this one. Lots of positivity.

Threads like this remind me why I like Diane's novels so much. Characters make sense, their actions and personalities flow from their needs. Sometimes that need is béchamel.

Why not ... One like = One opinion about Star Trek

We had another wonderful display of #Swifts around our #Lewes nest box from 10 a.m. this morning! They were screaming past, banging and hanging on to both sides of the box, as well as underneath it and on the soffit next to it. The resident Swifts called out loudly in reply!

Happy 40th Birthday, Commodore Amiga <3 Premiering alongside a glitzy launch event in New York, the Commodore Amiga, the model later known as the A1000, was unveiled on 23rd July 1985. For a time, the Amiga was in a class all of its own, and is a special computer to me as one of my first. 💜

This was great. Well worth a listen.