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"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

This is happening up and down the country. It's heartbreaking and the Government needs to join the dots.

I mean really. I had no idea about this building. When did we stop building things like this? Can we have more totally over the top fingers-in-the-ears, of-its-time grand architecture, please?

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

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I don't think there can be much doubt now that Burnham is preparing for a leadership contest.

If you need to hear this today… #WorldSuicidePreventionDay

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

Go on Don. Be dead. Be dead for the issue Ian's away and I'm editing.

I can

The lesson that should be taken from this is that people are influenced by the dominant conversations in their political/media environment. The lesson that will be taken is that this proves we just need to keep on talking about immigration.

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Anybody else's dog a glutton for blackberries?

Blackpool, 1962, photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Can we make a list of all the ways AI is making our lives better and another list of all the ways AI is making our lives worse and see which list is more compelling for the future of humanity before we let it completely take over everything

I hardly ever see actual crime in Manchester but just sat next to people dealing crack at the back of the bus so mission unlocked I guess.

Join a religion! Volunteer in a charity shop! Join a choir, a men’s shed, a counselling group, a hillwalking club, an online DnD game! The Rotary! The Masonic lodge! Your local residents society! A soup kitchen! A community garden! A swimming club! Do phone calls for Age Concern!

Terribly sorry that the chaps are lonely again, have they tried volunteering? Only, there’s an awful lot needs done.

This is how it’s done.

Strong agree with this - AI is killing the internet one hallucination at a time.

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Completely agree. I’ve been a local gov journalist for 12 years and have reported on the fall of local government in that time. It’s had a massive impact on the fabric of our society, on what makes our communities work. It’s about more than just bins and roads, it’s about a sense of place and pride.

France 🇫🇷 *slightly* cloudy so a whole swimming lake and diving platform to ourselves 🤣

The history of the Thames is something else

It's exceptionally hard for people to drop beliefs once they've become a core part of their identity. It's why it's quite valuable for democracies to have a large pool of basically apathetic voters (but who will vote...)

She was always cool but this is another level of coolness

Manchester's got talent

Oops I've dune it again

anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

At this point I'm not sure AI is all it's cracked up to be. No good reason at all for staying on X or using grok.

What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?

What if we measured progress not just by income or life expectancy - but by how well we live with the rest of nature? A major new paper proposes the 'Nature Relationship Index (NRI)' - a bold rethink of development metrics. Here’s why it matters.👇 #NatureRelationshipIndex #GlobalThreads

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Amazing correction in the Telegraph.

This is why sentence case is much better for headlines than title case

Tickets for going up the Forth Bridge go on sale tomorrow, limited number, limited period, in aid of Barnado’s. Absolutely amazing experience (even if you don’t get stuck at the top for an extra hour…). Don’t argue, just do it! brnw.ch/Yourview1

Minnesota noice

Has government just quietly told us that it’s building HS2? I’d better explain.

who could have predicted that dumping your every intimate thought into badly run cloud automation systems managed by amoral monoliths in a country without functional corporate oversight would go badly

The death of non-algorithmic text feeds is a real problem for getting information and messaging out rapidly, whether to public or politicians. Just did a panel on state of media to comms people at [major uk org] and they still have to post on X, hope people see it, then hide the racist replies.

Wasn't there a big announcement for Heathrow recently?

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Corner of Thomas Street and High Street, Manchester, 1894, in what is now the Northern Quarter (Manchester Libraries).