One of my cousins was actually in a 1988 episode of Dr Who, but I guess you can say the same thing for most of the population of the UK.

That WAS the case with Barnes & Noble and Amazon but the days of Amazon deep discounting every midlist title are long gone. They still discount bestsellers below an indie's cost but bestsellers make up very few of an indie store's sales. People go in to talk books and make delightful discoveries.

Hi, I'm almost done with my masters, I'm defending my thesis next week. So get in touch if you want to work with me on issues of disability, liberation, ecology and ideally all at the same time! Writing, teaching and editing is what I do best, but above all I like working with good people.

UN report accuses Israeli security forces of rape and sexual Abuse of 31 Palestinians, among them 10 children. The UN report says the 31 cases by Israeli security forces took place between 2023-2025. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

There is something deeply unsettling (and consistent) to me about how we collectively do not value the natural world enough to care for it but we take such puerile cynical exploitative pleasure in sharing AI generated images of animals for ‘cute’, clicks and/or money.

look at him. he doesn't even have any money

Let's all go to the shooty egg!

Now you know who not to ask for a quote for your "Iran war is boosting solar sales" article. Heatwave in Europe, now... Also Europe EV sales in April were up 24% year on year. Hormuz hurts at the petrol pump.

The gang's all here: Alfonso the Slobberer Ivar the Boneless John Softsword aka Lackland Bermudo the Gouty Constantine Name of Shit John the Poorest Man in France Henry the Impotent Louis the Universal Spider Ivaylo the Swineherd aka the Radish aka the Cabbage Justinian the Slitnosed

Fascinating @globalvoices.org story on the revival of part of the Aral Sea, one of the great environmental tragedies of the Soviet Union: globalvoices.org/2026/05/29/h...

Today is veterans' day in Sweden. Despite not having been at war for 200 years Sweden has a surprisingly high number of veterans - because of its participation in UN peacekeeping from the start. Over 30,000 Swedes participated in the Cyprus UN force alone.

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality We need you to tell us why it is unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in your workplace 📩 Email us: [email protected]

If you're looking for someone to hire as a postdoc for anything even remotely related to maritime stuff and/or do research for you in Newfoundland, I know a guy. It's me. I'm the guy.

Hungarian police approve Budapest Pride in break from Orbán era

Look at this solar powered streetlight in a Stockholm nature reserve. I like the mix of old school style and modern technology.

It’s the 108th anniversary today of the start of a libel trial which centred around allegations of a ‘Cult of the Clitoris’ involving Margot Asquith, wife of the Prime Minister, and the claim that the Germans were about to win WWI by blackmailing 47,000 known “perverts” 🧵

Conservatives now have 31 seats on Enfield council, with Labour on 27 and the Greens on 5. The Greens abstained in the vote for leader, letting the Tories take control. Both Greens and Tories campaigned opposing to the new town plans www.onlondon.co.uk/enfield-gree...

My local council in London (Southwark) has just announced a "joint administration" between the Green Party and Liberal Democrats following the local elections Wondering if that's the first of its kind? Do we need a name for this combo if it's going to become more common? A chartreuse coalition?

Det här är så jävla surrealistiskt! Jag har gråtit så mycket över detta, mest av tacksamhet. Men nu är det "bara" 5070 kronor som fattas! 8/6 är det som gäller som deadline för att det ska vara betalt så advokatbyrån kan börja jobba. Tack så jättemycket,ni är underbara 🙏❤️ 0703496158 🖤

Car brain also exists in Sweden. "Garage sacrificed to build cheap rental properties".

Today is National Biscuit Day so here’s a list of ten biscuity musical artists to listen to… 1. Bourbon Jovi 2. Florentina Turner 3. Fleetwood Macaroons 4. HobNob Dylan 5. Viscounting Crows 6. TimTammy Wynette 7. Garibaldi Barlow 8. Oreo Speedwagon 9. Lionel Rich Tea 10. Jaffas on Airplane

Hitchens fails to address that Phillips is a pro-Russian propagandist, literally partied with occupying forces in Ukraine, denied war crimes, and filmed tortured POWs, and proudly received medals from Russian backed military groups for his efforts.

Can confirm. The entire UK volunteering sector runs on tea and biscuits.

This reminds me this banger from Rorty: "Left- and right-wing Hegelians eventually sorted out their differences at a six-month-long seminar called the Battle of Stalingrad"

(totally still, jaw slack, eyes vacant, coming out of multi-hour reverie) i don't know enough about the 1600's

This is shocking. Usually people from Gothenburg are much more reliable than this.

We are the unionized workers of the Real You Electrolysis Vancouver branch. Our workforce is nearly entirely trans, and we work to provide gender-affirming care to our trans clientele. We organized in response to increasingly alarming behavior from our management. This is our opinion. 🧵 1/9

All this kind of framing does is put people with actual mental illness in danger. People want to associate mental illness with being broken. They assume if you are doing things that don't make any sense, you must be mentally ill. But that's actually how white supremacy works. It is illogical.

Reminder that I'm a freelance reporter, contributor @truthout.org, and I run a newsletter covering politics and organizing. Please reach out with tips re: attacks on public education, divestment campaigns, local regulation of data centers, and all things disability. Contact in bio. RTs appreciated.

Sweden donates 16 Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine, sells 20 www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

🇸🇪 🇺🇦 Ukraine and Sweden sign agreement for #Ukraine to procure Swedish fighter jets. 16 x C/D donated. 20 x E/F procured with EU loan. (First step) C/D donation also includes long-range capabilities, ammunition, electronic warfare capabilities and support to innovation.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

In 2025, Sweden removed the most dams on its rivers, 173, followed by Finland, 143, and Spain, 109. edition.cnn.com/2026/05/27/w...

After years of delay, Ireland is set to ban illegal Israeli settler goods from being imported into the country by July. However, Ireland's government is relenting under US pressure and not including services (the majority of Ireland's trade with settlements) in the law.

Not many people know this, but the Lollards had a splinter sect who were even more outspoken, known as the Lmaolards.

Yet *another* c19 Boston cross dressing case: 1807, Unice Pearce “appearg on the public streets on Sunday . . . dressed in men’s apparel & rioting about the Street in a disorderly manner & using profane Language to the great uneasyness and disturbance of the neighbors.” 🗃️

Latvia buying 936 Patria 6x6 armoured vehicles is a massive purchase. For comparison: the Finnish #Defence Forces have 573 older but largely equivalent XA-180 and XA-200 series 6x6 vehicles, 88 heavier 8x8 Patria AMVs, and 161 new Patria 6x6's - a total of 822 wheeled armoured vehicles.

Chat what do we think happened? Someone doffed their tie?

From monasteries they came, and to monasteries they shall return.

ICE fails to push crowd away, crowd ends up pushing them back instead. At ICE facility Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, where it’s suspected that ICE is intending to transport detainees tonight.

The 'abandon Texas' discourse in the USA seems analogous to the 'abandon Hungary' argument in the EU. In both cases it's morally wrong to abandon people trapped under authoritarian. And in one case so far the government has flipped.

Ya love to see it.

The Forbidden Lamp CarmesJocelin

This, always and every day and no matter what, THIS. Right now many things are terrible, they would be a lot more so were there not so many people doing so many things in in hope, in defiance, in solidarity.

Members of the Scottish Parliament are expected to back a call for Westminster to hand over the powers to allow a second Scottish independence referendum

Camborne in Cornwall has reached 28.8°C. Its June record is 27.7°C. Its previous May record has been beaten by more than 4°C. This is an extreme heatwave, made hotter by burning fossil fuels.

"who can afford to be gay at THOSE prices?"

I see people in the UK discussing online sleeping in their electric cars in order to survive the heatwave. That's a benefit of going renewable that I hadn't thought of!