I watched a group of young tourists from perhaps Pakistan play an impromptu game of cricket near the picnic benches in St Bees. Thy were having fun, being sober, enjoy the weather and having a laugh. I reminisced about living in another culture where the chance to live differently is more tangible.

An enjoyably nuts new party here www.everyoneisgod.co.uk

English nationalism + colonialism = f***ism? Come on Binface!!!

Actually flawless.

No one is safe under the Trump regime.

One of the best Original Story episodes so far, I reckon: the one on The Luddites. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o... @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social Maybe this evocation of human sovereignty influenced a re-listen to Levelling the Land, which surprisingly, has aged like fine wine.

Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse) PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31

Workington. A town with two theatres but low cultural capital. Let me set the scene. Vulcan Park, last Saturday: a free, open-air performance by Oddsocks of Romeo and Juliet. At the end of the first half, the scene ended and a banner unfurled with ‘Interval’ written on it. 1/3

Posting this from Eric again as it's just that vital. This time, with a thread!

I can't stand the nationalism that accompanies the World Cup, including the left-wing version which involves posting about the worst atrocities the other team's nation has ever committed. And its cuisine. There's no such thing as progressive xenophobia

I’ve just listened to this excellent podcast on my way to the supermarket this 4th July. It was my first listen, but won’t be my last. So much information and given me inspiration for some more local archival projects here in Cumbria.

I hate to be “turboneolib” but every subsidiary goal you add makes it much harder to achieve the primary goal at a given budget, and budgets are real constraints

At Cumberland Council’s conference: Co-Producing Research that Reflects Real Lives. Will bang the pans (drums) about food as a vehicle for improving human (and planetary) health. #co-production #co-research #foodsystems

For anyone travelling to Lancaster on the train - you must go to the Tuck Bakery. A brilliant selection of breakfast offerings from dhal to bacon roll. I opted for an emmental and kimchi toastie. It was crunchy, tangy and the melted cheese was the yin to those yang.

Big fan of this pope

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Sharon Weiser, contemporary US artist known for her bold and colourful paintings of the flora of Arizona and New Mexico #womensart

Baking is on the agenda this morning: a gluten/free carrot cake for a friend’s civil partnership. Wish me luck and much iced green tea!

Back in Cumbria after a wonderful weekend in London being inspired to develop my food writing, courtesy of @mallikabasu.bsky.social ‘s Food Matters course. Got some awesome bedtime reading too! Thank you, Mallika x

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

So true

**If** proven, this is *incredibly* bad. And a bit of a warning.

Super-interesting insights today about reality of getting healthy food onto convenience store shelves at the Centre for Food Policy symposium. Wondering about XL crisps as a marker for smaller wholesalers in Cumbria. #CityFoodSym

Alongside 20 other organisations representing civil society, health associations and medical professionals, @fern.org is calling on @ec.europa.eu to take urgent action to create healthier #FoodEnvironments across Europe. 1/3

Darn this theology slaps "building for the common good means accepting the limits and weakness of humanity without considering them an error to be corrected. "

Three cheers for in-browser translations. politiken.dk/internationa...

www.maptap.gg June 1 91🌟 95🏅 90🎓 94🎉 98🎯 Final score: 942

I worked for UKRI for seven years and in my experience, the short timescales were 100% because of delays in central government. Usually because of delays in sign off by a minister; in the worst cases, due to number 10 comms teams insisting we hold back so the PM could announce it or whatever. 1/3

PSA: this remains an unabashedly pro-beaver account

www.maptap.gg May 21 95🏅 100🎯 94🏆 79😐 99🎯 Final score: 917 Playing this is one of the highlights of my day! So much fun and really informative. Happy Tea Day everybody x

Rome’s 2nd emperor, Tiberius, wasnt related to 1st emperor, Augustus. Despite this inconvenience, his portraits share remarkable physiognomic similarity to Augustus. AI-facial recognition would likely suggest close kinship. Tiberius then, like Elizabeth I, figured out the secret of portraits... /6

The info on today’s maptap is excellent. Treat yourself x www.maptap.gg May 15 91🎉 97🔥 98🎯 96🔥 63🤫 Final score: 861

#BBCNews - ‘Patriotic’ UK anti-immigration social media accounts traced to Sri Lanka and Vietnam www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is anyone else struggling to use Sumup? (UK)

Our special Democratic Methane is unmatched: the democratic climate impacts you experience should be appreciated in full. We will be granting ourselves the next Nobel Peace Prize. *funds our second homes in the forest www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Loving this! So fun and meditative x

🗳️ ConstituencyClick 473/650 — Shadow Cabinet 🟥🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩🟥 play.jmoxley.co.uk Best score of the evening: but I am playing on easy setting!

Human sovereignty: my food policy rationale is that each one of us has power to grow vegetables, fruits and herbs, - we may not have time or space or knowledge to do this but this is an element of being a human and can bring creative and nutritional satisfaction.

Pay a lot of Danegeld and then get invaded by the Normans?

Am reading the Maid of Buttermere (for my bookclub) and dispute my prejudices against MB and the book I am really enjoying it!

What if phasing out fossil fuels in energy just shifts them into our food? As leaders meet in #SantaMarta, remember: #FoodSystems already use ~15% of fossil fuels & ~40% of petrochemicals. If we ignore #food, we shift the problem. A #JustTransition must include food.

🚨 It’s official!!! 🚨 The U.K’s National Energy System Operator has just confirmed that on 22 April 2026 Britain set a new record of 98.8% zero carbon electricity…🇬🇧♻️⚡️🔋💡💪🥳

Starmer created this crisis by sacking a qualified and competent woman. And when he sacked career diplomat Karen Pierce to give Mandelson her job, SIX other senior women diplomats left FCDO as their careers were doomed under his government. He's done far worse, but I'm fine if this does for him.

Senhouse Museum at the site of Alauna Roman Fort, Maryport, Cumbria. The fort was established around AD 122, for the coastal defences of Hadrian's Wall at its western extremity. The museum building was originally constructed by the Admiralty in 1885 as a gunnery training centre. #RomanFortThursday

This is nice.

Reform: The Party Made by the Worst People in Britain For the Worst People in Britain

Nice little low-carbon transport detail: Wales's new Valley Lines trains have seatbelts for bikes.

Having reduced my animal protein intake drastically over the last year or so due to its high carbon footprint and association with poorer health, I ended up with v v low ferritin. So my question is….do meta analyses such as EAT lancet take menstruating women into account? 1/2

Everyone Active vs Better: EA app is visually jarring and clunky and membership now no longer includes badminton hire. Boo hiss. Better was better. Who’d a thunk it?