It's finally happening (Hopefully we can increase these numbers as the sun gets to a better angle - we're quite west facing)

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

OK, look, do we have any photos or videos or radar images of these drones? Because this is, again, exactly what the British police said about the "drone" at Gatwick

If the government announces it's going to boycott the lobby and speak exclusively with transport YouTubers in future, I think it will be the best decision in the history of political comms. Keir Starmer, go on Map Men next

I did also find Getty has this image where Trump's bald spot has been covered up with the most inept clone-tool use in history. I thought stock photo libraries were meant to refuse photoshopped images www.gettyimages.de/sets/rALaYAI...

Hell yes we're doing this again

"I'm cancelling your show ... for a week!"

Erstmals mit der Illumination der Seufzerbrücke – wir senden die besten Wünsche zum jüdischen Neujahrsfest Rosch ha-Schana! 🍯🍎 #shanatova Mehr zum Hintergrund 👉 t1p.de/0k79w

It's pretty funny that they can afford to do this, but they can't afford to finish the 90% complete actually Chinese hotel in Frankfurt. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Think I’m going to get a lot of use out of this.

Yeah, I’m a fan not because of Puritanism but because it’s faster than the tube in Z1-3, let alone the train. (And if you’re in the uk and combined with cycle to work you can get some truly gross tax discounts AND a free year-long loan to buy it.)

I think if anything this article undersells it. Yes, yes, "make our neighbourhoods more liveable", but also on a purely selfish level, it can be just... better than a car. If you live in a city, and your big concerns are traffic, parking and money, a cargo bike is just the sensible, practical choice

Intrigued by the name of our new local Chinese takeaway.

Laughing at the idea Egyptian accountants screaming at their engineers. These Pyramids will never turn a profit you fools!

Get ready for DreamWorks adults. Jeffrey Katzenberg's final revenge. Adults vlogging Universal Studios wearing matching "She's my Fiona/He's my Shrek" t-shirts, telling you how to beat the queues at the Shark Tale Experience, getting plastic surgery to lock their faces like this permanently

"Place small and medium bags overhead or under seats"

"They've said they'd do that" is crucial. The most important lesson of the last ten years is: when these people tell you who they are, believe them. Anyone saying "surely even Reform wouldn't go that far" just hasn't been paying attention.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

This will make sense to about 10 people, and 5 of them are in nursing homes, but the other 5 are all here on Bluesky

PITCH: a dating show based on supermarket baskets 12 singles are asked to do their weekly shop then pick a partner based only on what the person bought

the origin for this part of beren and luthien absolutely floors me. Him returning to england on medical leave essentially and super traumatized and they went out on a picnic where she sang and danced for him

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

(I mean, what it takes is her father stealing the pensions of the people who work for that newspaper...)

A minor life goal is to sit on the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, which approves changes in country names. www.gov.uk/government/p...

This feels like a parallel universe now

this month's Observer column is out! I tried to see if I could like basketball and instead I just became obsessed with...Lithuania? observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Oh my god the sport of netball was invented by mistake??

Germany's fake remake (i.e. blatant ripoff) of the Office, Stromberg, is particularly interesting, because it's "What if the writers realised Tim/Jim was actually an unpleasant sexist prick? What if Gareth/Dwight was genuinely a sad loner, and attempted suicide in a scene not played for laughs?"

(I think a lot of the BBC’s written output can likely be explained by them interpreting “need to write for a reading age of seven” as ”need to write for a moron with an adult reading age”.)

Wow are you telling me these TREQXOR batteries that came with my Fun Toy For 1 2 3 Year Old Montessori Wood Organic Noise Block Fidget Train Toddler Child Perfect Birthday Christmas Present aren't very good?

I'm going to do this, but be warned it's primarily going to be for a terrible pun 1 like = 1 book on my bookshelf and what it means to me

Presidents email like "Ummmmm we have a DM for you. In your TRUTH SOCIAL" and then the DM is like "Hello I am your favorite president DJT."

If I had a nickel for every time Vietnam, supported by Russia, beat the United States in a geopolitical contest ignored by Europe...

lot of people immediately able to grasp why this is bad still making excuses for posting on twitter

The British centre-left moved to Bluesky and its hard left stayed. In America pretty much the opposite happened. Feels like there should be something profound to say about that but I have no idea what.

Going to shout-out this book, which is a great read if you want to know what really went down in the famous Bob Kane/Bill Finger dispute about who exactly deserves what credit for creating Batman (and also just a lot of entertaining history about the early days of DC Comics)

"Perfectly bad" is still a kind of perfect

The thing is - and it sounds ridiculous I know - that when people give answers like “20 percent of Americans are trans” they don’t actually think through “if this was the case then it would be 1 in 5 people”. Innumeracy is the norm, especially with statistics!

Took part again, came fifth again (first place went to a youth club as usual!). Mushroom and tarragon soup - doesn't look great in a photo, but it tasted better than it looks! The recipe is here www.sparrowdove.com/2011/11/mush...

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

There’s no smoking-gun “show schoolgirls to older men” code, Meta just creates systems that target certain metrics In this case, I suspect it’s a combination of similar-age parents Liking back-to-school pics, & some blokes tending to click/linger more on pics of young women/girls

You want slaves

I think being "allowed" to draw random little pictures and spend time and effort on them for no reason other than my son demanded them is maybe one of my favourite parenting bonuses. Lately he's discovered Homura Ham's hamster adventure videos.

I do get that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and conservatives often say they want to ban porn when they actually want to ban queer content, but you just cannot make mainstream porn producers your fellow travellers if you're a feminist and/or on the left, they're really, really not our people

Apparently there's a pretty funny story here, in that the letter wasn't really meant to be held for 90 years. They did a big televised opening, only to find much of it was out-of-date platitudes and written in handwriting even the experts struggled to read www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

Great news for anyone with a mortgage - speeding is now legal www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2547960...