Welcome, post-herpetic neuralgia, my old friend. It’s shit to talk with you again. 🔥🔥

This has been one of the grimmest local election campaigns I can remember, with a reasonable chance some of the grimmer candidates won’t be unearthed till after polling day https www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

New reporting exposes the Trump airport grift in Palm Beach. According to the Miami Herald, the deal to rename Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump is packed with perks for Trump’s business. Under the tentative agreement, airport stores would be forced to buy branded merchandise only

Now May is here, it’s time to pause the seed and peanut feeders and switch to safer summer feeding with small amounts of mealworms or suet. Remember, feeders can spread disease, so keeping them clean matters. Click the link below for our full guidance on keeping garden birds healthy year round 👇

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

It’s so chilly I’ve defrosted the last of the Caribbean oxtail w butter beans, rice and peas.

Going to boost this again. Honestly professionally this market is deeply underserved for parents and adults struggling with food textures Hospitality is about having a plate and space for EVERYONE. Food should be a comfort love those doing the work to help others achieve that

This is demented

As well as being chock-full of useful information and making a serious point about the state of media in Britain, the writer of this thread is very funny! Please read to the end.

So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

because “eating ice cream while watching bad TV” doesn’t actually make you feel more resilient when things are terrible, here’s everything I know about how to actually feel more OK in shit times open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

wish I'd done more fucking around prior to this miserable eternity of finding out

Lyanne Nicholl, CEO of 50:50 Parliament: “Men continue to dominate both locally and nationally, and without proper representation women’s views will once again be sidelined. “This isn’t about political point scoring, this is about women’s representation and how that has benefits for everyone.”

Smoked salmon sandwiches with lemon butter and black pepper; tartlets with whole strawberries or blackberries on Vermont creme fraiche; Gaston Chiquet champagne. Was meant to be Valborg-style morning picnic but it's pouring rain, so must punt.

What are you all cooking for Beltane then? I’m doing - in suddenly disappointing 17c cloud - strawberries; asparagus; Cheshire new potatoes w butter and salt and dill; dressed crab and winey mussels; sourdough; buffalo mozzarella tomato salad; burrata; much wine and a fire pit w marshmallows

Question: there’s some discourse around the fact that the Merlin app (love) is taking away our ability to identify common bird species. But I had a thought: I personally really struggle to recognise non-verbal music, by which I mean classical, or jazz, or any instrumental./1

I win at Merlin today.

I feel like we are all channeling Christina Koch right now.

Happy 4th birthday to this idiot who has joyfully woken me up at 4am for a cuddle and 6:15 to go out…

Happy Beltane!

Took the 10yo out of school* and we went to the lake today. He learned to SUP (nailed it) and I had my first swim of the year. (* some serious harassment-style shit going down and today we could not face another day of it, so a sickie was thrown).

My friend keeps trying to sign up for the Olivia EU presale, and it just takes her to Ticketmaster now. Does anyone have the link directly to the registration?

I dunno, is a ballroom the same thing and is it wrong to hope for it?

Happy "Hitler Killed Himself in a Bunker Day" to those who celebrate.

The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.

I had no interest in the United Soybean Board until this small dick move by a bunch of risible misogynists

Danny Kruger MP - who defected from the Tories to Reform UK - has made some controversial comments about what he calls the "normative family.” We wanted to hear from his constituents what they think.

From today, no one in England and Wales will be criminalised for ending their own pregnancy

this is an absolutely extraordinary scoop by Guardian: Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, the Guardian can reveal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Very telling from the birdfood industry. Despite new RSPB/BTO advice on birdfeeding based on a solid scientific review, and RSPB taking a ££ hit themselves, EVERY major birdfood company is attacking/rejecting the guidance, claiming to know better, putting their incomes over conservation. Shameful.

In news that absolutely everyone predicted…

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

An expert opinion that the scam reported by the BBC wouldn’t work, and so was a scam on applicants not the system, seems like important context

Happy high infidelity day!!! 💙

Friends, if you’re taking sertraline, check the batch number as there is a recall out and you may have ended up with a mislabelled lower dose of citalopram. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Jesus. Christ.

this is one of the best gifs of all time

I thought prices went up because of a supply squeeze? That prices were higher because there was less to sell, meaning that total profits simply shouldn't go up? Unless... 🤔

Our farm is simply exploding with diverse wildflowers and butterflies at the moment, like this holly blue on bluebell. And there's *so* much birdsong. Rewilding doesn't just bring back the wild. It re-floods our own lives with intoxicating natural colour and sound.

PSA: THE BATS ARE BACK!!! 🦇🦇🙌🙌🙌

Why don’t they just encase President Trump in 7-inch thick glass and wheel him around to events.

if you really think about it, there's no problem we face that can't be solved by a new White House ballroom

I've lost count of the number of people who have said to me, "I just want Alex to read me a bedtime story". Well, now he is... And I for one am diving STRAIGHT in.

Trump just fired the entire National Science Board. The members will be replaced with the most malignant anti-science shitbirds imaginable. I thought science wasn’t supposed to be political, right?

Any of my bakers (or simply are already garlic bread experts) able to help Mary, here?

This looks like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.