Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif.

If you haven't seen this then you must. It's the law.

Children of Time by @aptshadow.bsky.social. 99p, can't recommend this enough. Unless you hate spiders I guess. Lots of spiders. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/chil...

Absolute perfection. #Reform

Learn more about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and meet lots of practitioners and researchers in the UK and Ireland www.linkedin.com/posts/acbs-u...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. I hope this email finds you well.

I want to strongly second this: these conferences always provide a great balance of new ideas, new skills, new collaborations & new friends. Well worth attending. .. bonus feature, I will be discussing the Meaning of Life!

You don't need to have read it to get the joke www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

🎵 High on a hill stood a moany boat turd 🎶

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Post a fictional comedian who definitely would accept an invitation to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

OK, this was great. "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of their colour of their skin… that people who lived here for generations, are our neighbours... if you say they should note be deported, we will fight you with everything we have."

cures for the void: a helpful guide

It’s like the Kardashians hooked up with the Squid Game, gave birth to a Sopranos reboot and we’re supposed to pretend it’s the West Wing.

Stranger Things gave us some particularly fine descriptive subtitles, like my favourite..

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Actor Harry H. Corbett visiting his childhood area, Ardwick, Manchester, early 1970s (Mirrorpix). He lived on Earl Street and later in Wythenshawe.

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

Peter Greenaway's Confessions of a Window Cleaner (would be worth it for the Philip Glass soundtrack alone)

Oh my god the payoff

This site has always been an incredible resource for anyone interested in ACT and related areas: can't wait to check out the redesign!

Starmer never learns, does he?

Because everything is shit I would like to report that I just chatted with Nile Rodgers while boarding a flight and he was extremely nice. So let us not lose hope. Also his trousers were amazing.

I have no breath left in my lungs 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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The power of metaphors: if you follow them through, sometimes they show you a possibility that the original situation (the "target" of the metaphor) didn't give you.

ACT was never meant to be static. In this workshop, I’ll walk you through its next chapter, and how you can apply it in your practice. Early bird tickets only available until August 15. Click here to learn more: stevenchayes.me/3S2eXlE

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

To everyone managing invisible chronic conditions: Your exhaustion from looking 'fine' is real. Your decision fatigue from constant symptom monitoring is valid. Your social energy running out faster is reasonable. You're doing more than people can see.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Last time I checked, no striking resident doctor had ever ripped the NHS off for £200m of unusable PPE

I mean... I can see that...

A remarkable scholar and teacher. She evoked both respect and a measure of fear in undergraduates and graduates alike back in the mid 80s

'The heart stops first' (potentially reversible cardiac arrest) vs 'everything is stopping, & the heart will stop last' (irreversible dying). How do we discuss this important difference with patients & families? Listen to cardiology, ICU & palliative care experts discuss via @theracp.bsky.social ⬇️

I mean, this is surely peak sci-fi (Children of Ruin by @aptshadow.bsky.social)

Listen to our latest Mini Series with Dr Anne Finucane and Dr David Gillanders and you'll find out more about their brilliant resource - mygriefmyway.co.uk - listen here or wherever you get your pods. rossmcintosh.co.uk/links/

Proms season again, innit. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.

The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.

I'm old enough to remember when the Prime Minister felt it was important to give us a running commentary of his thoughts on the entire Glastonbury lineup