Allons enfants &c

Some kind of footballbgame going on rn?

De Anne Widdecombe nil.

UK politics >> US politics rn

I'm not sure that Farage is a suitable person to hold the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead. There should be an investigation by the Standards and Privileges Committee and the Honours and Appointments Secretariat. We don't want a repetition of Lord Chelsea in 1842.

Grateful to @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social for livetweeting the replay of ENG-MEX so I dont have to get up and watch it.

You have milked your last neutral hotel.

Oh, so he's a front-runner now is he. Interesting given that before he proposed cutting welfare to fund the armed forces, he was polling at about 1 percent.

Why has my ‘following’ timeline suddenly gone algorithmic and what can I do to make it stop being like that?

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs

They do not want to be Irish. Irish is one thing that they specifically do not want to be.

Underwater croquet y/n?

‘Whalefall community supercorridor’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Feels odd to be stuck in one of the timelines where Antony Head didnt get to play Dr. Who. Wonder what else is screwy around here.

Mutfak butlan.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

You can’t make a lobster sandwich by putting a live lobster between two slices of bread and then boiling the whole thing #CookingTips

The problem with ships in bottles as a mass hobby is that people don't really know how they get into it. I'll see myself out.

Does anyone know whether the pipe-organ maintenance firm Tarquin Wiggins Ltd has gone out of business?

Read these books - they're good!

I AM DEAD (of course)

Fact: there is no amount of pot-pourri that is the right amount for a single gentleman's bedchamber.

Hot take: if you work in a discipline where multiple co-authorship is uncommon and people typically don’t publish on arXiv, then you probably don’t have anything insightful to say about what the norms are or should be for those disciplines.

FAO @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social

Ed Miliband, ed microband, ed nanoband, ed picoband, ed femtoband, ed attoband #systematicallydiminishapolitician

Labour leadership hopeful emerges from messed up drain trial (3,6).

What is an anagram of SEE WET STRING?

Kids these days just dont know how to make things last.

I reckon that Bridget Phillipson is going to be the next Labour leader. I don't think this will improve their fortunes.

The case for Miliband. Unanswerable, imho.

LRT: Labour MP congratulating, and promising to work with, local Reform councillors.

Has anyone ever considered feeding cats? Just a suggestion.

AAAAAH

Haven’t seen much about this from philosophers on social media yet, which is unusual - the BPA normally manages to mobilize pretty quickly in cases like this.

In the UK we celebrate May 4th on April 5th.

Was considering posting about the protagonist of ‘Bladerunner’ and then Caligula appointing Incitatus to the senate, but realized this would be putting Deckard before the horse.

I'm sure there were more goths around in Leeds in 1982 but you get the general idea

(Waves at @dotless-i.bsky.social)

8 hours for work; 8 hours for sleep; 8 hours for WTF.

Fa-la-la-la &c.

He indicts sea shells on the sea shore #pedantry

O industries lost to culture war, O foreigner's glance, How can we know the banter from the Bance?

Today is Ed Balls Day.

Happy Wollstonecraft Day to all who craft Wollstones.

👀

This story just keeps going: Giant octopuses of the Cretaceous were probably the top ocean predators of their day. They were up to 19 meters (60 feet) long, snacked on plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, and were probably quite intelligent. Sorry we missed you! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Without leaving the richly varied world of local newspapers, it’s also the 13th anniversary of this unimprovable headline

Starmer blames 'poor meteorogical conditions' in urinary limb- moistening controversy.

‘Maybe a little bit of pot-pourri as a special treat’