thats a LONG tournament

Tuxlith! What a fantastic place name

Unions are bad on climate change. They just are, because we don’t have unions for people working on renewables and environmental progress yet, but we do have very entrenched and old-fashioned unions representing people in deeply polluting sectors. Join your union but tell them to ram it on climate.

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

Someone send me this in the colder months

Duvets are obsolete now 🥵🌡️. We're sheets people. 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Hermaphrodite, c1700s, from the @soanemuseum.bsky.social 😁

Norway fans at WC 2026 a 🧵 An aerial view of Norway’s incredible “Viking Row”

Hydration break. 📸NMS

BBC News: Even the King was feeling the heat today… Yes?! He’s a human man!

EDM 240, to reject the EHRC’s harmful guidance, is now at 153 signatures after the minister’s appearance before the Women and Equalities Committee defending it edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Just want to let you know there is a Keeping Up Appearances steam train experience.

honestly I don't trust people who don't make the noise of the animals they encounter on a walk. see a goose? honk honk mfer

Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment I present to you what might well be the most carefully compiled word search ever.

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

this can also be expressed as africa ——— korea

Anyway, if you're in the UK and you're questioned, challenged or stopped from using a single-sex space, whether you are trans or cis, TransActual wants to hear from you: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

Siri play LDN by Lily Allen

Instead of Prime Day, please support your local shops. Money spent locally goes back into the local economy, benefitting your community.

People, I am begging you, if you have air con in your flat please PUT IT ON YOUR DATING PROFILE.

you do not have to be Christian to go sit in an old ass church today. you do not need an explanation beyond ‘it’s hot, here I am’. I promise you it will not be weird

okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there

Moisturised (sweating), in her lane (seated on a train), flourishing (potentially getting home)

We just aren't generally conscious of AC - because it's set at a pleasant temperature - until it gets so hot that going to the supermarket to cool down becomes an inviting prospect. Whereas the US approach appears to be "wanna pretend it's winter? Hope you brought a sweater even tho its 35 out!"

Side note: I wonder if some of the European resistance to AC is down to having first CONSCIOUSLY encountered it on holiday in the US where the tendency is to have it set unpleasantly cold. Loads of European public or publicly accessible buildings have AC & nobody actually wants Tesco to rip it out

"thirty three but feels like forty one" also describes a significant part of bsky dot app's userbase

Brand marketing folk, I would urgently reconsider your use of 🔥in email subject lines in the current meteorological conditions

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

Horrifying if true

Lloyd’s of London has commissioned a requiem mass from Manchester-based composer David Önaçto to memorialise the lives of enslaved Africans, with a libretto drawn from the Catholic requiem mass, documents in Lloyd’s own archive, and eighteenth-century legal testimony.

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

I don’t know the details but they may well targeting modules with lower registration, where a world expert gets to teach their research to a relatively small number of the keenest students. You know. Those modules that stick in the students’ minds for the rest of their lives.

Other trains on Sodor moaning about the favouritism given to the express engines:

I wasn’t going to get a TV licence but now the BBC have put up a QR code on the football, I will now —literally nobody

if ten years of a post-brexit relationship between the uk and eu have taught me anything, it’s that the british need to TALK LOUDER AND SLOWER

This needs a skeet of its own. In Boston: ducks (and ducklings) got cones. :) #SCO

They're great!

there is a alarming contingent on here who seem about one more day away from calling their firstborn Andiburn

Why isn’t Wayne Rooney next to a chalkboard

The book is great, so I am very excited for this. I know I gave the details early doors - don't worry, we'll keep reminding you! Join the email list to receive the Zoom link: feministtheologynetwork.org. Any access needs, please get in touch and we will do our best.

Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

I’m launching an all-reflecting-pond-updates news service: Algae-zeera.

Of course there's been a lot of news over the past 36 hours but this podcast about the Jeffrey Donaldson verdict is a must listen pca.st/podcast/2ca2...

I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.

I know everyone's probably read this already, but I really do think it's good.

We have to address the elephant in Camp Remain: The racism that's not qualitatively different from Camp Leave's

Yikes man

SAY OOPS UPSIDE YOUR HEAD