I’m not sure this is something to be proud of… I wonder how many are for ripping off other people’s designs?

I love hedgehogs! I’ve only ever met two in the UK that weren’t flattened to a road. One in Cornwall, one in Powys, both in roads and both shoved in a hedge to keep them safe. @protect.earth will keep planting hedgerows all over the U.K. so I can meet one hanging out in there. Fat, happy, and safe.

Post your warning sign

£3.10 for a 500ml bottle of coke at Sainsburys local - more expensive than WH Smith!!!!

Oh god no. Tesla have announced they’re “pivoting” to AI robots. Having not managed to kill enough people with their cars, they’re going full on to build a terminator aren’t they?

Apparently government borrowing is down £20bn this year. We could have built HS2 to Manchester and still be down £15bn.

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

@emilykerr36.bsky.social Hi Emily, were you asking a few ads ago about LA’s planning new bus routes? sorry if I’ve misunderstood but TfGM’s Bee Network is undergoing changes and there’s a committee meeting on this topic tomorrow (art. 6) democracy.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/documents/g5...

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To be fair the policy of not chasing the polls has been a complete success

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Matt Badloser and Roddy from flushed away.

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist (Oh I’m so F*cked…)

Four fictional characters who would definitely defect to Reform

New UKIP logo not hiding they’re more than a bit Fascist (taken from Electoral Commission website) www.electoralcommission.org.uk/political-re...

@kientan74.bsky.social so Aldi sales this Christmas are up 3%, while their store numbers are up 40 to 1081 (so up nearly 4%) no wonder they don’t release LFL figures… www.theguardian.com/business/202...

In your view, what changes are needed to improve rail travel? 2026 will be a huge year for the railways, with major reforms happening. It's vital that passengers' voices are heard, so please fill in our survey:

Jfc we are only 3 days into 2026.

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

I’m not so sure it’s my word for 2026 but its probably what I’m having for tea:

I once accidentally trod on Aleks Krotoski’s toes in a nightclub

To placate Trump I think the BBC should offer him a staring roll in a top BBC show*, star billing, writing credits, merchandise royalties, the lot. He’d love that. *Mrs Brown’s Boys

The Liberal Democrats won 106 Council By-Elections in 2025, more than any other party #ByElectionsWrapped 1) LDM 106 2) RFM 104 3) CON 45 4) LAB 36 5) GRN 24

Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO, warned yesterday that Europe faces war with Russia. Yesterday, wind produced 60% of British electricity. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce makes us more secure. That’s why our enemies fund anti-renewables propaganda.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

@showmeasign.online has someone ordered the wrong size sign?

I guess we will be seeing a lot of stories like this making us think migrants are bad and we need ID cards… “BBC finds” my arse.

Make up your mind Stockport!

what the fuck

A great YouTube video about Manchester’s resurgence: youtu.be/VPkLUOfugjo

@kientan74.bsky.social The new Co-Op ‘to go’ while nicely done isn’t very surprising, very much their standard FTG offering, a Costa machine and small bake-off operation. They’ve picked a tough market with lots of good indies, a Greggs, a good M+S and even a large Tesco all within walking distance

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s... Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

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Nigel Farage claim: "We are not the world's food bank, it is not for us to provide welfare to people coming in from all over the world" Reality: The average migrant on the Skilled Worker visa had a net fiscal impact of +£16,300 in 2022/23. In contrast, the average UK-born adult had about +£800

Oh dear, apparently dimly lit canal tow paths are good infrastructure

Please use alt text folks; especially large accounts, those for organisations and those with influence in large organisations.

New graffiti in Norwich. Not quite sure what Ross Kemp did to deserve that.

How is this not a massive trip hazard?

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

Glitch in the Matrix?

Not intended to last that long… already falling apart!

Can the @manchestereveningnews.co.uk bother to fact check its photos? On the left is a random building labelled “Centenary Building” in the MEN website, on the right the actual building…

At last, a sport I might be good at..

Goon,

Woo hoo my favourite is back