The UK's bewildering exercise is self harm continues...although now, even more perplexingly, the level of harm is being quantified 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Productive rainy afternoon. Gin sorted. Hic 😋

Another visit to the owl box by Terri the tawny 🦉 #owls #nature #wildlife #birds

I'm obviously not Bakeoff material, but what these mincemeat twists lack in looks, they make up in taste 😋

Brilliant pulling apart of a BS budget sob story in the gutter rag Telegraph

OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity

Dog in fog #DogsOfBluesky #Labradors #winter #frost #sunrise #fog

Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people. If only there were a word for such a party.

Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.

Looks nice, but... 👀🫣🤣

Wonderful early start to the Christmas season with an excellent production of Sleeping Beauty at @belgradetheatre.bsky.social in #Coventry. Brilliant fun. I hope the set recovers by tomorrow 🫣🤣

How can the arts help our young people? 🎨🎭 1 in 4 youths in the UK report mental health difficulties by age 19. Research finds that engaging in artistic activities leads to an increase in youth wellbeing, a mood boost equivalent to an unemployed adult moving into work. pbe.co.uk/publications...

Third visit to the owl box by Terri the tawny owl in 10 days, each time dropping off its catch just before dawn and picking it up again just after dusk. One well fed owl and one less ratty... #wildlife #owls #tawnyowl #birds #nature

Fight! 🐿️👀 #NotAnOwl part 38b

London Mayor Sadiq Khan on why the Far Right lie about London crime: “They don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed because they can’t stomach the truth. London is a place where people of every creed, colour and culture live together in peace and mutual respect.”

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

Today's weather summary in one pic 👀🫣

Lovely morning walk ☺️

Mowing leaves is quite satisfying. Just as well given how many are still on the oak 🫣😅

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

Beautiful walk in the early sun. Loads of wildlife: 2 roe deer and a further 4 later on, a couple of pheasant, yellowhammers, a buzzard and a kestrel. Tawny owl visited the nest box again yesterday too, dropping off its breakfast at 0630, picking it up again at 1730 #wildlife #nature #owl #itsanowl

One in twenty Reform councillors elected in May 2025 has left by the Autumn - half expelled/suspended - a quarter resigned from council - some defected An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

So that's another rights of passage ticked off: WorkerSprog has had his first IKEA furniture delivery. Even with the extra hour in bed, I don't think he was quite so excited when it arrived at 07:02 this morning 👀🫣🤣

Suffice to say that Bear is not a fan of fireworks (also, he's not allowed on the sofa 🫣)

@franglaise.bsky.social 👀

Well this was a rather lovely start to the day, complete with the delightful sounds of skylarks in the surrounding fields

Well this was a rather lovely start to the day, complete with the delightful sounds of skylarks in the surrounding fields

It is sometimes hard to grasp the full consequences of what someone said aloud. We can argue about immigration policy, who can come or not come to the UK all we like. But this is wholly different - people who came to the UK legally, through the laws at the time and settled here, must “go home”. /1

The more I think about her actual words, and how appallingly under-reported/understood they still seem to be, the more shocked & disgusted I am.

51st blood donation in the bag 🚑😊

Proof of sun. I don't think it'll be for long though... 🌧️🫣

This. Plus, the mind bogglingly huge energy, water and resources (physical and intellectual) that are being used in their approach.

Lovely, relaxing long weekend exploring a bit of S Devon. Bear had an absolute blast and turns out to be a strong swimmer (he's always ignored fresh water and mostly run around enthusiastically at the sea's edge 'till now)

Requiring immigrants to have a standard of English far higher than the vast majority of the population is utterly insane. The country has taken leave of its senses www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's a sure sign that autumn is upon us when the Acer is almost glowing. The leaves will all be gone within 2 weeks #autumn #autumncolours #acer

Bear has a new fav toy. So much fun with a frisbee 🐕 #Dogs #ChocolateLabradors #Labradors

A delightful thread for a Sunday morning #wildlife #owls. Fantastic work @folklorewales.com

@documental.ly interesting episode just aired on creatine www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Good thread countering the many arguments put forward against universal ID

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public. Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

Maybe today is actually the day of the raptor? 🦅

Considering this should have been drunk sometime between 2007 and 2012, this Cahors is still remarkably good!

Saw a lone dog walking out of the woods opposite us and cross the busy road. No owner in sight. Grabbed a lead and a pocketful of dog treats and headed out, quickly joining 3 others who were also trying to save it.... 1/2

This. We must continue to call it out, fight back against it and ridicule those perpetrating it as ridicule is what hurts them most

One of my favourite walks, powered this morning by a freshly baked and still warm croissant

Sent a card first class for workersprog's first day at work. It took 10 days to arrive. #RoyalMail is a shambles 😳🤦‍♂️

Excellent 🤣