I thoroughly recommend this book!

Gavin Newsom: “Masked men. Jumping out of unmarked vehicles. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. No accountability. People say I’m being hyperbolic. Bullshit. This is happening in America today.”

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Another viciously anti-LGBTQ Republican resigns in scandal of sex abuse. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Ukrainian drones hitting Volgograd and Saratov oblasts and occupied Crimea. #explodey

BREAKING: DOJ sues six states (California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania) for refusing to hand over private voter data. Story TK.

It’s cool they’re bragging about marble floors while we are struggling to afford food.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949) 🎬🖤

What's all this about Nigel Farage eating swans?

Fiona Bruce, trailing Question Time, calls Billy Bragg a protest singer. And there was I thinking most of his songs weren't protest songs. Despite FB and her awful presenting and dismissal of BB because he's not right wing, I might actually watch tonight...

I think a lot of people jumped on the MAHA train early because "healthier" sounds good, without really knowing what it means, only to find out pretty quickly that this guy wants children to die

This is just to say I have eaten the swans that were in the duck pond and which you were probably saving for the King Forgive me they were delicious so white and so necky

"An official at the agency told the BBC that women were 'disproportionately affected by gender-based violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking'." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 Russian authorities are now inspecting schoolchildren’s phones on Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by Russia to cut them off from independent information. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

If only we’d known in 2015 that we could just turn off the escalator.

What appears to be happening is as faith in institutions collapsed the outgroup (basically non-MAGA coalition folks) are going to turn to their own disordered discourse, and then democracy will be well and truly dead in the US

I love London so much. BBC couldn't find any person on the street who would agree with Trump's racist remarks. Everyone said how much they value London's multiculturism and were proud of how we all live together side by side. London not falling for the shite 🥳[party emoji]

How can a speech from 63+ years ago be more dignified, forward thinking, more open minded, more inclusive, more sensible, more inspiring and more hopeful than the diatribe Trump vomited yesterday? youtu.be/cgPCvuM-_C8?...

Claudia Cardinale, the muse of Italian cinema, has died aged 87

"And that is why I love Britain...the pubs and the Branston Pickle and country churchyards and a great deal else, but mostly because you still have a public service that is capable of genuine humanity and doesn't act as if it loathes you." Bill Bryson, 1998. Not sure he'd still say that now

They tell you that change is impossible, because they need you to stay quiet. Today, 250,000 people have signed the Polluters Pay Pact. 250,000 people saying that Big Oil corporations - not ordinary people - must pay for the damage of global warming.

I don't care how much better the aesthetic is when shampoo, conditioner and shower gel bottles match. They need to be different shapes so that visually impaired people can differentiate. People who usually wear eyeglasses or contact lenses don't wear them in the shower.

Ben & Jerry’s without Jerry. Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of the iconic ice cream brand, resigned after he claimed the company had been “silenced” on issues like Gaza. Listen to today's Sensemaker wherever you get your podcasts to discover more: lnk.to/iRcE5rBS

Madeleine Carroll in a publicity still for On the Avenue (1937)

Can't sleep and was catching Airplane Pokemon (aka Skycards) and what is the Russian Special Flight Squadron doing going from NYC to DC at 1:15AM? 👀 It wasn't in NYC for the UN General Assembly b/c it landed from Iceland at 9PM. Weird!

Beware, cough syrup robs children of a sense of humour. Don't give your child cough medicine

The extinction continues

A Dunnock appears in your path! I fear you must compliment it before you can pass... 📷 @jl-photography.bsky.social

Didn't get raptured? Maybe you shouldn't have been going around saying the Mary Rose sank on her maiden voyage...

As I was saying…

De Niro: "I gotta go. A couple cases of Tylenol fell off a truck and now I gotta figure out how to put autism in them."

Four pairs of dividers were found on the Mary Rose. Made of brass, the pilot would have used them to plot courses and distances on navigational charts. We didn’t find any maps or charts on the Mary Rose though - paper doesn't last long in the sea!

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

Autumn skies fill with honking Pink-footed Geese - kicking off our #AutumnArrivalSpotlight series! 🍂 As they return from Iceland and Greenland to grace our wetlands, who’s spotted their signature V-formation?

Kimmel is so unfunny I sometimes hunt down his monologues online from the UK

The barrier lake, formed by landslides triggered by earlier heavy rain in the island's sparsely populated east, burst its banks to send a wall of water into Guangfu, as heavy rain continued on and off in Hualien www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23. A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

Sheet Music For Cats And Their Lovers : Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie, 1868 flashbak.com/moritz-von-s...

My Girl youtu.be/Pw-8AGRcyvk?...

At enormous expense you throw the royal kitchen sink at Donald Trump… and in less than a week he shits all over you at the UN. He’s a law unto himself… and he’s played us royally.

Whatever number of deaths they are reporting, you can be sure the actual number is far, far higher.

They deleted the first post and replaced it with this one in order to "add more specific context" - it's still bootlicking and it's still terrible. Ratio away, folks.

Robert Redford bought the rights to Woodward and Bernstein’s book in 1974 for $450,000 with the notion to adapt it into a film. Check out this retrospective on All the Presidents Men by our good friend @lyndonmytton.bsky.social #filmsky #moviesky #cinema moremovies.co.uk/all-the-pres...

Dictator placaters!

All bears are antifa

Ironically, America is needing a Tylenol about now.

Jaws (1975)(Rewatch). I'd always thought as a child that Roy Scheider looks like a shark in this movie. I still think that. I saw the shooting stars/comets, which I'd never noticed before and found out they are a thing! Still love it as much as I did when I saw it on TV when I was 8! #FilmSky

I mean wild even for him