Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.

It's important to love things, especially old forgotten things which were originally made to be loved.

The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users. #EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct

I know I say this an awful lot on the podcast but please, please, please email your MP before this atrocious, anti-trans guidance is laid in front of parliament.

Please do a good deed for a trans person in your life today. We're all so tired.

Data indicates that dogs are considerably MORE likely to eat their owners after they die than cats are. I like to periodically remind people of this

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review. I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible. For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...

The very colourful rood screen at the Church of All Saints in Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, has some unusual decoration…it was re-painted in 1935 by Henry Bird, who happened to be a lepidopterist and incorporated hundreds of butterflies into his design!

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy discovery while searching for teaching materials for early medieval Bible week: the Stockholm Codex Aureus is online and freely downloadable as a very high-res PDF from the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/urn-... #medievalsky #paleography #bookhistory

sorry (again) but i am boosting this (again) because i am going to have a check in the box tomorrow (i cannot delay any longer than that) and it is probably gonna come out monday or tuesday and when it does it needs to clear. please please help if you can; i need to keep us housed until i'm working

"Protests Are Highly Effective, Met Police Confirm"

Comic

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

A startling shot of colour in an increasingly brown woodland. 🍄 #FungiFriends #UKFungusDay

Look what we have here then.

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The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

Composition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky, 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137438

Who's your favourite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

Here, on the occasion of #InternationalTranslationDay, MS Reykjavík, GkS 1812 IV, 4°, fol. 34v with Arabic star names in Latinised form and Old Icelandic translation. The glossary is the oldest Scandinavian source containing Arabic terms. #medievalsky #histsci handrit.is/manuscript/v...

Relatable

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

🧵(1) The Porphyrian Tree is a logic diagram used to explain Aristotle's "Categories," as outlined in Porphyry's commentary the "Isagoge.” The tree progressively subdivides “Being” into genera and species, ultimately reaching “Man,” with the names of individual people at the roots.

29th September 2025 07.05

Heron and cormorant in this morning’s London fog

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Time is running out on this, the time to act is now. The draft code of practice will become official guidance if we do not pressure MPs to speak up. If you haven't already please email your MP. Everyone please share this.

Putting aside how the UK government usually responds to these petitions by simply saying 'no', seeing this hit a million signatures in like a day kinda shows how much people REALLY do not want this. So yeah, keep signing it. Let's see how high this can go! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Today is the day John Chrysostom is celebrated in the Roman Martyrology, which gives us a chance to look at some Greek manuscripts. 🕯️🧵 Bodleian Library MS. Barocci 242 is a copy of Chrysostom's homilies on Genesis from the second half of the 10th c. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/f49c...

Porcelain fungus (Oudemansiella mucida) looking lovey in a New Forest Beech wood today #fungi #NewForest #fungifriends

Eddie the tortoise got in the house again, you say? No, I don’t think so. There’s no tortoise here. Just a rug with fanciful koi printed on it. 🐢

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

Booklist for the 10th century library at Bobbio. Among the various categories: "Books We Have But Can't Find" (de libris quos non reperimus sed habemus)

11th September 2025 19.19

We are cutting through, guys! Please do write to your MP & if you’ve already done so, please find someone else to write too 🤣 Full details of the campaign here: transactual.org.uk/blog/2025/09... And we’ve made it easy with a template letter for constituents here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Really fucking resent being called upon to humanise someone thoroughly rotten by people who dehumanise the most blameless and vulnerable people on the planet daily

This is nuts. He’s not a statesman. They don’t make a statement every time a civilian is murdered in a foreign country. They’re commenting because he was an ultra right wing bigot and they’re scrambling to look like they condone that

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Nebuchadnezzar casting the three holy children into the fire; and an icon is hung from a hook. BL Add MS 19352; 1066; Theodore Psalter; Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople); f.202r

Theodore Psalter showing iconoclasts in action destroying an icon BL Add MS 19352; Theodore Psalter; 1066; Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople); f.27v

We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities. Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically. Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏

Presently enjoying how Aldershot, Alderley and Aldermaston all have completely unrelated Old English etymologies.

Fuut (Great Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus) @ Provinciedomein Kessel-Lo #birds #provinciedomeinkessello

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