Tony Blair has been hoisted from his burrow and presented to the crowd. Legend has it that if Tony Blair sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of an illegal war in the Middle East

Squished into a story about the Cerne Abbas Giant but did the BBC just admit that a) climate change exists and b) is man made? It's usually reluctant to engage.

1,000 people take a little because without it they'd die. 1 person takes a lot and swans around in a private jet and it's the 1,000 we blame? No. It's madness.

Why would anyone WANT to be one of them when it means, immediately, looking down on everyone else you know. They're not better than us. They're certainly worse. Far worse than the vast majority of immigrants, disabled and trans people. They don't deserve our jealousy. Let's do something different.

Why can't we all just look beyond our noses for once? See that it is *always* the people with power who are down to milk us for all that we're worth? That they rely on our jealousy, our assumptions that we could be one of them if only circumstances were right. But I don't WANT to be one of them.

I know that during economic hardship people tend to lose curiosity and look for scapegoats but why do people fall for it, every single time? It's not the immigrants, or the disabled people, or the trans people. It never has been. They don't have the power to rob you on the scale you're assuming.

Go on then. Lets talk genitalia since that's all you fuckers care about. Do you want people assaulted for having the wrong genitalia for the toilet they're in? Because that's going to happen. It's going to happen if they even 'look' wrong. It already does. You're all horrible people with tiny minds.

Yeah, sorry, I've had enough. The Greens should throw everything at that by-election. Body that milquetoast fucker.

So I moved house. Been trying to get things delivered but the postcode is tricksy and couriers seem to hate me. First bed delivery just drove off. Second one has delivered two of the same box. How do I adequately propitiate the Delivery Gods?!

Move to Islington. Really, viscerally know that Arsenal won the Thing. #noisy #yay

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Yes, I am at a very early appointment. Can you tell? :p

Also no-one knows what a flowchart is anymore?

Motion to rename 'holistic medicine' to 'hospice medicine' - without the access to painkillers. I'm so sick of grievously ill people thinking it will help them. It won't.

Am a science teacher but am increasingly focused on trying to get my students to READ more. Research shows the greatest predictor of success in school science is a child’s literacy. Without being able to read properly, without having an adequate vocabulary, children’s ability to flourish is limited.

The brazen hussies are at it again :( you what?!!

What is with these BBC titles? Why do they make it seem like this 'war' isn't Israel's entire fault? If only they just rolled over and surrendered, this could be over by now? Argh.

Really enjoyed the Homophobia episode of Betwixt The Sheets. Economic impact on prejudice not talked about enough.

Hmm. More or Less has annoyed me this week by getting fixated on cancer re: vape risk, while ignoring the seriousness of strokes and heart issues. And I'm not even affiliated anymore. Heart disease and stroke kill you just as sure as cancer does.

Lost count of how many times I've said this, but: It is possible, if not bleakly common, to have perfectly good mental health and functionality, and still be an absolutely awful person. "Being a thundering arsehole" is not, and never has been, a recognised diagnosis.

Don't say I didn't tell you so. #cassandra

Oh my god look at this shit. Participants estimate how often they eat certain foods. Researchers then convert this into portion sizes and macronutrient composition, then get to work minutely slicing and dicing the data looking for associations. You're three degrees away from meaningful data!

Jokes on you, I can't remember enough of anything I love to populate a top ten list off the top of my head. The second you ask I will forget I ever even watched a tv show or listened to a song

No. There is no reason on earth to stop protesting injustice in all its forms. Israelis & Jews worldwide protest what's happening to Palestine (and elsewhere) on the regular, and so should we. Why does a free democracy want to suppress protest?

Am an atheist, a humanist, and believe we have to make our own meaning and purpose in this one life. Teaching, for all its challenges, has always helped me with this. Not least because it is a job where we can really connect with other humans and help them flourish.

Wow. Of *course*. This is the distraction. Can't have us arming Ukraine and this is the thinly veiled excuse.

I'm moving to my own place! Yay! I shall be a resident of the Ton of Isling, my third London borough (Hackney & Haringey being the other two). A year to think about how this disabled girl gets to go live by the sea somewhere, someday.

Was I just born at the wrong time or something? I don't get Michael Jackson at all. Not doubting the quality of his music and his awful childhood trauma, and I know he was extremely formative for many, but there is such a high chance he was a paedophile, and even if not he did so many stupid things?

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Reading the Kezia Dugdale non-apology. I am so confused. If you have this squeaky clean record of trans inclusion, why would you endorse JKR? And why singularly fail to answer for this enthusiastic endorsement? Not good enough, @stonewalluk.bsky.social

Okay, that goes someway to alleviating my fears about the new guy. Support for Ukraine was looking like one of the things he wouldn't move the needle on. But all good.

I know this was floated a few years ago, but it's time, right? Time to enact plan Truman Show on Donald Trump. Man can't distinguish AI from reality anyway, and there'd finally be a use for all this digital slop and data centre power that all humanity can agree on.

Okay, I don't get it at all & I feel like I've reached my personal limit of sensibleness? Surely a crater on the dark side of the moon can have as many names as you want, and someone's dead wife can be one of them. How about plurality instead of denialism, and we'll have our cake and eat it too.

Lately on insta, a person was convinced London was more unsafe now than 20 years ago. But wouldn't accept current data, or historical data from 20 years ago, or before that, or comparisons with similar places. Not interested. People are going by vibes. Just vibes. I don't know how to fight that.

Pleased for Hungary, but I'm holding back from any jubilation just yet. A former member of the same party who has held the same views and been complicit in some horrors? His election platform + working with the EU are in his favour but it's going to be a while before I know anything has changed.

I'm still mad, but I did need that cry.

Which one of you assholes forgot to tell me they incorporated parts of Challenger and Columbia into the Artemis II? Whoever it was is solely responsible for my current emotional breakdown. Damn, space people. Why'd you do this to me? I hate you. I love you.

It's been 66 days since agents killed Alex Pretti. DHS has body-cam footage. They haven't released it. 66 days and counting. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I... don't know how much more heartbroken I can get.

*blinks* first experience with Meta ad support. As a first-time user with an ad spend of... £20, I didn't expect much. Slow, many hops between AI and (alleged) humans - but warm, solicitous, no creepy AI fawning. Either the AI training is working or they need to be training the AI with these folks.

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Hex's teddy bear...

I have hiccups. What *absolute numpty* is responsible for that caveat in the NHS advice?!

Blueberry muffins, anyone? (Honestly just excited to have managed baking!)

Shock! Mounjaro works as intended for insulin resistance. My HBA1C score has been between 82 and 70 (very bad) for at least a year straight on badly managed meds and low insulin. Four months ago we double whammied on high insulin and mounjaro. Today it is 49. Near normal. No weight loss. Get in!

Not now, symbolism.

I've counted the books Amazon stole from me when they accidentally deleted the wrong account and refused to restore it. I've been purchasing kindle books from them since at least 2013. 264. Averaging about £5 per book, that's over £1,300 they nicked. No wonder I'm still mad!

I've not known such casual language from the BBC in years! How entertaining. 'Ballet sceptic' and 'veering all over the place like a broken shopping trolley'? Unprecedented! Now if only they'd form a moral opinion in any of their other journalism.

Well. Now I remember how frustrating CSS is. Why do you make a thing grey on mobile, when it is white everywhere else? Why do none of the emulators show it, but my phone, where I can't use devtools, does? Zero sense.

“That day, she was amazed to discover that when he was saying ‘As you wish', what he meant was, 'As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed'."