That last line hit me like a punch to the gut. We are what we allow. What do we do now?

The best smoke I ever had By me, Dec 2025

Stop. Hen harriers are close to functionally extinct in England, because driven grouse shooting estates ruthlessly exterminate them because they predate the red grouse that toffs and traders will pay £35k a day to mow down with shotguns. Carry on.

😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW7_...

🚨Now closing on 83,000 signatures! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party is getting so close to the 100,000 needed. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

unmissable - ranging from mid-terms, to ai to N Korea and Belarus, nothing can beat intelligent questioning and response imv

Let's not blow this out of proportion. It was just an admin error. Two admin errors. A few admin errors. Seventeen admin errors worth £380,000.

the January jackdaws are back, squabbling on the rooftops

the best thing I've ever read on the subject of the ai-bubble, long, but funny and accessible and incontrovertible do read www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

For Roxanne: On Fentanyl and the Mitigation Steps Everyone Can Take. substack.com/@timshorrock...

Supermarket daffs ftw

finished The Studio - put me in mind of W1A - like - aren't we just awful, but at least we can laugh at ourselves

Bueno Estenté. Ethethetheth Roberto Jenocide— Elácrimos UK Politico y “Mounjaro Mussolini”, es defecto a UNINFORMEDUK, mes no es surpriso. El populari dit a ‘El Mickimouse Muderista’ “GORN!! Fuck off with the rest of the Nazis, you crook” Ethethethe ethetheth MUCHO COMICO!! Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

don't want to jump any guns, but there's the beginnings of a dawn chorus in the darkness here

House search this morning, with a friend of the deceased. At the end he produced a wallet sized piece of card with phone numbers on and said “after all this, I’ve written my stuff down” Love it when people learn that, and enact it. For more lessons, I'm on pre-order uk.bookshop.org/p/books/get-...

Just cut these labels out of a single pair of knickers- I dunno - seems excessive

4.30pm and havent even put the big light on yet!

on prime atm

how lovely is this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcuE...

In Wales, one of the experts I interviewed told me that there are plenty of Welsh people who define Welshness as *not right-wing*. Remember that this part of the U.K. was dominated by the Liberals throughout the 19th century, and then by Labour during the 20th.

Absolutely extraordinary - and hugely welcome: a great archive collection of Ibsen productions and docs coming to BBC Four and iPlayer; the earliest is the 1953 (!) Lady from the Sea with Irene Worth and Robert Harris, produced by Harold Clayton. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

amen

1/2 New to protesting? To the advice from NAACP.org I add Eat a decent meal before you go Drink water throughout Wear comfortable shoes you can run in, double knot if laced Someone offsite needs to know where you will be, your full legal name & DOB, emergency contacts in case of arrest or injury

Not only is this the best episode of @500songspodcast.bsky.social I've heard, it's probably the best music podcast I've heard by anybody

The Nickel Boys. Outstanding.

This is very important and very moving. Shahmir’s story cuts to the very heart of our current, ongoing malaise. (It also chronicles the tragic collapse of BBC credibility.) He is an incredibly brave man.

Without doubt, an essential poem for this time of year. • Louise Glück •

JustGiving makes 54% profit by automatically adding a ‘tip’ to every gift bit.ly/4jy7V59 as I have often reported here. You can set the ‘tip’ to zero but it’s a bit fiddly. It also keeps some of the gift aid and charges a fee to the charity. Best to give direct to charity

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

timeline cleanse: i want to hear about the most useless kitchen items you have ever owned. let me kick things off with -the mushroom brush (as in, for brushing mushrooms) -the sausage guillotine someone gave me

James Acaster is 41. I’m surprised Ricky Gervais ever showed his face again after this. youtube.com/shorts/2eN5P...

The peace monks continue to walk... for all of us. As they walk, I feel we must act.. through our courts, through our solidarity, through our votes, and through our protests.

wonderful www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

utterly wonderful radio www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

just had a password memory fail almost worthy of One Battle after Another

Here's an oldie from The Oldie for #nationalbirdday #bird #cartoon

finally saw One Battle after Another - perfect 12th Night movie

A blessing from John O'Donohue ✨️

pragmatic, fascinating, unmissable, as per podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

now playing just gorgeous

new marmite colour vs old

the colour of marmite has changed, I'm not joking

hallelujah for heated throws