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Bring back televised sheepdog trials

Not remotely the point but, jeans and sheux aren’t helping

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

[me in the kitchen] *makes a small thump noise* [my dogs in the living room] TO WAR WE GO

This is how you make people understand Shakespeare. I met Sir Ian once, he was every bit as lovely as you would hope.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

How have I never seen this before

The show I’m watching has a disclaimer at the start of every episode that says “this show contains strong and frequent language”. Call me some sort of professional word person but I’d have given that another draft.

Why are air fresheners always things like flowers or lemon and not the things I want to smell such as roast potatoes or bacon

That ad for Ladbrokes is also one of the maddest things I have seen, wtf

This looks good

A young friend recently said to me “what’s that film, East by Eastwest?”

1) Woolwich today, 9am, lobby of my building 2) Euston today, 6pm, concourse 3) Moorgate today, 6:20pm, tube platform

I’m in Birmingham listening to Black Sabbath which is correct and good

Fascinating slice of Birmingham music history Cc @jezcollins.bsky.social

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

Ask Jelly anything

‘Whoa Black Betty...’

I’m currently researching exactly this and it was extremely common. The context obviously when trying to get an unruly (frequent pattern is undiagnosed nd) child to pay attention or behave. So it’s “if you keep acting like that you won’t amount to anything” from a good teacher, more blunt from a bad

@dfedmpls.bsky.social my dear old friend! How ARE you?

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: NHS England warns of "emerging evidence" of harm across England by surgeons, as it launches new requirements and chief exec Sir Jim mackey tells hospitals to be "more curious" in the wake of @GreatOrmondSt scandal: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Do get me started

Always lovely when a recommendation pays off. My current ‘tell everyone’ is Stephen King’s The Long Walk which I read ahead of seeing the film and hoo boy is it timely.

I am willing to bet women are driving this. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been next in the bar crush and ignored in favour of a man (taller, pushier). I used to be a barmaid so know how the job should be done and bar staff stopped doing ‘eye contact and nod’ acknowledgement years ago.

My Wogan story - It was my first day of work at BBC Broadcasting House, I was 19 & quite nervous. I passed Wogan on the stairs & he gave me a cherry "Morning" Later that week he stopped me & asked how I was getting on, which was lovely of him because he didn't know me at all. A class act.

Years ago we tried to watch Schitts Creek, gave up one ep in. Didn’t get it. Last year we tried again, gave it three eps. And then mainlined the entire lot over a few weeks. Obsessed. Truly one of the great sitcoms. Do watch if you never have.

I was just asked to connect Cilla Black to Stephen King in as few steps as possible and it was way way fewer steps than you might think

A New York federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, a major blow to prosecutors that means Mangione no longer faces a possible death penalty if convicted reut.rs/45Fin56

Filming today. Name that cinema!

Dunno what the Arctic Monkeys are on about, I just read 1984 and there isn’t a single dancing robot in it

Petition to make it illegal for audio or ebook samples to be a bit of the introduction rather than THE ACTUAL FUCKING BOOK

I used to do stand up. This post is accurate and much funnier than I ever was.

Haha “marry early”

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

Nora Ephron was wrong, not everything is copy

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I’m the Editor’s Pick today, very personal piece (paywalled) (I did not write the headline) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

Half of me: don’t punish the behaviour you want to see Other half with a very long line of ancestors behind me: not forgiven

My friend Tracy went through hell, and I'm glad some justice was served. FWIW the article was not paywalled for me.

First review of The Cost of Trust! (It’s out on Feb 12th) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Do read my piece if you can. The issues in The Cost of Trust book affect all of us.

I’m the Editor’s Pick today, very personal piece (paywalled) (I did not write the headline) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

I’m trying to explain to Dan how men sometimes ruin things and to prove my point I played him Hit by The Sugarcubes

You can tell how old a Christmas tree is by counting the rings