People often talk about double yolk eggs, but nobody ever brings up the difficult second albumen

on we go

Every Sunday, Sybil is taken to have a special (very overpriced for owners they see coming) sausage, and every Sunday her manner deteriorate slightly further.

I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.

Judging by Barney’s face when he greeted me, he also has thoughts on Mandelson.

Reupping for cheering purposes

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

I am at the interval of a Noel Coward play at the Menier and I haven’t seen anything so funny in ages, even Oh Mary. Middle aged female BFFs getting increasingly drunk at dinner. Somehow play is 100 years old?! Anyway, please go it is JUST perfect. www.menierchocolatefactory.com/tickets/fall...

I always suspect the American guests enjoy Graham Norton - while obviously tightly planned, it seems to give them a bit more leeway than other parts of the promo circuit and the group dynamic gives it a more relaxed feel - so this is nice to see.

Oh my God, Taylor Swift (correctly) loves The Graham Norton Show so much that she got everyone who was on it with her to come and do the Opalite video *including beloved Graham*

Timeline cleanse: my dog Sybil vs this pot of yoghurt

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

Just did Nick Ferrari on LBC to talk about kids with ADHD having access cards for theme parks etc and...I think it went well! Spelt out the very, very long process for getting Nimbus and RAP, that you still have to wait, just elsewhere, and kids already hate queuing, so this is on hard mode.

I am utterly mesmerised by how Sybil is tackling finishing off this pot of yogurt. She is an artist. This is true diligence and dedication to her craft.

*in the style of RCB'S May 1st poem* MAY 15TH MAY 15TH RIVALS COMES BACK TO OUR SCREENTH www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeDy...

Here's me on Jan Leeming and The Pig and "restaurant manners" vs "home" www.independent.co.uk/voices/child...

A year to the day since Mandelson told the FT that their questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off." I wonder if the paper sent him a card, @pickardje.bsky.social?

At about 22m in, Ian McKellan brings the Colbert studio to a total, rapt standstill with this speech, written by Shakespeare 400 years ago, of Thomas More to Londoners rioting over recent immigrants to remember themselves and welcome others. youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

Need the children's book and the film asap. The hero children need.

A property solicitor called Maslaw's Hierarchy of Deeds.

Friends I'm trying to convince @virginiasolesmith.bsky.social that Bluesky is good — if you like her writing (or are just generally interested in exploring the ways that anti-fatness gets normalized in our society....and how to resist it) give her a follow

Amazing coda here.

‘I’ve not left home in five weeks’: Fear in Minneapolis as ICE agents terrorize city

Hello! Would any lawyers, police detectives, or former PDs be up for speaking to me this afternoon for a piece about Epstein? You can absolutely be anonymous if you wish. [email protected] or via DM here, thank you.

Kelsey Dacey, 37, who is definitely not a phone addict, just has a hyperfixation on the lovely glowy supercomputer full of instant dopamine hits.

Tuning in for tonight and heard the dulcet tones of Radio4 continuity say that #TheArchers episodes are now available to listen to for five years rather than 30 days! (Non-fans may feel every ep is that long.)

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

The rewards of being loved / the mortifying ordeal of being known

David: “Oh, that is astonishing!” Kirsty: “It’s exquisite!” Justin: “And such a perfect representation of Peggy’s approach to agriculture and motherhood." #TheArchers #DamienHirst

I have just watched all the SNL clips on Instagram and sent them to all my WhatsApp groups and told my husband I would obviously do the same when he hosts SNL.

Genevieve’s diet is actually going really well, not that her face would tell you that.

When I was wooing my first boyfriend in the late 80s I sent him a mixtape and a Baci. It was the Baci that cinched it. (Not sure how I got hold of an Italian chocolate - I think from a friend with more cosmopolitan parents than mine)

Proud to have signed up to this when the group were in Westminster - I had not heard of it previously I know the majority of women are trans inclusive so let’s get this out wide and sign up many more women to @nionwomen.bsky.social

If you are in Germany any time these are worth looking out: www.leysieffer.de/product/2038... A good browser will do a translation into passable English. Literal translation is heavenly - I'd opt for divine.

I just had my six-monthly catch-up with my ADHD doctor, and we were talking about chocolate (I don't drink, smoke or do heroin, so chocolate it is) and oh! The misty-eyed way he talked about Baci, the little hazelnut Italian chocs with the love note inside, and how much he loved the notes!

Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile.

The national Press Club released the following statement on the arrest of Don Lemon: "The world is watching closely, and the implications of this case extend far beyond any one reporter."

This is fucking terrifying. www.jezebel.com/pam-bondi-ha...

Here in our home, they killed and roamed In the winter of '26 We'll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Frabjous news for once! Hampstead Ponds gets overwhelming support to remain trans inclusive spaces, as they bloody should. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...

These poor, tired, constipated young men.

This has made me very happy

The "echo chambers" narrative completely misses how this works. It isn't some collective closed-mindedness of opinion that eliminates heterodoxy, but rather that entirely different facts are given to different groups of people. Heterodoxy would at least sort of require us to share the same reality.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

I'm sorry, but the reaction to Brianna Ghey being murdered by people she knew offline *because she was transgender* becoming 'we should stop teenagers from being on social media' rather than 'we should deal with the recent horrifying rise of transphobia in the UK' is unbelievably fucking bullshit.

I don't like dream-come-true videos as a rule, but this Bridgerton mega-fan getting her own fairy tale with her lovely BFF has made me absolutely BAWL. It is so lovely, so funny, and just very...kind?! Anyway, 10/10 recommend, like Gogglebox, well done Netflix. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkUA...

This is it! 20 minutes (lol) of AI training is about as much use as a little presentation from Clippy. Media literacy is a gong I bang repeatedly in It's Not a Bloody Trend, and in this piece I wrote for the Indy last week. Media literacy is GOOD! www.independent.co.uk/voices/teena...