Discovery Plus has taken another step into enshitification. In browser you now can't tell which feed is ad-free. There's also now ads dropped into the supposedly ad-free feeds (watch worlds on the BBC if you can). They've also made it much harder to get to the page for the sport you watch.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Leith Walk near the foot opposite Casselbank Street. Again zero plan or sign for blocking a cycle path. More conflict created without a thought. #EdTravCyc

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.

QMUL paid a quarter million pounds to QS ranking. That’s what those league tables do: they extract money out of universities for a game that relies on other universities somehow mysteriously not being absolutely brilliant anymore & pretending we can turn things that can’t be qualified into metrics.

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social Hi Simon! I just finished reading the 10th anniversary edition of Nimona and loved it. Would like to be one of your starter offerings for buy a stranger a book day this week. How much would a copy of that book + postage be? Want to offer more than one if I can.

Everyone: half-and-half scarves are abominations Team Ineos: allow us to introduce you to our new half and half kit. Marginal financial gains or something. #TDF25

Hi @marshadecordova.bsky.social you're suggesting worrying amendments which really won't work in our rural Oxfordshire setting and might require children to take bikes into 60mph HGV traffic. Have you read TfL's guide to Bus Stop Bypasses? Linked below! content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-stop-byp...

The EHRC is meant to protect everyone’s rights. But internal documents reveal a different story: repeated meetings with anti-trans lobbyists, legal bias, and secret coordination. We filed the FOI. Here’s what we found. tacc.org.uk/2025/07/01/f...

Keir Starmer is such a pointless man. Does nothing useful. Continues to fund and arm a genocide. Attacks the disabled. People dare to say "Fuck Keir Starmer" or "Freedom for Palestine" and suddenly his pointless lame duck party are getting coverage of a festival pulled because it made them sad.

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

@josebeentv.bsky.social Loving the WToB comms! I think you like pronunciation things and I have one about Alba. It's Scottish Gaelic which folk don't know so most Scottish folk would pronounce it as it's written but the correct pronunciation is more like Al-uh-ba. learngaelic.scot/dictionary/i...

Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games. Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙

It’s less than 2 weeks until The Tour Of Britain ! With stages in Scotland for the first time in the women’s tour - we can’t wait to show the World Tour teams our home roads! Who’s coming to watch?

"I wish we'd listened" to a movement that represents a miniscule minority of women, because that's how democracy should work when stripping rights from people. He is so unfit for the brief he has and for a blight on the LGBTQ+ community, which he represents as well as transphobes represent women.

i'll be honest this week has really made me think more deeply about how we segregate disabled people & how unacceptable that is. everything should be accessible

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Italy cannot handle women bringing bangers to the table. #Sanremo

There are around 10k private school kids in Edinburgh. 51 have moved to state schools in January. As I've repeatedly said the effects of VAT on fees are going to be minimal. www.thetimes.com/article/ab42...

Alex is right in this thread; if Trump has won then Europe is going to be forced to rethink everything, starting with how the hell we support Ukraine but v much not stopping there, across foreign/defence/economic policy

whatever happens, we need to accept that fascism is popular. racism is popular. misogyny is popular. I’m not sure how democracy moves towards progress when reactionaries have the votes.

Yeah one of the people attacking parkrun, free weekly events about movement and community, for daring to allow trans people to take part did a 'WHY IS NO ONE LISTENING TO THE POOR NAZIS???' Honestly, they just sink further into the mire of their own contradictions until all they can see is shit...

This is by far the most important reason to use ALT text, but there are other benefits, too. For example, people who speak different languages can plug your text into a translator if they don't understand an image. It also improves SEO and discoverability on bluesky.

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" well, ideally I was hoping to be curious, research, create stuff and enjoy beauty but apparently it's actually forever triaging emails until I die. I hope this one wild and precious life finds you well.

So sick of repeated emails asking me to review something I've bought. I don't trust online reviews these days so I don't write them either. If a company sets up review reminder emails and doesn't let me unsubscribe from just those emails you bet I'm unsubscribing from everything just to stop them...

Good luck to everyone in the US/Canada hoping for an aurora borealis show tonight. This was Scotland earlier this evening. Visible with the naked eye and stunning.

NAACP flag that reads: “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday,” flying on Fifth Avenue, in 1936; Posted today to acknowledge Marcellus Williams, an innocent man proved by DNA evidence, murdered in the state of Missouri yesterday, by the State of Missouri September 24, 2024 Image source: Library of Congress

Remove means testing. I would rather every fraudster in the world get money they don’t deserve than one person be left hungry and unhoused

Fuck the EBU, fuck the EBU, fuck the EBU (loops forever)

Left Meadowbank Stadium just in time for the acrid smell of angle grinding metal. Three bikes had been cut free, two stolen. Mine too beaten up to be worth it but a good reminder that even a good lock isn't unbeatable.

Hi new users, welcome! ✨ I’m Laci, a planetary scientist & space artist. I teach you about astrophysics through art! Last year, I started my own small business. I create multi-spectral paintings by combining different wavelengths of light (visible, infrared, etc.) in interesting patterns.

Post podium Irn Bru (after the fizzy non alcoholic beverage pictured) for Anna Kay after winning the Cyvlocross British National Championship in Falkirk. #FittingInWithTheLocals

Why do La Liga games now carry advertising for a Russian betting company around the pitch? Surely La Liga shouldn't be being shown there knowingly and they shouldn't be taking their cash...