#kaleidoscopeofdeath #thespirealm

@alexoldman.bsky.social Hey stranger! From Even Stranger! I am currently on a plane to China. Much love xxx

In a plane passing over Ashgabat. Just watched Creation of the Gods II. Still many many hours to go.

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

is it wake up, it’s wake up isn’t it

I can tell my holiday has begun because I've just paid £13.50 for a small salad and a coffee #StllInEngland

Happy #WYBWednesday! Here's our dandan noodle pretty in pink

This type of conservative thinking imagines learning to be linear; in this instance that someone with A-Level English will be more fluent in English than someone with GCSE English, or a reading age of 11, when in actual fact they’ll just be better at analysing why you’re wrong to assume that.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Ummm, yeah

...but note they're not doing anything to reverse or even mitigate the harms Brexit has done. Pathetic. Just pathetic.

CQL in a modern setting

Could *anyone* else pull off #WeiWuxian as well as #XiaoZhan?! When the Untamed casting director passes this world, their tombstone should say: Here lies the greatest Casting Director ever We should bring wine & flowers always #mdzs #mxtx #TheUntamed #cdrama

I do not have a resting bitch face. I am a mom. I just have a bitch face. There is no resting going on here.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

ah yes, his bio checks out: husbandfather 100% of the time, it's predictive of talking down to women on subjects the woman in question is an expert about

It's wild too cause the whole Cass Report is so flimsy, it's like "well yes all the science says transition saves lives but here's why the science may be wrong" and then it just goes off making shit up like some ancient Greek doctor writing about the four humors

"quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich. The water industry tells a similar story. Almost a third of the average bill goes towards funding shareholder dividends and interest payments."

With confirmation in the last few days that extreme weather has meant England has suffered it's second worst harvest on record (so now three of the worst five have been in the last five years) may we hold the farming community in our prayers and care #ADifferentKindOfHarvestFestival

I reckon I know already.

love that this "resilience engineering" is basically: write things on paper www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

Does looking at handsome men make women more beautiful? www.instagram.com/reel/DPjVxlz...

When he will be in Shanghai I'm in Chengdu, when I'm in Shanghai he's in Hollywood, how is this fair? We were closer when he was in Paris and I was in England.

How the hell can you put 'dies' what is wrong with you Sky News are you denying death now?

This is either clever or crazy or both: a UK company will install, in your home, a miniature data center, about the size of a heat pump, to serve as your home heating.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

did the thing again where i take a wonderful long walk and after the hours alone with my thoughts under the trees everything i've ever wanted to write is clear and crisp as the air and then i get home and i'm too tired from all that hiking to do fuckin anything

im now quite sad that we'll probably never get yibo in a historical drama again doesn't feel like we will? I mean good for him LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE, SWEETIE but but sad for us 😔

Laura Kuenssberg has interviewed all the Party Leaders with more than 10% in the polls. Except Zack Polanski. She cancelled his interview and now refuses to do it. They are scared of Zack, they are scared of you.

Please name who did this. If it’s you, give yourself 10 cool points.

Exactly... It seems random generic inheritance makes offspring perfectly suited to run banks, be in the house of Lords, own Fox, be US health secretary, present MoTD, be BBC US news editor, be a monarch, go to Eton.... But it's all a meritocracy obviously!

"In my opinion, the MVP of this Shanghai 8 Hours is the Uno team. They pitted with a punctured radiator and overheating, troubleshooting the issue within eight minutes, replacing the radiator and draining the system. They didn't experience any further alarms for over half the remaining race. " tbc

Believe it, they don't care ,their shareholders want their money. Thatcher 's crap legacy still lives on. Privatisation doesn't work ,it's a scam. A huge rip off.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Entering the Anne Frank stage of the administration I see

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia. I disagree. RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

Yup.... It's breathtaking when you see it it was brilliant writing, it was brilliant casting, and it was brilliant interpretation of the story

So does poverty so maybe your family can hand over some of its £20bn fortune, you entitled weapon.

@jacquep.bsky.social open.spotify.com/album/6EXi4e...

Kemi Badenoch, "I want to stop people with ADHD getting Motability cars." Well you don't need to, because nobody gets a Motability Car for ADHD. You need mobility issues, which some people with ADHD also have.

Weekly trip down to the charity shop. The snowflake fleece had literally just been donated this morning. Never been worn. Donor bought the wrong size and just couldn't be bothered to return it. Her loss, my gain. #ATeeShirtADay

Me, at 6am, asleep... .... ... My brain: 🎶CAN I GET THE MIC A LITTLE HIGHER🎵

AW "Have COSLA considered any other measures, as part of this planning, to avoid airborne spread - for example mechanical ventilation in school buildings?" ND "It wouldn't be for COSLA..." "It is certainly something we could think about and consider in the round...." 4/

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

Jesus Christ I was only fucking joking ... www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...

Everything but actual social care and mental health care