Elizabeth is stubbornly hanging onto the notion that nobody can be happy with Mr Collins, which is so relatable! You know someone so annoying that the thought of them having loved ones is beyond you, and suddenly your best friend is into them? My judgmental ass would dig my heels in, too.

New rule: you can look at a painting in a museum OR you can take a photo of it. If you choose photo, you get one shot—if it doesn’t come out, tough luck (you’ll never look at it anyway)

Elizabeth has decided that “patience with Darcy was injury to Wickham,” and is therefore resolved to be cold to Darcy. Who among us has not been kind of a bitch to an acquaintance because we were holding someone else’s grudge? Oh my god. This girl is all of us.

Tell me again how pursuing #NetZero is too impractical expensive…? 🤨 #ClimateEmergency #UKPolitics

We could all use some good news these days Ghana cut malaria deaths by 86%!!! And they followed science and good public health policies healthpolicy-watch.news/how-ghana-sl...

Centrist Democrats wanted us to cast some people aside in order to expand the tent and win? Great. We agreed. We choose to cast out ... them. They should just hold their nose and go along like they expected trans people to go along right? They know what to do with this play; they invented it.

This is a very very good point from @marina-purkiss.bsky.social For those not in the know “Up the RA!” is Irish slang for “Up the IRA” and has also been adopted eg by football fans eg in matches between Dublin and NI “Ooh! Ah! Up the RA” If Farage will say that for £86 what will he do for £5mill?

The jack-up barge; it’s the talk of the town

It's fairly warm in my place so have eschewed the usual and am swanning about in a satin kaftan.

Lizzy Bennet. Feeling in a little Pride and Prejudice mood lately.

pool thoughts

Very proud of @trunkmanuk.bsky.social ‘s incredible work with @cosmicshambles.com and creating this amazing documentary series www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Anybody have any suggestions for compacting this for travel or storage? Torso/arms are one piece, head comes off. I thought about removing the arms and splitting it so the front and back could kind of nestle together (if you flipped one of them ) but idk how I’d reattach them so they’d be sturdy

it's actually really simple- people who like highlights of goalscoring prefer Ronaldo, people who like highlights of football prefer Messi

This is just to say I have taken Those plums Out of the icebox And climbed in Fuck yes

Buster Keaton didn’t run an actual locomotive off a bridge for the wreck scene in THE GENERAL just so you could tell me that AI was “inevitable”

Seriously though I am begging you to watch either THE CAMERAMAN or SHERLOCK JR, both of which are Keaton completely stunting on everyone with in-camera and simple post effects: youtu.be/x3e8UmEA2Ak

oh my god this is my marriage

It will never cease to amaze me that the same people who cry "free speech" when they're endorsing violent purges of minorities then turn around and announce that saying "People can work together in harmony for a better future" is a direct and personal attack against them bordering on a death threat.

So I have been looking at this Lego set forever, I clearly need it. Today I am pulling the trigger and buying it.

Worth every penny! Made my husband buy it for me for Christmas last year. Almost finished!

establishment demands an apology from the people winning elections as an express rejection of the establishment

It’s Roger Livesey’s birthday. The Life & Death of Col. Blimp is a favourite film & it’s largely due to the brilliant performances of Livesey and Anton Walbrook as lifelong friends from warring countries. This scene is sadly all too prescient about our current situation: youtu.be/vb2AlCaY_gk?...

I've been profoundly aware of urban design the last couple of days: how parks and trees on streets make the city tolerable in these temperatures.

I love when doctors say "avoid stress" like I can just unsubscribe from economy and become a decorative gargoyle

If Democrats didn't want to get moved out of the way, they shouldn't have for so many years made themselves the obstacle to the fights we needed to have. They could have fought, they could have moved; now we move them. They thought you were the party leaders, but the people must lead.

The Democratic establishment crash-out is a wonderous thing to see. A bunch of people, their organization named after democracy, unable to handle the results of just a few popular elections, appealing to the unspoken rules of a club they thought belonged exclusively to them. Let's do it everywhere.

Got Glint Morning swim. So lucky

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts (these are from X)

guy on a bike called out to me ‘you look so beautiful!’ and i was steeling myself for it to get weird but then he called to a guy on a different bike ‘that’s a great bike man!’ and then ‘smoothie looks fire!’ to a third guy who was drinking one. so i guess i found him. Johnny Compliments

Looking out over Narin and Portnoo Beach, Donegal.

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

I had to cross central Sheffield at five o’clock yesterday afternoon. Barely a tree on my route, just hard surfacing. It was brutal. We need to transform our cities fast, yet where is the vision? By contrast, Paris is planting trees and growing creepers like there’s no tomorrow.

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

Friends and neighbors, welcome to the @bradlander.bsky.social VICTORY THREAD! Lander won the D primary in NY-10 by over THIRTY (30) points! Some photos from this glorious night...

@bradlander.bsky.social's family and staffers crowd around Emmitt Sklar's laptop waiting for the results of the primary to come through. Lander himself was in a van doing a live CNN interview at this moment - he'd find out the results AFTER everyone else!

Sometimes brevity is not the soul of wit. Sometimes you’re Jane Austen, and you got wit strung through the longest sentences known to Regency. How dare!!!

“ —it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

ambling my way through summer reading

You missed it! They won comfortably…

Oh he’s noticed that she might be saying no, and he’s unhappy about it, yet somehow still in denial.

Gorillaz review – a staggering hi-tech mini-festival from the magpie mind of Damon Albarn

Oklahoma! review: Stunning soprano Molly Lynch leads Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s take on revolutionary musical

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

Apocalypse Revelation Holocaust Mr Sinister Toad The Blob Marvel Girl yeah this does check out

How it started vs how it’s going (new villain in Bananaman in the Beano this week)