Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Yes it's a really important detail this.

Back in 2015 Epstein & his associates predicted Trumps behaviour precisely. In his words. Because of the leverage they had.

Buried news of the day IMO "Government vows to phase out animal tests as alternative methods come on stream with new strategy welcomed as ‘ambitious’ and ‘timely’ by animal welfare & life sciences organisations." Plus new £75 million funding to bring forward new testing methods for health products

I’ve been thinking how the grandfather who was alive never talked about the war - despite clearly being proud of his service. No doubt being a girl was an issue, but I was the history buff who would’ve really appreciated it. Such a missed opportunity…

Ladies and gentlemen, Sir Robbie Gibb, the BBC Board Member with the impartiality remit

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

🚨UPDATE WITH COMMENT FROM THE BBC: Byline Times can confirm that of the four-person BBC panel that interviewed Prescott and made the decision to appoint him as an advisor, three of them had longstanding Conservative Party ties. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis. Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?

The one thing every single one of us can count on in this life is that you will become disabled. The only variable is whether it happens at birth, in old age, or somewhere in between

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump. Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

Eddie saw the vet, who announced him in a big and booming voice as ‘Edward’ The lump is teething so that’s OK and he is 1.36kg. Neutering in 6 months time. 👍 And I did not cry in there and waited til I was in the car (I’m so glad Henry wasn’t pts there because that would have really messed me up)

Logging on

Smooth Dunk. Every time💜

Does anyone else get their prescriptions from Pharmacy2U because they have sent my Gabapentin in *9* small boxes with 3 strips in each. Everything is sent in a massive box so it’s not down to space. Do they do it with other people? It just seems like madness, sometimes they even repackage things too

one mad thing about this bbc thing is Boris Johnson - B O R I S J O H N S O N - parping on about facts & quality journalism

Ok but will I understand the plot if I haven’t read the first Ross Kemp Gangs?

The BBC spends so much time bending over backwards to placate and whitewash the right, and it will never be enough because the British right does not want the BBC to exist. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

I went onto X by mistake and it seems that they have news headlines, not from newspapers or media sources, but that are just a Grok mash up of tweets so it’s a big old mess of confirmation bias. And why they are so against an independent BBC

One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.

From Ella Baron

"When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”. "Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition." bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

This is Gestapo shit and needs to come to the same end

Because ideological purity is far more important than defeating fascism. And there’s a large element of the British left who know they won’t be effected by any Reform government.

How the far-right wins in the UK, part 18,904: defeating Labour is far, far more important to the Greens than defeating Farage.

The Tories record from 2010 to 2024: Food banks 2010 approx 35, 2024 approx 1,711 Homelessness 2010 approx 1,768, 2024 approx 327,940 NHS Waiting lists 2010 approx 4.34m, 2024 approx 7.4m The Labour Government cannot fix this in 15 months, they inherited a huge mess. @lbc.co.uk

NYT - Kash Patel's inexperience, his dismissals of top FBI officials and his shift of resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wo...

In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2

Hell’s fucking bells, I’ve just found a lump under Eddie’s chin. 7 days. 7 fucking days I’ve had him. Gah His breath has been smelling and he wants to bite everything so I am hoping it’s a teething issue, but FUCK it all in the ear

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

In case you missed it, I wrote a thing to hopefully help folks not land in the wrong place. Since then, it’s been agent/editor approved more than once. Hah. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/too-many-s...

It's not like a Kennedy to flee the scene leaving a casualty behind

AP using a stock-shot of the funeral of the Queen of the United Kingdom there...

If you look up Prince Andrew on the Royal Family website now it comes up with a 404: Nonce Not Found error

If someone asked me if I fancied visiting Sulfur Cave to see 111,000 spiders my responses would be: 1. Sod off, it's a cave filled with spiders. 2. It's called *Sulfur* Cave, and I'm betting for good reason. 3. If you see a bulging spider web, for God's sake DON'T PROD IT. 4. GOTO 1.

Just watched Soundgarden being inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. I loved that they had Brandi Carlile & Taylor Momsen singing his part, & having Mike & Jerry there too. As well as the mention of Susan Silver whose influence in the Seattle scene is wildly understated. #rockhall #soundgarden

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

Another very pertinent fact that I have not seen mentioned ANYWHERE: In 14 years of Tory rule we had 14 Prisons Ministers - six in a single year, at one point - and a total of 11 Justice Secretaries, including Grayling, Raab, and Truss. In 13 years of Labour it was three: Irvine, Falconer, Straw. 🤔

Google rolled out AI Overviews earlier this year. Many users now see AI-generated summaries above traditional search results. This doesn’t just risk spreading unreliable answers, it could also divert traffic away from independent media and threaten media pluralism: algorithmwatch.org/en/google-ai...

Anyone remember the time Boris Johnson turned up looking like a bag of rubbish and laid the wreath upside down. And the next time the ƁBC showed the footage, it showed a completely different ceremony and him laying a different wreath? When people noticed and complained, they said it was a mistake.

If there was just one thing I wish every healthy person could understand, it is this: ANYONE can get a chronic illness. Illnesses like #MECFS & #LongCovid can happen to absolutely anyone, it doesn’t matter how healthy you are. Chronic illness can happen to good people. It could happen to you.

NEW: Walking 5,000 steps a day may help slow the onset of early-stage Alzheimer's disease, according to research that blends brain scans, activity records and cognitive tests. Even as few as 3,001 steps - less than 3km - could have a big benefit in slowing decline. www.ft.com/content/91fc...

Desensitising Eddie who is so exhausted from playing he doesn’t want to move, and decided to conk out on the windowsill regardless of the fireworks.

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!