Proud to be the 206th Supporter 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I know the local elections were seven hundred years ago in Labour-time but I thought I'd share a little app I made that lets you look at the English ward results on a map and compared to various Census demographics. Warning the map takes a while to load. 1/n benwansell.github.io/local-electi...

link to petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

This is fun by @christhebarker.bsky.social : a list of resigned and retired Reform councillors. refukked.lovable.app?utm_id=97758...

These photos are incredible.

The great irony of the Welsh success of Reform, run by millionaire ex-public schoolboys, is that one the greatest Welshmen, & founder of the NHS, warned of this “How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies whole art of Tory politics” Aneurin Bevan

If you want to stop the boats, fine. But you shouldn't be in charge of adult social care. And if Palestinian selfdetermination is your priority this is of course, brilliant. Has fuck all to do with green waste collections though. Bring back 360 degree politics (I just made that up uknowwhatimean)

This has made me feel a bit better.

As we write in the book, we need less focus on adults who scream "I've lived in the city for the last 50 years and don't need bike lanes" and more focus on kids who say "I am going to live in the city for the *next* 50 years and want to be able to get around safely."

Nightmare juice.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

Keir Starmer's intention to restrict peaceful protest even further is punishment for crimes the great majority of protestors hate and reject. By suggesting that support for Palestinians is an attack on British Jews, he conflates British Jews with the state of Israel, which is wrong and dangerous.

Satan Views the Whole of Eden, Gustave Dore

Just misheard “desiccated coconut” as “defecated coconut”. Not sure what I can use that for, but sticking it here so that if I find myself idly looking back through my skeets in a few years’ time wondering where it all went wrong, this will give me a brief smile. #defecatedcoconut

Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

This is sickening. A cover-up on this scale isn't down to just a couple of wrong 'uns. It's also very unlikely to be a one-off.

barriers.

When Reform U.K. Ltd run Councils.

New petition: "Require automatic headlights on vehicles to activate rear lights for safety" Deadline 16 October 2026, created by Cllr Mike Casbolt #NewPetition

If the UK were a US state, how would it rank? It depends entirely on what you measure! Fascinating table showing a startlingly different picture depending on the choice of metric. Source: www.linkedin.com/posts/diogo-...

OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar. The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue. The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.

Think of all the money we could save if every country in the world just agreed not to be run by stupid cunts.

Interesting cheese content.

Katja Lang, Road to E. (2022) #WomensArt

Based on my own extensive experience with all five of those countries, this is something I've also long argued.

Talking to pro “free speech” UK right-wingers who admired Orban I have often referred to this detail - which I still find astonishing. (From @iandunt.bsky.social’s How To Be A Liberal)

All the worst cunts in the world - from journalism to politics, the Kermlin to the White House - are suffering tonight.

Public space is ruined by #UKCarCulture, which drives people indoors, which exposes them even more to a steady stream of online poison, which spreads the idea that #UKCarCulture = freedom. And so the cycle continues. But it's a cycle we can break.

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea 🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation 🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship 🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund www.carbonbrief.org/...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

I think that's an Angine de poitrine track

Best use of the UK national emergency alert service would be to send this video out to everyone immediately. It may just heal us.

in 80 years historians will simplify the cause of WW3 to the US President being a pedophile, sorta like WW1 was archduke ferdinand getting shot

I will fight anyone - possibly with tops aff, bare-knuckle in a pub carpark if pushed - who tries to use this as a stick to beat McCartney over the head with. It's a *beautiful* record. A charming nursery rhyme with a tune to warm your heart. And I am unanimous in that.

And inspiration for placards at the anti-far right demo the other week

Happy Easter

Easter egg (and yes, it is a painting) Artist: Harry Wingfield from First Picture Book, 1971) Happy Easter

Just think what a different view of humanity we’d get if, instead of focussing on those who smear and scapegoat “illegal immigrants”, the media covered the groups up & down the UK providing refugees from war zones with welcome packs of food & clothing, & offering them voluntary work opportunities?

An economist friend passes along this graph of energy costs. He says, "Given this history, it is more than a little ironic that renewable energy is derided by fossil-fuel proponents as 'unreliable.'”