Amazing work by Reform in picking Robert Jenrick as the man to tour the broadcast studios to portray Nigel Farage and his party as a model of probity

Jesus Christ this photo...

She highlights an experience many of us will recognise - being spurred into activism by the experience of trying to get children safely to school.

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

Goodbye, long wave: alexperdurabo.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

This is a superb meditation in response to the switch off of Radio 4’s long wave service, as we say goodbye to our dear and steadfast friend tonight.

This is remarkable.

Or as @naomiaklein.bsky.social put it:

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

A suitable image for #GlobalBeatlesDay 🍦

Thanks printer, that cheered me up

This is SO much fun - while you're hiding from the horrororb, why not make GLORIOUS SQUELCHY MUSIC with this collection of Roland synth models in your browser? roland50.studio

Yeah, supply and demand, I know. But you can still fuck off with your price gouging, Amazon.

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

Natural air-conditioning pre-installed. Spare yourself the #Heatwave in a #CoolCathedral. E.g #LiverpoolCathedral

Promenade des Anglais Martin Hürlimann, 1936

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.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SLOW DOWN ALAN THIS IS MADNESS"

©️David Shrigley

Okay, UKsters, the media is useless re: extreme heat, so let’s do this. I’m from Southern California, spent the last ten years living outside Seattle, which has a similar climate to Scotland, where I am now. Here’s what I know. 1. Heat exhaustion and sickness are no fucking joke. Do not tempt them.

As already warm cities become more and more vulnerable to extreme heat events, or just the “new normal” of hotter and hotter cities every day, here’s just one more reason why more street trees and other greenery are good for streets & cities. It’s just common sense, really. Cooler, cleaner, smarter.

Burnham's 1st meeting should be with the social media companies. "There's a market failure in the info economy. The public are systematically misinformed on things citizens need to know. The BBC will be paid to fix it. You'll pay the bill. The more you do yourselves, the smaller that bill gets."

If, like me, you like politics and you like the 90s I'm sure you will also enjoy this image of Andy Burnham and his wife in their uni days (image via @thetimes.com)

“Hello, French Polishers? It’s just possible you could save my life” x

Board games are great

Maybe I’m in a sentimental mood, but I loved this thread. #boardgames

Joke sword? Maybe to be used for a play? Or part of a Mithras cult ceremony? Well someone got fooled a bit :) This bronze Roman sword was used to pretend someone got stabbed trough, found by Mithras temple at Riegel am Kaisterstuhl in Germany. www.welt.de/geschichte/a...

New OH MATE meme just dropped.

we seem to imagine that infrastructure can only ever subtract from natural beauty, despite so many examples to the contrary

Magic.

Top drawer door.

If we get a leadership campaign every person under 40 should be asking why they should pay some feckless pensioners compensation for ignoring 15 years of notice, while its fine to change student loan terms at the drop of a hat.

Imagine being the government of the UK and not having banned Twitter. Twiddling your thumbs while a foreign fascist foments violence on the streets and preaches ethnic cleansing and an end to democracy.

Fascinating age split on this one. Young people are both more likely to use AI and more likely to want it to disappear.

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

Not forgetting Gal! youtu.be/edVaEVQOOM8?...

Furious that the powers that be hadn’t alerted me about this until now.

This looks rather good and I will be watching it.

Once again, the whole ‘Why will Tony Blair not defend his own legacy?’ question raises its head, just as it did as austerity ground it away domestically. His government basically saved the Kyoto agreement! As per the chart, his government placed Britain among global leaders in reducing emissions!

💥 70,000 signatures! 💥 ...and the petition closes on June 8th. Imagine if we can get it over 100,000 before then - and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2026. That'd be powerful. All hands to the pump! Sign and share, share, share! 👇

HEAD OF TEETH

A clear-eyed description of what is happening. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

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...