the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

So elegance. Much grace.

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are: 🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role 💻 where you can use your programming and data skills 🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too 🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job (Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology, £49k, apply by April 3)

I've had to shut my back door and turn my heating on, and I object. Stupid false spring.

I would argue that they have a use for vulnerable road users like cyclists and horse riders. Conventional hatcams can puncture helmets in the event of a fall. I quite like the idea of smart glasses for when I'm hacking out.

Can people please stop driving into the back of my car while I'm stationary at a red traffic light? That's the third one in a year. I think people are getting stupider. (No harm to me; another chip on the bumper for my car.)

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Happy 152nd Birthday J.C. Leyenecker! Master of making public art that felt a little bit queer but you're not entirely sure how... 😁👍🏛️🍑 #museumbums 1917 US Marine Signal Corps recruitment poster, V&A Find out more about JCL in Jack's upcoming book: Hotties in Art www.amazon.co.uk/Museum-Hotti...

The gfm for Ny's funeral expenses is still falling a bit short. gofund.me/206fd5ddc

I'm enjoying The Other Bennett Sister apart from one glaring issue. How does the same pair of spectacles help Mary with both distance AND reading???

Look, lady, Ireland was never an empire, but there were a LOT of Irish people who were more than happy to be colonizers (and slavers!) once the opportunity was opened for them Sorry if the complexity of social trauma and human nature offends you?

go ahead and destroy the financial district, blobby. make the people happy

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

I think I was in Scouts with him.

Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

my name is Cow and wen its nite, or wen the moon is shiyning brite, and all the men haf gon to shit - i stay up late. i lik the ship

For anybody else who knew Rubynye and would like to contribute, there's a gofundme for her burial expenses. gofund.me/3d2cf4a13

I've just learned that a fandom friend I've known for a very long time has passed away. She was a vibrant, beautiful woman, full of joy and love and kindness, and the world is duller without her.

And new book nook is fully operational!

I only remembered it was Paddy’s Day today when I was deliberately mis-spelling my surname on the Marks and Spencer website, while ordering socks, because it couldn’t handle the gap in O Briain.

Every DSE training I've ever done: Make sure your chair is adjusted to these guidelines! Every office chair I've ever sat in: *is too broken to adjust and stay adjusted* Every office manager: There's no budget for new chairs but make sure you do the DSE training.

Give me this man’s head on a pike

Oh, the frustration of staying up too late to finish a new book nook, and then realising you don't have any batteries. On the bright side, I went to steal the battery out of a broken book nook that needed its lighting fixed, and discovered it just needed a wire wiggle to work! Welcome back!

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

Not actually true. (In the UK, anyway.) Libel is recorded in some form. A radio show or podcast can libel someone just as much as a newspaper can.

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

Because of its colour, my car doesn't really show the dirt. The biggest shock when I give it its quarterly bath is that suddenly I can see out of the whole windscreen, rather than just the arches made by the wipers.

Clearly, these are actually pony-shaped spirits.

What if I stopped at Tesco on the way home and got a Viennetta just for me?

Someone walked into the ladies loos with a beautiful bouquet. "What beautiful flowers," I said. "Yeah, I'm going to the cemetery on the way home," she said.

I spent the morning in a haze of hyperfocused productivity, and in any sane world I should now be able to go and sleep, but I'm stuck here for another two hours and twelve minutes.

It really does feel like nowhere is adequately staffed at the moment. Employers have got so used to staff working at full capacity just to stay afloat that they consider that normal.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

Nice adaptive reuse

The 3 genders

My mum: "I've set up a standing order to... What's it called. That charity that does research into when you can't remember?" Me: "Alzheimer's?" My mum: "Yes! And I think I'm going to need it!"

I resisted the urge to buy fizzy sweets while doing the big shop, and my reward is not having fizzy sweets. This sucks.

Everyone is very angry at Timothee Chalamet over on Threads, because he was mean about opera and ballet, and I feel like that’s the sort of scandal we were meant to be having in the President Kamala timeline

Every time I see an SF story with the premise "the Earth is fucked so we have to go terraform somewhere else to live," I can't help but ask: why do we not use that technology to, y'know, terraform *where we already live* back to habitability?

Took an accidental nap after work. Feel like I was asleep for six hours but it was less than one

1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published 1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series 1997 - BBC remake 2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added 2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap 2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later. There was a new sign: "This sleeping willow is full." And a map of other locations to try.

Coincidentally, I hit the traffic jam from this on my way home yesterday.

Treated myself to a book nook (or four) to celebrate getting my insurance payout.

From the French equivalent of The Onion Seeking revenge, Dubai parachutes 3000 influencers on Tehran.

Some (faded) Art Deco splendour from Brighton City Airport (terminal building 1936). Oldest purpose built airport in the world & oldest airport in the UK