I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Jesse v Marvin

Bookseller Scrambles To Hide All The Classics After Seeing Emerald Fennell Approaching Door [SATIRE] theonion.com/bookseller-s...

Having once worked in a bookshop and now in communications, believe me, this was always the case.

The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

It’s also that very rare thing: a brilliant and influential movie that still feels fresh.

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

On Tuesday my WI all decided to resign and close rather than stay. This is ridiculous. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Genuinely pleased for this Kazahkstan chap. Sat there with his panda ignoring all the hype about the Yank chap. Marvellous.

Skating to the sound of his own voice? Are you kidding? I'd have asked William Shatner to do it. #skatingwhizzystuff

So lovely that Matt Weston looks so obviously like a man who dreamt of this as a boy and he's desperately trying to take it all in.

My father, 30 years ago, asked me why I wore boots when I could wear court shoes with my jeans. He'd be so pleased to see this headline. I still wear boots.

Bloody hell. The snowboarding commentators were irritating enough before they cursed the NZ girl. Just so annoying.

Ring out wild bells! My year of trying new hobbies/ skills starts with bell ringing. How fid I get on? Find out below open.substack.com/pub/susaneba...

I’m sure I’m not the only woman feeling like this right now. Exhausted and antsy and so angry and sad and hopeless. We all knew what was happening, we all know how power and patriarchy works. We spend so much of our energy living with that knowledge.

Finished my Melt the ICE hat.

Well this is rubbish news. Thanks Catherine O'Hara, rest in peace

I just started knitting this pattern last night! Happy to join in!

A little good news in these dark times. 💙 This just in: Normal people have zero problem with trans folkx, and Sex Matters is a hate group.

100%. I honestly believe political leaders ask too little of people. The thinking is you need an extraordinarily low bar - so ask people for money or to sign something. People want to be part of something and they're eager to do real meaningful work in defense of their community and their rights.

Christ, this is fucking dystopian. How about free art classes, language courses, music lessons, sport sessions, further education modules or anything other than this. This is the antithesis of education it’s a campaign of national brain rot.

9 deaths. ICE has kileld 9 people. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

Colleague: Are you coming to the firm party on Friday? Me: No Colleague: Why not? Me: I don't drink much, I find large crowds intimidating and I don't like organised fun.

I'd totally forgotten she existed.

Stalin notorious for making sure you could walk to the shops

Pam Bondi’s letter to MN Governor Walz: ICE will keep assaulting and murdering Minnesotans until you give me MN’s voter rolls. So the real purpose of ICE is clear to everyone; it’s not about making us safe, it’s about using ICE to tamper with elections #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Finally a use for leaf blowers.

we hear so much about trans people from the British press yet so rarely hear from them - I'm really pleased this piece was commissioned, and will also be in the physical paper: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

YES!!! 90 minutes optimal, ffs

Good sensible thread re: social media bans.

If it's Cary Grant's birthday, it must surely be time for me to post the "puppy in the jacket pocket" picture again. Be rude not to, really.

Morning

I'm so sick and bored of crap like this, day in day out. This is all that politics seems to have become.

And invests no money in content or creators or any infrastructure of programme making, does no training, cannot support collaborative projects efficiently, and has an opaque payment system that mitigates against what the public would understand as “making television”.

[scottish castle] JK Rowling's agent: hey joanne agent: you wanted to see me? JK Rowling: yesss Rowling: i want to enquire Rowling: how are sssales of the hallmarked man? agent: agent: sales of what? Rowling: the latesst cormoron ssstrike book agent: agent: you're still writing cormoron strike?

Lovely tribute.

Why there?

This is my MP. Sounds like I need to email him disagreeing with him. Again.

I think the only advice I'd give to people new to Bluesky is that maybe you don't need to repost 50 pieces of Bad American News every single day, particularly if you're not actually an American

Excellent. One of my favourite things is collecting book titles from National Trust libraries.

Ha! This is a great little book. (Not following football, I have no idea why now but can guess there's been a giant killing) But do read this.

In a world where hate-filled freaks never stop shrieking it's easy to forget that normal people are like this. And it's so wonderful.

Columbus clearly a fool, these have lovely faces!

Oh, shove your 'smart speaker' up your arse, Radio 3. "All without touching a button!" I DON'T MIND TOUCHING A BUTTON! I CAN COPE WITH TOUCHING A FUCKING BUTTON! Good morning.

Breaking: Women's Aid Ireland will no longer maintain a presence on X from tomorrow. @womensaidireland.bsky.social

This is why we need to prioritise deicing pavements and cycleways. Kids could walk and cycle to school and @samfr.bsky.social, and many others would avoid trips to A&E. The lost productivity, NHS pressure and human costs of falls is immense.

Glad we made this decision today I know colleagues, the government and other organisations think they will be ceding ground and an important public discussion space if they leave X It has been twisted too far into an unsafe, malign and destructive tool to morally use, & thereby endorse, anymore

🎵"What have you done today to make you feel proud?" 🎶