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Our double glazing installers have Smooth FM on and my husband is not enjoying it. I, however, am loving all the 80s power ballads.

If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

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Good morning to all the parents with autistic kids having the ‘you might hear on the news today…’ conversation. Thankfully 6 Music added ‘with no evidence’ in their reporting.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

So the politicisation of health continues in the States and I want to highlight a few key things 🧪🧵

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

It was the omg of times, it was the Jfc of times

Audiobook of Alan Bennett’s diaries or Oleta Adams.

Husband and I now treating the tree as our third child, checking on it all the time. (Snufkin would be the second, you didn’t miss an announcement or anything. And no, we don’t actually refer to ourselves as her parents, because we clearly aren’t.)

Love 6 Music, hate that 6 Music News does this. And they’ve been doing it for months.

Investment in major public transport infrastructure, what a dream…

Husband and I have finished the front garden (for now) between ourselves this afternoon. We ripped up the fake grass the other week, and have been digging out rubble. This afternoon we put a load of topsoil and compost on it, planted a magnolia tree and sowed a load of clover lawn seed.

If you want to know the days your local tip is shut just arrange a trip there with me and my mum because it seems like we only select days when they are shut. Last month we tried to go to my old local one the day it was closed, just checked the opening times for my new one, and guess what?!

Ah this may explain why a Christian friend said ‘yes he was conservative but he was a reasonable man’ despite him being on record as having said many despicable things.

Spot the difference: John the Baptist from the Hours of Joanna I of Castile and our Community Engagement Officer remembering how many emails he has to respond to

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

If predictions are correct, we could see the cost of train travel rise by a further 5.5% next year. If you agree that the Government should be doing more to protect passengers from excessive fare rises, use our quick form to email your MP: bettertransport.org.uk/campaigns/fi...

oh just FUCK off

despite media focus on small boats and asylum seekers, these only make up a tiny % of those coming to the UK – less than 5% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social

Have some colour on your timeline, local street art.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

I enjoy the way that in this photo our cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.

🎙️📚 New Episode! 📚🎙️ @michaeljleader.bsky.social speaks with critic @nicolasrapold.bsky.social about his new book, The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki, which examines the films of our favourite grumpy Japanese master through a spectrum of influences and inspiration. Find it wherever you find your podcasts!

This Trump-ally billionaire's my neighbour. He's collecting estates: Conholt, Hippenscombe (of Ravilious fame) & Buttermere, & rents the one I live on, filling it with pheasants. A piece in the Telegraph seems to say locals 'mostly like' what he's doing. Not met one yet. @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!

The Buccaneers on Apple is so ridiculous it’s both funny and exhausting. Is anyone ever going to end up with someone they love? Enjoying Glasgow and Edinburgh location spotting too.

Pretty important context for all the "MAHA" nonsense is that chronic disease deaths are falling almost everywhere, including the United States

Couldn’t work out how to get off Trailfinders mailing list (only went on for the 13yo’s travel brochure interest several years ago) online, and didn’t want them sending stuff to our old address, so I had to phone them up like it was 1997 or something.

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Poll of over 7,000 people reveals strong support for clean energy, nature restoration, and climate action. A large majority made up of people who think they are in a small minority, thanks to relentless misinformation online and in the mainstream media.

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

Absolutely unbelievable to see egregious anti-science nonsense being given an airing like this. Well done @lewisgoodall.com for calling it out. “A broad church… freedom of speech” - and that’s the excuse for platforming not just misinformation but disinformation.

Our garden in it’s current state is something you might use to illustrate an example of a nature depleted space, but there’s been a butterfly visiting for the past few days. Our previous garden was teaming with insects thanks to plants and wild spaces. We will change this one!

It’s being reported that Government are about to announce the furthering the use of Barracks to warehouse Refugees. Ignoring the findings of the National Audit Office report that these are significantly more expensive than hotels. But that’s just the financial cost www.nao.org.uk/reports/inve...

"That's me, that is."

We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities. Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically. Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏

Tracking my Ikea delivery and the driver has got a really nice route around the Yorkshire Dales today.

Okay the Earl of Grantham I wasn’t familiar with your game

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

I still miss the smallness of Scotland, where you realise your friends know people you know but in a different way. I know this happens everywhere but it seems to happen a lot to me there.

These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡

Guilt. Er, no thanks!

This was me (government adjacent account). There was a certain task we would take hour long shifts on because it got so overwhelming. I think I only stayed in that job for as long as I did because I worked part-time.

Why are so many Facebook posts full blown essays these days?

This is proper and good. A must-read.

The flags on roundabouts and crossings have reached our town 🤢😢.

Oh dear…