The love we have for our football clubs, eh? Sometimes you have to go inside their apps for the first time in a while for something to do with tickets. And what you see sets your heart beating so strongly that it reminds you of why you loved that club in the first place #MUFC

There is huge market share for the Lib Dem’s to run with the motto of “enough of this American nonsense let’s be sensible British people Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.

Abolish ICE.

Before I run off to eat lunch a few reflections on the @claremontcomms.bsky.social event today exploring how we create a society that values care. It's positive to see focus on the need to shift how we talk about care - in all it's forms to one that is universal. 🧵

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

and if you fancy filling my shoes over in manchester, apply here millmediaco.uk/2025/09/04/w...

@ruthhannan.bsky.social , try not to let this tip you over the edge

Few thoughts from me on the newly launched report from @centreforcare.bsky.social

There used to be like eight things to watch a year, your friends would look you dead in the eye and say have you seen triplets of belleville yet

Great rallying cry at the end Prof Lydia Hayes that care workers are strategic community anchors, who connect and enable their communities with a wealth of knowledge & skills. Resonated deeply on a statement for those who are active "care givers" in many roles.

I (Ruth) have just attended the launch of @centreforcare.bsky.social launch of their research into adult social care worker organising. A really interesting area, especially as Care Full is exploring solidarity in and across care. Thoughts. 🧵 The report is here: centreforcare.ac.uk/publications...

[showing a picture of a man with nice hair to my barber] I want you to kill this fucker

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

Look, I know it means well but I really don’t think it’s a good idea to mock the appearance of some of the fash out today, nor their incoherence - not least because their process of online radicalisation is driven by both a sense of material helplessness and information overload

Fascinating Nick Drake-based read, full of pointers for someone (me) who's always been a bit of a lazy '3 studio albums and that's it' guy

EXCL: Reform's first councillor in London is a convicted "slum landlord" who rents out a 33-person HMO. While digging into him I found out one of his former tenants is new Green party leader Zack Polanski. www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

Paid a visit to the London arms fair today... Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display. Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains? These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.

BOOM! Studios is HIRING!!! We're looking for a talented, organized, and detail-oriented Assistant Editor with 1-2 years in editorial or a similar field! You will most likely be working directly with me on a variety of comic titles. Please visit the link to apply! bit.ly/42ooXLq #comicjobs

Despite easily being the most British fighting vehicle ever developed, the mock-Tudor AT-AT programme was sadly cancelled due to budgetary concerns

i know many authors are experiencing this but it is so unsettling to create something complex, personal, inextricably interwoven into your own truth, and then see the thing only you could have made being fed into the playdough spaghetti factory of gray meaningless slop

We just tried to hack the jukebox at the local because it was either having full/tacky stuff put on, or was tripping on to auto mode, which was horrific. The tunes we picked should have lasted circa 40 minutes and taken us to closing time. Here's how we fared...*

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

To prove you are not a robot, check all the squares with dickheads

they really want it to be illegal to dislike them

Every Tuesday this month, I've been in Barrow, running a series of free comic workshops. Our final workshop is next week & there are still a few spaces left! 🕐 Tues 26 August 1-4pm 👥 12+ 📍 Barrow Library 🎟️Booking advised - limited spaces 👉 trybooking.com/uk/FCIP @comicartfestival.bsky.social

OH MY GOD

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

The movie Yesterday, but Peter Kay’s the only one who can remember Garlic Bread

This is more important and exciting than the Taylor Swift announcement by a lot: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

'A man could sleep in sheets damp only with his own resolve' - I get the Faulkner label but I'm experiencing very happy "Deadwood" flashbacks with the language and rhythm here

Nominative Determinism at it again

Yes, that's right - it's 'MISTER Captain" to you, citizen. Otherwise, what with the shield and all, Disney lawyers tend to get involved

An Alice show is ALWAYS recommended in this house!

Clearly meant to be a parody of something like a laundry powder box but still ultra-90s style

Brilliant. I always find that being made to feel as if I'm about to be grilled on 'Mastermind' is conducive to calm vibes

I hope this email never finds you. I hope a single shaft of light pierces the broken ceiling, giving life to saplings and ferns. I hope the old computer went dark years ago, and the office smells of moss and wild spores. I hope that you are free.

Spotify - pays artists fuck all money and destroys the industry - puts millions of dollars into joe rogan's pocket, helping to decimate the political landscape - started to create and flood it's service with LLM crap to further oust musicians - winds up directly funding drone warfare via it's CEO

Lyndon knows his stuff; I've been teaching beside him for years now

This is very, very good on media organisations suddenly realising there might possibly just maybe something bad happening in Gaza. Of course it's all very confusing for journalists wanting to do a journalism.

Exactly a year ago, in a joking mood, I posted that audiences would enjoy “Deadpool & Wolverine” if they'd seen 30-40 related movies previously. Well tonight I saw “FF: First Steps”, & can say, there's plenty to enjoy and be compelled about in it, if you've seen precisely zero Marvel movies before.

The Night of the Hunter is 70. It’s one of my top 5 movies. The critics savaged it & it was a financial disaster but its influence only increases with each passing year. A true original.

The Night of the Hunter turns 70 today, on the short list of the movies that forever changed the medium

The cover of the Steptoe DVD makes it look like Straw Dogs.

My listening is a bit behind (there's been an ep on "Social Mobility" since this one) but the @carefull.bsky.social podcast is hitting its groove now. Ruth and Hannah look at the meanings around... /1 open.spotify.com/episode/5ngr....

Are you fucking shitting me

If you see this, post a Marvel cover that you love.

Email Yvette Cooper and tell her that the right to protest is part of any functioning democracy and if she wants to even pretend we’re that, she needs to stop preventing pretty much all protest the government doesn’t like. action.greenpeace.org.uk/e/854853/4lP...

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...