Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray! www.bl.uk/stories/news...

#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

I don’t think William Morris would have liked his designs being printed on things made of plastic. Polyester pyjamas? Ick.

Top writers ruled out of NZ book awards due to AI covers

"We want to smash the smuggling gangs so we can do the human trafficking ourselves!" Can our MPs listen to themselves, please?

Under the proposed UK immigration rules, Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany would have had bwen reviewed every 2.5 years until the 1960s and once the war was over and Germany 'safe', they all would have been sent back to live in the country, that had recently murdered millions of their fellow Jews.

theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or

"Vote for us or the far right will get in. Also, we find the far right inspirational" 🤡🤡

Why do Home Secretaries seem to get more evil and heartless with every iteration? Doesn’t matter what party they nominally belong to, they just seem to come up with horrendous ideas.

This makes me feel physically sick. No MP should support any of these measures until they have spent a month each working in asylum detention and with unhoused people. How dare she call this 'moral'? It's disgraceful.

This is heartbreaking, immoral and disgusting. These stories expose the lie at the heart of every claim to be opposed to children's healthcare in the name of those same children's safety.

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

This 👇 Everywhere.

One more sad tale of poisoning on these nature-depleted islands, with #biodiversity in a parlous state www.bbc.com/news/article...

Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.

The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Being an artist is so weird because you'll go insane if you don't get to make a picture every once in awhile

too real lol

⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later. Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.

Also tbh the idea that the average layperson can become expert enough in any field to have a nuanced and meaningful take on policy is frankly 98% of why we are in any given mess. No, a weekend of reading is not gonna make you an expert on anything and some they’all don’t even do that much.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

Twenty years after the war, I walked sniper alley in Sarajevo haunted by images of civilians dashing between buildings for cover. I never imagined that some may have been shot by ‘sniper tourists’ who paid for a chance to kill them. My god!

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth. Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it. Every single time.

My poor Throgmorton hates fireworks. Somebody just set a load off next to our building and since we’re on the sixth floor the noise is enormous. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Hard same. Someone asked me the other day about something and said “you know in chatGPT when you click on…” and I stopped them, because, my dude, I have never even SEEN ChatGPT, let alone used it.

I knew James Watson was a dick for sidelining Rosalind Franklin. I did not know how much of a dick he truly was.

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FREAKING PIGEON ON THE FREAKING SKYLIGHT

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Curriculum changes will see primary school children taught for the first time about how to spot misinformation and disinformation so they "develop the critical thinking needed to challenge what they see" news.sky.com/story/bigges...

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

Discussion of lots of people being on long term sick leave since 2019 without mentioning covid is like talking about wwii without mentioning bombs or guns. And yet....

There are at least four angles worthy of exploration: - The nature and severity of the attack. - The effects on arts and humanities research. - The aged and patchwork nature of the BL's IT estate which has made it hard to recover from. - The BL's commendable honesty in sharing lessons learned:

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.

Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now. We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

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With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton. No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

Oh my god, the tub of lard on Have I Got News For You was 32 years ago. That’s the scariest thing I’ve seen this spooky season.

“I’m the most peaceful president!” *restarts nuclear testing*

Miércoles

I was editing tonights sunset and caught this couple seconds with birds flying across the horizon. incredible.

My Northerner was reading a list of PS5 games he could buy me and skipped one saying “oh I know the answer to that one”. I asked what it was and he said “hogwarts legacy”. He’s a good egg.

We head for Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday, and once again I am DISGUSTED by the sort of rancid bin juice of a mind that things a quiet dignified commemoration of the war dead and a way of collecting money for the injured and bereaved has been turned into a carnival of patriotic vulgarity.

Isopods!! 🧡