Well, NF did say he had a major Labour figure to unveil as the latest defection... 🤷

I'm genuinely trying to get my head around this because, like, you don't actually ever need to know how many people are ordering? If ten people want to share three pizzas, you order three pizzas. If they want one each, you order ten. It's no one's business how many people are in the room.

It's time for my occasional reminder to my Trans and non-binary family and friends, including those here on BlueSky. You are beautiful. You are amazing. You are wonderful. You are perfect. You are beautiful souls. You are worth it. You are valued. YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️🫂🏳️‍⚧️🫂❤️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights

"And what would YOU bring to Reform, Mr Jenrick?" "Glad you asked, Nigel. My special skill is being outmanoevred by Kemi Badenoch. Twice."

shoulda got a shield

You just know that somewhere there is a WhatsApp message from Jenrick saying “We are currently clean on OPSEC”.

The online exhibition of my Glasgow sunrise and sunset photos, including this one, is now live at www.thisismyglasgow.com/online-exhib.... Cont./ #glasgow #exhibition #photography #sunrise #sunset

*side-eyes Mum and Grandpa (her dad), Dad and Granny (his mum)...*

see also special education teacher, BCBA/RBT, veterinarian, and librarian mom Barbie Press a button and they all say “maybe I’m just making all this up” No extra articulated joints for flapping because she’s masked so hard for so long she’s forgotten how 😔

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

3/3 'Here is the bird that never flew Here is the tree that never grew Here is the bell that never rang Here is the fish that never swam' Symbols of the Four Miracles of St Mungo on the arms of the City of Glasgow, in glass by William Wilson in Glasgow Cathedral.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

The phrase ‘We have allowed those few senior managers to continue to be inquisitive about [AI]’ has got to be pretty uncomfortable reading if you are one of them. ‘James, Hank, we think you’re total weirdos, and we’re going to write that in our financial results.’

essentially repeating @jamesdaustin.bsky.social's point that people say they want a nice high street and yet aren't using their high street, in order to add: people need to also actively choose to spend more in brick and mortar shops than they would online, even if it feels unfair!

The Glasgow Wellspring in the city's cathedral. This well is believd to mark the location where St Mungo erected his cell in the 6th Century as he helped spread Christianity through Scotland. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowcathedral #publicart #ceramics #tiles

That was a fantastic Messiah! Liverpool Phil, conductor Laurence Cummings, dinosaurs Fflur Wyn, Reginald Mobley, Nick Pritchard, George Humphreys ❤️

So, one of my friends carried a surrogate pregnancy- egg donor and the dads’ sperm- and when the baby was born, despite having no biological relation to my friend, let alone her husband, her husband was put as the father on birth certificate. So uh. This doesn’t track

People of color > me on this so if they correct me, listen, but Say Her Name is reserved for Black, Brown, and Indigenous women BECAUSE they suffer state violence but will never be remembered the way Renee will. Renee died horribly. Her whiteness will guarantee a legacy women of color DO NOT GET.

Never have I been so glad that both my grandparents served in India-Burma rather than Europe! *side-eyes my late FIL, who was RAF ground crew in Europe......*

Of course everyone’s rolling out the salad puns (they’re all in the replies to the post below, kindly spare us any more), but I just want to say: every time she declares it’s not funny to compare her to a lettuce, it becomes funnier

A rather unusual version of the symbols from the Glasgow Coat of Arms outside Hillhead Primary School in the city's West End. Top to bottom they are the bird, the fish, the bell and the tree. #glasgow #hillhead #penguins #streetart

2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Peter Grimes, the Serenade and War Requiem are among my all time favourite works. This year I'm going to try to listen to every Britten piece, in the order he wrote them. Why not join me? #TheCompleteBritten

E-books are reading. Comics are reading. Genre is reading. Fanfic is reading. Text-based games are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Braille books are reading. Non-fiction is reading. Picture books are reading. There is no single way to read, nor is any reading style more worthy than another.

I got to watch this unfold in real life when some architectural archaeologists came to St Nicks and one was like "this bit is from the year x" and another one went "Hmmm... Possibly..." And the first one STOOD UP and got right in his face and yelled "NOT 'POSSIBLY'! NOT! 'POSSIBLY'!!" It was great.

I’ve seen people pointing out that viewing this image on your phone would be a criminal offence in several jurisdictions: Add England and Wales to that list. By downloading the image from Twitter you’re both “making” and “possessing” under the Protection of Children Act 1978.

Postscript: walking from the hall to the pub afterwards I was stopped and embraced and thanked by members of the audience then offered *many* pints in the pub. All because music - *live* music - makes their lives better in ways they can’t describe. But it really does.

Aaaaaargh. Nearly as bad as the graphic on the literal knitting show.

I hope the secret traitor’s Alan Carr.

standard ebooks does beautiful work with public domain titles and there are a lot of great new ones available today, including maltese falcon, stuff from christie, faulkner, kafka, hughes, lardner, sayers and more standardebooks.org/blog/public-...

Look, one tech bro needs to take one for the team and actually read Lord Of The Rings so he can turn it into a podcast form that the others can understand. This can’t just keep happening.

NYE, #CursedCarols style.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

I do this, but with 3-monthly ones & usually have 3-4 weeks between them because I can time my repeats to the start/end of a cert.

Quite apart from the whole “are we the baddies” aspect, Sauron’s security was famously not as watertight as he thought….

'Penguins listening to the Gramophone during the summer, 1908 - 1909'

Got talking to an old neighbour last week; asked after her kids (I remember them all being born, so expected "uni/first job" type updates). NOPE, they're 35, 31 and 28 😱

careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Assistan... Assistant Ensemble Manager job in the BBC Singers team. Closing date 5th Jan, salary £30-35k, please share widely.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books.

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

Displeased to be embracing middle-age already, but at least my computer/middle-distance glasses are pretty!

If this got more views on YouTube than the actual show, it would make my year. youtu.be/Y54OJC0FtCs

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

It’s the 32nd anniversary today of one of the greatest chase sequences in the whole history of the motion picture, which means it’s also the anniversary of the single greatest sound effect 🧵👇

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

The original and best.

Shocked that the TV version of Carols from Kings (on at the moment) not only omitted the war verse from ‘It came upon the midnight clear’ but also the Herod verse from ‘Unto us is born a son’ 😮 Tune into tomorrow’s repeat of the live radio broadcast if you think the violent bits are important!

Mum's got one of these - Dad will be using it tomorrow! -Mum has gastroenteritis -Steve's vegetarian -Anyone who's seen me cut bread knows it'd be Frankengammon if I tried!