Even more California pop in #Leeds this summer: NEUTRALS come to Leeds from the thriving Bay Area scene. Royal Park Cellars, 31st July, touring in support of their recent @slumberlandrecords.com LP 🌻 Tickets 9 quid! www.seetickets.com/event/neutra...

This is a v good job for someone: The Howard League | Policy Manager share.google/GgiohhsbOoVd...

Gaza war’s 1,000 days: 90% of strip ‘destroyed’, 80% ‘seized’ by Israel https://aje.news/dnstzj

All MPs' outside earnings by party: The Conservatives come out top at 66% of total earnings from second jobs, while Reform (with just eight MPs) account for 20%, and Labour (with 400+) just 7%. But taking into account their size, Reform has by far the highest outside earnings per MP of any party.

I used to have this as my phone alarm when I was at uni and the intro still makes me snap wide awake in fright

LA band Exploding Flowers are playing in #Leeds next month: jangle pop, ’70s-era Chilton/Bell, mid-’80s New Zealand guitar pop, L.A.’s Paisley Underground Joined by The Gentle Spring (Skepwax, ex-Sarah folks) and Leeds' own Static Caravan and The Seven Inches! www.seetickets.com/event/explod...

'Frisco bands in Leeds on a random Tuesday! It's more likely than you'd think.

Just replied to an email.

It's very interesting how different conservatives' assessment of Britain's global importance is when it comes to war (very very important, we must spend much much money) and when it comes to climate change (there's no point in doing anything, we're so small and irrelevant)

approaching peak memeification of the data center

And here’s 1961 and 1962:

The London County Council Parks Department brochure for the 1963 season of open air entertainment, which took place across the Council’s various parks and outdoor venues:

SPOOK THEM ffs

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Reform Council Leader Under Investigation For Sharing Contract With Reform HQ www.politicshome.com/news/article...

More 10-year-olds say they want puppies than parents do. What's behind the divide?

Mystery randomised abundant lawn growth

But I was told it was inevitable.

Not that I'm able to vote in one anymore - but there should be a full leadership contest process. Starmer and those around him should be made to face the full scrutiny and forced to answer to their abject moral and political failures.

Congratulations to Andy Burnham for winning The Masked Singer.

I posted about this way back in the good old days of Twitter & @dimorphodons.bsky.social , whose musical knowledge is incredible, posted an appearance (the only one?) on record. Apparently they were impossible to keep in tune, so useless for live work

Using the BoE inflation calculator - my dad bought an ex council house for £40k in 1988. It should be now £115k according to that website. The last valuation was £650k.

okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go

See also Roblox, which is wildly unregulated

If the government can work out how to successfully block YouTube on my kid's TV then fair play tbh.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sickening

Bolton imam Hassan Patel, 42, lives at the property with his wife, four young children and his nephew

RIP

Seeing David Hockney's work at the Salt's Mill in Saltaire as a teenage boy changed my life. It opened up my mind to the joy and beauty of creativity and subconsciously started driving me towards a more creative life. RIP David Hockney, you are gone but will never be forgotten.

We had Hockney prints up in the corridors in school. I often stared at The Chair feeling emotions I couldn’t quite fathom.

RIP David Hockney, so many years of brilliance ❤️

There's a name for this, why won't the press use it

So the government CAN bring in rent caps... 👀 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Note that UK officials are still actively using this guy’s site.

"Protests" are not what's being planned. Race riots are

“Women survivors say NO to the EHRC Services Code of Practice. We will not allow our voices to be used to harm the trans community and know that in almost all cases our assailants are cis men already known to us.

This is hugely welcome and overdue - a more honest definition of what is truly affordable is what's needed to re-align development and regeneration toward meeting actual housing need, and help unlock the real scale of central funding required. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/mps-cal...

Reminder Children of Men is set in 2027

As a now very-long-time @cmatbaby.bsky.social fan, my heart is just bursting for her with all this Olivia-adjacent love and recognition. She's the best pop star there's been in at least two generations and she deserves every second of this!

One of a number of San Fran bands in Leeds this summer! See also: April Magazine and Tony Jay at the Fox and Newt: wegottickets.com/f/19872/

This has come around fast, my annual expedition to the far west (Farsley).

Ready for my walking trip to Summerisle now (plus extra gubbins from @hiddenbritain.bsky.social)

TOP LEVELS OF TRANSPORT (1969)

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

You used to go to websites and they would have guestbooks that people would sign like it was a bed and breakfast

That's yet another baleful consequence of the decline of local media. Just loads of "Anyone know what's happened at the Bell corner" after an accident or something, followed by post after post of uninformed speculation and no one to verify

As a local councillor for the last almost decade, these groups are the bain of our lives. They are undoubtedly where we are able to reach the largest number of constituents with updates and comms - but daily purposeful right wing misinfo brings collective brainrot and mainstreams extreme views.

Social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear at current building rate’