will admit i don't fully understand this but POETRY OUTFOXES AI is the best case for preserving English degrees i have ever heard. 'all the teenage girls who were really into Sylvia Plath at one point vs tech bros' is the battle for civilisation we deserve

Really looking forward to @hospiceuk.bsky.social carol service on Monday December 1st, 7.30pm St Paul’s church, Knightsbridge Do come and join us for an evening of Festive Fun and support this extraordinary and important charity. www.hospiceuk.org/join-an-even...

🚨 NEW: The UK saw the largest increase in relative child income poverty of 37 high-income countries between 2013 and 2023, an increase of 34%, new research from UNICEF UK shows. If the two-child limit stays in place, child poverty will continue to rise. Is this really a record we want?

Happy #InternationalMensDay youtu.be/NR3aN_5aMtM

Oblivious to the oncoming cold front

Glorious Peter Falk interview. Every word a joy.

I couldn't let the piece on litter and dog walking pass without mentioning that my dog Bertie won a BBC Making a Difference award this year for picking up plastic bottles when we go running together. He's picked up more than 10,000, which are all now in the recycling.

It’s that time of year again! Test your skills and win some book tokens hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com/default.aspx...

I’m having a root canal this morning. Asked my daughter for some sympathy. Daughter: “Oh mum. They will be giving you prosthetics though won’t they?”

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

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A total and utter hero

If you’re in Coventry “At a time when our own politicians choose to divide our communities and stoke fear and hatred, we believe the opposite is true - that we can live peacefully and respectfully side by side” Manjinder Virk #StoriesThatMadeUs November 14th - May 2026 @the-herbert.bsky.social

Monday

Taken from Facebook, but I love this. This is how to do diplomacy.

Private Eye.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

This reflection on Prunella Scales has been put up by The Guardian, and her son, Samuel, reckons she'd have loved it. Definitely worth sharing here: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Glorious actor, wonderful woman ❤️

Happy Days

“When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant immunity,” Genius from @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/l...

“Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there; you do too much or you do too little. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick” ❤️

Anyone recommend a great book that they’ve loved this year? Not too fussed about genre but have particularly enjoyed In Memoriam Alice Winn, My Fathers House Joseph O’Connor, Raising Hare Chloe Dalton so far..#Books

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Felicitaciones, María Corina Machado, por recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz. This award honours not only your courage and conviction. But every voice that refuses to be silenced. In Venezuela and across the world.

Anyone recommend a great book that they’ve loved this year? Not too fussed about genre but have particularly enjoyed In Memoriam Alice Winn, My Fathers House Joseph O’Connor, Raising Hare Chloe Dalton so far..#Books

Love is..

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Flirt with someone today, do it for Jilly Cooper x

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

“When I approach the pearly gates, I'd like to hear a champagne cork popping, an orchestra tuning up, and the sound of my mother laughing” Patricia Routledge 17th Feb 1929 - 3rd October 2025 May your wishes come true, you wonderful woman and thank you x

Wtaf?

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make” Dr Jane Goodall, DBE 3 April 1934 - 1 October 2025

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

In his later years one of David Bowie's favourite things was to watch Midsomer Murders in his New York apartment

This is wrong. Whether you believe we have souls or not, anyone who has been with someone when they’ve died will know that whatever made them ‘THEM’ is gone. It’s final. Grief is brutal, exhausting, paralysing, overwhelming, agonising and inescapable. The desire for “one more chat” is universal..

Brilliant show. For Unforgotten fans- Carolina Main is superb in this

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

We’re going in.. Happy Friday people!

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...