🫘🍚 It’s beans and rice, and rice and beans, and a hand when you fall. For there’s a friendly face, a better place, and a future for us all.

The former Mayor of Abingdon is to attempt to break the world long distance Morris Dancing record - 200 miles along the Thames Path, from London to Abingdon and back, this May. Duncan Bhaskaran Brown is raising money for six charities along the way.

For the seventh year in a row, we were delighted to be nominated for Best Music at #UKARIAS. And if we had to be beaten to the Gold by anyone, we’re so happy it was our friends at BBC Radio 2 who make '21st Century Folk'. 🏆🎶 @markradcliffe.bsky.social

Congratulations!

Guy Hayward’s Robin Hood pilgrimage ends with this song, sung amid the nature-inspired carvings in the Chapter House of @southwellminster.bsky.social. 🎧 Listen to the full episode now: pod.fo/e/4160e6 @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social

Join Angeline Morrison for a walk around North Cornwall, in this classic episode of Folk on Foot. Tune in to discover more about Angeline's acclaimed "Sorrow Songs" album, which tells stories of the Black British experience. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/41dffc @angelcakepie2.bsky.social

This month’s Chart Show features music from @jimmoray.bsky.social, Natalie Wildgoose, Anna McLuckie, Lady Maisery with Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith, Lemoncello, @thelongestjohns.bsky.social, Ladylike and @chrisbrainmusic.bsky.social. ▶️ Tune in from 7pm BST: youtu.be/XUyZzqyH8fM

If you’d told me on January 7th 2021 that everyone in this picture would be pardoned and be paid $1 million each for reparations, I’d have said you were insane. It turns out that it’s American voters that are insane.

AP photog: Broken knee from NJSP rush Reuters photog: Sliced open fingers from ICE baton EPA photog: Deliberately maced in ear (wearing a respirator) Countless indies: Maced, shoved, shot at Visual journalist: Still held in jail +14 hours after being detained

This is Mars on sol 2711. 137 million miles away from us!

Catastrophic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's mostly on young people, who we train, so they can then go on out into industry/teaching to do amazing things for society. We also spend some on building big awesome instruments for massive telescopes so we can look back in time to see the birth of the first stars and galaxies👌 🥳

I mean, technically Christianity is a foreign import and truly indigenous Brits would be pagans...

Otherwise, the article was perfect

This is perhaps the thing that's annoyed me most about this government. They have had an opportunity to do something important AND in their political self-interest and instead chose to ignore it.

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b

A man in Brazil was arrested after training his dog to throw bricks at people who rang his doorbell. Several individuals were injured, and authorities filed charges related to dangerous conduct and causing harm.

A truly great evening; extraordinary music, perfect casting and great drama; and all in the Wyoming summer heat of Holland Park in May

La Fanciulla del West at @operahollandpark.bsky.social We have been run over by an opera, in a good way. The power and passion in this music are extraordinary and this is a production and performance you should not miss. Glorious singing, clever staging, utterly magnificent. #Puccini #StillInShock

Need some book inspo? 📚 The winner of this year’s EU Prize for Literature has just been announced! 🎉 Huge congratulations to Dora Kaprálová with her book ‘Maribor hypnosis’. And to special mentions Hélène Frédérick and Vladimir Vujović. Discover all authors: euprizeliterature.eu/en/prize-edi...

At a rough estimate, that means there are now two British people on the planet. Neither live in the U.K.

open.substack.com/pub/theleadu... @theleaduk.bsky.social #Burslem #HeavyMetal #Lemmy

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

That voice though. Sometimes raccoons get into my compost bin in the middle of the night. Their high pitched screeching sounds just like this.

"I'm not interested in the Grapes Center after all", whines Fox

Kegbreath is a RACIST sKKKumbag!

So much of this government has acted as if being in power is an unfair and wearying task that they don’t really want to do.

'It's just disgusting stuff!: Carol Vorderman demands apology from Reform candidate after misogynistic comments

Every picture of Sam Altman I’ve seen recently makes him look as though he’s about to burst into tears and wet himself, and I for one could not be happier. Do Peter Thiel next #HookItToMyVeins

HOLY GOD ON HIGH my darling grandmother’s only concession to perfume was old school 4711 cologne, and this shenanigans here is like seeing her in a boob tube and spandex leggings MY EYES MAKE IT STOP

scam likely

Bonjour, this is Marcel Proust from literature, please make a virement so I can write À la recherche du temps perdu deux, le bougalou électrique 🥐 🥐 🥐 🛏️ 🛏️ 🛏️ 🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️ 🖋️

Did an ep of @bunkerpod.bsky.social a couple of weeks ago when Kenyon’s candidacy had just been announced. Said something to the effect that we didn’t know much about him yet other than he was army reserve & plumber. I remember thinking as I said it, “I wonder what they’ll find when they google him”

It’s a full-time job, judging us all. #Noctis

The sunflowers begin to tilt eastward before the sun's even over the horizon or in the garden. Magic. #Nature

most corrupt administration in history

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... Splendid. @iandunt.bsky.social

Wow. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

If you want to read something genuinely thoughtful about Labour's future, try this. A single paragraph contains more interesting ideas than all 5,000 words of Blair's nonsense.

The chaotic, unique, beautiful Lebanon I knew has been reduced to rubble. When will it end?

cycled using my very chic new helmet for the first time just now and pleased to say it actually increased my risk of having an accident as I spent so much time on the road mentally calling all the cyclists wearing regular helmets around me inelegant oafs

The slippery, uber-ambitious, two-faced barrister he always was

Utterly repugnant, abandoning all the last tatters of decency he could lay claim to. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...