Given how thrilled we all were by a complaint about the quality of copper, this is very exciting!

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Terrifying, and surely a war crime.What's the point of launching missiles at residential areas?

The University of Life churns out yet another massive wanker

Anyone have a few quid they can spare to help purchase interceptor drones?

Fresh from the birdbath

Ian, Don’t: The continuing disappointment of political commentary on sex & gender @voidifremoved.co.uk From @sarahditum.bsky.social Dunt & Lynskey are mansplaining article to an excellent one by Dave, who I’m very happy to explain where these lads get it so wrong. www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/ian-dont

Made the mistake of opening a packet of crisps in the garden...

That these posters always attribute the threat to other, bad men is part of the protection racket nature of patriarchy. Other variants: "if you go out dressed like that you're asking for it" "if you make him angry you're going to get hurt"

Unbelievable.

Look, all I'm saying is if some bitch wanted to prick my finger so I could sleep uninterrupted for a few years I wouldn't be all that mad about it

Bluesky today is certainly not short of middle-class middle-aged men having their first foray into the subject of women's rights! By which I mean trans rights, obviously. Women aren't real.

This old girl has been visiting my garden for at least five years now. Multiple litters of kits have taken their toll on her plumage! I suspect her of chewing the water pipes in my loft, but we politely skirt around the issue.

I was looking for a seat and then I found a seat and heaven knows I'm miserable now

Give any of them time in the job and they will achieve uselessness

I'm really not sure a net is the tool for this particular 'job'...

A study from the University of Oxford found that trans-ID murderers outnumbered trans-ID murder victims by a similar ratio to males overall. It also found the BBC published more than four times as many articles on trans murder victims as they did on perpetrators. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Me: I'm thinking some people were maybe meant to be alone, and maybe I am one of those people. Barber: I meant in terms of your haircut.

me, as a child: *walks into the kitchen covered in my own blood holding a rabbit I fought from a hawk* my mom, on the phone: *mouthing* I’m on the phone

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

(me, struggling to carry enormous novelty gavel) my lawyer: i thought we agreed you'd leave that in the car

normalize excusing yourself from various situations by saying “i hate this”

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Recreate your own Artemis splashdown with three Tunnocks teacakes and a Nespresso pod

when a mosquito wakes me up

Excellent question... my understanding is that drilling for North Sea oil has been shown to be uneconomical.

You can't have it both ways. I'm either a bad listener or that other thing you said.

If you can't stand up to your friends when they're doing something wrong how can you expect to stand up to your enemies? ...and if you think you shouldn't stand up to your friends when they're doing something wrong you are *also* doing something wrong.

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A really cool thing about driving a 25 year old Land Rover is that I can run it on chip fat in times of global discord. That said, chip fat ain't getting any cheaper.

Astonishing... the Green Party is spending more money *fighting its own female members* than it spends on elections.

Sentences never before uttered in human history

I bet he's sweating now.

Holy cow... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Very good, intelligent interview of Bill Browder by the Kyiv Independent.

Therapist stopped hitting on me long enough to tell me I’m a textbook narcissist.

Men resigning after the horrors revealed in the Epstein files is NOT justice.

Ana Teresa Fernández (Mexican, born 1980) "Telaraña", 2010. Oil on Canvas, 72 × 60 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Delicate flowers...

A communion wafer weighs approx 0.25g, and estimates for Jesus's weight range from 70-80kg. Taking an average estimate of 75kg, there are 300,000 wafers per Jesus.

Nice example of tripe fungus on yesterday's dog walk. Zonate and somewhat hirsute on top, gelatinous below. #fungifriends #fungi

#Donaldtrump #elonmusk #nature #photography #snow #war #mountain

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Yikes... I watched it in the cinema the day it came out!

FIFA Peace Prize organisers doing some soul searching this morning.

Facebook has become an absolute cesspit. What does it take to get offensive content taken down?

Slime Mold #fungi #slimemold #macro #closeup #closeupphotography #macrophotography #nature #naturephotography

I just watched a sparrowhawk catch and eat a mouse in my vegetable garden. Handsome chap.

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