DO YOU HAVE A DIG OR ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT YOU THINK REALLY OUGHT TO BE ON DIGGING FOR BRITAIN SERIES 14? Then email [email protected] and maybe @toriherridge.bsky.social Rosanna or I will get to come out and visit! www.instagram.com/reel/DZViJ2T...

Rain delay at Queen's Club tennis at least proves the British climate hasn't changed *that* much.reminds me of a year when it chucked it down at Wimbledon and the BBC showed a freak thunderstorm that flooded the passages behind the court with the caption "Rain at Wimbledon. This is recorded Rain."

I really can't summon up any enthusiasm for the World Cup this year.

I'm very sad about this.

I encountered variations of Bari Weiss regularly during my newspaper days. Especially those with her deadly combination of arrogance and incompetence who and vicious ambition. In the last years of newspapers, the Baris became more numerous & drove the struggling biz straight into the tar pit.

One for fans of Alan Garner's "Treacle Walker".

This, on the death of Henry Nowak, is an outstanding piece of journalism by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...

🧵 on some typical anti-immigrant disinformation.

It seems slightly odd that Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth II, Eric Morecambe and David Attenborough were all born in the same year. What a motley bunch.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

ITV News, a staycatuon is not when you holiday in the UK..it's when you take time off and stay at home.

I think the flat must be re-radiating stored heat because it certainly doesn't feel much cooler in here today.

What happened to the Aral Sea is *terrifying* so it's great to hear that there's even a small amount of hope for it globalvoices.org/2026/05/29/h...

This is, indeed, extremely odd. Nothing new about unhinged independent MPs, it seems.

Few things feel aa good as a haircut in hot weather when you've left it a bit too long since the last one.

Re: previous post, I have never seen a Vonnegut quote I've disagreed with.

See also: Kurt Vonnegut. “A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society…

Disability Rights UK is conducting a survey on disabled people’s experience of Personal Independence Payment (PIP). If you want your experiences to inform research, policy discussions and recommendations on PIP, please fill out the survey in the link below.

Hotter than Majorca alert on ITV news!

Ten degrees cooler tomorrow sounds most welcome.

Reading the news of the number of people drowning in the hot weather - tragic for families & friends … reposting below originally seen from @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social

Current Met Office forecast says London temperatures down to low 20s in first week of June. Sweaty fingers crossed!

These stories come around every few years and unfortunately, nothing ever seems to happen.

🌞 Hot Weather Reminder 🌞 If you're taking antidepressants or antipsychotics, your body might struggle to regulate heat. Stay cool, drink water, find shade 🌳 #Summer #Weather

I don't know whether Race Across the World is expensive to make, but it's exactly the sort of thing I'm happy to see the BBC sounding license fee money on.

I thought Jo and Kush were going to annoy me, but they were genuinely lovely and quite moving to watch.

If you are going to the Bay Area Book Festival and you need MOAR scifi and fantasy books and art in your life, you can keep the energy going by signing up for BayCon 42! I'll be there, along with @charliejane.bsky.social and many other awesome folks!

re-posting for the, uh, late afternoon crowd

prepare yourself for the "terrible atlantic" truth social backlash

Nice piece on BBC News hughlighting @alexdecampi.bsky.social and @marclaming.bsky.social's work on the Dan Dare revival. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a terrific post from @naomialderman.bsky.social - with genuinely helpful advice

For anyone who has never met the Superb Lyrebird of Australia. David Attenborough says it displays one of the most sophisticated voice skills within the animal kingdom—"the most elaborate, the most complex, and the most beautiful." The chainsaw always brings tears to my eyes. 🥹😔

I was absolutely certain it was Saturday when I woke up, until I turned the radio on and heard @laurenlaverne.bsky.social.

The attempt to psrachute Burnham back into the Commons has backfire written all over it.

So if Streeting doesn't trigger a challenge by the end of the day, do we assume he can't raise the required number of supporters?

Interesting stuff. The problem here isn't so much the tech as making it cost-effective, because launching is so expensive.

By me for the Royal Academy of Engineering's Ingenia magazine: why it's so hard to recycle solar cells, why that's becoming a problem, and how some researchers are tackling the issue: www.ingenia.org.uk/articles/giv...

If JR's right, I think Rayner wins this, then gets completely monstered by the right-wing press.

BBC says "staunch friends of Wes Streeting are convinced he's going to go for it." He has staunch friends?

Perhaps the Labour Party could take 5 minutes out of its busy infighting schedule and let this be news for a bit

Pleased to hear that no party will work with Reform on Birmingham City Council. BBC News - Largest party Reform will not run Birmingham City Council - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At no point in this article does she say that better PE teachers are needed to help ensure kids aren't traumatised by sport at school.

'Dandelions,' was painted by the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann around 1910. It wasn't an arbitrary choice of a plant to paint: the dandelion was used to promote the women’s liberation movement in Scandinavia because of its capacity for uncontrolled, strong-willed growth.

I'm not that keen on Paddy McGuinness, but at least they didn't Jim Davidson back.

I can remember our next-door neighbours house in the 1970s still had a shelter at the bottom of the garden.The blitz cast a long shadow. 2/2

Watching #childrenofthebltz. My mum was born in 1940 and still can't hear an air-raid siren on TV without getting cold shivers. She and her mother went up to Grimsby for a while. My Dad was born in 1936 and went to Leicester for a while, where he caught measles which damaged his eyesight. 1/2

Excellent evening with @pictishtrail.bsky.social and Full! Band! at the Lexington. Johnny & Co sounded fantastic.

Tobomory has sold but there’s still three Wombles painted beer mats available. If you voted Green you should probably buy one. I think the Wombles founded the Green Party. darrenhaymanart.com

This is interesting. I don't think mindfulness is bollocks, but I've thought for a while that it's overstated. www.newscientist.com/article/2525...

No surprise that Essex went Reform. A little surprised about Suffolk, but I only know it from visiting as a tourist.