HEY SCHOOLS! I have a special #buyastrangerabook day offer just for you! @nadiashireen.bsky.social is offering to buy you a set of her brilliant Grimwood series. All five of them! If you'd like them, just get in touch. UK only

Once upon a time, in a city different from this one but in the same place, a woman's friend took her photo just after a massive fucking earthquake. It's now a 15 year art project. (This is the first time I haven't been able to fit the skirt but, you know, I'm in my 50s now)

Waymo spotted in Deptford @chimpman.bsky.social @londoncentric.media

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

Reminder that if you were born between 1970 and 1990, you can get MMR boosters free on the NHS. Just call your GP surgery and ask, they'll get you a nurse's appointment pretty quick www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery. UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Transphobes have opened up “a toxic, traditionalist culture” so bad the WI is closing chapters rather than comply. Well done, TERFs! Even the WI calls you toxic. But those women’s wishes don’t count, I’m guessing? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Please reply to the consultation here: consult.education.gov.uk/independent-...

New School Guidance announces: Full bathroom ban. Full PE ban. Full school trip accommodation ban. Trans kids will not go to the bathroom, do PE or go on any school trips. 1/

Looking for something else I found this, with is always worth watching

I’m seeing a ❄️ risk in our region Friday evening / early Saturday. Namely in showers. Models have increased depth of cold air, certainly sufficient for falling snow to low levels further southeast with air flow I’d expect North Sea convection. Not the biggest window ~12 hours but one nonetheless.

Victorian school conversion into housing nears completion in Deptford as part of a 209-home project www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/02/09/f...

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)

"We attend to grief so that we have an everyday world that not just persists, but thrives, and becomes a world that is more just and fair."

That splendid sign-off of the Queen Mother’s – “Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis” – celebrates its 85th anniversary today

Vinted packaging continues to deliver (badoom)

Hey, several batches of baby formula from a couple different brands in the uk and Europe have been recalled for contamination causing illness: if you formula feed, check your supply. Info here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Though I try to stay humble, I'd say I'm probably the nation's top journalist when it comes to in-depth reporting on the Waitangi dildo strike. Even so, I hadn't picked up this piece of info until this week thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-...

A rare patch of sunshine from the past in week in Lincolnshire with some naturalised Double Snowdrops in it #WildflowerHour

That quilt...

a heads up for Londoners! the Cinnamon Club is doing a deal til the end of the month where you can order a number of their dishes from their 2001 menu, crucially at 2001 prices friend and I just went for lunch and a two-course meal was £22 per person, mental

Re-upping this article in the Guardian Oz, about my research into the extreme harm being caused by Wes Streeting's puberty-blocker ban. UK mainstream media has collectively ignored my research (as I expected) but not the Guardian Australia. Needless the UK and US Guardian's didn't share it.

Hobbycraft issues full recall of asbestos-tainted children’s play sand

The #Aurora Australis went coronal (directly overhead), extremely rare at 45°S, but also strangely the 3rd coronal event I've been in the past 2 years here in New Zealand during this solar cycle. These images are 10 seconds apart looking straight up! #Nikon #Photography

Unrelated but there’s one Sherlock story where he asks Watson to get the night train down from London and bring all his luggage for a long journey and Watson’s like “sure where are you” and Sherlock says “Lewisham” and it just sends me

just spent a while filling out the Call for Evidence about pregnancy and postnatal care in England and anyway I am going to go eat a lot of ice cream about it, and I encourage you all to do it if applicable www.matneoinv.org.uk/call-for-evi...

Given how this went in New Zealand and Australia, this is...not good.

life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready

The top 6 media stories on Stuff are landslides, storms, floods. None of them mention climate change, which we know makes these events more frequent and more extreme. People have lost their lives. Homes have been destroyed. And leading politicians are in the pub having "great fun". #nzpol

Another as yet unclaimed #buyastrangerabook day offer! @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social would like to cheer someone up a bit by buying someone the book of their choice, up to £15. So, if there's something in particular you'd like, get in touch. UK only.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

aside from work stuff, i mostly use social media to look at funny videos of dogs and subreddits about nail polish. you would not BELIEVE what the lacqueristas are getting up to over there, the anti-ICE nail art is flooding the feed.

DE ICER ICE OUT OF MN Powderhorn Art Sled Rally Minneapolis

Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of @tkingfisher.com's Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel Book 1), which I have, have read, have enjoyed, and have given out before. Because this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one!

Also New Zealand! My GP surgery in England had no issues giving me the second one.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights... Some key findings...

It's depressing how much UK political messaging relies, not on promising better services, but by planting the suspicion that someone, somewhere, is getting something you didn't. We're told to expect next to nothing from the state, to the extent that supporting vulnerable children is framed as theft.

LIVE: Storm Goretti at London Heathrow Airport www.youtube.com/live/tr8f7XO... #avgeek #stormgorreti #planespotting #heathrow

Born #onthisday in 1832, the French illustrator Gustave Doré. Pictured is the “The New Zealander”, the last of Doré's plates for London: A Pilgrimage (1872) in which he depicts a distant traveller from New Zealand sketching the ruins of a future London: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

we need a hangover day for parent recovery after the holidays, nobody should have to do work until they've had a day of peace and quiet at home

If you have a condensing/combi boiler, this morning is a really good time to check its outflow. Mine is on its third pampering hot water bottle of the morning and starting to flow freely. If it freezes, your boiler will stop. Which you do not want rn. Or in general.

Happy New Year from this festive collection on a bench in Brockley 🎊

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

They should invent a year that isn't terrible.

A *source* has alerted me to the sad news that this year's Gavle goat has met its doom - blown over by Storm Johannes. Alas, alack www.dn.se/sverige/stor...

An entire mood

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!