I love Victoria Derbyshire. Newsnight tonight is a hard watch, but she is the best BBC News journalist by a long stretch.

Remember when coal once heated most Victorian homes and powered steam trains? A reminder that big systems can change, just slowly & unevenly (due to global inequities)

It’ll be fun to hear “it’s the sacred moral duty of all you scum idiots to vote for us” from the same people who - last time this was an issue - worked relentlessly to ensure one million easily led idiots voted for the Lib Dems: a party that had 12 MPs before the election, and 11 after it.

….watchin’ for pigs on the wing..

There isn’t enough horse paste in the world to keep this guy upright for another year.

I am heartily sick of control over the Home Office being given to people who are either monumentally stupid, vituperatively evil, or both.

My prediction. The Epstein files will not be released. They will be leaked. By a woman as there are no brave men left.

Cool!

71 million views. Another brilliant PR move by the outstanding WH comms team. They owned the libs again by attacking and demeaning Sabrina just because she asked them not to steal her music for one of their sick deportation videos. Thanks for the new voters.

'I can feel the cold platform through my shoes There must be something to be said But what's the use?' - Happy birthday Ralph McTell, writer of 'Terminus' and many other great train songs, who turns 81 today

It's a fragment of the Soul Of Scotland

Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”

This week Koko has an injured leg and has been on strict rest—so no chasing squirrels. She is not happy. I bought her a new horse stuffy to make it up to her. This morning she went Don Corleone on me.

My 40-year-old wife went to buy champagne for our wedding anniversary dinner. I phoned the off licence after she left, gave a description of her and what she was buying and requested they ask her for ID. She came home absolutely beaming. It's the simple things.

THE TENTH LEVEL was a made-for-TV drama, 50 years ago, starring William Shatner in one of his most powerful performances ever. It was inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research experiments, which studied the willingness to “just follow orders.” youtu.be/wzV_Z6EXhpE

Starbucks settles New York City worker scheduling violations. "Fast food employers must give workers regular schedules..., must provide schedules 14 days in advance and cannot reduce hours by more than 15% without ‘just cause or a legitimate business reason’." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

*pointing* tode

God. Primitive-looking Russian tank there. I wonder if it was one we gave them? Looks like a good time was had by all.

It's such a sad thing about human nature - say you absolutely loathed a book and everyone wants to know what it was. Mention a book you loved, recommend it for readers, and the world is a chorus of crickets. Y'all just want to hate on stuff

You still think our animal food system is not a cruel horrible broken and failed system? 👺Hundreds of millions of chickens perish in agony in awful sheds by floods heatwaves disease and fires. These poor birds died by failed ventilation: failing humans #LiveVegan #EndAnimalAg NOW

Sphagnum moss spore capsules. #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking

Next time Reform claim to be something different, remember this.

💸 The UN-backed SOFF climate bond aims to raise $200mn for weather/climate observation in the most vulnerable countries. Potential ROI? $160bn in economic benefits, per World Bank

Nice baby Triceratops in the background

@stigirish.bsky.social Thanks for the follow ☺️

A very good morning from Kings Cross! Time to head to Kings Lynn on the full run with these lovely 379’s!

Gordon Brown on 2-child benefit: “Kemi Badenoch plans to run a nationwide campaign from here to the next election about what she calls ‘Benefits Street’ - telling hard pressed working families that their taxes are paying for 'welfare scroungers' to 'game' the social security system.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora on Friday updated its regulation and monitoring of several iconic shark and ray species

This is your December reminder that it's absolutely acceptable to try and get to a set annual book goal by cramming in as many novellas and cookbooks as you can find before Christmas swallows you up! #booksky 💙📚

I wonder what it’s going to take to get DOD to release full audio and video of the Sept 2 strikes on the boat and survivors? They love to release these things every single time to brag about them, but we never got anything on this second strike. For some reason.

More than half a million Jamaicans whose jobs depend directly or indirectly on tourism. After the Caribbean country was battered by its first Category 5 hurricane, officials are rushing to reopen dozens of hotels in time to salvage the vital winter travel season. trib.al/KY1Rfcx

First woman CEO in the United States? Anna Bissell. Born #OTD in 1846. She took over the Bissell company in 1889. She secured patents, boosted marketing & grew exports to Europe & Latin America and, by ~1899, had created the largest organization of its kind in the world. #WomenInBusiness

Decided to check on the chickens before I went to sleep. Noticed a bunch of 'em including the babies were sleeping scattered around the porch instead of in the coop like they usually do after confirming everyone was okay started wondering what was making them act so weird well found my answer

Gliophorus psittacinus 🦜 #allthingsfungi #fungifriends

2 Dec 1916 // HM Drifter Adequate proved inadequate to the challenge of being rammed by armed drifter Emily Reaich off Bressay in the Shetland Islands, and sank. There were no casualties. The Adequate was a Wick motor drifter in #RoyalNavy service as a harbour tender at Lerwick. #WW1 #NavalHistory

Hundreds of millions. Wow, that's a lot. That's more than have died in every single war combined in the entire world since 1900.

OMG!! The 28 seconds one!!!! 😵

2 Dec 1940 // Armed merchant cruiser HMS Forfar (ex Canadian Pacific SS Montrose) was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat U.99 in the Atlantic about 500 miles west of Ireland. She was hit by four torpedoes. 172 of the 193 men on board died. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest. Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

2 Dec 1949 // 74-gun HMS Implacable (ex French Duguay-Trouin, captured 1805) was scuttled off Ventnor after many years as an accommodation/training ship at Portsmouth. Such an old and historic ship but alas, nobody was willing to pay for her to be restored. (IWM A 25961) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) December 2 in 1886 Josephine Aspinwall Roche was born. She was a Colorado humanitarian, industrialist, Progressive Era activist, and politician. As a New Deal official, she helped shape the modern American welfare state. #Herstory

Our K2 Pro 3D printer is rolling now. I still need to clear a little space and resituate it, but we're printing a refuse bin as we speak! I picked out a few PLA spools. Any filament you all really like? I'm excited to run some of this cookiecad I got.

Nancy, Viscountess Astor 1879–1964 US-born British politician. 1st female Member of Parliament to take her seat 101 yrs ago on 1 Dec 1919 (but not 1st elected). She was a great supporter of @wes1919.bsky.social & 1st President of Electrical Association for Women en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_A...

sometimes when I see them sleeping like this I tuck them in

I find all sorts of wildlife in Somerset. #snake #reptile #photography

Sarah Winnemucca’s trailblazing life as a Northern Paiute author, activist and interpreter helped expose injustice and advocate for Native rights, leaving a legacy that continues to inspire today.

He's done it. Erling Haaland reaches 100 Premier League goals in record time, beating Alan Shearer by 13 matches.