Can't even cottage now, because of woke.

Very interesting piece, including the extract below which has the ring of truth

i'm cubing again

Some of the stray dogs living near Chernobyl have recently turned blue. This confused scientists for weeks, until they realized they had simply been rolling around in chemicals from a nearby set of portable toilets. 14/10 for all

Utterly perfect and the last paragraph is 🧑‍🍳 💋

Little Women turned into a whodunnit? Count me in.

This is just a Michael D. Higgins appreciation post. A truly wonderful President of Ireland, and a man with great taste in books. Wishing him all health and happiness (and time to read) in his retirement! @communitywealth.bsky.social

I mean seriously, one of the key roles of civil servants is to protect ministers. Something has gone very badly wrong here.

I saw it and now you do too The Dune Navigator hot dog maker.

This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts You might like it if you like: Folklore Old buildings Friendship Records The power & magic of landscape ..

FFS Timpson is wrecking his reputation

This week is your last chance to visit Bearwood's very own Dr Who Experience! Don't miss the opportunity to venture into the interior of the TARDIS (it's bigger on the inside!), Push the iconic 'Time Flush' handle, play with the sonic wipers! Gaze into the mirror of dimensions!

Can anyone help Pete? Worthy cause.

Does anyone know of a complete criminal justice dataset that includes cases with data from initial reporting to sentencing? I don't care how big or small it is. I'd prefer it be from the US but beggars can't be choosers.

Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.

This is Thursday! Join us! Joooooin uuuuus

Thanks, The Times, for your brave candour. How else would I have discovered that nipples are characterised by large square patches?

This is spot on. Quantum’s gonna be the next cyber grift (again), after the bottom falls out of GenAI. www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

I've not plugged this in a while, but if you still haven't got yourself a copy of my Rodigan endorsed Sleng Teng rework of Eddie Cochran's Somethin' Else, then what are you waiting for? rongorongorongo.bandcamp.com/album/someth...

Dear friends, do me a favour and please spread the word on this. Times are tough, but so is this record...

Charitable donations are a drop in the ocean where there should be government funding, but for what it’s worth I’ve been asking to people to give to St Christopher’s Hospice in memory of my father, in memory of his love for my mother, who was cared for there. www.stchristophers.org.uk

The NUJ has issued a statement in response to the resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director-general, and Deborah Turness, BBC News chief executive www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Here is the first poster we will be looking at in detail, at PantoSplaining!

In a celeb-obsessed world, someone thought what could be better than three famous artists collaborating in a new exhibition. As it turns out, the answer is almost anything else could be better. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tri...

That the BBC loves nothing more than reporting on itself is, in my opinion, a misunderstanding. There is no BBC in that sense. Just hundreds of journalists working for dozens of programmes, all of whom hate each other

Incredible shit here: the man who provided the template for stomping on the BBC when it displeases malicious actors in politics, complaining that malicious actors in politics are using his template for stomping on the BBC for displeasing them.

Mike Chalk interviews David Lammy. Only on YouTube. youtu.be/-QdJ8VvapTA

Please appreciate this Bernese Mountain Dog (and friends) guard of honour for outgoing President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins! @weratedogs.com www.facebook.com/share/v/1GDY...

They're MADra for Higgins! I'll get me coat

petition to remove dust from the milky way 1 like = 1 dust grain removed

#SpéirGorm www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

The Treasury of British Comics Annual is out on the 12th November, featuring CAPTAIN CRUCIAL, originally published in Buster in 1991: ✏️ Pencils: Mervyn Johnston Available to pre-order now: https://bit.ly/44E9Eib

The Today Programme.

I will be appearing on BBC News 24 shortly to discuss the DG resignation. I will then get more and more aerated and bring up Rothschilds, the Illuminati and lizards before the producer realises I’ve somehow made it past security uninvited, and be dragged off set by 4 guards. Be sure to tune in!

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Have you ever tracked, in photos, the retrograde movement of a planet? 🔭 Or perhaps you're planning to capture the retrograde motion of Mercury and Jupiter this month? (1/2)

if you pare back expertise and experience, you end up with a newsroom full of well-meaning kids with no old lags to go "er, no, you need to make clear that that's an edited speech"; you end up with an emasculated Newsnight; you end up with no scope to do time-consuming investigations.

THREAD. In my attempt to raise money for a deposit on a house I’ve decided to sell all my duplicates of favourite LPs. Not cheaply but below Discogs:eBay going rate. If any of these are of interest, please reply below and I’ll dm you with price. All first pressings. All classics. All in nice nick.

Monday

I really don’t think this is true and it’s unclear to be why the BoE does

Q. Where would you get two bestselling Irish authors in one utterly charming bookshop on Tuesday? A. Ennistymon, Co Clare Q: For? A: A FREE event! Conversation, book signing, readings refreshments and Q&A Join @roisinm.bsky.social and me in Banner Books on Tuesday at 7pm ... #spéirgorm 📚 💙

still happy to do this, folks

And for my next trick…