I just heard back from the reporter, and I am genuinely speechless. Is “we don’t care” the business model?

The History of Parliament is excited to announce a new 8-week internship position for postgraduate-level researchers, working with the House of Lords 1640-60 section. Follow the link below for more details on the role, and how to apply!

Had meningitis the summer after school and before Uni. V v lucky a young Dr spotted/hospitalised quickly and v minor longer term issues. As a wild child at the time my parents (forgivably!) thought I was hungover. The headache was so bad I couldn't lie my head down on a pillow. Didn't get a rash.

Following the meningitis outbreak in east Kent, a @ukhsa.bsky.social patient helpline is open for patients with no symptoms but who are concerned they have been in contact with a confirmed case, & for general enquiries. 📞 03442253861, 9am to 5pm. More information: www.kmhealthandcare.uk

Calling all students ➕ We’ve sent you important information about #meningitis–please check your student email. ➕Know the symptoms. Act fast if unwell. ➕Make sure your vaccinations are up to date. ➕Stay informed and look after yourself and others. #ThinkUHI #Students

This is my favorite opening paragraph in a long time. It fills me with hope.

New job #ad: Director of Marketing, Communications & Audiences, Crafts Council, Angel Islington, London. Salary: £65,000 - 70,000. #artsjobs

Happy #mothersday to all mums and a shout out to 'Vaila' - mother of six and matriarch of the '27s' Orcas. I took this pic of her in 2023 with her latest calf born in 2022 and fittingly, I was privileged to be able to see them again here in Shetland this week. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #UKWildlife

A friend of ours bought the Aldi Espresso Martini flavoured Wensleydale cheese last Christmas. I had to try it 'for research purposes'. I have to report it was beyond disgusting (unsurprisingly!) #thearchers

😆 at Brundle having to explain hand brakes "in old cars" ... so many, even in the UK, now drive automatics. (Says she who loves her 6 gear manual and once learnt to double declutch .. now they're old cars!) #F1

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

These are wild times when a funeral service is the most inspiring thing you’ve seen all week. Grateful for this man’s leadership. Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson🙏🏼🕊️🕯️

Have a collection of reel to reels of professors giving lectures on various topics, classics, literature, Greek Wars, etc. I hate to toss them. If you know anyone who wants them let me know. I’d convert to digital if I could-in US. Anyhow, anyone offer a suggestion I’ll listen.

There's been so much going on that I missed this story. WTF are we doing? @banditelli.org

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads! www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...

I can’t get over how 2 criminals - who could have been sent to jail before but were lucky - managed to stay in or regain power… And now are willing to blow up the whole world to avoid any focus on punishment for their own crimes. And are fine with killing the Other’s humans - & their side’s too.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

sad news, and a lovely tribute from a fellow legend I think my favorite Neil Sedaka song was “Laughter in the Rain”, and I remember seeing this performance even though I should have been in bed asleep m.youtube.com/watch?v=2IrD...

Oh no! I grew up with Neil Sedaka songs .. inherited my parents' love of this talented lovely man. Brilliant songwriter ....guess this will really be our last song now. Laugh in the rain .. condolences to all who loved him 🎶😍😭

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Our first librarian Élie Bouhéreau added recipes for laudanum to the flyleaf of one of his books on treating disease. The first was from English Physician Thomas Sydenham who popularised the use of the tincture in the late 17th century, followed by another Bouhéreau picked up on his travels in Paris

I know, I'm weird, but if I see this I just want to send all the archaeologists and everyone within sight away so I can sit there and think about all the people who went up and down those steps for a while. www.facebook.com/lwlarchaeolo...

Working from home proving more stressful than I feel is necessary

Timeline cleanser 🐋

Credit to Celinastuff #Newfoundland #Canada 🤪🤣 ❄️ 🍁💪🏻🇨🇦 Over 100 cm fell, up to 150 cm in other areas

Damn. Gutted. Congratulations Hellebuyck you won that for the US. Great game. Commiserations to Canada .. what a Winter Olympics, will miss it

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

Not been around for a few days .. thought occurred on the (former prince) Andrew M Windsor news as it broke. This is going to be like finally getting Al Capone convicted, but for taxes isn't it? (See brilliant film on it The Untouchables with Costner and Connery) .. Is anyone bar 1 woman 1.

Deputy Head of Research Funding at the British Academy (FT, permanent, £50,108, deadline 2 March). The postholder will help deliver a range of funding in Humanities & Social Sciences and manage the BA's relationship with 9 British International Research Institutes (BIRIs).

CBC Olympics posted this and this needs a review by the Olympics committee - 8 Czechia players were on the ice during their 3rd goal!!! WTF 🤬 CAN VS CZE

Canada was pushed to its limit, and needed Nick Suzuki, Jordan Binnington, and Mitch Marner's greatest ever play to beat the Czechs in one of the best hockey games I've ever, ever seen. This was why players wanted to go back to the Olympics. www.thestar.com/sports/olymp...

Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers dismissed Private Eye as “an absolute rag of a publication” Perhaps it was because @privateeyenews.bsky.social was publishing articles like this about Lord Mandelson's links with Epstein as long ago as March 2009!

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Paris by night, 1951 by Portuguese Modernist painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva #WomensArt

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We lost a giant in public health today. Dr. William H. Foege helped eradicate #smallpox - the only human disease ever eliminated—through science, surveillance, and vaccines. His legacy is the antidote to today’s antiscience, anti-vaccine rhetoric. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Move all the games being held in this pariah state, to Canada and Mexico.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Personally I'd consider the Afghanistan remarks to be justification enough for the BBC to tell him to shove his lawsuit up his arse.

Brit here. We are a polite and courteous people up to the point where you cross certain lines. a draft dodging narcissist diminishing the sacrifice of our young men and women who came to the aid of the US is one such line. We are furious. We are disgusted. He has shamed the whole US. Fuck off.

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Aww thanks to the PLR, I’ve got a nice little cheque and a statement telling me 6,800 people borrowed my books from libraries this year, which is wonderful! Remember, you can also borrow audiobooks from libraries