www.instagram.com/p/DZ_EcQAoiye/ My sister does #art too. #dog #Pastels #painting

GB News has published: Britons ordered to take down their air conditioning systems to comply with nett zero. WHEN will there be a law to stop entertainment TV channels using the word 'News' in their channel name? This ridiculous, toxic channel should not be allowed to pass this nonsense off as News.

How did Boris Johnson dampen unhelpful search results? He replaced them with something that grabbed attention. Watch out for this tactic.

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

If you're visiting stately homes this summer and are curious as to where the initial owner's wealth came from, one avenue (profit from the work of enslaved Africans) is something you can check the endgame of, in the register of compensation for slave owners, interactive map.

This TikTok posting doctor only has a placeholder on Bsky asbyet, so I suppose I'll have to share this myself: vm.tiktok.com/ZNRTP7QkM/ #domesticviolence #abuse #women #purecoldrage @gamingdoctor.bsky.social

Is this our new normal?

In a BBC article on the cyber-attack on Romania's hospitals in February 2024, I quote: "Healthcare is now the most targeted area of critical national infrastructure, the FBI has said recently." This means the information it holds is extremely valuable. So why are we letting US data companies at it?

BBC News - Can you refuse send your kids to school during a heatwave? Government waffle, alongside no maximum safe temperature for classrooms, leaves schools exposed. If a head teacher gets it wrong, and one child from among the thousands they educate needs an ambulance, they will be vilified.

Convenient that Darren Jones distanced himself from Starmer just a few days ago, and now nobly considers standing to replace him, in order to avoid a 'coronation' of Andy Burnham. 🤔

I saw this awsome image of St George's Church, Portland, on Google Maps and thought it deserved a wider audience.

Oh, goody. I know where to go now if it gets too hot, too flooded, too inflagrated etc. elsewhere. Good to know there's a tiny oasis on the planet where there isn't a climate emergency! BBC News - Reform UK council calls off Wakefield's climate emergency.

No, Donald. Starmer's greatest failing was to tax his working class supporters instead of taxing wealth, which would have provided the funds to rescue the NHS from corporate greed. To a lesser extent also his tardiness in dealing with water.

WIdentity mandatory check-in experience (part of WSocial.eu) is more akin to open a bank account than posting on a social network. We all joined bsky.app because it's open source, non-profit, not algorithm driven, not gated, independent, transparent - something WSocial seems to have missed.

THEY ARE BASTARDS

I'm watching BBC's Chris Mason, unable to contain his glee at the prospect of Starmer's resignation (while being interviewed by another BBC pundit, for some reason). He couldn't sound more like a Tory politician if he tried. He waffled on for a very long time, then concluded with "no news yet". 🙄🤨

Totally unacceptable. Barbaric sanctioned violence and misogyny based on 7th Century views. Organised religions are an utter abomination....

I eat Greek yoghurt normally, so imagine my surprise when I looked at the ingredients of the 'normal' yoghurt served in my hotel breakfast (it lacked bite and I was curious), to find that I had actually been served congealed milk gravy.

I wish BBC News would give over placing bets on Keir Starmer surviving the week as PM. BORING! And not news unless and until it happens.

Happy Solstice! I re-discovered this quick sketch I made, years ago, based on my youngest daughter.

In California alone, more than 550 workers have been diagnosed with silicosis caused by this engineered stone – a deadly disease that is totally preventable and for which there is no cure. At least 100 workers have undergone or are awaiting a lung transplant. theconversation.com/quartz-count...

Happy Solstice, BlueSky!

Sky is interviewing Tice. BBC News it is, then! #AndyBurnham #by-election.

So, should the #Environment Agency prosecute because he didn't seek a permit, or should they just tell him thank you but please go through the proper channels next time?

Drinking beer has also been linked to attracting mosquitoes, because it raises body temperature, increases the amount of exhaled CO2 and changes skin odor. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-r...

(1) On February 28th 2026, Donald Trump unwittingly dynamised the move towards renewable energy when he launched Operation Epic Fury (I know!🙄). Iran played its trump card (tempted to capitalise that T) and blocked the Straits of Hormuz by deploying cheap drones. The only card they need.

Lord Heseltine: "We must not have Reform or Restore or anything like it anywhere near the corridors of power in this country. I’ve seen it all before. [Oswald] Mosley in the 30s, Enoch Powell in the 60s."

One of Europe’s great railway secrets! Tickets on this mountain train, through little-known valleys in #Switzerland and #Italy, start at just 31 €. More in my latest HIGH SPEED dispatch: www.highspeed.blog/a-slow-ride-...

Following a.discussion with him indoors, I submit, for your astonishment, places where it is (reportedly) easiest to get a road driving licence (2022).

This was a ridiculously arrogant act for which the captain must have felt sure there would be minimal or no repercussions. If H.M.Government doesn't show strength, we will all regret it.

There are around 60,000.thatched roof properties in the UK, but the last training school, funded by government skills education money, closed 14 years ago. Offspring of existing thatchers are not enough to fill the gap though free courses in construction, engineering and manufacturing are available.

Signs you're getting old: your lunchtime drink down the pub is a flat white.

Zionised Britain clearly evidenced. #palestine #Zionism #starmer #UK-government

Still no apology from Brexiteers who fed us a pack of lies "These estimates suggest by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment, employment & productivity were all affected" cepr.org/voxeu/column... meme via Reform Are Not Your Friends

Today marks nine years since the Grenfell Tower fire. Nine years without justice. 72 people lost their lives in a tragedy that was entirely preventable. And yet not one person has faced criminal accountability. Not one prosecution. Not one conviction. Not one person behind bars.

Oh, no, you're not getting away with that, @allytibbitt.me. I used the Internet in the early 1980s on Sperrylink, then various IBM and Dell configurations, learning to use the Unix shell and MS-DOS until office favourites emerged and www enabled Bebo & MySpace & I had to watch my kids like a hawk./2

vm.tiktok.com/ZNRcqtFtg/ This is my rant about how Reform and Restore gained both MP seats and ascendancy, and what I think should be done. I talk for almost ten minutes, so if you want to listen, maybe prop the phone in the kitchen while you tidy up or make a pot of tea.

Is America irritated that the world's first trillionaire is a foreigner, an immigrant, an alien?

Went to Greatwood racehorse rehabilitation charity's annual fun day today. It was supported by jockey Tom Scudamore and farrier Sam Dracott. There were dog shows, Shetland races, a horse parade, brass band, stalls, food & drink &c. Popped into Marlborough's food & drink festival on the way home.

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

Rupert Lowe kindly had a leaflet dropped through my door (though we have no elections in the near future). Unfortunately some factual errors seem to have crept in so I corrected them. If you can't read my scrawl, there is fair copy in ALT. #ReformUK #Restore #Greenparty #Libdems

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new... Tiny parasitic wasp, a relic species from when Gondwana split apart, named after Sir David Attenborough.

Awwwwh, I love David Hockney's art 🎨 😔 "David Hockney dies age 88" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

@wiltshireuk.bsky.social #Stonehenge #tunnel cancellation A303

@barnsleycouncil.bsky.social Reform 2025 Ltd Council refuses to fly the pride flag. Meanwhile, in the town that epitomises Britishness... detail in ALT text

so not only has spotify refused to take our music down, they have now incorrectly attributed it. i have no idea who this is. we produce our own music.

This article takes self-indulgent cascading of emotive language to a new level! 'fury and anger', 'bubbles of anxiety', epitaph', 'ambitious, wannabe successors', 'plotting and schmoozing', 'embarrassment', 'bizarre resignation', 'bruised and winded'. The language calms in the second half but wow!

The UK Defence Minister resigns. Are they posturing for leadership or is there still a remnant of the parliamentary Labour Party that believes in socialism?