We don’t cut back our perennials (except for peonies and iris) until spring. i love the way the gardens look in winter with the seed pods and stems brown and intact; home and haven to insects. www.aol.com/articles/tur...

I think i'm right about this. But if you post something on here & somebody "likes" it, then nobody sees it except the person who sent the post. I think that's the default. (I'm sure you can change it, but hey) If you really do like something on here, repost it. Likes are nice. But reposts rock.

The Telegraph sides with Trump against the BBC and, so, the country. Private Eye sums up its feeble-minded, fawning betrayal beautifully.

I have a professional account on X, it's 100% clinical and emergency services stuff. Lately I'vd had daily notifications of racist garbage from L Fox and Elon's favourite Nazi hard man plus bonus Carole Malone. Very close to closing it completely.

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

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

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

Very autumnal at the allotment but still managed to get some kale, cabbage and the smallest squash ever. We put some winter onions in. Molly was unimpressed 🌱

The dog usually goes for a walk with the husband and stops at the pub for a beer, but today his wife is walking the dog! Aww take him inside 🤩#SaturdayVibes

Today I made an orange drizzle cake, and whilst it cooked I used up some basil and made pesto #baking okay so I also did a banana loaf due to 2 sad looking bananas but it's still cooking.

‘A lot of male actors get offended if you don’t want to fuck them, and then the punishment starts.’ Gotta love Jennifer Lawrence’s clarity www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

Today's a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin, British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose untimely death meant three men shared a Nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA for which she'd done most of the work.

Sabrina Carpenter be like

lmao. Thank you mr. president i am sure this is convincing people who are complaining that they can't afford groceries

As Democrats offer to reopen the govt in exchange for keeping health insurance subsidies the same for one year, Trump orders his puppets in Congress to reject the deal as he flies back to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf and parties at his country club.

I'm not sure but I think I might be the first person in the world to hear "the dog's got into the chicken biriyani and it's on the curtains" being shouted up the stairs while I'm on a teams? x

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

A total and utter hero

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic

Live at the Garden with @thekidmero.bsky.social #NewYorkForever

AND plants give back a hundred times. Every squash has a hundred seeds, each pea plant a hundred peas (ok, I'm exaggerating a bit for effect, but still...). Plants are a gift of exuberance from our Mother Earth

🌱 'And, to this day, it never ceases to amaze me: I put a seed in the ground, the rain comes to water it, the sun comes to shine on it, then something grows and you can eat it. That’s always something we can be grateful for.' Paul McCartney

Emergency Department (ED) staff: screen ALL patients over 65 for delirium. Emergency departments are where it's most missed and most dangerous. Make it as routine as checking blood pressure.

A quick reminder that tomorrow morning is the Old Crocks London to Brighton run. If you’re near the route, it’s worth getting up for.

Another nice example of centre and left votes lining up behind the best candidate to beat Reform.

🌱 Yay for gardens!

🌱 Fully intending to plant a quince this year, now here's a thread full of recipes too!

Every year around this time I get some wonderful quinces from my friend Lizzie. And every year I think that peeling them is like peeling rocks … but I’ve just cooked a bundle and the taste is so lovely and so unusual - as always … thank you Lizzie. What a treat.

#Truthbomb “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.” DT

Ah, Bluesky wants to make itself an even more comfortable place for users. Great for people who don’t want to hear anything they disagree with. Bad if you occasionally have views that don’t please the majority.

🖼️ Leanne Hatch

Post is by James Buchan who defected from Reform to the Tories in Dartford Council. Pretty damning stuff...

Reforn want this for you UK.

GB News losing their mind over the fact we just defeated Farage and Reform.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Matt

She's talkin' about KING SORROW.

Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. I'm having a big clear out! You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

Gonna be honest here and say as a journalist working in Westminster this makes me want to cry My grandparents had to deal with this crap and now we are, it’s so wrong How are we here where politicians feel so emboldened to say things that are so obviously racist?

pca.st/episode/6204... Thoroughly recommend this episode @trientertainment.bsky.social Ben Elton talks movingly about Rik Mayall and that he always thought he would get more of him. I think we all felt that way, he was mesmerising but so little of him to go round, never quite enough.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

possibly the funniest political moment of the year

Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post. They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Found the gate that leads to winter.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

It’s obviously pissing in the wind to point it out, but I’m not sure how this gets fixed unless people stop using TikTok, which is the same as saying there’s no way of fixing it. The minute we gave up control of who we see on our feeds to big, amoral companies, this was inevitable.