Great work! There is #NoRightToAdvertise. We can choose as communities what appears on our streets @adfreecities.bsky.social

'When your symptoms are treated one at a time, in isolation, without anyone looking at you as a whole person... you are a category of problem rather than a person with a problem. That your suffering has an asterisk next to it.' My brother on addiction, shame, and the gaps it grows in. x

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Scaramucci says it best youtube.com/shorts/atcFf...

Thanks to algorithm lag, I have just been GOT by an April Fool. On April the 3rd. Damn you Logitech, I was already reaching for my wallet 😭

Headline plus author name, an instant Onion classic

Smudge, a perfectly normal cat who is absolutely not here to consume your soul

I was very sad to hear that Lawrence Dixon, landlord of the Champion of the Thames, had died. The 'Champ' was one of my favourite haunts and a treasury of photographic moments. I wanted to post a picture of him and thought I had a better photograph than this .. (cont)

Has 'everyone' stopped watching totp* or something? *for non Brits, a long gone chart show. Old episodes get re-broadcast every Friday.

Well this made me chuckle. (See site for full effect.) xkcd.com/3227/

And why shouldn't we try to help reduce 'normal difficulties' - whatever the hell that means?!? The idea that one must suffer at school or college to build resilience to suffering in the workplace is idiotic. We've got it the wrong way round.

I work with teenagers with ADHD/autism etc in one of my jobs. Most of them dislike the extra measures required to ensure their access to education is as equitable as possible. They don't want to stand out.

Looks like the owners are the private equity firm who want to redevelop it for the exclusive access of Homerton College given the college has expanded its student numbers beyond what it can accommodate itself. As other colleges have done too.

Somehow missed this when Antony blogged about it. Turns out the new owners are Homerton College.

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested. A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

BYOJ (Bring Your Own Jumper) to our Visible Mending Workshop with local clothes restorer, Rosie Leech, and learn how to bring new life to old clothes, turning a rip or hole into a feature. Limited spaces left. Sunday 19 April, 11.00-13.00. £40 (Members £32). bit.ly/44Dxb3I

I'm at HOME Manchester tonight! The theatre, I mean, not MY home. We've only got one chair in the flat, so it would be too crowded. Tickets are available! For the show not my flat. homemcr.org/whats-on/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs-dn5q

No, no and no. #FactoryFarming - food waste on a massive scale - is not the future of a sustainable, secure food system, as well as having awful environmental and #AnimalWelfare impacts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lots of positive stories here of people saving a fortune on energy bills Also lots of Qs from people who understandably can't afford upfront costs There are 7 options I can find to get around this. 5 are available now, 2 are on their way Since I'm becoming a bit of a solar evangelist, here you go

I just keep thinking about how bloody miraculous the current state of renewable energy and battery tech would’ve seemed had you laid it out to anyone 20-30 years ago. It’s insane that we’re not running towards it.

This maybe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwM...

I have often felt, in my three decades in journalism, that our audiences needed to be edited. Edited and in some cases fired into the sun. Good on The Economist for doing something about it.

Here's an unclaimed #buyastrangerabook day offer. As it's April 1st, @louiseheal.bsky.social and is offering to buy someone something funny, up to £15. (it has to be a book, obvs). If you want some suggestions, let me know, but Louise would love to send you a book, so get in touch. UK only

Staggering. On many levels.

Four weeks ago I asked billionaire Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital if they'd been issuing fake electrical safety papers to their tenants. Why? Because when we went door-to-door, we kept noticing the paperwork was curiously identical. And tenants said they'd never seen an electrician. Little thread:

Please enjoy this 3.8m tall willow daffodil sculpture. Created by artist Juliette Hamilton, it's standing proud in the courtyard at Chirk Castle, Wrexham.

Yes! 👏👏👏👏

It is genuinely abhorrent that a major festival would choose to book a headliner who released "Heil Hitler" *less than a year ago*. The muted outcry to it is truly chilling, too. We are deep into an antisemitism crisis that too many people want to ignore or deny.

This is brilliant. cc: @alisonstenning.bsky.social, @salawatson.bsky.social, @aliceferguson.bsky.social, @elsadevienne.bsky.social.

It's a shame there's a disclaimer at the end as I enjoyed reading this. www.varsity.co.uk/news/31461

Outlining legal reasoning on a microblogging platform is a nightmare because you can top a thread with a whole bunch of context and thoughts but people will nonetheless treat a post lower down explaining the scope of the reasoning as endorsement. Has happened to me repeatedly. It's infuriating.

An additional general tip for if you ever accidentally go viral: Bad faith or overly-aggressive quote-posters tend to be followed by others that do the same. So block/detach the MOMENT you spot it. Don't pause to reply to them. Quickly breaking the Hot Takes Chain Reaction is crazy effective.

A lot of people would rather rage than read

Dalai Lama: I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.

FAVREAU: “$200 billion could eliminate nearly all medical debt in America, fund free community college for two decades, or feed 42 million Americans for two years. Instead, we're dropping bombs on Iran.” (From @podsaveamerica.crooked.com )

As a non footie fan, it sounds to me as though Spurs are in need of radical change, particularly where the owners are concerned. (Change as in let others take it over.) I hope for the fans sake it happens sooner than later.

Good read.

All done now, and back on the streets!

I'm sorry but if Israel is bringing back hanging but only for Palestinians then that's an apartheid state and no decent country should be supporting them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People just haven't tuned into how bad this could go for the EU and UK. Reality hasn't quite hit them yet.

FACTCHECK: GB News / Spectator owner Paul Marshall got criticised by Christian leaders for his channel's attacks on climate action, so he made a rare public intervention But in his letter to the Guardian (pic) he makes 25 false, misleading or confused claims (!) Receipts etc in next post 1/2

this is the news coverage I need

I dream of war crimes tribunals

Long but readable read about cargo theft. Turns out the Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service is not funded by the government. Astonishing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

What would be industry’s response if #localgov went back to a system of in-house architects for council houses & public service buildings? (As opposed to competitive tendering l, outsourcing & subcontracting that we currently have)

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

Back to #Glass-tonbury, our project to recreate Roman window glass today. We emptied 4 buckets of hot embers from yesterday's firing (in which we baked a couple of potatoes for an excellent lunch). The furnace still had 200 degrees worth of residual heat when we re-lit it.

This is absolutely spot on from Emily Thornberry 👏

New Brexit metaphor just dropped.

“Studies show LTNs drop crime. Motor traffic goes down, but footfall goes up. So ‘busy’ isn’t itself a good thing: busy with people rather than cars is”