Is there anyone in my TL who’s still going to stay in the Labour Party &/or vote for them anymore, after this latest policy announcement on immigration esp. the confiscation? I’m genuinely interested to hear. I’d hope not, but does anyone feel they can justify not sacking them off straight away?

Bluesky has finally, quietly posted a position for a one-year remote contract Policy Lead, Trust & Safety position. Trans people who qualify, apply here: jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... We need someone competent in this role if this place is going to survive.

"Yeah, we hear you, you all hate this AI Slop that we're pumping down your throat. And you know what? We're gonna totally ignore you for shaerholder value. Keep on sucking it up, suckers." © Pavan Davuluri, 2025. www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/w...

Managed to lift the last few shark fin melons from our plot yesterday, before this cold snap hit. Thought I'd posted the recipe I used this in before, but here it is, just in case delishar.com/2020/01/shar...

Wow Katie Miller, it sure would be terrible to be forced from your home and fear for your children’s safety

The Yale Review asked me to CONSIDER THE FOODIE: yalereview.org/article/alic...

The Japanese still do the whole shokuhin sampuru thing better, IMV, but this full English -- all made of wax -- by London-based designer Maggie Yang, isn't too shabby. I particularly like the HP Sauce effect... www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/m...

No @octopus.energy, you're not increasing my payments. & despite implying that we're feckless degenerates unable to forecast what's needed or to budget ahead, we're paying what we need to pay, when it falls due. You, on the other hand, are leeching profiteers. Yes, I am fucking annoyed.

Russell Tovey references Harvey Milk in this article and yeah, that's exactly it. The Greens under Zack Polanski aren't saying things will be easy, but that they can be better. Not many politicians in English parties are offering that hope right now.🖤 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Watching Chilean election results come in and once again thinking about this tweet

Nothing in the slightest here reminds me of the Nazi death-camps, not at all. Next? Get them doing public building. Because after all “work sets you free”, eh Labour?

Yellow Vs Green.

"Framed this way, the line between 'native' and 'invasive'—whether plant, animal, or human—becomes less about origin and more about behavior: do you exploit, or do you commune?" Alexandra Martinez for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social: oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/subve...

On the “nothing really new under the sun” comes a translation of a German set of veal and mutton pies recipes. Via @culinavetus.bsky.social & Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 “Kuenstlichs und nutzlichs Kochbuch”, one of the earliest printed German cookbooks. www.culina-vetus.de/2025/11/16/v...

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

If you dip them in a glass of water, they look straight again.

This 👇 Everywhere.

I'm going to have to learn Delft glaze techniques aren't I? (esp. as this one comes in at £300 or so...) www.theemperorslane.com/products/her...

I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.

Anyone who is a Labour MP by Monday is a racist. We don’t make the rules. Labour has set the rules out. Let’s play by their game: Labour are racist filth.

Any writers looking for an editor?

The way this keeps going

Not wrong. As @boredoftheoldone.bsky.social pointed out they're Boys who are Proud...

Wow; let's celebrate the Nazi lady, eh folks? You people are insane.

Our decision not to travel again to the US looks more and more sensible by the day.

Quérote, Rosi.

This is encouraging and needs to be more widely realised. electrek.co/2025/11/12/e...

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

‘Rot’, Scanlan argues, existed not simply in the diseased potato crop but in imperial capitalism: ‘the crisis ... was the system.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What happens on the reef stays on the reef.

The words are sheer poetry: "Pork chops with colcannon, black pudding, apple purée and cider jus."

Hey Richard Smith, get ready for a rollercoaster week ahead. Fucking hunt.

This sounds like it could be really good news. Seems to hit elanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer. Only in mice at the moment but... www.umass.edu/news/article...

May I ask for 50 reposts? New York Magazine is a big deal! Thank you Bluesky!

At the World Cheese Awards, Yozawa Yagi was the top rated Japanese cheese, finishing in 13th place. Three British cheeses finished higher, which may be information I'll be flaunting this weekend. gff.co.uk/world-cheese...

One of the many reasons why I love my Irish friends: “structured around the unique way we eat in Ireland, broken up into the five mealtimes of breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea and supper…” ninebeanrowsbooks.com/en-gb/produc...

“Authenticity is a myth. My authentic Filipino food could be different from your authentic Filipino food,” he says. blog.resy.com/2025/11/best...

Looks like she died by falling into a giant Viennetta.

“Everything, for everybody.” That’s it. Simple as that.

guess the administration can spin it as part of MAHA.

You heard it here first. Fill your boots, boys ‘n girls. They’re great books, you’ll not regret it. “We're celebrating our Irish Food Writing Award wins - use BIGWINS25 at checkout for 25% off! Sale ends midnight GMT on Sunday.” blastabooks.com & ninebeanrowsbooks.com/en-gb

This will cheer the greyest day, believe me

Pretty sure they’ve made so, so many such fuckups over the past few years, that they’ve long run out of their own feet and are using anyone else’s they can find now… “Microsoft may have just blown its own toes off.” www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/v...

Loving the rooves on this place; looking like giant traditional tiles, on The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art in China. www.dezeen.com/2025/11/11/b...

For readers of the Torygraph: they could use the N word, grope women without fear of being called out, poor people "knew their place", the police were their corrupt handymen & fox-hunting was legal. For the rest of us? Why do you think smack & Quaaludes was popular? Thatcher surrounded by pigs.

Irina is always worth a read; this one is now a favourite of mine. And the cover is fun as well.

In a previous life, a different economic reality, I used to have occasion to walk past this house quite a lot and desired it but I hadn't realised that it was now open to the public. The video is fine as it is but I'm going to have to make a trip to Hampstead soon... www.dezeen.com/2025/11/14/d...

This applies in the UK as much as it does in the US. Make it happen both here and there please, people.

This government is just a houseful of monstrous, inhuman, animated skin sacks. I hate them.

They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school. And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this. This is not a serious society.