as a side note, a lot of food banks in the U.K.- I dunno about the USA- won’t accept or give out formula (despite the govt publishing explicit guidance that legally they can do so). Every time I buy someone formula, I also give them info on where, locally, they can get ongoing support.

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Good. No sport should segregate! "Councillor for Oxford City, Emily Kerr, and Councillor for Lambridge, Bath and Northeast Somerset, Saskia Heijltjes, have announced that they have asked for their names and faces to be removed from Cycling UK’s publicity. " road.cc/content/news...

counterpoint: I turned this on just so I can check and make sure that I myself am being appropriately annoying to all y’all

🦇Bats in Churches research reveals ancient buildings as vital wildlife refuges: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10... New research from the Bats in Churches partnership project reveals that half of all Church of England churches are home to bats. In older churches that rises to nearly eight in ten.

every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.

there are moments in parenting life where you know, as it happens, that you will look back one day and laugh. and for us, one of those was our 3 yr old getting carsick and throwing up all over all of us on the way to his grandma’s funeral. literally twenty minutes out

They really stuck the landing on this one.

This is such a good thread & point, and also it feels like so much going on right now is that the people in power believe ALL the lies the GOP has been telling to consolidate power, and keep acting on things that were only ever supposed to be useful rhetoric to rally voters/terrorize people.

somebody at the Clarion wrote an explainer of how to beat the Oxford congestion charge and i'm crying, help oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...

Football Association of Ireland EGM passes motion calling on UEFA to ban Israel from all club and international competitions. Resolution brought by Bohemian Football Club - approved by 88%. Motion cites operation by the Israeli FA of clubs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

if I ever became famous I would need an assistant to follow me around the entire autumn just to remind me to wear a poppy. I have a dozen I am just fundamentally incapable of remembering

I realised this week that I have zero (0) trousers that fit me, courtesy of fitting massive babies through my hips, so. Where are the very short hourglass girlies buying trousers these days? UK only plz and ideally somewhere I can try on in person (hate online shopping)

Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.

From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.

Reading the discourse around SNAP benefits and then watching the Trump administration trying to block millions of Americans from accessing SNAP benefits so they can eat has just reminded me of how cruel the world is to those who are the poorest amongst us.

When I was a kid, my dad pulled me aside and told me that the people I need to be kindest to are the poorest because this capitalist world we live in forgives you anything but it shames you deeply and never forgives you for being poor. It made me realise how deeply fucked up the world is very early.

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

Today I thank Rosalind Franklin for her discoveries, the downstream impact of which lead to therapies that have kept my nephew alive

So anyway, Rosalind Franklin

that’s a wrap on sandwich guy

Every year we get closer to this happening on the news

now I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record here but. My uncle Tim died on Tuesday, after nearly five years of journeying with MDS and then AML. He’s out of pain now but I’m grateful for your prayers for my aunt and my cousins.

on nancy pelosi retiring

froglet is in a phase right now where he insists on carrying at least one of these markers around with him at all times. everywhere. including to sleep. we call it his emotional support marker

I think somebody just said hi to me but froglet woke up at four this morning and I’m so tired I forgot my own name for a minute there. sorry. hi

There’s a safe cycling demonstration set up on Broad Street today and observe, if you will, this demographic of motor/cyclist collision points. and then the congestion charge points.

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News | Historic England adds 138 new sites to its Heritage at Risk register – charity says that 129 sites have been 'saved' in 2025

what even are my mentions

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

frankly why tf are we doing fireworks at all. It’s called Bonfire Night. get your ex’s photographs and your childhood Harry Potter books and light that shit up

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

one of my last projects before matleave with froglet was basically this (not for HRP!) and honestly it was a blast

if somebody would please give me money to pursue a doctorate, it involves this

Have we not all, spiritually speaking, in a very real sense, when you get right down to it, been found still responsible for questionably scheduled ground?

So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project

for the record I’m having a very shitty day/week/fort month and I am dealing with by just shitpoasting through it

Agree, but make it 18 weeks or not before a movable election has been announced.

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"Incredible Dumbassery and Zero Catholics" would also be a great title for a history of the Church of England ca. the late 16th - early 19th centuries

this is traditionally the day when I discuss how close we are, and we KNOW that we are, to the entire of Palace of Westminster just spontaneously going up in flames again

NYC's mayor-elect is cracking eggs.