You think what’s happening in US healthcare at the moment is bad? Don’t think that we’re immune from something similar happening over here in the UK. Superb thread.

Perfect line and length from Ian McMillan on the other place

End of the day time for our farmily to come in for supper

Heron catches the early morning light.

£55k to be the CEO of bees. The BEO. Sign me up!

Born from the Sheldricks' dedication in Tsavo, we maintain our hands–on approach as a field–based organisation that lets our conservation work do the talking. Every day our teams make a difference caring for orphans like Nyambeni and Kipekee, rangers removing threats, pilots fighting bushfires.

A humanist is a non-religious person who shapes their own life in the here and now, because they believe it’s the only life they have. They try to do good for its own sake, without expectation of reward after death. How humanist are you? Take our quiz! humanists.uk/humanism/how...

Kenya is rewriting its rhino story – and we're proud of our role in it. Black rhino populations plummeted from 20,000 to less than 400 by the mid–1980s. Today, they've grown to more than 1,000. Working with Kenya Wildlife Service, we support recovery through anti–poaching and veterinary care.

Uh oh 😟. Problem with my Brompton

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Testosterone is running high in #RichmondPark, with the big boys starting to making themselves heard now. It won't be long before the rut begins in earnest. 🦌🦌 @theroyalparks.bsky.social #wildlifephotography 🦊 #naturephotography #stag #rut

#TheRapture youtu.be/6HP04nfUi4g?...

New video! Back in June I made the longest narrow-gauge rail journey possible in Europe. 3 days, a little over 600km, 269 stations from the French border to the north-west tip of Spain. Incredible scenery, fascinating history, weird trains… #TheNarrowWay youtu.be/GTTJa3bjbns

If permanence can be torn up by Reform for settled migrants, how long before it can be torn up for citizens? Read the Bear’s commentary ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

No consideration at all of the negative impact of this type of nonsense on people with autism. The whole approach has a creepy, Nazi master race, feel to it.

Tuesday.

The difficulty of conveying data to the general public. News headlines highlight specific incidents eg knife crime, and that's what they see.

Here’s a couple of splendid Eupholus magnificus weevils minding their own business in the forests of New Guinea (photo: Rob de Vos)

Whit Walk, Christ Church, Harpurhey, Manchester, 1902.

Working Man’s Hair Specialist, Bolton Open Market, 1937, photo by Humphrey Spender.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

the cost of owning a car a tool that is parked 96% of the time you own it is nearly as much as a house

🇵🇱 "We know that you disregard international law and cannot live in peace with your neighbors. Your extreme nationalism is a thirst for domination that will not end until you accept that the era of empires is over and yours will not return," — Sikorski told the Russian representative at UN meeting.

They are leading the polls, and finished 3rd with number of votes in the last GE. I have absolutely no issue of them being on TV. I have issue with them not being challenged on what they say. There was a time when politicians dreaded going on TV.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Imagine spending years proving you belong here, paying thousands, following every rule - only for Nigel Farage to threaten to tear up your status. This is not policy - it’s cruelty, it’s showmanship, and I for one, am sick to the damned back teeth of it.

Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) could face the axe under imminent education reforms.

Now playing and sounding remarkably good for a 71-year-old record that cost me just £1 yesterday. The 1954 10" LP features eight classic recordings from 1949 and 1950 which later reappeared on the seminal Birth of the Cool compilation in 1957 🎺▶️ open.spotify.com/playlist/2x1...

oh bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social 🏆

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

Flamborough Lifeboat leaving Bridlington Harbour in a south-easterly gale to escort local fishing cobbles back to safety, 1971, photo by Paul Berriff.

Black rhinos are a critically endangered species. Here in Kenya, they suffered a catastrophic 98% decline between 1970 and 1983, as poaching decimated their population. But today, Kenya’s black rhinos are growing in number. In honour of #WorldRhinoDay, read Chamboi’s full story: swt.bio/chamboi

Trying to keep my little pepper plant going even though I haven’t got a greenhouse and it’s getting chilly. Hopefully these peppers will make it to a point where they are edible 🤞🤞

I have called them #BrexitBoats for a while now.

My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

When you see a hare running through the fields, it really is quite magical, please sign, I love these big hare lads, and we should be protecting them at all costs xxx

Breakfast in bed and banana smiles for rescue cattle Angus & Widget

@shoegazerhonda.bsky.social 🥲

💯. Progressives have to stop franchising out their consciences to the courts. Politics is about moral choices. The problem with Reform's proposal isn't that "the courts won't allow it". It's that it's grotesque and inhuman. If we're democrats, we must believe that this argument can be won.

Mrs D Cheatle of 16 Athol Road, Sheffield, operates a Capstan lathe at a munitions factory, 1942 (Imperial War Museum).

🍂 Happy #Autumn #Equinox, when day & night stand in balance. #Romans marked the vindemia & honoured Autumnus. Prehistoric Britons aligned monuments like Stonehenge & #Callanish to the sun. Today pagans celebrate Mabon or Alban Elfed. 🌗 📷 1-2) Autumn mosaics 3) Callanish. Credit: SpookyScotland

In 2029, saving the UK’s democracy will be on the ballot.

Addendum 1 for non-UK readers: there is no real, existing British Constitution, therefore nothing can restrain a Westminster government with a majority of seats in the House of Commons, which - due to the undemocratic UK election system - can be win on as little as ⅓ of the popular vote. 1/2

Some people may noy understand what you have shared, so I hope this is accurate because i am one of them.

Many of which - I know - offered their services and were ignored. Expensive uni labs left sitting idle. The highly trained experts who ran them working from home or furloughed. But there was a fundamental insistence that none of the billions spent on tech would go into publicly funded institutions.

There were hundreds of university labs with highly trained staff up and down the country sitting idle that could instantly have been converted to testing, at minimal cost. It was obscene that this did not happen.

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Fifteen years ago, Sities walked onto Mageno Ranch bellowing for help. A suspected orphan of poaching. Now living wild, in March of this year Sities became a mother! Her calf Sunni is living proof that saving one life through our Orphans’ Project foster future generations of elephants.

I’m watching and it’s astounding. We all knew something like this was going on - but the extent of it! While so many were suffering, dying, sunk into loneliness - a few were absolutely RAKING IT IN. The COVID health crisis was a very, very lucrative opportunity for some.

Leeds: 'Our Olympian grandma refused to stand for Hitler'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...