This is very nasty

Nail/head

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

From from today’s game. Moroccan fans celebrated America’s 250th birthday🇲🇦🇺🇸

Let me be very clear on this. Attitudes like this by Robinson will harm innocent people & put children in direct harm. I was trafficked by peadophiles for four entire years simply because of attitudes like this when I was a child & my community was targeted. www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teessid...

Delighted to be Pick of the Week in The Guardian today! www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Alert to all England followers: this is now nonsense, apparently. It's back to 1am. Or 2am, or an, equally ungodly hour.

@catiewilkins.bsky.social there's a summer internship, paid, going at this lovely charity based in Bedford (plus an actual job if you know anyone relatively local). The internship is 80% home based - know of any parents of late teens/students reasonably locally?

Lovely couple of jobs going which are partly home/partly office based (Bedford - good Thameslink train links in to London & elsewhere) in a *paid summer internship* g for the charity School readers (does what it says on the tin) : www.schoolreaders.org/job-opportun...

The Merlin Bird ID app will soon allow users to contribute data to monitor bird populations and aid conservation efforts. The project at Cornell University that produced the Merlin Bird ID app was funded by NSF’s Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which was gutted by the Trump regime. 🪶

The crux of the matter. Every year, thousands of women and children are murdered, raped, assaulted and masturbated over in stolen photos. By cis heterosexual men. If you actually cared about the safety of women and children, there are so many positive things that concerned citizens could do.

Harming Trans People Doesn't Protect Women It's Hate. Not Safety. Taken at London Trans+ Pride 2025.

Gods, they're all exhausted

Sadface

Gods, if England could play with this much heart...

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.

Ah, bollocks

... Hurriedly switching on the football...

You haven't celebrated Mel Brooks's 100th birthday yet. Don't lie to me, I know you haven't. You can make up for it by watching this delightful doc that collated many different Brooks appearances (with a sit-down walk in from Carl Reiner). www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09srjgv

Masr!! Absolute euphoria here in Cairo! What a brilliant brilliant match!

Alert to all England followers (even if it s only for the next 48 hours or so)

Read all of these. Tiring and heat strewn times ahead in London for the foreseeable.

Mother of the gods!

Israeli, settlers have been ripping up Palestinian generations old olive trees for decades. Obscene, at a visceral level considering the ancient importance of olives to civilisations.

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

In the EHRC latest guidance, there’s a very small entry that says a religious person cannot be discriminated against for not recognising or believing in same sex marriage. The tools have quietly already been provided for the bigots next target.

This is the social murder of disabled people, and I really wish people who aren't disabled would shout about it as much as we do. WHY are we having to be the ones who have to be squeezed even more AGAIN.

If you're in or near London, the Royal Society Summer Science exhibition is underway, and well worth a visit (and is free). I'll be there tomorrow (Friday) to join a panel discussion about material pollution in aquatic environments. There will also be loads of demos of the latest research - do go!

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

The 45 minute delay sign on the waiting room board came and went 10 minutes ago.

Huntley and Palmer biscuits #poetrychallenge

What

There's something about the heat today. As I write I realise that the breeze is lacking. I have come in to the hosp waiting room to sit down and once again, am relieved that I do not wear makeup. Makes me wish we all still carried handkerchiefs. There is a tiny whisper of ineffectual aircon.

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This morning I seem to have made an absolutely vast amount of strawberry ice cream. The strawberries (there were so many) were mashed with 2 packets of freeze dried strawberries, powdered, plus a little maple syrup and lemon juice. I always find strawberry ice cream insipid. Not this one.

Just make it exist first. Then make it good later. ... And make it about Herons. 3 steps to a joyful and successful life. #HeronArt #HeroneerTipOfTheDay

Something to divert you from weird goings on: Facsimile versions of the first Eightball. Which seems a little weird to those of us with the originals on the shelf *but*, if you've never read it, take the opportunity of watching Dan Clowes get better and better from a standing start.

Ah shit that is terrible. My beloved is currently looking after a bunch of kids doing their DofE (nowhere near Wales, before crass comments). He was talking before he left about how 'on' you have to be, and how it's far more difficult than teaching in a room.

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

well that's fucking amazing. good lord, lmao, thank god this comedian pulled it out of the fire.

I am 20 yrs old. At no point would I imagine myself being excited about this headline. I am 57 yrs old. OHMYGOD!!!1!11!!! "Bryant believes clinical trials could begin in as little as 18 months."

Londoners: what else have you got to do on Sunday afternoon? I'm at work, so you must attend instead of me.

Shock news.

The kids have been home from uni for 2 weeks. 1 week with son (relatively calm); next with son and daughter. Both with ADHD, but daughter is an agent of chaos. We live in a *house*. A surprisingly decent sized house. There are piles of undifferentiated 'stuff' in all communal areas. On all surfaces.

The govt joins the line of bastards demanding thousands of pounds from refugees to get them safely to their new home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reducing traffic reduces crime: see new study from Leeds. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Ho hum. Plus ça change.

I don't think I appreciated Penelope Keith at the time. Thinking about it, she is the standout character part in The Good Life. If she was young today, I have a feeling her haughty good looks would make her an excellent villain. I wish she and Diana Rigg had set up a detective agency together.

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?