Dear gods, yet another bloody supplement that actually looks quite sensible.

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears www.popsci.com/environment/...

Call me stupid but I did not know Trump jnr was involved with Polymarket. I mean it is a whole pile of excrement anyway, don't get me wrong.

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

I cannot help but get really annoyed every time I see the name Tommy fucking Robinson written down. Not only because the person people refer to as that name is a racist scumbag, but because *it is not his name*. Genuinely, everyone knows it's Stephen Yaxley Lennon, so call him that, if you hate him!

So I met that @hleehurley.com and he barely mentioned Arsenal at all ;)

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Lee in discussion with Labourites arguing that the Greens should step aside for Burnham. The trouble with Labour is, the plato version of the party, in your head, is so socially progressive, it's just not feasible that anyone calling themselves Labour could be bad. I could give you a list.

This was running as a headline on 6 Music news all morning and I am told has been covered on 5 Live. It feels like my book is landing just in time for a big wave of realisation.... www.aegon.co.uk/media-centre...

The beloved and I are now *not* going, given yesterday's horror story. I only just managed to get up and eat something.

Well I am very glad to say we have got tickets to the Bach organ recital night of The Proms, apparently.

Yesterday afternoon, I went for an MRI for my neck & chin area for 'longstanding problems', and unbeknownst to me (and the MRI operators), the specialist had also asked for my sinuses to be done. All of them. Which is actually a good idea *but* maybe not all at the same time. I was in the MRI for

So much about this is a bit odd, if you don't know the show (which I don't)

Hoorah! This is what gradually increasing 'Training to be able to do actual press ups' does to your arms eventually. Worth all the effort for this (it smells lovely and not a grim bucket of dregs).

I've just had to throw 2 very mouldy, alcoholic large jars of apple & blackberry jam (Mitcham blackberries) in to the composter but have found 1 ultra large jar whose lid is still so vacuumed, I can't get it off. Jam still looks good though.

Pass this around to likely candidates

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

What, how and who in the living hell...

London area people: The annual Nakba march is happening on Saturday. Many very sensible people are going, don't be put off by Yaxley Lennon et al, they won't be let near us. Come! The beloved and I are going. I mean if that's not a draw, I don't know what is. palestinecampaign.org/events/nakba...

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

This is... absolutely incredible. Such dumb, dumb fuckers.

Why is it that Kung Fu Fighting goes through my head so often? I do not apologise to all for the inevitability of it now going through yours.

Blimey, they really will do anything rather than elect a woman, won't they.

The sheer joy of London weather right now! Out in the middle of it in an hour & a half. The hail seems to have let off. Now rain & thunder.

Bananas.

@robinince.bsky.social it's that fucker Yaxley Lennon's march on Sat, I've just realised - may be a reason people don't want to come in to town. Am currently trying to persuade the beloved to come on the Nakba march. I find that I'm properly scared by the thought of confrontation, but needs must.

What I don't understand regarding the Labour Party implosion is, do none of the people around Wes Streeting either understand or have the guts to tell him that he is actively *hated*? I mean, people don't particularly like Kier Starmer; they actively detest Wes Streeting. And for good reasons.

This

I am going to give you all some advice from football fandom. When Streeting resigns - celebrate. Don't say 'let's wait and see if he runs and wins'. There will always be another 'result' to wait on. Another way it can go wrong. Celebrate the wins when they come. It is essential.

In other words: if I don't stand now, the party will wait until Burnham gets in and then I'm fucked. Why would you be fucked, Wes? Sigh.

Recipe recommendation: Save the recipe for a cool day, and it'll take barely any time to cook: I'd forgotten polenta is done in a trice. Oh and more garlic, obvs. Alert: Recipe is for 2, not 4 (I did not make my own pesto, and it came out of a jar. The horror!) www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist. theneuroscienceofeve... Dean Burnett explores the bizarre experience of having his PhD thesis hijacked by an AI service that nobody asked for or needs. #AIproblems #Thesis #Research #Podcast

This is absolutely nuts.

This happens on BlueSky *a lot*, and because there are so many authors on here, we are able to promote the shit out of them when they publish. Because we want to! Because we love books! It's not difficult.

Good letter there from Jess Phillips. She suggests a latent anxiety and desire not to piss off the guys with the money, which should not be the hallmark of a Labour Govt. It's certainly the vibe that has been coming off it.

Oh, this is fantastic!

If we had a proper, big house building/renovation programme, all new builds would also have solar, air-heat exchangers, etc, etc. Not only would rents and prices go down (hooray) but bills would be lower for those who lived I them. Imagine how much extra ££ that would add in to the economy. Sigh.

Zack must be thanking the universe the council tax news broke after the election. Either he is monumentally naive or was actively trying to make some kind of point, but he's been a member of the London Assembly for years and this should have been identified as a political risk for him years ago.

I'm telling you, he's had a pink rinse - look at him

Ex-hostage Braslavski: Hamas 'did what they did, but those responsible are here in the Knesset' Braslavski urged lawmakers to resign, saying, 'The victims' blood is all over you' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The most ludicrous thing to think whilst reading this article: Has he put a pink wash in his hair?! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bike shop ten miles away now has bicycle. Hoping to fuck that they remember I need it back tomorrow not some kind of vague end of the week bullshit. Bloody bike. Pashleys are like tanks and go on forever but when they don't... Hoping to the gods of bicycling that I don't need a new back wheel.

SUNDAY SALFORD SHOUT OUT I’m doing my kid’s comedy show in Salford this half term and ticket sales are S-L-O-O-O-O-W so if you know any North West families who want something fun to do in a fortnight, please share this with them! O x www.thelowry.com/whats-on/ola...

This is what is needed to destroy the GP partnership model and replace GPs with salaried staff employed by private health commissioned to provide Streeting's neighbourhood health centres. It is, in reality, the privatisation of GPs.

Wow just found out the saying is “horses for courses” not “horses fuck horses” what a meeting

Is there a phone games review site that identifies decent games? I would like to play fun games bit my definition of fun does not include torturing kings or cartoon families; sniping wild animals or soldiers or slaughtering tens of thousands of blobs for coins.

We live in a surreal world, where a party leader who is known for his antisemitism as a young man (and not apologising for it) is invited to a supposedly non-political protest in support of British Jews campaigning against racist antisemitism, and the only party leader who is a Jew is not.

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

‘Peter Ettedgui, who is Jewish, has said that a teenage Farage would sidle up to him and say “Hitler was right” and “gas them”, sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas chambers.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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