I’ve spent years waiting for Apple Music to do the Spotify wrap thing and now it’s happened, mine looks like a cry for help. Be careful what you wish for.

If I had ordered one more margarita last night I would be having second thoughts about moving this close to a cathedral that hosts weddings and rings bells.

Standing at my fridge door singing where is my hummus to the tune of Raye’s where is my husband. How’s your Thursday morning going?

An Cailleach brings the winter 🌬️ The mythological figure in Irish, Scottish, and Manx tradition who summons winter, and is associated with storms, reshaping the landscape, and horned beasts like deer. She defies convention and is a force for regeneration. Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

What on earth? Monitoring VPN use? This is getting so insidious.

I’ve just seen my aunt’s old council flat in Hackney on one of those luxury property listing TikTok accounts selling for well over half a million quid.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

I had sworn off any US visits for the foreseeable but maybe I can make an exception now for New York. So delighted to see that hope won for a change.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

I wish this woman on Sky News would stop bringing Anne Boleyn into this.

I'm sure there are things I can do about it but the sheer amount of fertility & pregnancy-related ads I get on Instagram at the moment is... infuriating, to be honest. I cannot imagine how awful it is if you're struggling to conceive or similar, and just being inundated with this shit.

How many days do you think I have spent sitting on my new sofa before dripping melted Kerrygold onto it?

"Polanski slammed” reports the Daily Express. The person doing that “slamming” is, err, Daily Express journalist Carole Malone. And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

Worried for the wellbeing of those angry pub bores as they experience a full brain malfunction trying to work out what they hate more, the EU or Vegetarians.

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

The New World editor/founder Matt Kelly: "The idea that a magazine can be on open sale in more than 10,000 newsagents up and down the country, but its purchase and open display can get you arrested, makes a mockery of this daft law." www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

This is the sort of positive progressive thinking I want to see from a British Labour government, instead they're just bullying the disabled and pandering to the roundabout painters.

And remember - no politician or councillor in the UK has the right to "ban" any book from being held in a public library. The only reason a book can be removed is if it's incurred penalties under the law, whatever lame publicity stunts Reform cllrs may try.

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the most wholesome things about October is when all the zoo social media managers give their animals pumpkins to squash. May this trend never stop.

441) Ghostbot. If you're worried your house may be haunted, deploy this spooky pal to patrol the area. If it meets any ghosts, it will befriend them and keep them away from you so you can get a good night's sleep. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

I'm pretty on the fence with ID cards, I can see the pros and cons my main issue is why is Starmer going out to bat for them and not the legal citizens Farage is threatening to deport?

The perennial myth about migrants eating swans stretches back to at least 2003 when the Sun printed it as a front page story. It was later obliged to clarify that it had zero evidence. Farage must be fairly desperate to be trotting that one out www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Buy ANY book from Bookshop.org today, September 24, and you could win a £250 digital gift card! Every sale supports independent bookshops and if you buy from the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, you help support the Fabulous Folklore podcast too uk.bookshop.org/shop/fabulou...

I for one would welcome a meteor right now.

the UK bookshop.org site has a competition where if you buy from them between today and the 24th, any book sitewide, you can win a £250 gift card to spend on books. i like this because even if you don't win you still have a book uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

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?

If you're sick of the internet being full of fascists here is a reminder that you can use the internet to watch a livestream of bears catching and eating salmon. 🍣 explore.org/livecams/bro...

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

This is unfortunately very true, they've fully lost their minds.

So I'm a chronic text-based journalism poster who used to live their life on Twitter and had somehow got a large number of followers next to my name. Helpful for work, lots of stories, I could make news go viral. Anyway as I test I slightly re-engaged with various platforms this week. Vibes results:

I once got back to a table in a beer garden and the whole vibe had changed and people were muttering to strangers, and it turned out to be because a northerner had been rude about Sadiq Khan and the entire place had instinctively rounded on him. Anyway that's how I feel tonight.

Donald Trump boasts that he ended the war between “Azerbaijan and Albania". Azerbaijan and Albania have never been at war together.

Your Party (Zarah’s Version)

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

When this onesie was created — maybe for the Euros this year — I bet it felt super cute. But Sainsbury’s probably need to have a word with the media agency that pushed it on their socials this week…

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

Even amazing lawyers can't change the fact that deceased individuals (or their estates) cannot bring defamation lawsuits.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

I'm not sure if the authors are on Bluesky, but saw this incredible data journalism piece shared on LinkedIn and needed to cross post. Anyone who has ever purchased women's clothing will be able to relate to the frustrating experience. #dataviz

If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

Be they alive or dead, quoting people accurately, in context, as a journalist – should never get you fired.

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.