I asked my best friend to marry me and she said yes!

Insta telling my mutuals I liked a cute couples meme with questionable gender politics

Had never heard of Kirk until Saturday, when my apolitical school friend who lives in Arizona told me I should listen to his podcast

Exc - The publisher of the Washington Post, Will Lewis, is facing fresh questions over his independence after leaked files revealed he gave extensive crisis support to Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser. Lewis spent two days with Johnson in No10 as part of a team battling to save him.

I feel like we need to stop complaining some people are still on Twitter, and start accepting that 2012 Twitter isn’t coming back

Had to double check this was real (it is)

2016: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Sun tells ITV News that multiple sources say the Queen backs Brexit 2025: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Times publishes an article saying the Queen was a Remainer

This is the kind of thing AI is useful for - where large volumes of data that are traditionally processed by humans are gathered (in ways and volumes humans can't) and processed (in ways humans can't) by the system, to support humans making decisions.

‘‘We don’t understand the interest in changes to our society-upending products, we’re just trying to fulfil a technological goal that has captivated the human imagination for decades’

My friend needs help paying for her cat's medical care. Even if you can't donate, can you share?

Insta’s algorithm is good it’s serving me sponsored reels featuring *my own cat*

‘Just take a photo of an American flag, the EU flag, and the tariff flag… what do you mean there isn’t one?’

Genuinely illuminating piece about the hotel protests in today’s Observer observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Incredible thing about this headline: it was the Telegraph that introduced the phrase ‘Starmer’s political prisoner’ - she just agreed with it www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

Thinking I need to broaden who I follow on BlueSky

Never again will I trust ChatGPT to recommend replacement products

The age gap between High Grant and Colin Firth is one day

Luna spent the day alongside me in the garden. As I read my book she slept, sniffed the air, and just watched. I hope you all had your own Luna Sunday, whatever that is for you

I’ve seen videos of him speaking English very well so… yes?

First person, along with the other two Apollo 8 crew members, to leave earth orbit to see it as a sphere

If you’re following the Salt Path debacle and want a memoir that is not only true, but actively goes back to debunk a key event of the author’s childhood, may I recommend the critically-acclaimed me (also in audiobook and e-book) www.penguin.co.uk/books/442390...

Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt

The last 16 team men’s World Cup? 1966

Love that these two are out having a great night right now while the internet's most tedious people get angry.

Just some nice pictures of Luna

‘There’s no better Sunday morning than staying in bed til 11, and if only Starmer would do that he’d discipline his MPs bett- arg SORRY, I guess there really is no such thing’

You’re gonna need a bigger walk

You’re gonna need a bigger walk

Forgive me BlueSky, but Luna gave us cuddles this morning and we’ll 😍

One thing the Salt Path fiasco is a reminder of: far too many memoirs are promoted as ‘unflinchingly honest‘

As a side issue, if that Salt Path story is an earnest of what James Harding is going to do with the Observer, more power to it. Many including me thought the “sale” was to say the least a shabby deal. But look: journalism.

Well this is the best thing I’ve read in the Observer for a long time observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I’ll say this; Piers Morgan is one of the few mainstream journalists who actually understands the media ecosystem we’re living in Piers Morgan: I’m probably the best-known journalist in the world www.thetimes.com/article/87bf...

For context, 14 years separates the Sex Pistols from the Beatles’ first LP

Weirdly gutting when ParkRun mistakenly lists you as ‘unknown’ even though you scanned your barcode ☹️

After growing with and loving cats my whole life, I finally gave my own - meet Luna!

The Iranian family of a UK-based journalist have been detained in Tehran in an escalation of the regime’s repression tactics, The Times has learnt, amid warnings of an increased threat of Iran-backed terror attacks

Seeing a lot of creatives imply that, because AI has serious limitations, it won’t upend their industry/society. Reminds me of Paxman saying ‘it’s just a tool’ when challenging David Bowie’s suggestion the internet would change the world

I’d never seen this and had no idea Lord Kitchener was aboard

4 days with Luna and this is my favourite photo of her so far

Do cat parents have any recommendations for collars that track their location? I see several brands but no idea which is brst

Very sad news about my former colleague Charlotte

Call 999 there’s been murder

Pet Sounds was the Beach Boys’ 11th album, released a month before Brian Wilson turned 24

It’s à-me, Tariff Mario!

I struggle to listen to podcasts while running and find music fun but it kind of makes every run feel the same - @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social’s Sound of Cinema is a great solution - music with interesting discussions in between

A really clear and vital piece of analysis in Jeremy Bowen's long piece about the Gaza war, which is too often muddied by almost everyone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dying at Charli XCX’s review of A Complete Unknown

Oooff, just seen some weapons grade antisemitism on BlueSky