Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Also because nobody under the age of 16 is on this platform in the first place

1/ People are calling Dialog a “secret society”, but that is probably the wrong frame. Based on the attendee directory just revealed on dialog.org, it looks more like an elite convening institution in the tradition of Bilderberg or Davos, albeit smaller and more Silicon Valley. A sociology.

If you talk about Michelle Obama today, please make it about this video

Stephen Ball, former Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the IOE, living his best life. www.thetimes.com/article/93f9...

Delighted but I’ve just forked out £220 for my youngest, who is in Y12, to be vaccinated privately at Boots. And the pharmacist apparently stuck it in the wrong place in his arm as well.

I ❤️ librarians. #BookSky

In Japan, a gorilla 🦍 named Kiyomasa got into trouble with his mate. She kicked him out of their enclosure at the zoo, and he was later spotted sitting alone, seemingly thinking now what

It was Britain’s most expensive house. Why is its only resident a homeless man who lives on the porch?

Famous authors asking you out

Just realised my youngest does not know what a bike “croggie” is (giving someone a somewhat dangerous but useful lift on your parcel carrier or handlebars). Do kids not do that any more?

Something in my eye

The struggle is real

“My husband hid his money. After a 23-year divorce, I’ve won £6m” This woman sounds absolutely fantastic. 👏 www.thetimes.com/article/b1e5...

YIKES

Well…..that’s an unfortunate place to put those rivets 😁🤣🦇

In today's inbox: three requests to work for free. One would cost me £190 in rail fare, another would cost me at least 40 hours of work, and the last says "we don't have a budget for speakers, but we can promise a nice lunch." Folks, if you're paying the caterers, you can pay your speaker.

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

inews.co.uk/news/four-ur... The way this often works is that parts of Crown Estate properties are sublet by their lessees at a reduced cost compared to the open market in return for cheap or free domestic service. In other words the accommodation can become part of the wage for the housekeeper, etc

The mind set of the insanely wealthy. I’ll never understand why average Americans worship the wealthy. It’s not like the wealthy actually care about them...

New York passes bill banning prices based on personal data reut.rs/4g3wmHN

By Jim Benton

Paging @nameshiv.bsky.social Excellent thread.

Amateur sleuth exposes basic blunder in scores of cancer studies www.thetimes.com/article/525a...

Amateur sleuth exposes basic blunder in scores of cancer studies www.thetimes.com/article/525a...

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

We are all very quick to say this and that should go on the curriculum, which is already very crowded. But in view of the tragic deaths of children swimming in open water over the last few days, it does seem to be time to teach them about safe wild swimming practices during PSHCE.

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Fans of corporate jargon ‘make worse business decisions’. I’m glad they have opened the kimono on this one. www.thetimes.com/article/3a26...

This dog must have an amazing sense of humor. Original post

This is so joyful to watch! 👀 Stephen Colbert and Bette Midler dancing with his staff members! 💃🕺💃🕺 I loved this so much and miss him so much already! 😅 #USDemocracy #Pinks

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

A visual metaphor for contemporary disability. There are special facilities at @stnairport.bsky.social, so you don’t have to sit in unsuitable and uncomfortable transit wheelchairs for hours, but they turf you out at 1750 because apparently everyone magically stops being disabled then, all at once.

With just a single feather, the turtle managed to attract the attention of the female peacock.

When you read about 1890s debates around electrification, it feels like you're reading about a contemporary debate involving AI.

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

I wrote a book on austerity housekeeping which was syndicated, and which thousands of people found very useful indeed, culminating in a popular prime time TV slot presenting advice, but hey, what do I know about cooking in a small space?

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

Note that this has to be done by a council because action by parents, students or staff would likely bring reprisals I think in the next 5 years we will start hearing about the harms done in schools. Both in person and via digital means

Air fryers are your friend.

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

'You Blew Me Away' sculpture by Penny Hardy #womensart

Just one year of Walt Disney World's solar output could power the monorail for 34 years. Disney shared that figure alongside the announcement that four solar projects can now meet 100% of the resort's daytime energy needs. ☀️ Read more: blogmickey.com/2026/04/walt...

I've been on uni leadership teams which have decided to stop doing things, and I do understand the pressures that such teams face AND Universities are stewards of wisdom for future generations - great research libraries take a long time to build This is desperate, and all for four teaching rooms

Truly I cannot explain how unserious of a country we are

There's a guy in Ireland writing African stories and publishing in Irish because "he knows colonialism and how important preserving language is" and we love to fuckin see it folks