To be clear they approached the debating society. Who does thar? I'll tell you - people who are deliberately engineering controversy in the hope that it will get talked about on talk radio stations and GB News

So, a high street?

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

fun fact: the big air snowboarding ramp at the winter olympics is only 5° steeper than the cheese rolling hill.

I'm still vexed by this, especially by how & which words in all caps my screen-reader chooses to read as acronyms. But just to say. Please avoid putting all caps in alt text if you can. Maybe adding 'written shoutily in all caps' after the text would be better than copypasting all caps?

Today marked only our second-ever wild beaver release, as a family and a pair of Eurasian beavers were introduced at two sites across the Holnicote Estate on Exmoor in Somerset.

Something compelled me to make this

I’m not reposting that Farage clip because nobody needs to see his face in their timeline again, but flexible working is brilliant and I will not hear otherwise. It’s a total game changer and supports so many people in work 1/

“Go to therapy.” That’s the message Daye Gottsche, a trans woman, has for far-right provocateur Jake Lang after she helped save him in Minneapolis.

Then waft around the moors doing weird dance moves as a ghost

one of the few bad bunny facts i know is his incorporation of said toad in his music led to a boost in awareness and popularity and therefore funding for conservation projects for it! my local zoo has been helping w it for a while and talked about it! share.google/SqYuqRVsLEmp...

British values 🫡

Also think of the bone china teacup. The stripping, crushing and burning of animal bones for the bone ash for those delicate ceramics was so unhygienic and disgusting, it was commonly done in workhouses. The contents of that cup and the cup itself were from slavery and exploitation.

They sang “American Idiot”

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Molumbo

Homeware at TK Maxx

I think we all need a dark academia x muppets movie

if you could we’d see lots of cars with Getty images printed all over them or a banner of “for your consideration - not for distribution“ written along the side.

I love that for millennia people have been making stuff look like cute animals just because they can. It’s a beautiful thing.

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

There's a setting that will remind you to add alt text if you attach an image! It's settings > accessibility > require alt text before posting an image. Have heard from a few people that a recent app update switched off this setting for them when they'd previously enabled it, so worth checking!

What the actual hell is happening? #totp

“Well we missed the stones but we’re not going to miss Cliff Richard“ - can’t we though?! Please? #totp

#totp from Thin Lizzy to… whatever this is

I have no idea what is going on here #totp

I'm no criminal mastermind but, if I wanted to shoplift something and then slip quietly into the crowd without detection, I probably wouldn't pick '29 things with bells on' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10/10. No notes. "Team GB skier Gus Kenworthy has launched a blistering attack on US Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers by urinating the words “F*ck Ice” on the snow just before the start of the Winter Olympics." www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

This Tuesday (10th Feb) we've got a pop up in the [email protected] 10am-1pm, focused on helping students access their readings - please do tell any students who may be interested! We're happy for anyone to drop in for a reading chat or with a readings related problem.

Case in point, the removal of the plaque about Absalom Jones (TEC's first Black priest) in Philly. This is basically a positive story, and unlike Washington's slaves, raises no awkward qs about national heroes. But it's a story that foregrounds people who aren't white - so apparently it had to go.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?” Oli Dugmore It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end

Another day, another report setting out the grim experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. As usual there are no real surprises in this for university disability practitioners like me, but the fact these issues persist should make unis hang their heads in shame www.gov.uk/government/p...

Overhead an older lady telling her friend that she has "no faith in St. Martin" and I think more saints should be subject to user reviews

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Imagining the horror of an appointment when you talk about next steps then instead of referring you to another consultant or for more tests they tell you that you’re being referred for an exorcism.

Such an incredibly classy response from Melinda French Gates on allegations against ex-husband, Bill. That she’s been more grilled on Epstein than any of the men accused of abuse says so much. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There’s a theory that cave paintings such as a Lascaux May show animals with many legs because the intention was that the image would flicker in the flames, appearing to be animated. I love idea of creating immersive cinema experience in the dark 22,000 years ago #wyrdWednesday @weirdwednesday

📢 if research isn't accessible, it isn't open access

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

It’s how I roll.

Who is in the Epstein files?

Au contraire - Recycling

A bakery called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Kneads

Me, reading Russian novels when young and being very confused because I didn’t know that Sasha and Alexander were the same person.

There is altogether far too much news and I really think we all need a break - if terrible things could stop happening, even just for a little bit, that would be great.

americans: british people have super weird names for things. also americans: we're doing the yearly harassment of a woodchuck at gobbler's knob to predict the weather.

How do you tell if a groundhog has seen its own shadow?

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...