A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company. Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet. Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced. Let customers vote on exec pay. archive.ph/9rYlp

If Alexander really wept for there were no more worlds to conquer, I bet everyone around him was rolling their eyes.

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

I have been paralysed & a wheelchair user for 17 years. Since then, I have flown hundreds of times. I have never had worse service than this morning at Heathrow T4 Arrivals.

Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility

It’s dark…it’s late…and there’s a chill in the ear I mean air… #claymation #stopmotion #animation

New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act. The absolute tumbleweed from the media & gov shows just how much they want to bury how much disabled people fought and still fight for our rights.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Florence and the Machine Covir Bandes: Siena and the Devyce Milan and the Contraptioun Orvieto and the Mechanism Venyce and the Gadget Gubbio and the Whirligig Spoleto and the Apparatus

…in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

Remember. No matter where you are in life, you're never too far away from a mossy haunted cottage in the woods, brimming with dark malice. Take comfort in that.

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year. Country surrounded by water has water shortages. 2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours. No new reservoirs. Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend. Record high water bills. People fleeced.

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

1 trillion dollars is so much money, you could give every human living on Earth $125 In case you needed a sense of scale.

Love this! Keeping to time is consideration for others.

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US. ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point? If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

"Now on ITV: 'Peer Review' - hosted by Mary Beard. 15 senior academics locked in Piddleston College, Bantshire University seek to find which of them is actually Reviewer Number 2"

Now do the show but only with senior academics.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to rule out spending cuts to personal independence payment (PIP) www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-refuses-... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Is this paper by Cesare Lombroso?

Seeing lots of ads for current Black Friday deals, which is odd because: A - it’s Thursday B - it’s not Thanksgiving week But most of all because C - we do not have and have never had Thanksgiving.

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

I was just leafing through 1725 occult tome The Secret Magic of Abramelin the Mage in search of scary invocations for the BOOK, and I came across this list of subordinate spirits to the princes of Hell.

Call for Chapter Proposals for Disability Justice in Libraries. deadline December 1, 2025 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Bonfire Night can be very unnerving for both our pets (and folk suffering with PTSD/CPTSD). Classic FM will be helping us out with their annual ‘Pet Classics.’ Soothing music to help ease their minds away from all the scary stuff. Tune in from 5pm to 9pm. www.classicfm.com/music-news/p...

Delightful to wake up to hopeful news from America instead of hateful news from America. 12 out of 10. Would enjoy again.

Delighted for Mamdani and for New York.

Finally, my chance to be a muse 😂

382) Hedgebot. Before you light a bonfire, investigates the interior for hedgehogs and then shepherds any it finds to a safer location. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌ We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration. The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.

Algerian-born train hero saves train passengers from attack. Since the right-wing press loves reporting criminals’ race and religion, surely they should report heroes’ too. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The tech utopia they want is very obviously not accounting for people having disabilities.

Tutting; eye rolling; pointed sighing; sarcasm; muttering passive aggressive comments to yourself; and a Paddington Bear hard stare.

🚨🚨 #China intimidated @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social to ditch #humanrights research conducted by @lauratmurphy.bsky.social . Absolutely disgraceful behaviour by Sheffield Hallam uni. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team. Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

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