Many Americans replying or QTing this dunking on the UK as usual and as is their right; but many also assuming and implying the results would be more progressive in their country (their much more religious, much more conservative country...) I'm pretty dubious about that.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 6h ago

66% of straight women are unwilling to date a bisexual man, our study finds ahead of #BiVisibility Day % unwilling to date bi men Straight women 66% Bi men 15% Gay men 11% Bi women 10% % unwilling to date bi women Straight men 35% Lesbian women 20% Bi men 9% Bi women 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Who doesn't love a listicle? Here are the top 25 must-read science fiction books of all time, ranked. Spanning 150 years of writing, from earth-bound intrigue, through planetary colonisation to interstellar space opera, this is the best of the best. www.edrith.co.uk/p/the-25-sci...

The 25 Science-Fiction Books You Must Read, Ranked

And five short story collections

edrith.co.uk

The reason I hate them is that here in Trafford, bottles can't be recycled with lids anyway! So not only are they a pain to drink from, they're actively LESS recyclable because you've got to remove the attached lid, which with some bottle designs ain't easy

I've just watched Tombstone for the first time, and Val Kilmer's performance in that has suddenly given me a lot of insight into what Johnny Depp's been shooting for, the last few decades

'Head of compliance for Reform UK' sounds like either a recurring sketch comedy character or literally a job you would have in a nightmare

Duncan Hames@duncanhames.bsky.social · last wk.

Richard Tice MP when quizzed by the BBC's Nick Robinson this morning: "Hopefully your viewers will trust that statement from our compliance team"...

"Would it be better if you had never been born?"

[handing a picture of a very healthy person to my doctor] so I was thinking something like this

And the Britons who support it nearly all do so for other people, not themselves (there's nothing stopping them all singing the national anthem every morning now, and I bet they don't).

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

Most Britons would oppose making it compulsory for school children to have to regularly sing the national anthem, which Suella Braverman told Reform UK's conference would be the law if they won power Support: 30% Oppose: 54% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

In the strongest condemnation ever issued by a British government, foreign secretary Ed Miliband said the UK will now treat Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as unlawful in its entirety, saying this is “the least the people who face such suffering deserve.”

UK accuses Israeli ‘terrorists’ of ethnic cleansing in West Bank with government backing

In strongest condemnation ever by UK government, Ed Miliband announces sweeping sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements

theguardian.com

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.

my expectations were low and yet

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

Asked if the Government considers the masked thugs swarming British ports “far right” Andy Burnham’s spokesman replies that “it's an operational matter for the police to set out their response to the protests on the ground. So I will leave them to respond to that.”

About to watch the finale of Six Feet Under for the first time. Before this current watch of the whole run, I'd only ever seen the first season, twenty years ago. What a phenomenal show

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.

channel4news.substack.com

A liberal is a conservative who just got mugged by the police

Like, not to nitpick an ancient poem, but if I took a train to Leeds and ended up spending 7 years in Peterborough en route, that’s less a journey and more that I just lived in Peterborough

correct, they will also do this for border disputes! which is where you start to see why this policy exists, because if you think for a minute you can probably figure out why “someone at Google manually decides whether Chine or India is right about a border dispute” is a bad idea

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

if you want a really fun version of this, go look at their map of China and their map of India and notice how Arunachal Pradesh magically belongs to both countries depending on where you pull up the map

Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Man gets distracted in Paris and misses his plane.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Local businessman completes acquisition of entertainment venue.

New alternative to cyberpunk genre that’s just a grungy future where things are pretty much ok actually called, Cyberska

It also became clear that Uni exec were leaning on the advice of a consultancy firm that has been shaping HE policy in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK: Nous (or Nousferatu, as they’re now known). The fact VCs and others are delegating policy to consultants, despite £400k salaries, is disgusting

Now, though, there has been real overall reduction. Yet the idea that "clever people who really know whats what know that overall emissions aren't being cut" persists.

I'm kind of amazed that it's even this high. One in every 500 payments made in the UK is by cheque? I do remember in the early 2000s, buying stuff off eBay using cheques. Feels very alien now.

🌑☀️Does anti-system thinking correlate with disregarding official advice? Those who'd rather see our 'political and social institutions burn' than 'preserve and improve them' were more likely to look at the sun directly during the eclipse.

The spirit of Britain #EclipseLivestream

Anyone ever had a Weetabix sandwich? I'm struggling to imagine it Plus it says "split it" and.. How?! Without it disintegrating

Old UK Print Ads@oldukprintads.bsky.social · last mo.

Advert from 90 years ago: Daily Mirror, 6/8/1936

In case you thought you’d already heard academia’s worst thing this week: you were wrong.

In case anyone else was tempted to read this story, the answers are "Maybe" and "Nobody knows"

With headlines like this one and all the out-of-control AI ones too, it does properly feel like The Future now, doesn't it. Scary.

Minus points of Nolan's sound mixing policy: you can't hear the dialogue Good points of Nolan's sound mixing policy when he's written the script: you can't hear the dialogue