this is the philosophical opposite of the leopards eating faces party meme

Grantham Research Institute at LSE@granthamlse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

I have said this before and I will say it again: the maximum height of a poetry book must be no greater than the height of the average fucking bookshelf.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They've finally run out of toffs to stand as PM, your name has been pulled from the hat, what's your one (1) manifesto pledge? Let's assume UBI, PR & tax/eat the rich are standard. I want your petty policies, your extremely personal grudges, your old man yells at cloud laws

That's me! A short story about lindy hop, and robots, and doing lindy hop with robots, and also imperilling husbands.

Adventitious.@adventitiouswords.bsky.social · 3mo ago

He dragged her to a hostile planet. He built her a dance studio as far away from his office as possible. Now he may run out of air before he reaches her. And she keeps dancing. www.adventitious.net/stories/lind...

I am back to relentlessly thinking about how the people pushed out of windows in the first two defenestrations of Prague might feel if they came back to life and found that history remembers neither of their defenestrations in Prague as THE defenestration of Prague, but chose in fact the third one

Here we have a meditation on self-recovery, identity, & emotional healing delivered through a series of imperatives It examines the self we present to others & the self we neglect internally It is a poem about returning home to yourself. #poetry #poemoftheday #MentalHealthMatters

this is exactly how I felt age like 19 a few hours after discovering that Ye Olde Sweetshoppe near where I worked sold chocolate covered espresso beans

MAGNUS BEEFCASTLE@magnusbeefcastle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

Friends, if you’re taking sertraline, check the batch number as there is a recall out and you may have ended up with a mislabelled lower dose of citalopram. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Precautionary recall of antidepressant medication due to manufacturing error

The MHRA has advised healthcare professionals to stop supplying the affected batch of Sertraline 100mg and return all remaining stock to their suppliers.

gov.uk

the last time someone else cut my hair was for a couple of months about 9 years ago when I was growing out an undercut, so I got a bob. The last time before that that someone cut anything apart from the undercut was maybe 15 years ago. Other than that it's all been me, through many, many hairstyles.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What can you do that most people you know would be surprised by? I can milk a cow, both by hand and by machine I open jars and bottles and anything else that requires dexterity and strength with my left hand (I am right handed) I do it rarely, but I bake very good cakes

The Elephant of Surprise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants

Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured

theguardian.com

my brain just cannot correctly assign the names Sydney Sweeney and Morgan McSweeney to the right humans, and I really thought Morgan McSweeney being fired would be the end of this problem for me, but no, apparently not

at my last gig I was in so many workshops with so many people that by the end I had to resort to saying 'there is nothing interesting left about me that at least half the people in this room haven't heard, sorry.' maybe I should have lied!

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our company does loads of shitty 'team building' events. The ice breaker is always 'tell everyone an interesting fact about yourself'. I always make them up. Last time I convinced everyone I drove the bulldozer in Bowie's Ashes to Ashes video.

Orbán took power in April 2010. We organized our first protests against him that December. I was 22, in undergrad, lucky to be in a community of students ready to resist. Looking back, no wonder this moment feels so heavy. 🧵

Charles Boycott was an English land agent in Ireland who was such an objectionably awful man *even compared to other land agents* that the local population invented the boycott, subjected him to it by withdrawing all labour and services, and successfully drove him entirely out of Ireland

Tim Clare@timclare.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What's your favourite origin/root of a word? (in any language) I love etymology so much. It's like history & conspiracy theories combined. Our language has secret messages & lizard DNA baked into it. Like how 'gargoyle' comes from gargle / gurgle, because of the water spewing out their mouths

Fully cosign this - one of my favourite workshop moments ever was when I was running one on ghazals and showed the group In Arabic by Agha Shahid Ali. An experienced poet who runs workshops in their own right said 'I don't know what this poem means but there are goosebumps all over my arms.'

Tim Clare@timclare.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It's not just fine but great if you don't know what a poem means. All that matters is how it made you feel. Osip Mandelstam described poetry as that which is unamenable to paraphrase. If you can summarise it, 'there, so to speak, the sheets are unruffled, there, poetry has not spent the night.'

‘If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t’ scales surprisingly well

Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️@tomjuniper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Have a break. Have 12 Tonnes of KitKat. Remember, kids, Nestle is literally the company who literally told African mothers that their breast milk wasn't good enough in order to sell more formula. Don't be a snitch, now.

gaggle of what I would estimate to be Year 8s walking towards me, bickering about if eye colour matters to attraction. someone says to one of the lads, 'you only think it matters because you're gay' and the lad shoots back 'it's not beCAUSE I'm gay, it's a separate issue!' the kids are alright

several days later I am still thinking about these incredible extracts from the wikipedia article about the Northumbrian queen and abbess Æthelthryth, featuring her guilt about having worn heavy necklaces and the resulting etymology of the word 'tawdry'

because of the configuration of our living room, H's rewatch of Schitt's Creek is essentially a radio play for me, and it doesn't matter what I'm doing, the sheer sonics of Catherine O'Hara's delivery keep yanking me out and stopping me breathless. she really was a marvel.

Now sing this to the tune of I am the very model of a modern major general

For the case against trans girl guides to work you have to believe that a child would purposefully lie about being trans, inviting all the prejudice such an identity brings, in order to access girlguiding and do harm. If you think this happens you have a hole in your heart.

'There were no books' ought to be a meme clip that lasts forever

404 Media@404media.co · 7mo ago

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

witness coaching via smart glasses. this seems great and not at all terrible! www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/...

High Court: Witness coached via smart glasses while giving evidence

A claimant giving evidence in the High Court was fed answers through smart glasses he was wearing that were connected to his mobile phone, a judge has found.

legalfutures.co.uk

this is the sort of situation in which my accent re-defaults to Absurdly Posh, which is also an option

👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 7mo ago

genuinely as a life pro tip, if you're british (like me) and live in britain (like me) and you ever need to do something that is considered horrendously awkward or rude in british culture (call a cunt out loudly instead of tsking), just put on an american accent. works a treat

It is SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE, you bastards

I keep waiting for this idea that George Galloway is able to like somehow hypnotically force every British Muslim into doing his bidding to die, and it keeps? not? dying??? 'push them over the line' like George Galloway got the entire 4k margin to switch from labour is laughable

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"We’ve seen the true colours of Zack Polanski’s Greens in this campaign. The Greens were able to capitalise on an endorsement from George Galloway to win over enough voters to push them over the line. (4/16)

for the handful of people on here who have seen my 'reverse chronology of the chair making industry of high wycombe' lightning talk, you can now view even more of the source material!

👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 7mo ago

bless the museum sector for this sentence

Piers Morgan doing his stopped-clock occasionally-right thing (this time on the sheer excellence of Bad Bunny) will never stop feeling weird or surprising

Jesus H Christ this is fascinatingly awful

jay, god's most perfect princex@jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I hadn't asked myself the question "what if chotiner got to interview leni riefenstahl?" before now, but I guess it's nice to have an answer regardless

honestly, ctrl+f with boolean operators when????

👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻@oldenoughtosay.com · 8mo ago

i'm having to find and replace the word 'high' in a 100k word document about a building located on a High Street, so i can't do a straight f+r, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh it's not real it's not a real word

new one today from @annacarlakahn.bsky.social missing someone is like its own sense

Night Shades ⏾@nightshadesmag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“I was bog-standard startled there was someone in our kitchen. Kieran was startled even further, given as his mother had died when he was ten.” a visitation, from @annacarlakahn.bsky.social www.nightshadesmag.com/salt/