Caroline Hooton
@carolinehooton.bsky.social
Writes a little, reads a lot.
I like dogs. I like the Tube. I like dogs on the Tube. Tonight all 3 took a hit because someone apparently let their dog poo on a seat and then left it. The journey home stunk to high heaven.
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
Downplay a book or film (or both): LA In The Public Domain
James Oswald@sirbenfro.bsky.social · 3d agoDownplay a book or film (or both): To Live And Dine In LA.
SCHOOLS! Would you like £500 of FREE books?! I do a thing called "The Big Green Books 500 Club" Lovely people donate £1 each week & when I get £500, I send a school a load of books. We have £500, so if you'd like some books, get in touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-bo...
Spent my morning getting some quotes for the fence post repair I now need, courtesy of an Amazon van driver. If the damage is under £100 then they’ll settle for a voucher. If it is over £100 or you want cash then it goes to their loss adjuster. Having looked on line the adjuster rejects most claims.
Right. Spent my morning day jobbing and while I wait to see if anything further is needed today I shall run some errands and may even clean the kitchen now that I have finally defeated the ants nest that plagued me for almost 6 weeks.
In all the discussions of the latest AI author scandal, I haven't seen enough focus on the ethics of feeding an author's manuscript into AI detection software (just one mention from one anonymous editor). YOU ARE FEEDING THE MONSTER!
Listen up, everyone. There are gay books in Paisley right now. This is not a drill. Gay books. In Paisley. Right now.
AK Faulkner 🔜 MCM Birmingham@ravenswordpress.com · 4d agoWhat up, gays, come get your gay books at The Unseelie Gathering in Paisley RIGHT NOW OMG
The Londoner@londonermag.bsky.social · 4d agoJust over a decade after Elephant and Castle's Heygate estate was demolished, Brutalist buildings have become some of the most in-demand places to live in London. So what did we lose when we lost Tim Tinker's concrete behemoth? www.the-londoner.co.uk/londons-lost...
Little by little, a picture is emerging – one that shows how Reform UK has been funded and by whom. Each new detail raises more questions for Farage and the coterie around him.
The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships
theguardian.com
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership. Too many journalists amplify water industry PR. Please follow the advice in this link and lodge your complaint.
Ofcom and BBC, correct the record: Thames Water CEO misled the public about public ownership
Thames Water CEO lied about public ownership on the BBC. It is time Ofcom and the BBC corrected the record
weownit.org.uk
This week has been mostly awful but I saw some good friends yesterday and today I finally took the step to get solar panels and a battery installed. I’ve been wanting to do it for ages and it feels good to put it into effect.
We have great newts to share! Twenty tiny Mazama newts have hatched in our lab — the very first babies of their kind ever in human care.
Saw a Waymo defeated by horse shit from the Household Cavalry on South Carriage Drive. Every pile it approached it would slam on the brakes thinking it was an emergency, and proceeded to do this a dozen times down the road.
I get a little annoyed by the coverage of the proposed sell-off of the World Cup. They’re not just planning to sell it off. They’re planning to sell it off *to the Trump family*. That should be up front and central.
Guy came to service my wood burner and we got to talking about how I had foxes camped in my garden last summer. Told him I had barely seen any this year only for a very scruffy fox to promptly come up to the back door and stare in at us.
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
amnesty.org.uk
I am feeling very frayed today. Not having a good one at all as everything seems to be going wrong at the same time (nothing major but when you are under a lot of stress and a lot of small things go wrong at the same time it becomes overwhelming).
Ok so this lady says solar panels are getting built on "the most productive farmland" in her area. Which just ain't true at all. It ain't true here in NC either. Where I ALSO hear that talking point over & over again. Smells like astroturf! So let's get the dirt on solar farms & dirt ✨
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d agoI genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?
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How Leopold Aschenbrenner, the ‘golden child’ of the AI trade, was laid low
The $20bn hedge fund manager’s wild ride ended with a call to Ken Griffin
ft.com
This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops
EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...
mirror.co.uk
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
theonion.com