Delayed taking off from Gatwick because there’s going to be another plane making in emergency landing is not the perfect start to a holiday

Jim Hackerr: I know exactly who watches 80-90s Star Trek Series. TNG is watched by people who think they run the country. DS9 is watched by people who think they ought to run the country. VOY is watched by people who actually do run the country (completely lost and without internal consistency)

To have a completely tepid take: it was probably right to close schools in Covid, but it was immensely damaging to a lot of kids education and it’s something that that the school system is still going to be feeling for another decade, and it’s a complete disservice there hasn’t been catch up funding

Given that vanilla is actually quite a rare and expensive spice, literally the second after saffron, and is actually ubiquitous and desirable in its fairly distinct flavour it's weird that we are so snide about it.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 6d ago

YouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Citymapper should have a feature that tells you what time the routes you didn’t take actually would have arrived

If I was Odysseus I simply would have sailed straight home. Picture unrelated

1. Oppenheimer 2. Interstellar 3. The Dark Knight

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last wk.

lets keep this discourse going. rank your top 3 nolan films

galactic fumble with mahmood and nandy keeping their roles. interstellar fumble. cosmic fumble. astral fumble

Idea for a heartwarming historical sports film. Set in Germany in 1947, some British soldiers rehabilitate a group of demobbed Prussian aristocrats by forcing them to play football where they four of them physically delineate the scoring area. That’s “Junkers for Goalposts” - coming December 2027.

Current mood

Bugger

Anyone familiar with how Scottish defamation law is different to English? My understanding of English defamation law is it’s hard to sue as organisation rather than as an individual because organisations have to prove a financial loss, but I don’t know if Scottish law is different on this

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

I would be much more pleased to see Shabana Mahmood leave the Home Office if she was going to any other job other than the one best placed to push back on the Home office being anti-immigration. Having a CoE who will not speak for the economic benefits of migration will be a disaster

Missed the York press managing to find a local angle for the Farage by election

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

Incredible local angle here

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last mo.

Oxford drinkers may finally be able to swear in the Three Goats’ Heads after the death of Humphrey Smith, the irascible owner of Sam Smiths Brewery, at the age of 81. The pub chain enforced strict bans on swearing and mobile phone use. Smith was described in a Facebook pubs group as “an absolute tit

I’ve capsized a sailing boat 4 times whilst sailing on Greenland dock, god willing I’m hoping to match that in one session today

Not quite directly relevant but I remember when my parents set up an automatic tech curfew for my computer and all that incentivised me to do was to log straight onto Minecraft when I got home from school and only start on my homework at 10pm

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

I think "Henry Nowak protestors" (Telegraph) seems a very inappropriate label for these violent scenes, dishonouring the murder victim + ignoring the calls of his family not to do this. "Protestors throw bricks and bottles at police in violent rage after Southampton murder" would be much better.

I respect Michael Grade’s commitment to making 1 very specific frame of Brass Eye still relevant

Michael Savage@michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Freed from office, ex-Ofcom chair & Tory peer Michael Grade gives view on GB News. Other broadcasters “embarrassed” because it covers “the agenda of the majority”. Big intervention in debate over UK’s impartiality rules. He spoke to Politics Home. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Seems pretty accurate to me

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

I was expecting to be more aggrieved by the answer to this given the complete absence of any questions about you know, welfare, but eh, fair enough.

I’ve read 1 book on this list. But I think that’s largely just a product of me tending to read genre fiction

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3mo ago

I've successfully finished 5 of those and wouldn't put any of them in my top 100 lol www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

I think the only way history particularly remembers Starmer is if Labour goes into long term decline

Based on the limited results so far pretty confident that Lewisham is going to have a green majority on the council (when I was trying to work out possible green routes to a majority I was assuming that labour win both councillors in Bellingham). Just wild after labour won 54/54 last time

This map leaves me with two questions 1. What would be the timings involved for a GM mayoral by-election if Andy Burnham became an MP (would the by-election happen whilst a contested labour leadership race was still ongoing)? 2. If labour lose a by-election what that hurt Burnham’s chances?

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's Keirover

Just had a good laugh at the Newcastle results

My top 15 shows without thinking about it too much Andor Blackadder GoT (but only s1- s4) Yes Minister/Yes PM Brass Eye The Day Today The Simpsons Community Monty Python’s flying circus House of Cards (British version) The Thick of it Severance HHGTG Slow Horses Chernobyl

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My top 15 shows without thinking about it too much Star Trek Deep Space 9 Farscape Battlestar Galactica Six Feet Under Breaking Bad Community The Simpsons Taskmaster The Wire Futurama Strange New Worlds Buffy Better Call Saul Star Trek TNG Andor

It’s probably not a good thing than low supermarket profit margins lead to them being accused of profiteering more than if they were higher. If they had higher margins they probably would end absorbing price shocks from their own profits instead of having to pass costs on to consumers

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

Taking back power or taking the mickey? The activists ‘liberating’ food from big stores