Maybe this can be the last of that genre. All the chapters are sad.

Keyah 🦬@sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 15h ago

Perez Hilton is lucky there's no Perez Hilton to make fun of him right now.

Please can we stop using the name of the company that is damaging the moon? It’s a failure to leave space debris that bomb celestial beings “accidentally”.

I’m not happy about human made junk slamming into the moon accidentally.

Reading a “designer” home article. Another “move your furniture away from the walls”. Oh yeah? Your rooms are big enough? Where do the wires go? That lamp on the side table in the middle of the floor? Stop this nonsense

RIP Jimmy Cricket, a funny man who also seemed kind. He and his family attended our local church for a while, we assumed he must have been working nearby as it wasn’t his neck of the woods. Being in church, us children were not allowed to gawk at the celeb in our midst 🦗

Woke people shut their bin lids

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bins have gone woke. We repeat: BINS ARE NOW WOKE

Being vision impaired Earns my spouse reads menus for me when we’re out and about. Today he told me there was psstel fe nata. Amszebslls, I love’em. So when the wait staff came I we I enthusiastically ordered one. She looked confused. Portuguese tart, spouse said. Later when food was…

I asked Bev Craig, new mayor of Manchester, to use alt text I expect representatives of the people to include disabled people. It is alarmingly unprofessional to be ignorant about this. I got no response and no alt text . I asked again. Ditto. Let’s hope being mayor improves accessibility

As a Manchester resident (and pedant) I’m cringing every time it’s called, the Manchester Mayor.

The social model of disability - It is society that disables people not health Non disabled people can really struggle to understand that Burnham is right. Tackling societal care will be a game changer -

What now

Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I was born less than thirty years after the end of WW2. To me it was ancient history and in retrospect I think the divide of black and white tv/colour tv helped project that break- it was another world that didn’t look like mine. The clothes, the music, the society, the food. Is that the case now?

Holy moly it is only 13yrs until the 100yr anniversary of the outbreak of WW2

Ned Pyle@nedpyle.com · last wk.

If you’re in my age bracket: don’t think about ‘45 meaning nineteen years from now and not World War 2

Unexpected ministry moment of the day: sack-racing down the aisle 🤣 Pop-Up Living Room in church was a huge success today, people of all ages hanging out together over board games, crafts, tea and snacks. "Very chill vibe," according to one of the teenagers 😎 Lots of #TinyJoys all round.

Huh?

Argos News@render87.bsky.social · last wk.

@christmascoffee.bsky.social That's a fun title for the Queen of Christmas - I've got a feeling this holiday season is going to be a wild ride! 🎄

Did you know that the grounds of Jodrell Bank has a model of the sun and around the uk there are models of the planets of our solar system placed at the correct (ratio’d) distance away from this sun?

Jodrell Bank is not just a big dish It is an educational resource, used by many schools and beyond, a place that attracts visitors and engages the public is science. There aren’t many places like this. Baffling decision to close it

I wouldn’t be a professional astronomer today if not for a school trip to Jodrell Bank as a kid. It’s hard to overstate how much inspiration this place gives future scientists. Devastating news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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This 👇 The stigmatising of needing help is just bizarre Everyone makes it about money when really it is about reality

Lucy Webster@lucywebster.bsky.social · last wk.

We won't fix social care until we stop seeing needing care as shameful

We won't fix social care until we stop seeing needing care as shameful

Can we call Sean McCann by his actual name and not as a brother to his sibling? His achievements are HIS. Yet more appalling behaviour from mainstream media

Do they know that Blackpool is in fact on the water? Where do they think Blackpool is? This snobbishness is almost parody The independent headline: our Cotswold village has become Blackpool On The Water apple.news/AFlDPF8fWTz2...

Our beautiful Cotswold village has become ‘Blackpool-on-the-Water’ thanks to tourists, say furious residents — The Independent

This quintessential village has become ‘Blackpool-on-the-Water’, one local resident tells Jacqui Merrington, as daytrippers swarm the village without contributing to the local economy

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Over a quarter of a million million evacuated in Europe due to fires The climate HAS changed and is continuing to worsen

I think of Andy Burnham whenever I see this sign in Camden.

Still not using alt text so clearly this voter (me) doesn’t matter. No one is listening.

Bev Craig For Greater Manchester Mayor@bevcraig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great to catch up with my friend Andy Burnham on his first day working in Number 10 North in Manchester. 🌹 As Mayor, I’ll go even further on what Andy has already delivered. It never hurts to have friends in high places - and working just around the corner!

Lighting barbecues or bonfires on very dry moorland can be catastrophic - Please #PackAPicnic instead! Thank you to Shaun Davey for this pic snapped on Dunkery Beacon

I am a greater Manchester resident. Right now the Prime Minister is being Prime Minister at Number 10 North ten miles away from me. That feels good. It’s always been London. Just cos it’s always been so doesn’t mean it always has to be.

Drowning prevention is not the responsibility of any one person, profession or sector. We call every parent, worker, educator, regulator and neighbour to recognise the part we can play to prevent drowning https://bit.ly/4yxCRte #DrowningPrevention

🖊️ Ahead of the GM Mayoral By-Election on July 30, Citizens Advice services across the region have shared an Open Letter with the candidates. We look forward to working alongside the next Mayor to support our shared regional goals. Read it here: https://shorturl.at/GAzp6 @citizensadvice.bsky.social

Great thread for a running tally of oxbridge/non oxbridge cabinet members

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reshuffle news: Oxfordshire version: Former Defence Minister John Healey is Chancellor. He studied at Christ’s College, at the Other Place. Cabinet Oxbridge tally- Cambridge 1: Oxford 0* *#change.