Oh for goodness sake, Amnesty. You’re not getting the GCs back on side, so all you’ve succeeded in doing is pissing off everyone. Well done rendering yourselves completely irrelevant.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

My first (cynical) thought: oh god, we’ve made inspo-porn of disabled raccoons now. My second thought: Jimothy can WHAT, though??

DerkHerkenbersh@dochackenbush.bsky.social · 3w ago

We Stan a Short King. #art #Jimothy

The child just correctly pronounced “ridiculous” for the first time (previously “ridiclyus”) and I’m trying not to cry. 😭

Apparently I can either NOT be severely hypertensive, or have executive function. Hooray.

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

What in the actual hell does this even mean? I want to see *precisely* what these institutions have agreed to! And I would certainly want to know that before paying to study there.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4w ago

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions

🎵”On the road to Hell there was a railroad line…”🎵 #Hadestown (Seriously, though, that’s fucking terrifying. What are we even doing?! 😱)

Meade Krosby@meadekrosby.bsky.social · 4w ago

A clip from a freight train stopped in a wildfire near Armstrong, Ontario. Thankfully, the crew escaped safely. Wildfire is nothing new but the burning of fossil fuels is making them larger, more frequent and severe.

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: THE ORESTEIA, Bridge Theatre, 22/8/26 @ 1.30pm bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-oresteia OH MARY!, Trafalgar Theatre, 2/9/26 @ 7.30pm Ohmaryplay.co.uk PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Woking New Vic, 9/10/26 @ 7.30pm paranormalonstage.com

The Oresteia

A contemporary family wakes up in a Greek myth and can't seem to find a way out of their hellish destiny. Writer and director Simon Stone is joined set designer Lizzie Clachan, lighting designer Nick ...

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It is 11.30 on a Sunday night, during a heatwave, and one of our neighbours is in the back garden doing DIY. If you wake the child, that hammer is being put to a new use. 😡

It really is the week for ghastly right wing politicians not breathing anymore, isn’t it? One could really get optimistic that Death was just sharpening his aim. And no, this doesn’t count as condoning murder. Everyone dies. It’s just a question of what order benefits humanity as whole.

Caught last train heading into London, for work. Leicestershire looks borderline apocalyptic. Parched brown fields as far as the eye can see. I’m appreciating the flocks of crows and wheeling buzzards, though. Those birds got the memo. Very atmospheric.

Doesn’t begin to surprise me. Our child’s SENCO fails to tell us about meetings where decisions are being made about her, then blames us for not attending. Other SEND parents at the school have the same experience. If you don’t want to do your damn job, quit so someone else can!

#Hookland isn’t a film. Hookland is more like The Third Day. (Oh no, now I’ve made myself want a #Punchdrunk show set in Hookland…)

Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater)@catvincent.bsky.social · last mo.

They don't get #Hookland.

I don’t even know what’s real. Sometimes I wonder if it’s all just a story, if I’m a fraud without even knowing it. Things are sharp tonight, though. I’m not the only one here, and my other self is very scared. #DID

He’s not even the first Somali refugee Lord Mayor we’ve had. Sheffield had Magic Majid ten years ago. And he was fucking brilliant. I would argue we need more people taking responsibility for the place they have chosen to be home, and fewer who merely feel entitled to it.

Dan Snow@thehistoryguy.bsky.social · last mo.

Edward the Confessor, Henry I, Henry IV, Edward IV, Henry VII and Charles II all at one time had to flee from their country and seek safety in another.

I used to tolerate heat pretty reasonably - I spent the hottest day on record as maid of honour at a wedding in a conservatory - but I’m on new meds and fucking hell, it’s the *confusion* that’s the worst.

I seem to have discovered another dis-integrated part of my self. I thought I had them all - a sort of sprawling map of time, non linear, which is just like me. But this one I have missed. #DID

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN, Globe Theatre, 24/6/26 @ 2.00pm shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/mother-courage-and-her-children/ THE ORESTEIA, Bridge Theatre, 22/8/26 @ 2.30pm bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-oresteia

Mother Courage and Her Children | Summer 2026 | What's On

Michelle Terry leads in Anna Jordan's new Mother Courage And Her Children, Brecht's fierce, musical, anti-war protest play, directed by Elle While.

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Hey, #Uber, what we would LIKE is for your drivers not to pull off before we’ve strapped our child in. What we NEED is for them not to pull off *while the door is wide open, and the mother is leaning halfway into the car, and then you run over her fucking foot*!! The bar is low. Clear it.

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN, Globe Theatre, 24/6/26 @ 2.00pm shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/mother-courage-and-her-children/ OH MARY!, Trafalgar Theatre, 2/9/26 @ 7.30pm Ohmaryplay.co.uk PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Woking New Vic, 9/10/26 @ 7.30pm paranormalonstage.com

Mother Courage and Her Children | Summer 2026 | What's On

Michelle Terry leads in Anna Jordan's new Mother Courage And Her Children, Brecht's fierce, musical, anti-war protest play, directed by Elle While.

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I’m not sure quite what went wrong with one of the child’s birthday cards… 👁️

It is altogether typical of this government that, when someone is signed of sick from work, their FIRST question is not “how do we help them recover?”, but “how fast can we get them working again?” They are not. The same. Question. share.google/wtW76pFVYePj...

Sick notes ‘scrapped’ under plans to reduce benefit claimants

‘Fit notes are too often a dead end,’ the work and pensions secretary said

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Still think you “need” AI? Literally stealing resources from actual humans to generate lies and fantasies.

Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers "It's like we don't exist." futurism.com/science-ener...

Well #IntoTheWoods at The Bridge was rather gorgeous. Set and costumes were exquisite, there wasn’t a weak link in the cast, and @melanielabarrie.bsky.social as the Witch … I have such a talent crush on that woman!

The Globe’s #MotherCourage is replete with gunfire, obscenity, rape and killing. Note for tourists: There may be such a thing as introducing your eight year old to TOO MUCH culture. (Seriously, I think I just watched some kids form memories they’ll discuss with a therapist one day).

Upcoming #AudioDescriptions: MEAN GIRLS Hull New Theatre, 28/5/26 @ 7.30pm meangirlsmusical.com/ MOTHER COURAGE & HER CHILDREN, Globe Theatre, 24/6/26 @ 2.00pm shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/mother-courage-and-her-children/ PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Woking New Vic, 9/10/26 @ 7.30pm paranormalonstage.com

Mean Girls Tour | Official UK & Ireland Tour

From Tina Fey comes the hilarious musical - MEAN GIRLS on tour in the UK and Ireland. Grab your friends, sign-up for more info & get ready for a fetch night out!

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Just so you know, by this logic the government can ban any activity tomorrow and if you’ve done it in the past, you’re going to jail. Which is not how laws are supposed to work.

Netpol@netpol.org · 3mo ago

Jury members were not told that four Palestine Action activists they convicted after a retrial for criminal damage to an Israeli weapons company site would face sentencing as "terrorists", for a protest that took place before their direct action group was banned www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

It would be great if Labour, instead of looking at the election results and going “hey, we need to be more like the nazis!”, recognised that the nazis already HAVE a party, and the people they need to appeal to and unify is EVERYONE WHO IS NOT A NAZI.

Long shot, but does anyone know any autism/neurodivergence friendly employers in Sheffield? Someone I know is really struggling to find anywhere that will make even minor adjustments for him. Background in data/coding/finance. @helpsheffield.co.uk