Diva, you're the ones who made them make these out of waterproof tablecloths???? #SewingBee

Not a bad experience flying with my badminton wheelchair as such but the wheels ended up on the luggage conveyor belt rather than being brought to the gate with the rest of my chair so that was…interesting

Not now Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica's Blood Falls

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 3d ago

Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica's 'Blood Falls' May Finally Reveal Its Origins

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

Saw these popping up around Ann Arbor this spring. Finally looked it up and yep, tactical urbanism (by students!)

UMich Urbanism Club builds unsanctioned bus stop benches

Last December, the Urbanism Club at the University of Michigan handcrafted and placed benches at multiple inbound bus stops around Ann Arbor.

michigandaily.com

I love asking people about the craziest thing that’s happened in their job and it turns out my dentist has a lot of opinions about people who use “alternative”, ie fluoride free, toothpaste because they are worried about chemicals

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Kent Live did produce one of my favourite pieces of FOI journalism: ranking the Wetherspoons within the county by the number of police callouts! www.kentlive.news/news/kent-ne...

Kent's most dangerous Wetherspoons ranked by number of crimes committed

Incidents listed include a pub ashtray thrown through a window, a pub set alight and a window being smashed during a row between a customer and a landlord

kentlive.news

Sorry guys, I’m afraid this is my therapist’s fault for trying to convince me yesterday that flying is actually perfectly safe and doesn’t at all come with the possibility of you plummeting to your sudden death

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 7d ago

Air accident investigators are examining a serious incident involving a British Airways passenger jet as it was flying over London

Kent under South East Water has maybe had one month without a hosepipe ban this year and yet there are two separate continuous leaks on Canterbury High-street that have been going for weeks. Responsible water use is clearly only for individuals not for companies.

In this week's Frontiers’ 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr. Allison Lindner (University of College London) about trust in ethnographic research, drawing from her work with informal waste workers. 🎧Listen to the full episode here:

Trust in Ethnographic Research

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

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she is beauty she is grace

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · last wk.

Post a picture of your pet so we know it's you. Hurry.

I think there is a lot to be said for the Commonwealth Games decision to mix parasports in with the other sports but it does seem like the side effect is that there is much less coverage of parasports in mainstream publications which is a real shame

I see we are having to teach the basic principle that “x does not always equal y” again

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · last wk.

Bad quote, bad coverage, exploiting the equivocation between DWP data on disability, disability benefits themselves, and popular conceptions of disability to deliver a real mess.

After discovering @bicycledutch.bsky.social, a Tsinghua University professor advocated for the fietsstraat: where cyclists are the main users and cars are guests. Today, that idea has spread across Beijing: Hundreds of kilometres of bike-priority streets now form the backbone of the city’s network.

Assisted dying debate should come after end-of-life care reform, says Burnham

Assisted dying debate should come after end-of-life care reform, says Burnham

Introducing the legislation would be ‘very challenging’ until care system improved, PM says * UK politics live – latest updates Andy Burnham has said the assisted dying debate needs to wait until palliative care and social care are fixed, as he set out his path to resolving one of the most intractable problems in British politics. The prime minister said he was not opposed to having the debate on assisted dying, but told reporters it would be “very challenging” to introduce the controversial legislation until the care system was in a better place. Continue reading...

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Chef’s kiss stuff

Worth remembering that PWC are the consultants of choice for quite a lot of University restructuring. Really feels like a company whose work you can trust

Dr Duncan Robertson@duncanrobertson.bsky.social · last wk.

It's one thing to outsource thought leadership go consultants. But *if* they in turn outsource *their* thought leadership go GenAI, why not go straight to the source and cut out the middle man. www.ft.com/content/7e14...

1/2 This and similar incidents should be called out for what it is. A Home Office official manufactured country information to refuse an asylum case. Some lawyers have been doing the same to try to win their cases. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

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Law firms are now limbering up to sue for Breach of Contract when universities close courses or there is 'teaching disruption'. Higher Education shouldn't think there is any way out in downsizing. doyleclayton.co.uk/services/leg...

University Course Closure and Teaching Disruption

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Breaking news: the world's tiniest violin has just been invented

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last wk.

Second home owners 'feel unwelcome' while locals struggle to buy

This guy is adding AI into Word. Meanwhile, you still can't add comments to footnotes.

I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:

So here we are again - and only ever looking at this from one angle, the make it harder to claim angle 🧵

chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · last wk.

This. And yet again it's specifically the #disabled he's taking about making it harder for.

But if appropriate support from Access to Work was easier to claim, it would support more disabled people to get into and stay in work, or work longer hours. This could reduce people claiming out of work benefit or relying on housing benefit etc 2/

I can’t wait to watch mook-of-the-day once again decide that he is the one who will definitely, definitely win a fight against VERY LARGE MAN

Micah@rincewind.run · 2w ago

WHAT IF A MAN WAS LARGE: THE SHOW RETURNS seriously please watch this show it’s so fun

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

Featuring the sort of anachronisms that would give @fakehistoryhunter.net a fit of the vapours, the slightly pantomime jousting nonetheless keeps the kids happy. They even let girls joust now, because of woke.

Okay this is the only themed change of a tube stop sign I am happy to approve

PSussner@psussner.bsky.social · 2w ago

Schönes Wochenende!