From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart #Summer
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw material for her coastal scene sculptures #WomensArt
Introducing nature's jewel 🪲 Rose chafers are great for the ecosystem, with adult beetles helping to pollinate flowers, whilst their larvae break down decaying plant material in compost heaps and leaf litter, recycling valuable nutrients back into the soil. 📷️: Mike Wenham
The Bodleian Library bought a supposedly 14thC gospel-book for £6 at auction at Sotheby’s #OTD in 1887. Scholar Lucy Hill, 22, found the added poem on leaf 2 echoed a tale in Turgot’s Life of St Margaret, and identified the book as that of the Scottish queen’s. 📸Bodleian Library
Yes, you read it correctly - the UK has 5000 miles of waterways. And we feel that's worth celebrating and protecting. They support our wildlife, our local economies, our mental and physical health. Be one of the reasons: waterways.org.uk/support 💙
Everyone Hates Elon@everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 3w agoRecording everything we see and do constantly? It’s giving fascism, not fashion It’s just been revealed Meta is planning to make the glasses “continuously record audio while taking photos every few seconds” without any warning light* Literally NO ONE asked for this #noncegoggles *Source: the FT
✒️ An Ottoman Calligraphic Wall Panel, Design of a Ewer (Ibrik) with a Long Spout, c. 1820
The size of a blue whale compared to a full grown humpback whale. Original post
I think the most tragic part of this Trump red card fiasco is that now we won’t be able to look at FIFA as the impartial paragon of fairness we used to…
Farage's inner thug is revealed because he's being found out.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 4w agoThe facade is cracking
Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a #Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
@cardiffcouncil.bsky.social take note - there is such a thing as rejecting bad ideas. Who knew?!
DrDinD.bsky.social@drdind.bsky.social · last mo.Calistoga, a rustic and scenic town at the north end of the Napa Valley, famous for its mud baths, has rejected a proposed data center on town fair grounds. Residents were concerned about house, water usage, and pollution. #SayNoToDataCenters
I’ve just written an essay about this which won’t come out for ages (academic publishing) so in short - our planning system currently doesn’t have a mechanism to provide for the complex social meaning of these sites, meaning that impacted groups have to engage in emotional storytelling time & again
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
14 June 1920 | A Polish woman, Alina Jasińska, was born. A gardener. In #Auschwitz from 11 November 1942 No. 24188 She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and liberated there.
Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances. www.wired.com/story/palant...
‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service
Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances.
wired.com
Contemporary UK artist Natasha Newton's painted stones are inspired by landscape and nature #WomensArt
I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th
Our NHS nurses give everything to save lives. Facing racist abuse in return is not part of the job. Anyone who cares for Londoners deserves dignity and respect at work, and anything less diminishes us all as a city and society.
Racist abuse of NHS nurses rising amid ‘normalisation’ of extreme views, RCN warns
Figures disclosed by nursing union show big rise on reported incidents which may only be ‘tip of the iceberg’
theguardian.com
A morning of greens and cloud movement this day 📷🕊️ ….
the magic of secret doors in old libraries
Tonight's goodnight image is 'Rye Point, Sussex', Harry van der Weyden, oil on canvas, circa 1924. Sleep tight.
