Here's a direct link to the (ad-free) finalists' gallery: www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

Dementia and Alzheimer's are absolutely devastating not only to the sufferer but for their friends and loves ones as well. Currently if it happens to your parent or partner you're effectively on your own navigating this terrible and often very expensive landscape of care.

Peter Thiel finishing The Return of the King for the 10th time: 'no I still don't get it, why not keep the ring and take over from Sauron?'

The Good Spirit: Behind the Doors of Opus Dei A new documentary from @hbomax.bsky.social talks to former Opus Dei members about the spiritual, psychological, and financial abuse they experienced Definitely worth your time.... www.hbomax.com/jm/en/show/6...

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Had to be done.

It would be useful if the BBC article explained how this is essentially what the US and Greenland/Denmark already have!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w ago

The strategy of Denmark & Greenland in pointing out only in code what this content is (as a ratificatoon of existing status) and signing it at the UN General Assembly, while the US overspin expansion of what exists, means the BBC reporting comes across as a little naive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.

Tom Clark@tom-clark.bsky.social · 3w ago

The BBC has decided that this constitutes news… A man who left for Monaco several years ago declaring he’s ’lost confidence’ in the UK His qualification for making the headlines? Owning £15bn Broadcasting like democracy already died! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

Are all Golden Retrievers like this or did we get a faulty one?

Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king

[Exit Queen.]

meanwhile in an actual English vineyard: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Warwickshire vineyard takes precautions amid fires threat

The owner says the fires are a "real concern" and bowsers of water have been placed around the site.

bbc.co.uk

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 2mo ago

British people should “enjoy” multiple heatwaves and shrug off warnings of dangerous climate change while enjoying more English fizzy wine, the deputy leader of Reform UK has said. www.ft.com/content/49ea...

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

I think he is a goat fucker.

Moral of the story: Don't. Jump. Over. Advertising. Hoardings

Use our easy tool to find out 👀 https://goodlaw.social/4rcc

Please remember this fact before purchasing their NEW phone this September. As soon as my iPhone dies, Apple products are FINISHED in my household. 

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

My ghost would laugh.

Oh so having hobbies is illegal now is it

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

And then they throw in some Celtic languages and yoink bits of languages from around the world along the way. The result: a language where there are usually about 10 different ways to say something, but when it comes to writing, you sit at your desk for 20 minutes trying to think of one 🤣 #amwriting

Hi England, here’s the Christmas tree we’re sending you for Trafalgar Square this year.

Opus by @garethgore.bsky.social is one of the most important investigations I’ve ever read. It has helped me understand how the Catholic far right and how Christian Supremacy movements have gained so much power. I recently bought the Spanish edition for my wife so she can read it.