we are so lucky to have her as housing secretary

Just finished 12 monkeys (TV show). it has long seasons/silly tropes/a time travel plot with amazing internal consistency and is worthy of a prestige tv show/feels quite male coded but has random boughts of campness like a character performing a full rendition of Since U Been Gone to Hilter in 1940

keep thinking about this fascinating sentence in the FT last week: 'US workers who are functionally illiterate earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker'

if you are even passingly aware of this ongoing story, you have to read the guardian's write up / investigation immediately. please trust me on this one. omg www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

theguardian.com

the concept of a company being given a loan, doing what they are supposed to do with the money, and then paying back the loan is too complex for the green party ??

The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 2mo ago

Labour chose this... On Thursday, we can choose better. Vote Green first in Greater Manchester 💚

bit chilly out in the 21 degree cold isn't it 🥶🥶

'this isn't just any Argentina twink' did I just hear the BBC right

this Japan Brazil game is crazy

a take: Lab are short sighted for usurping their sitting PM now rather than in 2029 no leader is going to be able to weather the media onslaught (and UK structural issues) for that long Starmer could've taken the heat Burnham should make buses £1 and set an election for 100 days time

personally I would have gone with a different turn of phrase here

I used to rush home from school to make YouTube videos for hours upon hours. I used it for guitar tutorials and video editing guides which stimulated entirely new hobbies. I met people on random teamspeak servers who me and my irl friends made silly Minecraft and RuneScape videos with.

Teens will get social media curfew and chatbot ban

Plans to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer go further than Australia’s with a total ban for under-16s and restrictions meant to stop unhealthy late-night scrolling

thetimes.com

i hope Rachel Bloom is doing well

this is good news - many people will not want to pay a premium for parking space that could be better utilitised by building more homes! www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...

Shared parking bays for new homes attacked as ‘war on motorists’

Developers are being urged to cut the number of bays to allow more room for housing, make streets safer and encourage walking and cycling

thetimes.com

been so happy recently

this row of flats look like train carriages to me 🐢

I am personally finding the boys s5 torturous to watch but I simply must see how it ends after all this time ... we are so close ...

i have amended my calendar to show my upcoming events by hour instead of just by day. i have a free 30 minutes at 5:30pm on Saturday if anyone is about!

i was not ready for how good slayyyter would sound with a full live band at her coachella set

SNL UK was great. it feels like they've given a bunch of funny young writers the run of the place and it's good to see comedy on TV without the usual lot like romesh / james acaster / katherine ryan in it. and wet leg were good and wolf alice are on next week. target audience reached.

1271 minutes wait for a train? where I'm from you have to wait at least 3000 minutes. talk about London privilege 🙄🙄

fair play to this family who got the BBC to cover their £175 pizza express meal on starters, sides, the most expensive pizza express mains with extra toppings, alcohol, and desserts, for a write up about how bad the cost of eating out is, they played a blinder here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'We can't justify a £52 lunch': Middle-income families cut back on fun as prices rise

A household with an average income of £55,000 has cut spending on leisure activities by £40 a week, offical figures suggest.

bbc.co.uk

the amount of AI features built into new flagship phones is wild. eg using text prompts on photo apps so you can ask Gemini to edit your photos extensively. Once people's phone contracts expire and a large proportion of the population have these features the battle is so lost

i thought it was really cool that there were lots of functioning coffee machines built into the front of residential houses in Bulgaria

i am so easily pleased on.soundcloud.com/CERhpLbY562n...

$T LOSER (DEMO)- SLAYYYTER

stop stealing my soundcloud swag

soundcloud.com

timothees comments are just not that deep ...

does the total amount really matter that much unless you become a high earner though? it'd be better reform the % you pay back rather than disparity between total costs depending on the amount of maintenance loan you took

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 7mo ago

Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.

turns out my original YouTube account (along with a bunch of old videos) was removed from the platform for hateful language in my username :(

the four-man bobsleigh event is so silly. just four hench dudes in this huge tank-like bobsleigh that takes up almost the full width of the track

have a lot riding on the potters bar weather forecast for 3-5pm today