I do think the decline of smoking might have something to do with the fact that hyperactive, easily distracted kids don’t seem to just grow out of it anymore. (Shame about the side-effects…)

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 14h ago

I’m not sure what the endgame is with “ADHD is made-up”, beyond more culture wars bullshit, but if they take away the prescription amphetamines, everyone just go back to self medicating with coffee and fags like we did in the old days.

Bring it on, you coward.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 12h ago

Following Putin's threats against Japan, Lavrov continued with the traditional threats against Britain. "We have the right to regard the proudly announced direct involvement of British missile forces in strikes against Russia as participation in the war, with all the ensuing consequences," he said.

Just because it worked in the big city, doesn’t mean it’s going to work across the north. If you want to understand the problem, just go to County Durham ✏️ @jamesrball.com

Sorry Andy – Manchester and ‘the north’ aren’t the same thing

Just because it worked in the big city, doesn’t mean it’s going to work across the north. If you want to understand the problem, just go to County Durham

thenewworld.co.uk

Great Man Theory is dead; the time has come for the Awful Man Theory of history.

Oh no

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 16h ago

BREAKING: A case of mad cow disease has been detected in Scotland. The Scottish Government said the affected animal, its offspring, and 'cohort' had been put under special measures

www.sasktoday.ca/north-news/t...

Treaty 6 commemoration to honour living treaty relationship

A four-day gathering at Fort Carlton will mark 150 years of Treaty 6, focusing on treaty relationships, learning and culture.

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Got to fix the NRPF thing, Andy.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 15h ago

Andy Burnham calls on wider society to help end homelessness by Christmas

It’s raining!

They don't keep wine at home, and 'when the mean to drink a great deal, they go to the tavern', honestly this could describe the 1990s as well as the 1490s

As long as there are no direct trains (that I saw earlier) between European capitals and prices are high, people will still mostly fly or drive. It shouldn't take ages and cost c. £500 to travel from Paris to Berlin or Madrid. And don't get me started on the Eurostar leg...

T&E@transportenvironment.org · 2d ago

In seven EU countries, aviation’s climate impact – considering both CO2 and non-CO2 effects – is now higher than cars. The growth in aviation emissions threatens to cancel out gains made elsewhere by EV uptake and jeopardise Europe’s successes. Check out the state of EU aviation ➡️ bit.ly/4bNNbD0

“Deluded” to think it is at the least, *possible* for a charismatic man to succeed in academia while telling tall tales and with questionable research without a helping hand from “EDI”. Can these people hear themselves?

Ben Mitchell@bmitchellwrites.bsky.social · 20h ago

Have you seen how EDI operates in workplaces? If it was about furthering diversity, great. But it's so much more than that. And if you don't think the influence of EDI played some role (we can debate how much) in this sorry story, you're deluded.

The RAIB interim report on the Lewes derailment is here: www.gov.uk/government/n... For good reasons, no answers yet, but it's really helpful in laying out why things are complex.

Derailment of a passenger train at Lewes

Investigation into the derailment of a passenger train at Lewes, East Sussex, 13 August 2026.

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Going to weigh in here with some personal stuff. My son is diagnosed autistic. It made a world of difference because his school had to make accommodations that allowed him to actually cope and learn there, rather than be categorised as "naughty" in an escalating round of attempted control that

Jack@jackinpogform.bsky.social · 21h ago

Funny innit? The risk of misdiagnosing a single neurotypical person is worth dragging each and every ND person back to the 90s where they were 'difficult,' 'thick' or 'disruptive'

"We're going to end Homelessness!" they say today, but literally 5 days ago, the UK government issued this decree: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a7c46...

If the PM is going to achieve this, then he needs to have some serious words with the Home Office. Kicking refugees out of Home Office accommodation with only a few weeks' notice and no support leaves thousands facing homelessness after a positive asylum decision www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise | Andy Burnham

Today we begin our drive to get everyone in for Christmas. And it will be for local communities up and down the land to decide how best to do it, says prime minister Andy Burnham

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🛤️ The world's largest model railway turns 25 this month. Since Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg opened its doors, it has become one of the most-visited sights in 🇩🇪. Its 1200 trains across 16 km of tracks with perfectly recreated miniature landscapes attract over 1m visitors each year.

Twelve people from the Diocese of Leeds, including the Rt Revd Malcolm Chamberlain, Bishop of Wakefield, stood shoulder to shoulder (bega kwa bega) with people in the church in Tanzania on a recent visit to the country. Read more here ⬇️ www.leeds.anglican.org/who-we-are/n...

Diocese of Leeds stands shoulder to shoulder with church in Tanzania - Diocese of Leeds

Twelve people from the Diocese of Leeds, including the Rt Revd Malcolm Chamberlain, Bishop of Wakefield, stood shoulder to shoulder (bega kwa bega) with people in the church in Tanzania on a recent vi...

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Mason is one child. It’s possible he shouldn’t have been taking the medication, or was on the wrong one, or on slightly too high a dose (though his teacher’s comments don’t sound _entirely_ encouraging to me). Doctors don’t always get it right first go. All that tells you is about one child’s case.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

The Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is here

Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

Once again I pitch my idea for CofE Dioceses to have [x]-in-residence, who travel across the Diocese meeting and working with different communities and bringing churches from across the Diocese together, instead of rich churches being able to fund their own residencies, and the poor going without.

to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of thy Divine Majesty to worship the Unity:

Just seen someone noting that “Augustine came from Berber peoples like Zinedine Zidane,” which is true but somehow also extremely funny to me. Now imagining Augustine as Zizou, though I bet he wasn’t as useful in midfield.

My own question is why is everyone assuming this is about NZ not AUS given the dragged in out of nowhere Tim Tam reference

Ask a Manager@askamanager.org · 5d ago

what is going on with this car?!

I can’t remember what the first CD I bought, which is a bit sad. I think the first CD I bought at university was a double album of noisy classical lollipops called “Massive Classics”, which was mostly self defence at my nextdoor neighbours’ terrible taste and lack of restraint given thin walls

there’s a difference between being critical of someone or something that deserves it and having a take because you feel like you need to raise your voice

The laudable @countbinface.bsky.social was not the first... "Beneath the giant helmet is a very old idea: sometimes satire works best when it gives its argument a face, a personality and a voice of its own." theconversation.com/some-of-the-... #18C #18thC #18thcentury

Irked that Lichfield Tesco doesn’t have any Canadian whisky at all, even Canadian Club (unlike the one in Batley, which had a much smaller spirits section but had CC and a slightly bougie one called something like Bearclaw)

And just when you think Spielberg is being the voice of decency, he appears to be positing a promiscuous twelve year old. (I suppose he_might_ have thought that "slightly young" was Lucas deciding to age her up from 12, but I'm not sure he deserves benefit of the doubt).

Calliope@calliope5431.bsky.social · 2d ago

The most well-known example of this mindset is *Raiders of the Lost Ark*. When Marion says "I was a child, I was in love, it was wrong and you knew it!" to Indiana Jones, in the original script that was not a rhetorical flourish (she was eventually aged up to be 15 during their first relationship)

The Tories in Scotland long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about saying the N word.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d ago

A Scottish Tory peer has spoken out in defence of using the N-word. Nigel Biggar argued in a blogpost that it is 'stupidly unjust' for people to be punished for using the N-word if they did not mean it in a racist way. Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Think more generally there is a detachment from the real world here because in my personal circles I've encountered way more people who suffered eg maternity discrimination at work than "overpromoted because of woke".

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

a really useful tell on UK pundits having melted their brains on X is their obsession with DEI when the UK terminology is EDI.