they're installing TWO KITCHENS. A fancy main kitchen and a "dirty kitchen" where all the actual work is done. It used to be that coke was God's way of telling you have too much money; these days it's absolutely enormous hubris-driven extensions.
Because what London really needs is lots more cars and especially empty ones cruising the streets. I don't remember Londoners being consulted on being used as guinea pigs. #motonormitivity
Torsten Bell@torstenbell.bsky.social · 8h agoThis is a big moment for one of the UK’s most promising start-ups
Until I looked him up after watching the X-Files episode Fire, I had not realised Mark Sheppard - who's been in almost every genre TV show going, Doctor Who, Supernatural, Voyager, Firefly, Galactica - was the drummer in (aptly enough) Television Personalities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sh...
Mark Sheppard - Wikipedia
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THIS is public journalism right here.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 5h agoAs the EHRC Code of Practice comes into force, we’ve compiled a new Oxford toilet guide highlighting unisex/gender-neutral provision. 38 facilities across the city for when you need to go. Read it here: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-publi...
Can’t even serve in public office after pledging yourself to the neo-Nazi cause anymore because of tofu-eating woke lefties 😠
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.
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These messages are from UK women who know that behind every headline is a human being who deserves kindness, dignity and joy. We hope these words bring even a small moment of comfort to trans+ people in the UK today. 💗 #WithTheT #NotInOurName
I have become a master at arranging my life so I don't have to pee while I am out, as much as possible, and that is just fucking depressing.
🟦 CLEAN FEED | BBC Weather changes: - Radio forecasts to be read by presenters/announcers. - Automated, presenterless forecasts to replace BBC News Channel/BBC One late night bulletins. - BBC Two post-Newsnight forecast to end. >> OTHER CHANGES: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Wanted to find out how much more obscure of a columnist/author she is than Séamas, and...
What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
Announcing state backed trans segregation and discrimination with a smile
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 11h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
A postscript to my obituary of Simon. You can sign up to classes to make work on his press. One tonight! www.bellhouse.co.uk/events/2026/...
Introductory Lino workshop (evening taster) — Bell House
Learn the step-by-step method of linoprinting, a printmaking process used by artists such as Picasso and Matisse. £50.60 | In-person | Book here
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Matthew Sweet@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 12h agoAfter his funeral the kids he taught to operate his Victorian letterpress helped each of the mourners ink up and print a tribute to him.
tagging for my History of British Politics through Bins and Parking book. Seriously. #bins
Andy Mabbett@pigsonthewing.org.uk · 12h agoApart from all the issues with the candidate, it is remarkable to read that Badenoch thinks councillors "only deal with things like 'parking and putting out bins'". Social care? Adoption and fostering? Homelessness? Planning?
I just wish I felt safe doing it myself. I'm only four months into HRT and while I'm pretty obviously not a cis man any more, I still get misgendered constantly. I've ended up buying radar keys so I can guarantee there's at least one loo where I won't get harassed on days out -_-
Absolute unconditional solidarity with my trans friends - that I know and that I don't - today. Live your lives. This is when allyship may need to become action; stand up to the utter freaks who will try to police this. All suggestions/ideas welcome.
Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 13h agoAnyway i will just continue using the women’s toilet cause I am a woman and over my dead body will you deny who i am
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
why the 'space junk' angle isn't the main through line on this coverage is beyond me www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
SpaceX rocket expected to have crashed into Moon - live updates
Scientists studying the event estimate the stray piece of the Falcon 9 rocket - launched in 2025 - will have crashed by now.
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A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha
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Anyway i will just continue using the women’s toilet cause I am a woman and over my dead body will you deny who i am
he asked us our addresses. he said to stay in touch in case he was able to open somewhere else. then, the next month, stuff started arriving. he'd put each of us down as the "pr contact" for the shop, for a different supplier/distributor. /10
From a previous round; (This one doesn't entirely fit the usual pattern though)
The case for rewilding could not be more clear, on every conceivable level. Now it's time to put it into *action*.
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · yesterdayDone properly, rewilded landscapes are more fire-resistant.
The largest funeral in Gaza history is being held today as the remains of 112 people from a single clan are laid to rest after being buried in rubble for three years. More than 300 people were killed in the strike by Israel, including 44 children and 37 women. The others were vaporized.
Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes
Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza
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If you go onto Bluesky and trash Vimes’ Boots you are quite plainly looking for a fight. The quality of your argument is beside the point, you are here to push buttons.
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
just put on a Channel 5 history documentary and they're using pointless AI generated 'film' inserts. I bet it's the producers involved, not any historian advisers they may have had, but it's a mockery of the word 'documentary'.