How to visit an art museum with someone who isn't used to visiting art museums:
Tom Hawkins
@nekomatic.bsky.social
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.
This is where pandering to racists and ‘listening’ to ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration has led us. This is why Starmer was *so* wrong, and Mahmood is *so* wrong. We should have taken a stand long ago. Burnham needs to right now.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d agoZia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)
I recently interviewed a traveller from an antique land. Their experience in arid environments with sizable, defunct monumental sculpture (sans torso) stuck with me. While they didn't get the position, here's three key takeaways they taught me about the fleeting nature of earthly power 👇
Don't let my dive into the regulations put anyone off. Today is a good step forward. But buyers need to know some crucial information, and they're being let down so far bylinetimes.com/2026/08/27/t...
The Small Print Ministers Left Out of the Plug-In Solar Announcement
A single company currently holds a monopoly on compliant devices, and planning restrictions, renter protections and grid registration rules have barely been mentioned
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Just heard @rory-stewart.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social say that "we [the UK] still consume more carbon than we have ever done—we just have the t-shirts made in China". I've heard this point being made elsewhere recently too. And it is simply not true.
Ironically, sickle cell anaemia is a good example of the problems of reducing issues to racial categories. Because African Americans and Britons of Caribbean origin suffer disproportionately from the trait… 1/
Don’t read if: you want all loose ends neatly tied up by the last page Do read if: you have any acquaintance with Scotland in the rain
I get so sick of being told that there has been no gender-based prejudice against women musicians. So here are some genuine reviews written about women, between 1893 & 2021, with a couple words/letters changed to make them about men.
welcome to britain, bangers are sausages but also second hand cars and also good songs, good luck out there
Orange you glad I'm here to point out how grocery stores use deceptive optical illusions to get you to buy produce? badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-optical... 🧪
An optical illusion that’s ripe for the picking
Deceptive package coloring fools the eye
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I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
Local shops sold out of eclipse glasses? (and apparently your 1999 ones may have degraded and no longer be safe) No worries, all you need is a tin of those hyperbolic paraboloid shaped crisps and some tracing paper!
Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 3w agoRemember not to look at the eclipse with either the naked eye or sunglasses. Ideally, use eclipse glasses. Or you can make a Pringles can pinhole camera to see the eclipse this evening. alomshaha.com/crisp-tin-ca... H/T @alomshaha.bsky.social
A crazy thing that many people don't realise about parenting small children in the modern world, is that you can actually not watch Paw Patrol or other shit cartoons, but watch something else instead.
The boats they are using are bigger but the overall number arriving is smaller. This is what a successful enforcement policy would look like - more boats are getting stopped forcing change of strategy by smugglers - but you would not know this from the alarmist bbc “LARGEST BOAT EVER” push alert
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4w agoBBC website leading with small boats I see, despite numbers down 43%. Just unacceptable.
We used to have BBC News on in an old workplace. The live captions were always fun: I remember one piece they did about heron addiction.
I actually spent quite a lot of my time in London being unhappy, to be honest. But the thing that made it bearable, meaningful somehow, was the fact that I was doing it in London.
Nikki Coates@nikkicoates.bsky.social · 4w agoA thread to introduce @londonisfine.co.uk and to explain a little. The proprietor thanks the assembled ladies and gentlemen for their patience and indulgence. TL;DR: I’d love it if you answered 2 Qs at the site & please do spread the word! www.londonisfine.co.uk
Hi! Do you live in London? Or have you spent time there? Would you like to help with some research on how we can counter the daft lies that circulate about our city online? I’d be really interested in your answers to two questions at www.londonisfine.co.uk
London is fine – …meaning just okay or sunny or refined or FINE
londonisfine.co.uk