For fans of Persephone & Julia Strachey’s novella Cheerful Weather for the Wedding: I’m sure you would like to see Henry Lamb’s portrait of Julia, included in the wonderful Bloomsbury in Wiltshire exhibition at @salisburymuseum.bsky.social

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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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Passed a fish van in Dollar earlier. Tagline on the side? ‘Shrimply the best’ 👏🏼👏🏼

The weir at Foxearth is no longer a weir.

For all of you who love reading about food/cultures/foodways/butchery/The American South, may I suggest Chase Cormier’s new title “Boucherie,” from LSU Press. Approachable, well-researched, giving credit where credit is due, from the sawing to the smoking, from culture to culture to culture.

No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.

Cataract surgery (science+art that feels like a miracle). Contact lenses. Contraception. Pens. Psychiatric medication (remember Largactil?!?). Patient autonomy. Palliative care. Ice cream flavors. Sex toys. Plant varieties. Non-alcoholic drinks in bars. Eyeliner. Mattresses. Car safety.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Reminds me of this King, I wonder what he's up to now? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014...

Man fined for pretending to be ghost in Portsmouth cemetery

Police spokesman says witnesses complained about Anthony Stallard 'throwing his arms in the air and saying woooooo'

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Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 10h ago

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

Trying to feel virtuous because I'm on a bus but some bloke is regaling everyone with graphic descriptions of his recent bout of D&V and yes I'm going to ask him to stop

Five drops of rain. Do better, sky.

I did NOT realize that many supermarket sushi counters are actually run as franchises within stores, & that the working conditions are horrendously abusive. Journalism like this surfacing these issues is so important, so if you like this, please donate to @prismreports.org so they can keep doing it!

The hidden cost of America's supermarket sushi boom

Myanmar refugees face exploitative working conditions as the backbone of the grocery store sushi industry, according to a lawsuit

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I've made greengage curd to go into a meringue pie! Other greengage ideas: chili courgette and gage salsa greengage chiffon pie greengage hand pies Friday's column has a suggestion for using gages in a sandwich.

It’s disgusting for the Conservatives to ask Jewish groups to meet their ex-neo-Nazi candidate, presumably in the hope he will charm them and they’ll offer their blessing. They should not expect Jewish people to sanitise this appalling choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.

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By absolute chance I did the same with music. I had a 70s childhood of male dominated bands. After a break of a few decades in 2013 I came back to live music and found myself listening entirely to female voices/bands. Some male voices have slipped in too but it’s predominantly female voices.

Would 100% advise them to avoid online book purchasing as I think it makes choosing / buying far too meaninglessly easy. Talking to someone, going somewhere and knowing that your book money stays in the local economy makes the whole thing that bit more meaningful.

So this happened to me and what got me back in was actively seeking out voices I hadn’t been reading. So for about 2 years I read nothing by white men (very few male authors also). It reminded me of how books give insight into other people’s worlds.

I went to bed thinking about this and it was my first thought upon waking. I'm no closer to an answer but the replies are wonderful.

Sathnam Sanghera@sathnam.bsky.social · yesterday

If you met someone who had fallen out of love with reading, and you had one shot at getting them back into it, what book would you give them? For a thing.

I am so happy to see Anne Hathaway having a great summer, getting love from everyone important and hate from Elon Musk and his fans. She’s been consistently good her whole career, and had that 5 year period where she barely got any work because it was de rigueur to hate her in popular culture

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Today I learnt that there's a tomato varietal called a Huntingdon Black. There's also the Huntingdon (Fitchett) Pie. But did you know there was once a breed of pig locally, called the Huntingdon Black Hog? Have a read here and be amazed... salutethepig.com/the-black-he...

Saved this to come back to and just read it. What a delightful read! In a similar vein, though perhaps not really, I recently had my dad to give me some of his daily newspaper crosswords filled in, in his handwriting, to frame because they've been a cornerstone memory for me for 50-odd years!

Nicola Miller@nicmiller.bsky.social · 3d ago

"And there she was. Not in a photograph or a framed keepsake, but in the margin of a cookbook, having preserved what mattered to her: the homeliness of dinner being on." www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

They're going to be collaborating with The Food Museum in Suffolk.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · yesterday

This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

Today I am going to try to make greengage curd.

I have the Orpheon one, which, I think, is inspired by a 1920s nightclub, given as a gift from a pal who knows me well. Apart from the scent, the feel & weight of the compact, & the way it closes, is very satisfying.

Something lovelier....if you want to spend a little more on something gorgeous, this solid perfume from Diptyque is exquisite (and can go in your carry-on). It's £56 which isn't inexpensive, but more affordable than many mainstream High St brands.

THIS (although some of the racist patients/clients I have met would still verbally abuse the firefighter during the commission of their rescue).

David@helenefanuk.bsky.social · yesterday

Would they say the same if they were on the top of a burning building and the firefighter who came up to rescue them wasn't white?

If don't mind me hitchhiking, there's also a certain transphobic nurse who was intensely racist so likely towards patients too. Like can we stop coddling these fuckers? It's a care environment, people deserve to feel safe and as long as they're allowed to continue they'll only get nastier. Punt them

The fact that various people are saying Liddle was nice in private speaks to a columnist disease - people having nasty and ugly views once a week for money, with little care for the social consequences. But enjoy that £1 a word!