So great #superman #bbc2

Labour sees off Reform challenge in Manchester bit.ly/3Rta8oV it wasn’t even close at any stage

Reform just comfortably losing by-elections that they were supposed to have a good chance at winning. Shame.

Thrilled to announce that Moonlight Express is a Waterstones Book of the Month for August! lots of signed copies available for armchair travellers..

The PCR positivity map is out, all national surveillance indicators are on the upturn this week, and some areas are very clearly well above the average. RD suggests highest positivity is in the 15-44 age group. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

No. Someone did a TINY trial on 47 overweight people, 26 of whom had restricted eating hours. They presented their non peer reviewed findings at a conference. Science journalists who should know better bigged up the press release. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find

Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests

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The boy a chose Walliams book from the library. We read it yesterday and now I think he needs screentime

The PCR positivity map is out, national positivity has held steady, and last week's hotspots seem to be spreading out. Areas that didn't report last week have reported this week, and vice versa. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/7

Live scenes on board the 82 in Liverpool

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.

The lengths I will go to beg the government not to do this to us. I will prostrate myself. I might even respond to the consultation

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 3w ago

Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

Joke Friday (well more of a Good Point Friday, without the pauses, emphasis and sarcasm this isn't as funny written down)

The PCR positivity map is out, and positivity has bounced back up from 0.6 to 1%. Adjusted for non-reporting, we make that 3.97% in England; there are clear hotspots. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/6

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. She discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle. #WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Norway beat Israel 5-0 in the World Cup qualifiers and then donated the prize money they won to Gaza and that’s why everyone should be rooting for them.

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs

I saw this and had to share.

Colin, you’re a gift. 🙏🏽

Joke Friday

The PCR positivity map is out and there's been reassuringly little change since last week. NHS stats show covid beds have bounced back up again from their low of mid-June, but only to the level we saw earlier in the year. jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol... 1/5

Offside xkcd.com/3268/

On my way, Clacton.

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

Please @zackpolanski.bsky.social, don’t give him the oxygen. Let him run against Binface.

Moonlight Express in paperback now available for pre-order! Out in a few weeks! www.waterstones.com/book/moonlig...

The right wing has been treating its own audiences like gullible idiots for so long that were all numb to it.

For the Right, Playing Dumb is a Full-Time Job

There are real criticisms you can make of any politician. Screaming “communism” at boilerplate heat-wave advice probably isn’t one of them.

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Remember when the line for these racists was ‘it’s fine if people come here as long as they assimilate and contribute’ Well I don’t think you can assimilate much more than becoming Lord Mayor Turns out they didn’t ever mean that - they are just racist

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · last mo.

Matt Godwin is a failure who needs to leave my city the fuck alone. Failed candidate. Failed academic. Failed commentator. Failed intellectual. A massive ego wrapped around a shrivelled and scared intellect, poisoned by bile and subconcious awareness of his own inadequacy.

Hydrangea Break

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in West Bank, says Palestinian health ministry

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in West Bank, says Palestinian health ministry

A 15-year-old Palestinian teenager was shot in the head with live ammunition during a raid in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said in a statement that after 'rocks were hurled toward IDF soldiers' during a military operation, the 'soldiers responded with fire' and a 'hit was identified.'

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