EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
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Things which are not news, no.1 in an occasional series #notnews BBC News - Prince George to attend Eton College from September www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Prince George to attend Eton College from September
He will follow in the footsteps of his father, the Prince of Wales, who also attended the private school.
bbc.co.uk
Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros
Reform have suspended a newly elected Sunderland councillor for racist comments, but that's a different Sunderland councillor to the one that was kicked out the party the other day and also not the one who beat his partner and allegedly abused a child that was elected on Thursday.
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
Round of applause for the Grimsby Telegraph where the art of headline-writing is alive and kicking.
When Doves Buy - Birds nest in trolley at North East Lincolnshire shop
Staff say they are 'trying to do all the right things for them'
grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
what is the largest animal you are confident you could expel, singlehandedly, from a medium-size bookshop? RULES: - you have no resources beyond what is available in the shop - you must remain more or less uninjured - bookshop has 2 floors; animal is on ground floor, you can choose where you begin
I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Take a look at my wares and please repost. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
truly a knockout series for this archetype. #TheTraitors #Traitors #TraitorsUK
Ariadne Griffin@ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 8mo agoclearly well off retirees who don't care that much for the prize money so just become a gremlin if you give them more than a glass and a half of rose before 7pm <3 #TheTraitors #Traitors
These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is so disgusting.
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:
WIN a set of #Christmas cards Repost and follow me to enter I’ll pick a winner at 9pm tonight (Friday 7 Nov) gailmyerscough.co.uk
If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown
In "Legitimate Concerns" news. 41% of the 899 arrested for taking part in Farage Riots last year had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. For those arrested by one police force, this figure was 68%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
theguardian.com
Fitzgerald was so real writing “They were careless people - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” So many messes they won’t be cleaning
Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · last yr.It’s bad because of all the collateral damage (us) but also good because we have so little to enjoy in American politics
Going to keep saying it - the Farage effect is largely an illusion. Many, many more people loathe him than like him.
on this Bluesky Talking About Bluesky Day I would like to add my view, which is: please can everyone stop saying "booo people are too serious on here" and just start actually posting silly stuff instead, this is social media, be the change you want to see in the world, stop whingeing
Well this is a bit depressing. It’s getting harder and harder to make a living and it worries me. Please have a look and repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Keir Starmer's ratings are down among voters of all parties, including the Reform voters this entire strategy is supposedly designed to win over, but falling massively among those still voting Labour. Down 34 points in just one month
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last yr.Keir Starmer's net favourability rating has dropped 12pts in a month to -46, his lowest level ever, including a 34pt drop among Labour voters All Britons: -46 net rating (down 12 from 13-14 Apr) By 2024 vote Labour: -5 (down 34) Lib Dem: -13 (down 12) Conservative: -76 (up 1) Reform: -94 (down 5)
