Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h ago

Our 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

This reads as ‘Badenoch has zero judgment and needs to go’ territory … the BBC will probably be forced to apologise

Simon Alvey@salvey1.bsky.social · 2h ago

Question how could this BBC Breaking News alert have looked worse for the Conservatives

Question how could this BBC Breaking News alert have looked worse for the Conservatives

I hear Trump has become a Walt …

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Causes +10 psychic damage vs graphic designers.

Graham 🏳️‍🌈 - UKTM@uk-tank-markings.co.uk · yesterday

I do try to be supportive of local ventures, but they don't make it easy. Look at the absolute state of this new signage they're crowing about. www.facebook.com/share/p/1JxK...

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.

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Is the word ‘close’ used outside the British Isles specifically for weather?

Bill Murray: Really, Really Close (Groundhog Day)

Alt: Bill Murray: Really, Really Close (Groundhog Day)

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Has anyone pitched a podcast to Goalhanger about the Wizard of Oz and its various spin-offs called ‘The Rest is Chistery’? To be presented by two men, obvs.

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Wonderful to be back at Media City to offer a Pause For Thought on BBC Radio 2 … with the lovely Jason and Rev Kate

Ignore the Russell Group-fixated headline. The universities with the largest declines are: Lincoln Bishop (down 51.4%), University for the Creative Arts (down 50.5%), Norwich University of the Arts (-40.4%), Falmouth University (-35.1%) and Goldsmiths, University of London (-30.0%). 1/2

Russell Group universities take £10m teaching grant hit - Research Professional News

Funding allocations confirm impact of £51m cut to Strategic Priorities Grant

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If I don’t get a floatie alligator suit by noon I shall riot

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 5d ago

i'm sick, this dog is living my best life

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This week, we bid farewell to Archdeacon Rachel Mann as she retires from full-time ministry. Read the full article 👇

Giving Thanks for the Ministry of Archdeacon Rachel Mann - Diocese of Manchester

This week, the Diocese of Manchester bids farewell to Archdeacon Rachel Mann as she retires from full-time ministry.

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Looks like it’s shaping up to be another glorious day for trans people today

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"As a person of a certain age, I've been thinking a lot about retiring early. I've decided on 8:30pm." @revrachelmann.bsky.social

What? This is the best thing Marvel has done for years.

Kelly Thompson@kellythompson.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is a huge bummer as Wonder Man S1 was terrific. Innovative, funny, smart, strange in the best way. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

A little @manchester.anglican.org feature on my retirement. Includes some incredibly generous, humbling words from @bishmanchester.bsky.social about my ministry … www.manchester.anglican.org/giving-thank...

Giving Thanks for the Ministry of Archdeacon Rachel Mann - Diocese of Manchester

This week, the Diocese of Manchester bids farewell to Archdeacon Rachel Mann as she retires from full-time ministry.

manchester.anglican.org

Aleksander Čeferin has been elected Leader of the Avignon FIFA and taken the regnal name Clement VII.

Today was my last day before retirement … a tough, emotionally hard-hitting day (I held it together until the Bishop asked me to bless those gathered) but I’m full of gratitude and thankfulness. As of tomorrow I shall be Archdeacon Emerita … and we shall see what God has got in store for me next …

Wow!

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.

you say aren’t there pills for dread and I say it was it was it was things it was things in tears it was things in tears it was tears themselves it was fear of the tears in things for the things in tears ah well ‘Smile’, a poem by Anne Carson. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I see your doom scrolling, and I raise it this. www.news.com.au/technology/o...

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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If I* want to photocopy a chapter of a book so that my students can read it (or scan it and upload it to Moodle), then it has to be recorded and reported to the CLA. While this is a pain in the neck it enables authors to be compensated. These guys are just stealing. *Actually the librarian does it

Dan LK (🏳️‍🌈Pride month edition)@2ndlevelbard.bsky.social · last wk.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the idea that "I bought this book, therefore I get to do whatever I want with the contents" is why the copyright notice exists

I know Tate are skint. But it's one thing not competing on salary with Louvre Abu Dhabi or the Met, and another not competing with a delivery gig at Papa John's pizza.