Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Today I tried to phone someone three times by manually dialling their number. Kept not working. Turns out I was using the calculator.

I just had a DELICIOUS lunch of crumpets, Boursin and some fancy smoked salmon. Would recommend.

não esquece de botar seu gato pra carregar

Utterly beautiful thread 👇🏼

Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 7d ago

Last week the posy I brought home from the garden had a chrysalis attached though I didn't notice till I got home. If you, like me, haven't watched a butterfly emerge you won't be prepared for how amazing or how long emergence takes #TinyJoys a 🧵

!!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Giant iceberg turns over near Greenland's coast

Video captured by a passerby showed the moment the iceberg collapsed, creating a big wave.

bbc.co.uk

“You’re right Gmail, I definitely want that email for 7 years ago about my food order, and not the one from this week.”

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 7d ago

suggested slogans for annoyingly popular but inherently terrible bits of software, number #1 in what promises to be a very long series: "Adobe Acrobat: why don't YOU go fuck yourself?"

I mean 100 years is too far back, but grandparent jobs were: - truck driver - raising three children / teaching assistant - oil man or some such??? - raising three children

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Guess how many passports I’ve lost! Guess you lost her passport between getting on the plane and getting through to passport control the other side! It me!!

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

I laughed

Today in “how is the dissertation going” I have four datasets that should all have a 1:1 pairing but for some reason none of them match. As my brain is fried, even though I could write code to find the issues, I have instead printed out each table & am manually checking them against each other.

Reddit keeps advertising pervert glasses at me. In an extremely pointless act of resistance I am reporting the ads for either being offensive or sexually explicit.

Gavin Monks, 43, has had a special focus on grudges his entire life and now has whole rooms in his home dedicated to them.

Autistic man amasses world’s largest collection of grudges

An autistic man has invited reporters to view his record-breaking grudge collection.  Gavin Monks, 43, has had a special focus on grudges his entire life and now has whole rooms in his home dedicated…

thedailytism.com

Milly, Molly and Mandy are out and about!

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

I think I'd die if she spoke to me like that, I think I'd politely walk away from the room afterwards and I'd spontaneously combust

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · last wk.

“Working” on my dissertation today, so of course have focused on the essential part: the acknowledgments.

A judge is moving to sentence five Palestine Action protesters who spray-painted a Barclays branch as terrorists. They were not charged with terror offences and the jury was not told that they could face terrorism-related sentences if convicted of criminal damage www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage

Exclusive: Judge intends to consider ‘terrorist connection’ after convicting five for damage to Barclays in Burnley

theguardian.com

PIP stands for Personal Independence Payment. That does not mean "Money to support you when you cannot work" - Universal Credit has separate benefits for that. PIP pays for the things you need to get to work, or even life your life at all normally otherwise if you are unable to.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · last wk.

Teenagers on Pip paid £100 a week more than those working part-time

A posy (bordering on bouquet) from the garden for you 🌿:

!!!!!!! I love pasta. I love antifascism. What a combination. !!!!!!

Dani Garavelli@danigaravelli.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's July 25, the anniversary of the fall of fascism in Italy, so, in town squares everywhere, people are gathering to eat "anti-fascist pasta", a tradition started by a family who fed their village to celebrate on the day. It's a lovely communal affair with partisan songs. The food was delicious!

Holy macaroni I just got offered a BIG job. The last job I applied to was a barely minimum wage job and I didn’t get it. I have been making very little money since last year July. This job is… substantially fancier!!!!

Obviously all the posts about this are very funny, but if this is real, this is like Never Let Me Go shit. It’s outrageous. Creating life to harvest from it?!? The fuck?!

the hype@thehyyyype.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's no way Bryan Johnson could possibly get any creepier than he already- hang on, I'm getting a note

CDC has updated its vaccine safety pages. Now says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." Whoa #EpiSky #pediatrics #NeuroSky #PsychSky

After a bit of too-and-fro, here's the dirt. The only way we'll see real changes is clearly the "sunlight approach" so with that.... Read about the misguided policy at Marine Environmental Research - and how the editor doubled down. adriftlab.org/news/equalit...

Equality is not equity: why we have withdrawn our manuscript from Marine Environmental Research

We are withdrawing a manuscript from the journal Marine Environmental Research, and we want to explain why, publicly, because the issue is bigger than one paper.

adriftlab.org

Dr Alex Bond@thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

Journal gives us 3 weeks to revise a paper. We ask for a 1-month extension because a coauthor is away. They said no, the most they can give is 2 weeks. Otherwise it's considered withdrawn. What utter nonsense.

Wonderful to see domestic abuser Johnny Depp all over my timeline. For those who somehow don’t see that he is an abuser, I recommend listening to this series:

BBC Sounds - Tortoise Investigates - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Tortoise Investigates on BBC Sounds.

bbc.co.uk

Good on Natalie Fleet - very brave to go “actually I’ve realised I can’t do this important job”, loads of people would just do it badly:

Natalie Fleet leaves 'triggering' safeguarding minister role

The MP for Bolsover has spoken about how she was groomed and raped as a teenager.

bbc.co.uk

Christ almighty. The British obsession with itemized “pay fors” for everything is insane. This is just really not how fiscal policy or government works anywhere functional.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w ago

New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will use money allocated to helping poor countries deal with the worst impacts of climate change to fund a new cap on bus fares across England.

It is possible that trying to do Brighton - Bristol and back again in the same day was a little over ambitious, especially for someone who spends 6 days a week at home.

Someone is listening to Back in Black at fall volume with their windows open. They are also ‘singing’ along. I want to do a murder.