Oh great, as if we haven't seen enough of the sun recently www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet

New images and footage of the Sun show "whirlpools" of activity that it has not been possible to see before.

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Absolutely phenomenal that in less than a day she has snatched a second defeat from the jaws of the first one.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 1h ago

“Kemi has instead offered that I become an adviser to the Conservative Party’s Culture and Integration Commission, specifically focusing on how young men become radicalised."

Arming the ocean's largest animals might just be the perfect way to strengthen an underfunded navy. Who needs gunboats when you can have gunwhales!

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11h ago

Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage

Horseshit theory: like horseshoe theory, but for stupidity

Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 6h ago

Hello I'm an idiot

As part of the local government restructuring, Somerset Council is being merged into the Kemi Badenoch Rehabilitation Home for Nazis Who Say They're Not Nazis Any More

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 9h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

The Conservative party's position seems to be "Well of course racism is bad, but it's not nearly as bad as doing anything to oppose racism"

Procrastination might be my most off-putting habit.

My bits are not picky, in fact they're almost completely indiscriminate

But there did not come soft rains

How in the name of Samuel Johnson have I only just realised that the word "mistake" consists of "mis-take"?

"He was never afraid to speak his mind" = "He said calculatedly outrageous things for money"

I think that plagiarists should get shit poured over their heads regardless of ethnicity; and if you're defending a plagiarist because of their ethnicity, you've fucked up; and if you're hunting for plagiarists to denounce among one ethnic group while ignoring others, you can fuck off.

I mean, great. But usually every newspaper agrees to this sort of thing without thinking, even when there's absolutely no need for it.

James Heale@jaheale.bsky.social · 2d ago

Top form by the Mail

If I wanted to protect the most prestigious and highly paid jobs for the social groups who usually hold them I'd probably design an education system that discouraged poorer children from studying the entry qualifications for these jobs as early as possible..

I check Twitter now and then to keep half an eye on a handful of people who didn't make the move. One of my longtime mutuals, who used to fiercely make a virtue of intellectual honesty, who I've sometimes agreed with and sometimes not - well, it's like he's now finally found a gallery to play to.

Good piece on the enormous difficulty of delivering vocational/technical education in a way that's actually helpful

Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social · 3d ago

I've weighed in on the great vocational education debate. From what we can see of the govt plans, I think they will repeat mistakes of the past. Also, we need to retire the phrase "parity of esteem". It's not helping. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/the-proble...

You may be 10 times the size of a coot, but that doesn't mean it's wise to antagonise one #NewRiverBirds

council employee: oh hey u guys are back early dustman: bins are woke council employee: what? dustman: *loading a pistol and getting back on the dustcart* bins are woke.

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 3d ago

Bins have gone woke. We repeat: BINS ARE NOW WOKE

Getting really annoyed by all these painfully obvious fake AI images of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Come on, guys, does it seem at all plausible that a dog would use a typewriter?

Crime novelist Derek Raymond, whose memoir The Hidden Files I'm re-reading for the Patreon, came from the upper crust & was sent to Eton (he escaped at 16). His summation of the British upper class from which he came is memorable.

Probably my favourite TV programme when I was a kid was The Box of Delights. Truly magical.

The chaos in Ceuta last week has obvious lessons for the UK, most importantly that we need to immediately fortify our land border with Morocco

"Person, woman, man, camera, TV."

RadarOnline@radaronline.com · 2w ago

Prince Harry is said to have offered five words as a 'peace' gesture to his older brother, William.

So weird to think that before Airbnb, if you were staying somewhere then you had to bring your own oxygen tank and space suit or you'd die in the vacuum. Sounds ridiculous now, but it was just the way things were done and even though we grumbled a bit we all accepted it

Also, it's actually a peninsula

Constitutional reform could take up a lot of government time when some might say the country has bigger problems to deal with, but if Burnham is really serious about it then he might well be able to win several dozen votes off the Lib Dems www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Devolution plans strengthen case for written UK constitution, says Burnham

PM argues for codified model of decentralisation that would fundamentally change centuries-old workings of state

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THIS IS JUST TO SAY We have eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and which you had probably forbidden for reasons Forgive us a snake said to and WTF we're naked

There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.

Save yourself the decades of pointless effort involved in leading a fulfilling life by simply getting ChatGPT to write a headstone epitaph you'd like and then leaping into your grave to be buried alive

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

I've never tried rum & raisin. As a kid I thought "well, that sounds like something that really shouldn't be in ice cream plus something that really shouldn't be in ice cream", and as an adult I've not been inclined to reconsider

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d ago

Beyond their overall favourites, which ice cream flavours do Britons like? Vanilla: 84% love or like Raspberry ripple: 70% Chocolate: 67% Strawberry: 66% Mint choc chip: 64% Salted caramel: 64% Neapolitan: 50% Pistachio: 48% Coffee: 41% Banana: 38% Rum and raisin: 35% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...