Top Ten Cheering Up things. 1. Biscuit- Dark choc digestive 2. Crisps- Lancs black pudding & mustard 3. Tea- Yorkshire Gold 4. Coffee- flat white 5. Beer- Taylor’s Landlord 6. Meal- Ribeye, spinach 7. Snack- wasabi peas 8. Wine- Douro 9. Takeaway- Curry 10. Pastime- Crosswords (doing & making)

Will 🇺🇦 Absolute Shower 🇺🇦@showerabsolute.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Top Ten Cheering Up things. 1. Biscuit- Garibaldi 2. Crisps- Walkers Paprika Max 3. Tea- Earl Grey 4. Coffee- flat white, extra shot 5. Beer- avoided* 6. Meal- spaghetti bolognese 7. Snack- buttered toast 8. Wine- Chablis 9. Takeaway- Chinese 10. Pastime- model aircraft

More celebrations in Iran following Khamenei's death. Crowds are openly dancing in the street, women with their hair uncovered. It's the first taste of the freedom they fought so hard for.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

I keep thinking about this Ellis Rosen cartoon.

My gentle call to action - beyond VE Day 80 - for VJ Day in August, the Remembrance season this year & every November for the decade to come. Think of what we could achieve together by the time we mark the centenary of these great events that made us who we are www.britishfuture.org/how-inclusiv...

How inclusive remembrance can be a force for good - British Future

Speech from Sunder Katwala at the the Royal British Legion's Remember Together event at Sennedd Cymru, Cardiff, on VE Day, 8 May 2025.

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"What about that Chanel suit Melania, it's beautiful" "No I'm...saving that one"

General Boles@generalboles.bsky.social · last yr.

Melania's giving 'grieving widow who may or may not have pushed her rich, elderly husband down the stairs'

The exciting potential of AI are the two hour tasks it turns into ten minute ones. The horror is the challenge of how you get people to actually *take the ten minute task seriously*.

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · last yr.

This is incidentally very revealing about the level of critical thinking some people apply to generative AI. Employing it to think for them without any hint it might be wrong.

Keir's on the phone to Trump - a man he probably despises - trying to salvage the situation because he knows US military aid can be shut off overnight and you're all worrying about his tweets. I'm sorry but

a man in a suit and tie says " serious people "

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " serious people "

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Hearts of Fire, 1987.

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · last yr.

I like this. What is your Dylan age? Post with pic. Mine is, Never Ending Tour, 1999.

There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”

It is a shame that the other arena is full-on unusable because here one must wade through so much of this.