Abigail Nunes-Richards

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

The shrews tell me my carrots are ready.

Once when I visited the US my friend regretted taking me to the cheesecake factory because I was tigger-like for hours, then crashed hard. Worth it. Remember that the US base diet is higher in sugars than the European one so I had no tolerance. Sorry to the USAians I bounced at, especially bestie.

Both my English Grandmother and Scottish Nana always said “The Welsh are a queer lot”. 😂

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

a UK food delivery service experimented with AI-generated images for restaurant menu items that lacked pictures. they stopped when customers reported seeing some unusual new dishes. a tiger-prawn dish became a bowl containing actual tiger cubs. friends, i think the tech may not be ready.

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

I'm sorry, but this is such bollocks. Are they seriously suggesting *a quarter* of all tourists would not visit the UK because of a tax which nearly every other European country (not to mention nearly every US state) has? Give over...

BBC editors trying to work out to blur or not to blur the "Progress Poppy"

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

Council are like "its your fault because your graveyard is open to the public" and idk, it's been open to the public since the 600s and this has only been a problem since you drew an arbitrary line in the city centre and told anyone behaving antisocially to fuck off over it. Right into our graveyard

You probably know about the Jaffa Cakes VAT thing, but here are a bunch of others compiled for your tax nerdy pleasure by @timharford.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2b77...

A reminder that if you live in the UK the clocks go back one hour to GMT in the early hours of Sunday... ...and archaeology and heritage adjacent social media accounts will re-run the same old joke about workers having to move the stones at a certain monument in Wiltshire to take account of it.

…and they inevitably come back with “Yeah but those aren’t REAL Christians. Those examples don’t represent all Christians.” Look, if you can separate your faith from religious extremism and the violence it does, you can do the same with another faith tradition. And we CAN’T fully separate them.

Spare a thought for the army of BBC interns who will be working overtime to edit them out of broadcasts, along with all the other "political symbols" .... oh, wait.

This won’t be reported widely, but Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a second time. Still nobody has been held accountable for this man’s death.

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

How to become a successful entrepreneur: 1. Get your rich parents to give you a million quid seed funding. 2. Er... that's it

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I regret to announce that a state of war now exists between Britain and Germany

Rowling: a lot of people have been wondering if i sstill hate transs people Rowling: becausse i've been so difficult to pin down on the topic Rowling: i'm sso ssubtle and coy Rowling: i'm like the wind, baby! Rowling: but you'll be glad to know that i've definitively answered the question

After a year I have finally finished knitting the bits for The Teen's hot water bottle. Imperfections are fine as it's my 1st time knitting in two colours. Bear in mind that my knitting group is mostly Dialekt speaking so whilst I'm knitting in English, I'm chatting in German and listening in Swiss.

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

“You are a Christian candidate. Why haven’t I heard you disavow Timothy McVeigh and the Ku Klux Kan? Seems sorta suspicious.”

hatttttttte this I hate it I hate it it makes me so sad I hate it www.ft.com/content/989c...

Hard to see why it wouldn't be possible for Colossal to have just pursued all their current genetic research to support elephant and wider wildlife conservation (& human-relevant spin-offs) without all the de-extinction stuff, which has endless practical & ethical issues whether moas or mammoths.

Happy International Archaeology Day! Go burry some stuff in your garden, not rubbish either, something nice for future archaeologists.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Wales looking at its best this morning, what a glorious view...

Would you as a rule exclude, say, Muslims from hospital wards because they might make elderly patients uncomfortable? Of course not. Discomfort cannot on its own inform policy, for the simple and obvious reason that discomfort is often entirely misplaced!

With energy bills going through the roof Welsh Government are providing some handy tips. Want to reheat a pizza without a microwave, use a cat.

Cost of nationalising Thames Water: £0. Let them go bankrupt, then take it over, and the shareholders who've been rinsing us for decades can pick up the tab.

The time to question these services was before they bought it.

The look of terror you'd get sometimes when my husband would go ask staff where he could change the baby. [If *certain people* actually cared about getting men out of the women's loos, they'd be campaigning for baby change in the mens, wouldn't they...]

And sometimes, the fitness influencers get it right. Thanks @jaredshult.bsky.social

Isn't nature amazing. This female vodka bottle has just spawned in a tributary of the Taf having travelled thousands of miles from the Barent Sea north of Russia. The eggs will develop into miniature bottles by the spring. They can take up to 7 years to become litre bottles.

People are claiming that Elon Musk messed with Starlink in Ukraine because Trump asked him. I think a more likely reason is that Ukraine damaging Russian data centers embarrassed Elon by showing how many of his Twitter followers are nonexistent and how much traffic on Twitter is driven by bots.