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Knobby Russet it is. #TheArchers

So Harrison will help Lily manage Fallon at LoLo? That'll go well! #TheArchers

Storm. Wind. This site. Every time. earth.nullschool.net

It certainly is! Don’t do it, BBC! www.radiotimes.com/audio/radio/...

I have many concerns about how my day will go as a TA in a British primary school but being shot isn’t one of them. Thank goodness my worries are about it raining at playtime, the behaviour of a few children and delivering my reading interventions. #PrimarySchool #USA #Guns

Nog even het bos in gisteravond. Mooie vrijdag!☕☕

Sure I'll go and impart all of my worldly working wisdom, boss.

Judi Dench on working with Frances Barber

An absolute scandal this. & I’ve been a devoted listener. To cancel BBCFreeThinking & Thinking Allowed signals a dangerous abandonment of ideas & the life of the mind in a period when both are imperilled by irrationalists, conspiracists, demagogues. They will gloat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

〆のそら #art #photo #photography #sky #sunset #clouds #cityscape #Tainan #ECK ©️skinskin

I loved this book but I'm annoyed I gave my copy to someone else and now want my own. Though I suspect I might give that one to my mum. But at least I can nick it back off her. Plus I love Toms mums lino prints and also references to Bagpuss.

Dementia and Alzheimer's are absolutely devastating not only to the sufferer but for their friends and loves ones as well. Currently if it happens to your parent or partner you're effectively on your own navigating this terrible and often very expensive landscape of care.

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

The running man. Regent Road. Sunrise. #liverpool #merseyside #run #daybreak #autumn @angiesliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social @yoliverpool.bsky.social @stratusimagery.bsky.social

Good morning!

What a rubbish end to my not entirely satisfactory week. I could have done with cheering up! #TheArchers

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

It's very owly outside tonight, and I love it. Might not even put the radio on #Forest

Well that's put a spring in my step! Well done Jolene! #TheArchers

I do hope that at the very least it has received the usual spike in donations when the toddlers get their Black Action Man kit on. rnli.org/support-us/g... The irony being most of them would be terrified to find themselves out of their depth in the local pool, let alone saving lives in the open sea.

The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...

Yesterday was the anniversary of the wonderful #MassBolero, the glorious creation of @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social. Love it to bits! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WOO...

It’s always sunny in London… Some thoughts on my 5th national ResearchEd…

Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

This novel sounds amazing! Can we help a fellow writer out? Even if you can’t buy it, could you please boost it by reposting? Thank you!

When first pulled from the vat, the yarn appears yellowish, but rapidly oxidizes and turns vibrant blue upon contact with the air. The dye bath uses natural fermented indigo leaves mixed with Iye, water, and other organic materials. IG: @rongtianye Hirose-machi, Japan

The Government is threatening to switch off Freeview – the free telly you get from an ordinary aerial, which risks leaving older people, those in rural areas, and anyone feeling the pinch isolated. There’s an official consultation happening right now but it closes in a matter of days: 38d.gs/8sme

Ambulance Helicopter lifting off into the storm. We weren’t really hit, but Cambridge direction is a constant squall of thunder. Extraordinary. These are mid western storm skies. I am moved very easily, but it was weird to see a small cake stand on the common, with such a furious sky above.

A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.

But what if...Fallon gets together with Conrad, then tells C about what happened with George, then C takes it out on G at work, leading to George claiming constructive dismissal against Amber's dad. Or am I catastrophising again (and if so, please can I get a job as a SW)? #TheArchers

Lovely to see these generous comments from Siobhan...

Quite a few people have now had the chance to read my newest collection ‘Thin Places in Hard Concrete’ so I'm going to resurface these story-by-story writer's commentary posts. 1. The Interchange – “...its origins can be traced back to a single image...” precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/04/15/1...

Helen Mirren’s advice to her younger self…

'Fox, on the way to a fox’s wedding'- Watercolour and white gold by Jackie Morris, artist, author & illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt #Saturday

The line between horror and comedy can be a thin one. Vic and Bob's brilliant Masterchef sketch from 1995 made me laugh out loud while my skin was crawling. "HE IS SAD!"

BBC News might want to reword this - 'Footage shows the wanted man sleeping on a roof, before police officers pull him off and arrest him' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think about this a lot.

He’s been prime minister for five minutes and he’s already playing with the emergency alert.

Thank god that alert came before #TheArchers !

There’s a lot of noise around potential NEET. Like everything in education (and life) , it’s complex. Social media would love us to have a binary argument, but it’s much more nuanced than that. Here are my thoughts . ruthswailes.com/identify-nee...

Hi @bsky.app @bskysupport.bsky.social your news feeds are falsely pushing the lie that Nigel Farage has won the #clacton by-election. The result isn’t declared until Friday. Please amend ASAP & investigate how this happened. You’re fuelling the far right.

@cguyver.bsky.social

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)