Suz Brinkman-Wordle

This Google camera, mounted on a tall tripod on a vehicle roof, hooded and stationary, looks either weary but content or else exhausted and on the brink.

"Witnessing such a young elephant lose its life to trophy hunting is a painful reminder of why we cannot allow this to continue.Together, let's demand stricter regulations and an immediate ban on trophy hunting. Our wildlife deserves better. #BanTrophyHuntingNow"

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.

Bottled water and 4 minute noodles are not going to help us in a nuclear war. We'll all be obliterated a thousand times over. If he's talking about food or energy security, then it's the government that needs to take actions to make the UK less reliant on imports.

“Intersex is the word that provided me with a conceptual and interpretive framework… I went from seeing myself as a sick, abnormal and malformed person to asserting myself as a someone who embodies one of the many bodily forms of human anatomical variability.” Happy Intersex Awareness Day!

West Bank…

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Precisely. Stop the small boats, and the Racists will turn on Legal immigration. Stop all Legal immigration, and the Racists will turn on the Brown people who are already here. Deport all the Brown people here, and the Racists will turn on the 'Lefties' - etc, etc, etc, etc ...

Was advised to seek the services of a firm accredited with trade association ’XYZ’. Identified a few XYZ accredited, several not—including one boasting on its website that it was ‘proudly *not* XYZ accredited but did have one member of staff who had been XYZ trained’. Unserious ‘businesses’.

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

There can be "no single market a la carte". If Burnham is truly serious about returning to the EU fold there can be no more exceptionalism, no more attempts at cherry-picking. It's time to be honest brokers looking for a win-win. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Lots of arguments against AI but this one poses a great question, that I guarantee will stay with you. "How do you explain the bond market to cows?" @smtuffy.bsky.social

You don’t fight fascists by pretending their ‘concerns’ are ‘legitimate’.

This is obscene. The human race is fucked as long as we have capitalism.

This is going to sound obnoxiously pious, but democracy really needs less reporting on politics & more reporting on the things politics are *for*.

A sweater I bought was picking up static electricity, so I returned it to the store. They gave me another one free of charge.

Are we supposed to understand that AI is a good thing, or what?

A few patriots around these parts are making damn sure we all know what nationality we are and that some of us (the ‘Fallen’) died for the rest. Code Red ‘n’ Black. Back in July or August, just for a moment of carefreeness out in the English countryside, I had indeed forgotten.

The only scores really worth celebrating in Wordle are 2️⃣ Inspiration, always a joy 3️⃣ Inspo and/or Logick. Fab. 6️⃣ Edgy, bold Brinkmanship! X/6 Because we Just Don’t Care 🙂 Obviously bogus: 1️⃣ Worthy streak-fodder: 4️⃣, 5️⃣

A great new show for everyone who loves #wildlife🦋🐝🦉

Aha. I see that my MP, who declined to support Nadia Whittome’s EDM 240, moving that the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice for services, functions and associations be disapproved, has sent me a survey form asking me to describe any anti-social behaviour I may have experienced. As. If.

An unusual sense of community responsibility:

When Hedgehogs go extinct in Britain, God will just create more Hedgehogs, won’t He?

@carolinelucas.bsky.social presented a blueprint for fixing this in 2015 with the NHS Reinstatement Bill. It's been over 10 years and successive governments have ignored it. I will continue fighting to amend this Health Bill, to remove outsourcing and profiteering from our NHS. 2/2

Good point. Monarchs and Oligarchs are archs alike. We need rid of them.

Bear in mind it is perfectly legal to buy and sell Mein Kampf in the UK.

This will kill people

Reform are barbarians, Nazis, fascists, racists, the worst of the worst. Anyone who votes for them is voting for the cruelty of ICE, the corruption of Trump, the incompetence of MAGA and the masterplan of Putin. #Reform♡Russia 🇷🇺

Maybe good parenting is the sum of many, many small lessons. My mum taught me how to: Hand-launder underwear Repair a punctured bike tyre Prepare rhubarb Light a fire Make pancakes … and a thousand other skills that have never left me. I was lucky enough to have that attention, constantly.

Nearly Kidnapped

On n’est pas des sauvages.

British electricity mix at 11am on 11th Oct 2026 🔥 Gas 11.9% Biomass 12.5% ☀️ Wind 11.4% Solar 23.5% Hydro 2.8% ⚛️ Nuclear 13.0% 🪫 Storage 0.0% ➡️Imports 25.0% 🔌 Generation 31GW Carbon intensity 128 gCO2e/kWh Solar is producing more than wind

“Putin understood us better than we understand ourselves” ✅

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

If there's one groups in society who NEED to stop using AI to make resources, slides, posters, it's teachers. You're literally showing your students that you used AI to do your own homework. You look like a moron. It's shameful. Do not do this.

Yogi and Boo-Boo …

As Trump gifts Putin a financial and propaganda victory, let's take a moment to remember all those British politicians who have endorsed the US President and repeatedly hitched themselves to his egregious bandwagon.

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.