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For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

'Breakfast Under the Arbour.' A riot of high-keyed colour, this scene depicts the grounds of the Villa Antoinette at Grasse, some twelve miles north of Cannes, where Pierre Bonnard and his future wife Marthe stayed on holiday from January to May 1912.

Solar nerds! We have some movement on plug-in solar. DESNZ's consultation on plug-in solar (panels on balconies and gardens, good for renters) has just launched, and it closes 30 June. Suggesting they want to move fast on this. www.gov.uk/government/c...

And the graph in the article only shows solar as percentage of a 24h periods, if you look peak power it's even more amazing Yesterday at noon more than 67% of Spain's electricity grid was solar (pv and thermal) generated l, and that excludes the rooftop solar that's being generated

2/2 Turning the tables II. On the lively c1500 screen at Suffield, Norfolk, two geese attack a fox who is so surprised he defecates. Meanwhile, an ape in a cope examines his own urine in a flask. Medieval humour for #Woodensday. More from Suffield: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/suffield/suf...

Turning the tables. Three rats work together to hang a cat on a scaffold, a 15th Century misericord in Great Malvern Priory, Worcestershire. Meanwhile, two owls wait their turn. The Malvern misericords have been coated with thick brown varnish over the years, but are still a delight. #Woodensday

Pop Quiz: Locate the Actual Patriots...

BBC has started to use “e-motorbikes” instead of “e-bikes” and the accuracy continues with agency now used for crashes. See, journalists, it can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's truly disheartening how many people are willing to believe that the "other side" of whichever conflict is willing to commit sexual violence, but "their side" is above it. The truth is, sexual violence is remarkably common, especially in conflict zones. Denial is always wrong.

"Especially over the last 15 years, the Court's corrupt majority has more & more openly adopted the stance that you have a powerful presidency for Republicans & a weak one for Dems. They won’t allow Dems to enjoy the fruits of political power when they win it, & that’s just an untenable situation."

Dear world, If you’re tired of hearing about Ukraine, Remember - we’re tired of living this war. But we don’t give up.

Posted by Occupy Democrats. Spot on 100%.

NEW: The One-Hour City Conspiracy! “Here's the REAL conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, crashes, noise, air pollution, social isolation —& less space for everything our streets should be giving us.” Thanks @usa.streetsblog.org #1HourCityConspiracy

STUDY: “Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressing climate and public health crises effectively.” Via @ianwalker.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This post is utter, utter bullshit. The establishment of a single patient record had been something government has rightly been trying to do for nearly 30 years. If Palantir is given access to NHS data, the existence of a single patient record will, at worst, make it marginally easier for them.

Oriel College has installed beehives at its sports ground off Cowley Road. The chapel choir inaugurated the apiary at Bartlemas last Saturday by singing a 17th-century madrigal, 'Melissomelos', inspired by the sound of honeybees. www.instagram.com/p/DYAEnW5o-qv/

The President of the United States is a criminal. He SHOULD have been convicted for the crimes he led on January 6th, 2021. He WAS convicted of 34 felonies for corruption and harassment. Yet somehow, instead of facing the consequences he deserves, he’s running the government like a mob operation.

Just as an FYI: Reform stood known extreme racists, Neo Nazis, men who applauded rape, vicious domestic abusers and Holocaust deniers in the local elections, many won. This is what we mean when we say that they rely on people’s ignorance. All it takes is a fucking Google.

Here we are, more than 4 years after Putin launched his 3-day war to conquer Ukraine, and the Russian dictator can only risk standing outside in Red Square after being given permission by Volodymyr Zelensky.

“We must commit again to the basic national project—to disagree, even viciously, while maintaining respect for one another’s humanity and a desire for truth. We must discount much of the venom we see…pandering leaders, as a distortion of reality, not a mirror. If we do not, more people will die.”

Seems appropriate today. I fear we’re going to get an idea of just how dumb a chunk of the UK population is.

"When I first got sober in 1986, an old-timer said to me, you take the action and the insight follows. And when he said that, it kind of radicalized me. You take the action. The action is always kind and practical." Words to live by www.porchpartynews.com/p/how-anne-l...

Newsnight are currently tearing Farage to shreds with basic facts about his corruption, hypocrisy and greed but most Reform voters don't watch Newsnight

Yesterday, a caravan of about 13 cars drove from L.A. to the California City detention center - 100 miles each way. Then we joined a rally in town, and heard about all the people who've died there, including a 16 month old baby. Each center makes about 800K A DAY. It's CECOT on our shores.

And finally from the night shift, because everyone else is doing it:

A lot of people in Minnesota feel the same way, Marco

Mostly 13th Century Grisaille glass that was dumped in a canal in Salisbury in the 1790s, extracted in the 1930s, cleaned and reassembled in the Cathedral.

Took younger daughter (who wants to be a paleontologist) to a lake near Peterborough last night. We found these Jurassic microfossils-teeny ammonites & crinoid ‘ossicles’-these little rock stars were part of the stems of crinoids/sea lilies-animals with 5 axes of symmetry related to sea urchins 🐚

Hillary was right about everything.

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

I can't believe they got this interview with the walrus

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

New Substack out. It's all about how politics has modern work largely wrong. And what a contemporary politics of work might look like. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...

Finding out I was considered "radical" for wanting kids to be able to get school safely and independently was shocking and what motivated me to try and help change that perspective. Culture Shift developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

In response to the current energy crisis, a new manifesto from @ecf.com shows how more cycling can cut fossil fuel dependence, reduce costs and improve mobility across Europe. From smarter infrastructure to policy change, it outlines 10 practical steps for governments and individuals: bit.ly/4vZgk7w

In shock news, industries that continue to rely on fossil fuels without major efforts to electrify will risk recurring price shocks in the future, a University of Oxford analysis has found.

This elegant cable-stayed bike bridge in Zwolle separates bikes from fast traffic and connects neighbourhoods. Wide, well-lit and smoothly graded, it provides safe, continuous travel with no signals or waiting

😳 TikTokers from Akhmat staged a "special operation" in several houses in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in Belgorod Region, threatening local residents with weapons. Military police were unable to stop them.

His parents were intellectual elites, not financial ones. Like New York Times reporters who haven't written a book yet.

If there's ever an argument for shunning AI and writing in a ferociously personal and unstandardised way, it's this one.

Once again beyond satire. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"If there’s one lesson to take from Project 2025, it is this: Do not underestimate the determination of this movement, or its hostility toward liberal values and the expansion of democratic rights for groups they see as outsiders, including women.” - @velshi.com www.ms.now/ali-velshi/p...

our mismanagement of the environment has crossed the point of no return, the dolphins are leaving

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.