Shane McCracken

Too soon. Way too soon. Has Cousin Sven got nothing better to do than this?

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

Go to your camera roll, search ‘boat’ and post a picture you like.

They must be absolutely knackered.

Blimey, it's all a bit grey sky on here this morning.

Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures

Everytime I try to use the Companies House Webfiling system I just want to cry.

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

Everything Peter Fonagy says here aligns with what I have learned in over a decade’s work on mental health and SEND, my personal experience + those of many families I have conversed with. We await the findings on ADHD and autism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut They don't mention the cost: £12bn They don't mention who gets the £: ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing ❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall ✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners 🧵:

Nice of @samfr.bsky.social to balance the threat of AI with this.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

Re: last RT, for the benefit of anyone without Instagram…

Yet again, it’s the satirists I feel sorriest for…

APOLOGIES FOR INTERRUPTING YOUR DOOM-SCROLLING Britain is not completely broken. My car went for an MOT and admittedly failed. I asked the mechanic to fix it. Yesterday he called to let me know it was done, A WHOLE DAY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. He underpromised and overdelivered. #BrilliantBritain

Welcome to the #LongestTrainEU #CrossBorderRail record breaking thread! This journey starts Kemijärvi 🇫🇮 and ends Lagos 🇵🇹 18 trains, 100 hours 9 minutes, 4008km as crow flies, 6281 route-km Project background: longestjourney.crossborderrail.eu Follow live: longestjourneylive.crossborderrail.eu

This is the thing, I am happy to accept that I am wet, lefty liberal on immigration compared to the voting public, I'm not really prepared to accept the same on the topic of black masked militia men blocking infrastructure!

The AfD and Reform immigration policies are almost identical. There is no plausible reason for considering one far right and the other not.

This is a lovely site

One thing that I love about the film is how it captures a very distinct social setting and milieu. Lunch at Rules. G&Ts at Mark’s. A champagne reception at Oswald’s. Pints in a Shepherd Neame’s pub in Westminster. Discussion of Black Velvets over oysters by the sea.

This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

MY MOST BAFFLINGLY LOCATED EVENT YET! I'm doing a tour of the Harwell Science Campus, then chatting about the new book afterwards. If you are some kind of Harwell-based scientist, well

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

It’s started.

Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it

Getting ready for Wednesday. 40 year refractor still doing the job despite sad neglect.

Close. So close. But not close enough.

@tonytoners.bsky.social We're currently doing a little bit of overdue data clear out and came across this gem. Are we OK to delete? Or is the research too important?

New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

I want to go back in time and tell the child version of Elliot Anderson that in like a decade he will be sold in the same year, and for the same fee, as Argos.

The data report from the first three months of the Australian social media ban has now been released: www.esafety.gov.au/research/soc... Some thoughts:

One of the things I find odd about UK skills and jobs policies over the last 10 years is the idea that - for young people - place is destiny. It's like we've taken the Brexit memo and double stamped it into meaning you need to stay put to be a success. The geographical footprint of the UK is *tiny*

We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.

Nice way to finish the school year.

Honoured to receive the Sir Colin Humphreys Education Award from @iom3.bsky.social Huge thanks to everyone who has helped make the Magic of Materials Summer School such a success. Together we've inspired more than 250 future scientists and engineers. www.iom3.org/events-award... #MaterialsScience