Caroline B 👩🏻‍🦼

Number crunching: Borrowing by big AI companies From the new Private Eye, out now.

If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Updating my website vintageknittingpatternarchive.com where you can find many free patterns from 1920s to 1980s. Some ask for pay what you can towards a UK muscular dystrophy charity. 200 patterns overall! Seem to have made it look nice, but lost a bunch of photos from the menu.

Palantir drops legal case against Sadiq Khan over cancelled £50mn contract ft.trib.al/8LWkKPd

From the knitter POV, you might want the cardigan Kate Bush wore in the video. You're in luck, because the Internet has everything. Link to the pattern & a yarn kit susancrawfordvintage.com/products/clo...

The audio drama, starring Christopher Eccleston and Carole Ann Ford, will be available on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel for a month from December 22nd, 2026. cultbox.co.uk/news/big-fin...

On October 10 2026, The Daily Telegraph (7am), Daily Mail (5.20pm), and GB News (12.25pm) all published news reports that a University of Oxford lecturer had been charged with possessing indecent images of children; three classed as category B (the second most serious category)

Setting aside the point of the petition, is Harry Potter even Christmassy? It seems like a cash grab from GLA from whomever is making the new TV show.

Greater London Authority is planning to put up Harry Potter themed Christmas lights in London. There is a petition to complain to Sadiq Khan, due to the well documented statement from JK Rowling that she will continue to fund anti trans organisations. action.goodlawproject.org/sadiq-khan-p...

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

Had an niche anxiety dream that the British Library moved to Lancaster so I had to travel 200+ miles and when I got there it was shut because it was a Saturday.

@annaleen.bsky.social happy publication day in the UK! Doug the cat was a very good boy for letting me use him as a book stand.

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

“I have told everyone I am a traitor by mistake!” #traitors #traitorsuk #celebritytraitors

I recommend Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. A podcast that chooses to explain current & historical instances of people trying to make the world better. Probably not for you if you like racism or fascism. Or believe in the boogeyman of the left being bad. omny.fm/shows/cool-p... .

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

#Caturday Tilly the elderly loafing on a stool to keep me company while I had breakfast. Yesterday she was very interested in my hair and grooming me. She then deployed meowing for strokes and clawing my scalp if I stopped.

if you say "The Museum of English Rural Life" three times in a mirror, nothing happens. but if you speak it a fourth time, a man in a smock appears and asks you to incant the poem on the side of this rather menacing jug

Make lying or spreading disinformation in public office a criminal offence in the UK. Require MPs and Councillors to tell the truth. Sign & share this petition.

Surprise dalek!

Why is the BBC news giving sofree publicity for a book he's promoting? It's not news. It was on Radio 4 news too. I just don't really care what a posh man said about his dead ex wife 30 years ago. This post at least has something vaguely current (press & MM), but the rest were tosh

Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We are going back to Cable Street. Join us on Sunday, October 4th. Ninety years ago, working people in the East End—Jewish workers, Irish dockers, trade unionists—built barricades and physically stopped Oswald Mosley’s fa..." via Communist Party and Cable Street 90 www.facebook.com/CPBritain/po...

Great. Now do the same for Neil Gaiman.

Hookland should twin with Cleveleys in Lancashire which has this art from the local council. There's a stone maze too and they gave every school child a book about the petrified forest that was washed away by the sea, presumably so they would have dreams of drowning.

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

"We're replacing that inaccurate Mercator map" From the new Private Eye, out now.

Daniel Thomas is someone the Daily Mail have actually mostly been very clear is a full tommyrotter, even though he was pro-Brexit. archive.ph/yAp5Y (2020)

Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.

Chucked the RNLI a small donation today. I hope they're getting a good surge of much-needed support right now.

This is what the PM should be saying

Oh not again. This is a rewrite of the Kathleen Stock piece in the Times. It even includes a line about transgender people and their walking sticks on marches, before deciding young women are being influenced into thinking they are ill. Where is the proof?

#caturday posting when i look at the plethora of cat pictures I took in the week and select the best. Today my boyfriend's flatmate's cat has the top photo. This is Momo.

It's finally raining!

We've decided 9-25 is Dolly's day. We have a month to prepare, and to make this a National if not Global celebration of the best of humanity. Repeat, share, and prepare! Organize a block-party, write a poem, buy some books, sing some music...come together and be good to each other for a day!

Please sign and share petition demanding that wildfire prevention in the UK and climate resilience should be a national priority.

It's raining in West London! After 50 + days.

When UK kids speak to UK adults in Americanised terms. This poor child had been only watching and reading and listening to US based things for a couple of years, to the point of beginning to change his accent.

#caturday is here again. Both cats have been mostly too hot as it reached 38°c this week. Doug, black cat on the left sat like this for a few minutes, having forgotten what he was doing.