Have you ever been criticised in public for using a Blue Badge? I’m looking to gather disabled people’s experiences for The Guardian to explore hostility around the Blue Badge and Motability schemes.
We’ve made a quick form you can fill in here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... (Please share.)
Plus, isn't Gabbo the evil ventriloquist dummy in the Simpsons?
youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
Love this
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
It’s the Government’s duty to protect all communities - including trans people.
They’re failing to do that.
Trans people deserve safety and dignity.
www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
Only a couple of weeks left until Half Term fun begins. Join us at Fishbourne Roman Palace from 16-20th February for Roman themed activities every day. Get hands-on with mosaics, discover ancient flavours, and step back in time.
sussexpast.co.uk/event/februa...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Looks about right
Scanning some old slides for an article. This is a petroglyph from the far west of Tibet, made before 0CE. In the so-called Scythian style, in which sinuous game animals appear to float on tiptoe
#Etna update 🌋
#INGV reported that a new eruptive vent has opened near Mt. Simone at ~2,100 m a.s.l., feeding a lava flow down the Valle del Bove. The most advanced front has reached 1,500–1,400 m a.s.l.
INGV teams are currently on site monitoring the flow’s evolution.
📸 E. Messina
Just after midnight on 1 January 2026, a new eruption started from #Etna's eastern flank: a fissure opened at ~2100 m elevation, and a lava flow is descending through the desert-like Valle del Bove. Photos taken in the evening of 1 January from Etna's east and southeast flanks
This puts into words quite a lot of what I have been thinking about AI
Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance
Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn
Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter
One thing that gets me every time this comes up is when somebody turns evil and people act like they were evil their whole life. No.
Children are not born evil or hateful or bigoted. That behaviour is learned and people learn it at different points in their lives.
😂 Imagine the flavour - lol
‘Classical fortifications unearthed at ancient Palaepaphos’
Amazing season results by the University of Cyprus team led by Maria Iacovou
#archaeologynews 🏺
cyprus-mail.com/2025/12/23/c... A
Please share. Thanks
New Odyssey trailer is out and I’m screaming. Like WHAT is this helmet?! Also the Greeks apparently have Viking ships. 😡😱
Reform UK have repeatedly said that Kent is their "flagship" council and "the shop window" for how they intend to run things.
When they are exposed as planning to slash social care for old people, in order to hire their cronies as advisors at £150k a pop, I think people should believe them. ~AA
Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open
Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access."
GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.
GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
BBC News - Hundreds of items stolen in 'high-value' Bristol museum raid - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
