we all know I have no life, so:

how is this literally happening in real life

An online advert reading “you wouldn’t ignore a warning light on your car. Don’t ignore you body.”

Oh I absolutely would

Blackbird braving my presence in the garden.

Daffodils
Sophie Pemberton
1897

Photo of Cotswold stone courtyard various flowerbeds, pits and metal baskets. Multiple Coloured tulips and other spring flowers visible as well some overgrown terrace in need of weeding.

Pots of tulips on a verdigris metal garden table, stone shed and bed of bluebells in the background. It is sunny, finally.

Sunday is for chilling in the garden with small attempts at tidying.

I really, really want to stop agreeing with the pope.

This is an impressive line to take in that a) it might well be a lie, b) even if it's true it still sounds like it's a lie, and c) any possible circumstance in which it is true would actually be more damning than the alternative

It was £3.10 to park just 4 years ago in March 2022 - so doubled in 4 years. Very much outpacing inflation.

British rail is such a ridiculously expensive shambles. Netherlands, Italy, even France all much more reliable, more frequent, and multiples less expensive.

Parking at Kemble station with @gwr.com has gone up from £3.90 per day to £6.20 just to add insult to the already injurious £199.59 for a peak same day return. Yes advance tickets are less but when you have meetings that can run over and only 1 bloody train an hour…

Manotick represent!

LOL

pulitzer grade journalism to assign the clavicular interview to a man who looks like that lmao

Thing that really threw it off was sound- no outdoor noises when they’re meant to be sitting on the balcony?! Daughter & my discussion was ‘are the trying to make it surreal (colour saturation) and look & feel of green screen to make some kind of point on the artificiality of Hollywood? Or??

oh god oh fuck I took the metro to the Tisza rally and all these kids POURED OUT of the train at the stop and started running up the escalators chanting, and briefly held hands with the older people leaving the rally and going down on the escalator, and I think I may actually just cry

Lovely room, Tom. Brilliant that you’ve a landlord-free long term home.

A mass of bluebells in the sun the flowerbeds next to an old Cotswold stone shed wall with rickety windows above.

Timeline cleanse - the bluebells in my garden.

Spurious Home Office decisions rejecting student visas are threatening universities' ability to enrol young people from abroad, it is claimed. New rules come into effect in June that will punish universities if more than 4 per cent of study visas are rejected by the Home Office. However, the changes coincide with a marked increase in the numbers of visas being refused by the Home Office on spurious and inaccurate grounds, according to research by universities that has been shared with The Times. Neither students nor universities are able to challenge the decisions, which are often taken months after a university has accepted the applicant and in some cases just days before they are due to start studying.

UKVI carries out discretionary "credibility interviews" to ascertain that a student's intentions to study here are genuine. In another interview, when asked why they had chosen to apply to their chosen institution, the applicant said they had considered several factors, including the university's ranking, employability support, student satisfaction while also noting that it was an ancient institution and cited the year it was founded. The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered.

In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.

In another credibility interview the applicant was asked to describe some of the taught modules they would be studying as part of their degree. The applicant explained that they had been offered a place to study a PhD in biomedical engineering which was fully research-based so did not have any taught modules. Despite this, the UKVI refusal letter stated that they were not satisfied on the basis that their answers were "vague and generic" and had failed to explain the taught modules they would be studying.

It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants.

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Cat on the ledge, outside the artist's studio, in 1657. By Gerrit Dou. Today is his day.

What I like best about the Artemis II photos is that it was taken by actual humans. An actual person had to frame it and manually adjust settings. It's their own artistic rendition of what they thought looked best at the time, something no probe, rover or unmanned spacecraft can take. it's art

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

elmo from sesame street says today 's number is 11 . Alt: The Count from sesame street says today 's number is 11 .

Some number >10?

"Kansas firefighters rescue chubby cat trapped in massive recliner while trying to hide from the vet"
God speed, chubby cat.

New reaction gif

Spring Flight
Benjamin Chee Chee
1975

Josie and the Pussycats is totally jerkin'!

And once again, here's my essay about how fun (and, unexpectedly, to me, anyway, smart) this movie turned out to be:

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Stephen Lewis Was a Singular Man on a Mission

A lovely tribute to Stephen Lewis, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social. Despite his years working in systems and institutions, Lewis never became lost to them. To the very end, he was fiercely passionate about justice for people

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/w...

Gathering Spring Bouquets
Regina Seiden
n.d.