So strange to think that's only 11 years but 6 PMs ago.

Good grief. Astonishing.

It gets ever more brutal. So sorry.

You've just given the time traveller the missing bit of the jigsaw in their efforts to track you down to correct the timeline.

And universities will be punished if their students, who are grown adults with political rights, dare to do something about this.

Universities should be places of education, not cash-machines for bigots. Go spew your racist venom on a street-corner somewhere.

Oh god, I guess Starmer is a bit IDS isn't he?

Look how he's trying to focus/stay awake/not hurl.

The Torment Nexus fuckwits have made a statement.

It's a strange one isn't it how all the parties compete over their preferred version of "working class". Spencer and Anderson play this game as well. They might as well all go on about quiet bat people.

The usual reminder that "AI" is not an entity able to either know or care whether such a statement is true, but only a stochastic word-picker that, if randomly nudged into a path where these sentences are the most likely outcome, will spit them out, and elaborate their wrongness until made to stop.

Ah, new video representing my progress through life.

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them/one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

That's an important bit of information that I hadn't seen. I thought the realpolitik was the driver but this suggests even that was a poor bit of reasoning.

Bluesky being out has allowed me to do so much today. Like checking if it's working every few minutes.

The Edge Hotel in Whitehaven, Cumbria

If anyone is in the Whitehaven area, could you pop over to the Jawas and ask if they have any secondhand droids for sale, thanks.

Fuckwit.

A cropped frame from the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, depicting a very young Jonathan Ke Quan wearing a backwards baseball cap and pointing viciously at someone off screen. He has a pack of playing cards in his other hand

HEY LADY! YOU CALL HIM DR JESUS!

Ugh - the Royal Marsden helped to save my wife’s life, and they’re trying to do so for many, many more people. And NIMBYs are trying to stop it because the lifesaving building is taller than they’d like?? Give me strength. (Via Looking For Growth)

An early mural of Jesus with a wand (common in images in the first few hundred years of Christianity). Read Catherine Nixey's book "Heresy" for details.

All these images of "doctors" are funny but people forget that Jesus was a magician with a wand.

Slime mold has more backbone.

I have seen a lot of NIMBY selfishness in my time, but "my convenience matters more than cancer care" is a new low. Quite seriously tempted to email them and tell them as much.

My daughter asked recently to listen to one of my lecture recordings to help her go to sleep.

GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals

GB News repeatedly presented Reform UK and Conservative politicians and activists as being ordinary members of the public, without declaring their political affiliations.

Byline Times investigation reveals pattern of behaviour by the Channel, but Ofcom still refuses to act

christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"

I mean...

He's forgotten about "psalm" Sunday quickly hasn't he?

Oh dear.

The algorithm refreshed, losing a post about the importance of location details in fiction. Although it was about real places, I immediately thought of the Rings of Power scene on the Barrow Downs when clearly no-one on the show had a clue what a down or barrow look like.

On Tuesday evening, UK time, I saw a contrail that looked like it was going straight up. Bit early for WWWIII, I thought, but I watched it for some time just in case. The first time since the 80s I have really felt a genuine risk of nuclear war (though I always thought it would be the yanks fault).

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"