I like the way the Trump cat is the correct shade of orange.

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Thank you for doing this and making accessible, absolutely fascinating.

It's a shame about Radiation #nuclearhits

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

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

These are great, thank you

One in seven practitioners say they will leave social work over registration fee hike, poll finds - Community Care Following Social Work England's 33% increase in the annual registration renewal fee, 14% of practitioners say they plan to boycott paying it

'One in seven practitioners say they will leave social work over registration fee hike' - even if this doesn't come to fruition, that so many SWs are even thinking about giving up their registration and livelihood shows extent of anger at the regulator.
www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/09/17/o...

Queen

I'm going to lower the tone now, and share this clip from Colbert's interview with Gary Oldman, who loses it completely when 'Jackson Lamb's noises are added to his other roles...

Women Of The World - Radio Edit Karine Polwart, Louis Abbott · Women of the World (Radio Edit) · Song · 2019

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Solent Spitfires RLFC are now on BlueSky! We’re a Masters (35+) rugby league side based in Hampshire that enjoy playing rugby (and pretending that we’re not all aging). If you ever fancy trying it out, let us know - we’d love to have you join in.

This was really helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Can you repost this my darlings?

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Without our trade unions & the workers willing to back them with strike action when needed we wouldn’t have a minimum wage, maternity & paternity rights, pension provision, holiday & sickness entitlements - victories which have benefited every single person in this country. Stick that in your pipe✊

Greggs Wallace ponders if he is out of touch, but decides it's middle class women if a certain age who are wrong

A picture of my book called Parklife - a yellow cover with a dropped ice cream and blue writing. Next to a newspaper copy of Melody Maker featuring a picture of Kurt Cobain and the year 1967-1994 and on the right a red, black and white book entitled the Twenty Seven Club featuring images of vinyl records

90s GIVEAWAY!!

Follow and repost for a chance to win a copy of Melody Maker exploring the life of Kurt Cobain from 94, and my two 90s novels exploring mental health stigma, music fandom and friendship.

Closes 1 Dec 24

(NB indy author self promo an ugly but essential thing - pls don’t hate me 😩🤣)

This really is the greatest, most authentic-looking series of Bored Face inserts ever. I can't think of another film that nails it so accurately.

inside you there are two Borts

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Thank you

I love train travel.

If the train companies loved it as much as I do they would run them better.

Or it might be capitalism and the privatisation system that is rigged for the profits of failure.

The Social Work Public Perception Myth YouTube video by Joe Hanley

Check out this new YouTube video summarising my recent research on "The Social Work Public Perception Myth" in under 3 mins. For the full (open access) research article, see the link in the video description.
youtu.be/euCKy9iNLaM?...

Excellent, thanks

This was quite an eye-opener. Thank you for making and sharing this. Is it OK to share with my colleagues (social work with adults) , best wishes.