Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Cartoon of five little sheep sitting on chairs. Caption: Gambollers Anonymous

Spring is in the air

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Delighted that I’ve been long listed for the Huddersfield Literature Festival!

1 [Nurse talking to camera] This is usually our busiest time of year at the centre 2 [Show a sign outside a medical institution reading:] Centre for Adults Who Still Can’t Get Their Heads Round Daylight Savings 3 NURSE: We have a spike in admissions when BST starts 4 CONFUSED PATIENT BEING LAID DOWN BY NURSES: Is it forward or back? NURSE: Lie down love 5 We often see the same patients ever year PATIENT: So it’s like… time travel? DOCTOR: No 6 Every year we try to explain BST to them in a fun and memorable way [The patients are sat around a fun show, with people dressed in bunny suits jumping around a giant clock] BUNNY: And now I *spring forward*... 7 [Bunny springs forward one hour on clock] 8 PATIENT WATCHING SHOW: I don’t get it 9 The hardest patients are the Summer Time refusers 10 PATIENT [sat strapped to a chair as a doctor talks to him through a screen, through a tannoy] PATIENT: But why is it better? DOCTOR [talking through microphone]: Because it complicates things. 11 PATIENT: How is that good? DOCTOR: It makes you more tired. 12 DOCTOR [to assistant]: Fetch the cattle prod [Ends]

I think the clocks in UK go back tonight. Or forward. Not sure. Is it forward

Andy’s headline.

The world’s most honest disclaimer.

A thought from a decade ago, on the other place. I still think this.

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A really solid basic joke that I use - and I'm sure loads of other people do too - is referring to something deliberately obscure to denote character.

Marge Simpson sits on the couch in the Simpsons family living room. She says "do you feel inert, like a spectator to your own life-" She begins to dissolve into smoke, as does the couch. "-a thing passing on rails outside your window as you sit there and watch?" Marge and the couch continue to fade away, half the couch is gone now, Marge's upper half fully gone. "You don't have to die to become a ghost." Marge's body and the couch are gone, but her face stares blankly out of the wall.

marge

Just when you’re sure your opinion of Mandy could not be lower…

#tomorrowspaperstoday

I'll never be able to explain it but buildings are witnesses. They have memories.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ha!

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

www.ft.com/content/eaee...

Fascinating stuff, thank you! I think I’ve only seen one painting of his - a portrait of Fleetwood Hesketh in the Walker, and it looks completely alive.

Something perhaps not mentioned enough about the digitised world is how much it encourages us to be more ruthless, untrusting people. I refuse to acquiesce to that. I refuse to change my default mode from thinking the best of people until they prove otherwise. I will not submit to the icy nastiness.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

youtu.be/Rt0dflSPD5o?...

Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job

I’m presuming the circumstance about being invited out for a drink was fictional otherwise it’s a bit of a self-defeating bombshell.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Purely from the profile I’m going to guess Joan Bakewell.

I’m A Stage Illusionist, Nothing More Sinister Than That… Where did that weird unsettling sense of spooky dislocation in children’s television, films, books and even crisps in the seventies in particular actually come from – and why?

Why was there so much spookiness, horror and dislocated unease - or indeed 'hauntology' - underpinning so much children's television, books and even crisps in the seventies and eighties? The reasons are a lot less spooky than you might think.

timworthington.org/2024/05/01/i...

Two books turned at angles on top of a stack of books so that you can see the red ink, stylized floral design on the light green cover of a 1930s novel by Warwick Deeping called "Old Wine and New", and also the white irises, edged in gilt, on the lavender cloth cover of a 1900s novel by Myrtle Reed called "The Master's Violin"

the bookseller impulse to document early 20th century cloth hardcover design

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

An innocent lemon pig, full of hope, on NYE 2024 Had no cloves so used the heads of matches for the eyes, and a 10p instead of a dime or whatever

Poor lemon pig, a wizened husk after 365 days absorbing all the terrible vibes, protecting us for a whole year

1yr ago: innocent lemon pig. a little unorthodox in build-style (no cloves, a 10p piece). he had no idea what was to befall him.

NYE 2025: desiccated, spent, clapped. an energetic husk — yet he hoovered up bad vibes like none before him. brave lemon pig. you made it!!

happy new year xx 😌🧡🍋

Royal Historical Society lecture: Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World YouTube video by Royal Historical Society

And if you're teaching medieval history & would like to include the other half of the population, Dr Natasha Hodgson of Nottingham Trent's Royal Historical Society lecture, 'Royal Historical Society lecture: Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World' is free to view. 2/2

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

Distracted boyfriend meme with boyfriend (Tiny Tim) distracted by Not Dying and ignoring Dying