we all know I have no life, so:

HufflePuff YouTube video by burnermunde

Described to me as “Uncut Gems x Jam” and holy shit…. I feel like Carrie Bradshaw when she’s sniffing a handbag and going “it’s good…it’s good”
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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

They give whole figures of people seeking asylum or needing protection for one reason or another, domestic abuse, being LGBTQIA+ etc, without contextualising it. They are making out based on a handful of incidents and anecdotes that there is widespread abuse. That is not "balanced journalism". 4/

Image: a cream book cover for a book called The Blessing of Bread with red text over the full cover, except the title which is in blue, and black and white illustrations of bread products Text: Bread. People have fought wars for it. Rioted for it. Celebrated it and enjoyed it. The Blessings of Bread tells of its origins and folklore, its myths and politics, its bakers and recipes. This is the fully illustrated story of the staff of life. By Adrian Bailey.

This is such a fantastic book cover

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word.

IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it.

Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Ministerial letter: changes to EYFS safer sleeping requirements - NDNA Ministerial letter: changes to EYFS safer sleeping requirements

New EYFS guidance on safe sleep from Olivia Bailey MP is out of date.

“Where blankets are used, the child is placed feet-to-foot at the bottom of the cot, with blankets tucked in”

Cots need to be clear of blankets. America and Australia are ahead of the Lullaby Trust.
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Trans people and allies predicted with absolute crystal clarity exactly how this would go down, that they'd start with anti-trans talking points and then come for same sex marriage and abortion, not because we had any special precognitive abilities, but because THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD DO!

I have 3/4 cup of pasta water if anyone needs it

CAPTOR (waving phone): tell mama how nice we've been
ME: mom i'm ok. all these guys want is to have gay sex and worship my—
CAPTOR (yanking phone away): dude what (to phone) we're NOT having sex (to me) TELL THEM
ME: sorry my bad "making love"
CAPTOR: jesus christ
ME: mom, these are very sensual men

Marker pen writing details a chance encounter in a bookshop with Michael Rosen

Spotted in Muswell Hill: a chest of drawers covered in a kid’s stickers and graffiti including this memory of @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

But yeah it’s really interesting how avoidable death data dropped dramatically after campaigns from around 1994 - but now it’s climbing back up. The misinformation out there is insane.

Sleep deprived parents are preyed on by cultish social media channels and groups entrenched in what is “natural.” It’s infiltrated the NHS too,

A council funded lactation consultant pointed at a safe bassinet and told me I was harming my bond with my baby by not bed sharing. She was also anti-vax..

Donald Trump is a white property developer from new york and that is literally all you need to know to understand his behaviour.

Remember that most of this shit is the fault of white American WASPs or neo Catholics with names like Chet and Dooger, that they all went to places like Stamford and Yale to learn eugenics. I find the idea these guys were innocent babies until Israel corrupted them to be laughable.

Sex with Scorsese, beef with Sondheim … and inventing the moonwalk? The wildest moments in Liza Minnelli’s memoir From Peter Sellers dressing like a Nazi, to having to manage her mother Judy Garland’s addiction, jaws will drop at Minnelli’s anecdotes

Peter Sellers did what now? www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

Pretty sure she wouldn’t call a tomahawk missile blowing up a school in HER neighbourhood “realities of war”

The discovery of the man, who was wearing nothing but a £200 XXL wetsuit, sparked extensive police searches and international appeals, but no loved ones have ever come forward.

"The wetsuit that he was wearing was classed as an XXL size which gave us a weight range of approximately 200 to 220 pounds," Ponting said.

In today's episode of 'BBC journalists misunderstanding stuff': at the start of this article I wondered what the price of the wetsuit had to do with it, then towards the end all became clear.

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Princess Kate celebrates 'quiet strength' in heartfelt International Women’s Day message The Princess of Wales took to Instagram on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day and honour the "quiet strength" of women who make up our families and communities

“Quiet strength” has convinced me she’s using Chat GPT to string a sentence together.
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I saw Stuart Lee live the other day and he mentioned Bowie being a dirty old man with underage girls. Refreshing tbh.

David Bowie's daughter Lexi reveals father 'forcibly' sent her to treatment cent 'When the party ended for everyone else, I kept going.’

Wasn’t exactly known for treating 14 year old girls well was he metro.co.uk/2026/02/23/d...

My tweets read: “Giles Coren picked a fight with a dead woman and lost.” And “Ultimately, this was never about civility online.This was the establishment's afterbirth trying to put a brilliant working-class woman in her place.He failed.” #DawnFosterForever

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It really bothered me at the time but we were up to our eyes arranging Dawn’s funeral. Still, I think it’s important to remember what pushes that sad little man’s buttons….

Dawn Foster tweet from 2020 read “I see the "If I've heard of your da, I don't need to hear from you" rule* is pertinent again. *Handful of exceptions including Jesus and the Foot family”

A handful of big names -who didn’t know Dawn well -were sharing the dad tweet & that became the story.

The Mail then said she claimed Coren only got a job bc his dad was famous (not what she tweeted)

I contacted IPSO & they said it was fine to lie about it bc other papers made that bit up too 👍

The only direct interaction that Dawn ever had with Coren was about Rupert Myers harassing women….When he celebrated her death people focused on a different tweet about his dad being famous (one that didn’t even @ him) but that’s not the one that got under his skin….

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the fact that someone went onto God's Own Internet and wrote the words "Tourette's booth" and thought they were doing Good Thinking

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter - PAUL McMULLAN: Oh, yeah - BROOKE GLADSTONE: - which is one case that you truly do regret. PAUL McMULLAN: I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station. Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: And you offered her 50 pounds - PAUL MCMULLAN: Yeah. BROOKE GLADSTONE: - if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for. PAUL McMULLAN: No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless? PAUL McMULLAN: I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I? BROOKE GLADSTONE: This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself. PAUL McMULLAN: Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

we've ended up with an entire government that has no vision beyond crushing anyone and anything vaguely associated with the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019 and is therefore delighted to appoint people like Peter Mandelson and Josh Simons to high office