We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

My son had a friend at school whose parents banned him from having a phone. Pretty much every afternoon the mum would ring me wondering where my son was and asking me if I'd call him to ask him where her son was and there's your problem.

This is the 2020s not the 1980s.

I'm so sorry. This is horrific. No words.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

My car just drove me 229 miles in five hours. Stunning time! Beat that, loser humans!

Sorry, you’re telling me that something that doesn’t feel pain, doesn’t have lactic acid build up, doesn’t need adequate hydration or electrolytes, doesn’t need to pee, and doesn’t get tired is only 6 minutes faster than humans?

you’ve fucked up a perfectly good Roomba.

Substack page. Title: Moon-joy: they should have sent a poet (so they did) Subtitle: on the Poetics of Space Travel Photo of Christina Koch braids floating in front of a view of the earth

I spent a week glued to the Artemis 2 livestream and wrote some words about THE MOON, OUR MOON, and what happens to language at the edges of human experience. open.substack.com/pub/nothingb...

Not that I've noticed, but I do take something for migraines that works and is also a treatment for arrhythmia (propranolol), so that might be a sign of connection?

"What a shame that neither are season ticket holders at The Hamlet." !!!

Hugh Sexey's Thing

The GCs are heading for the Supreme Court tomorrow morning to do a photoshoot, marshalled by Sex Matters, saying “The law is clear: why are women still waiting?”

Fun opportunity to photobomb if anyone’s free in the area at 11.30

That XKCD meme of how the internet works being held up by precarious blocks, edited so the total is 'All knowledge about Buckinghamshire' and the one supporting block is 'An archivist who has worked here since the 1990s with decent Latin skills'.

Relevant to recent discussions:

Ed Miliband The Pope
🤝
Making the president of America wake up angry just by doing their jobs that don't affect the daft nonce in any way

The 5p Solution: How clean air is transforming attendance and learning in one Hampshire school Generations of pupils have learned in stuffy classrooms filled with recycled air, but a Hampshire school is now breathing new life into the way lessons are taught.

You know what would actually move the needle on both attendance and performance?

CLEAN THE AIR

There is actual evidence that improved air quality has real, measurable, and significant positive effects on learning.

An example: www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

😂😂😂This is setting up to be an amazing series!!

“It’s time to apply for our amazing funding of £700. It’s highly competitive and must result in three academic journal articles. It does not cover subsistence costs, we expect you to pay these yourself with your job which you don’t have.”

A rectangle colour linocut. The dominant colour is yellow, which is used for the platform & walls & ceiling of an underground train station, lit as they are by electric light. Shadows in the form of triangles of green reappear across the picture. The platform curves from far left to a dark tunnel two thirds of the way towards the picture’s right hand edge. At the platform is a curving red train. At its head is a worker on the platform signalling to it. The train is full of silhouettes of passengers. The platform is empty of them.

The Tube Station, linocut, by Cyril Power, c.1932.

Cis people: just nip over to your GP to feel a little perkier by taking some T.
Trans people: just spend 5 years on a waiting list, go through a few psychiatric assessments, and if you survive that then you might get a prescription for exactly the same HRT.

Screenshot from email. Heading 'April 2026 Our News' and Neighbourhood Watch logo. Text: "Hello Neighbours, April is the ‘cruellest month’ according to opening of the famous poem The Wasteland (sic). But we disagree, our news this April is actually very exciting. We’re sharing insights into the new plans for police reform, a minute of mayhem on Radio 4, and celebrating some fantastic volunteers."

I get emails from our local policing team, and they let Neighbourhood Watch send an update every month. This was the latest one. I have no words.

Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate…

CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly?
DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to
CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion?
DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

This is a real issue in humanities and social sciences. Often all that is needed for such work is buyout (i.e. time) and maybe some travel. But grant pots are formed at either low figures that exclude buyout or very high figured aimed really at big multi-person projects.

now to wake up tomorrow, walk to the Scruton cafe in Budapest and do the running man in front of it for eight consecutive hours

ORBÁN CONCEDED

To the Discover tab with Mr Hater, where, accosted by a great many Repliers, I did lay about me with a great Stick til I bruised them greatly, which brought me some pleasure. Thence to Quiet Posters, where my wife awaited me, most displeased.

There was an incident when a staff member of a well-known London university had to attend an immigration tribunal to contest the Home Office's assertion that they weren't a 'genuine' institution. The judge accepted their appeal as the judge had received their own law degree from said institution.

So, the Home Office gets it wrong (this happens a lot and they're vicious about it). And then, they get to punish universities for that incompetence? What's next, another 'surcharge'? How many is that now, like 3? Robber Barons.

Reading that trans women are advantaged because "Darts is played in male spaces like pubs", where we get assaulted frequently for being trans women, and thinking about this paragraph for no reason

21:07 < 凸 = Transgender women banned from women's PDC darts Darts 9 Apr 2026, 18:21 BET RED GETTY IMAGES RANSTAD.NL Noa-Lynn van Leuven became the first transgender woman to compete in the PDC World Championship in 2024 The Darts Regulation Authority has banned transgender women from Home My Sport Scores

21:08 ld Champion The Darts Regulation Authority has banned transgender women from competing in its women's events with immediate effect. The DRA, which governs the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), said "only biological females should be eligible to compete in women's tournaments regulated by DRA Rules". It comes after the DRA completed a review of its Trans and Gender Diverse Policy, which began in 2025. Noa-Lynn van Leuven, who in 2024 became the first transgender woman to compete in the PDC World Championship, said the decision had "effectively retired her". She remains eligible to play in open tournaments for men and women. " just got an email and apparently | just got retired, not by choice but because l am no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in a video posted on Instagram. Home My Sport Scores

ecision had "effectively retire‹ 21:08 remains eligible to play in o naments for men and wome " just got an email and apparently | just got retired, not by choice but because l am no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in a video posted on Instagram. "The DRA just decided that trans women are no longer allowed in women's events which basically means am out. "Everyday it is getting harder for trans people to exist, to compete. If you think this stops with me, it doesn't. We just want to be." Sex-based rights charity Sex Matters said "men's physical advantages in darts may be small but they all add up". "Darts is a male-dominated world, played in pubs and clubs, and the top darts players are all men. That's why women need their own tournaments. "The Darts Regulation Authority followed the lead of the old, unfair OC [International Olympic Committeel policy, this maid tirn to My Sport Scores Home The DRA said and

21:08 a male-dominal s and clubs, and the top All men. That's why women. own tournaments. "The Darts Regulation Authority followed the lead of the old, unfair IOC [International Olympic Committee] policy, so it's great to see this rapid return to fairness for women players." The DRA said it "seeks to be inclusive" and it encouraged "all players- irrespective of their biological sex, legal sex, and/or gender identity" to continue competing in open tournaments. It said its decision is based on legal advice and a commissioned report by Dr Emma Hilton - an academic developmental biologist who has published several papers on sex and categories in sport. Dr Hilton's report concluded "that multiple, small-magnitude sex differences accumulate to generate male advantage over females in darts". Last year, the World Darts Federation (WDF) banned transgender women from mentr Home My Sport oventrv. announced Scores

Looks like they’ve banned trans women from playing darts now of all things. Comes to something too when BBC Sport are quoting Sex Matters, and the DRA has commissioned noted transphobe Emma Hilton to helm a report for them. It’s a stitch-up, and it’s disgusting.

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