Had some time in between finals to draw, so what better than a self-portrait lol
Had a lot of fun drawing the knitted cable sweater, it's my ultimate goal to make a cable knit sweater. I recently took up knitting, and have made scarves, baby blanket and currently working on a baby blanket
The Prime Minister doesn't understand his job.
The Chancellor has given up.
The Home Secretary has radicalised herself.
There isn't a foreign secretary.
A government on autopilot into oblivion.
21 APRIL 1776, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA: Something of the conditions of the refugee fleet from Boston can be discerned from William Howe’s general orders to the British army that “Men who die on Board Ship in harbor are to be sent on Shore to be Buried.”
CURRIED was a cult BBC talk show, which ran from 1976 to 1982, where host Tim Curry interviewed celebrities while they ate increasingly spicy dishes of Desi cuisine, leading to revealing and often hilarious moments as the heat intensified.
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
In a library, a small human (4?) is trying to pick a book but she's not sure which one!
(Oh no!)
Does she want this one...
This one?
THESE ONES?
THOSE ones?!
With an exasperated roar, she beseeches the library gods: "WHY are there SO MANY?!" (1)
Is the Home Secretary's hypothesis that Yvette Cooper wouldn't be criticised if tabled the same asylum/settlement reforms?!
The personal characteristics of Nigel Farage/Zia Yusuf, Chris Philp/Kemi Badenoch, Shabana Mahmood/Starmer seem v marginal to who supports/opposes their immigration plans!
It would really serve Tom &Helen right if they left the farm to the donkey sanctuary #TheArchers
I suspect you might need to pay someone to take Helen away #TheArchers
Much more important than shoes
Any chance we could send Helen to Scotland? Crowdsource her moving costs? Poor Tony #TheArchers
the British in Havana 1762, decimated by disease
A soldier from the local war memorial died of Spanish flu in western France within a few weeks of its arrival there. Tragically another of the soldiers died of it on 11/11/1918. While another had a promising career in medical microbiology for the RAMC cut short by it.
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
These people are ridiculous
Infectious diseases killed about two thirds of soldiers in the American Civil War, rather than actual fighting
If you pay for anything Harry Potter-related, if you take part in anything Harry Potter-related, you are sending money to the person who does this and uses the money to pay legal costs for bigots just like her. She is a vile, sick, dangerous misery. A hollow mess who will leave a putrid legacy.
It's okay, fatigue doesn't make for good executive function does it? I hope your emails are going okay
You've just reminded me about the emails I should have replied to, rather than blankly scrolling
Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services.
This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.
![In his “most notorious [job] interview,” Karp met Louis Mosley, an Oxford graduate whose grandfather Oswald Mosley was the British fascist leader during World War II and once named “worst Briton of the twentieth century.”
As soon as Mosley sat down, Karp began reciting from memory, for several minutes, one of Oswald’s 1939 speeches demanding Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. When finished, Karp executed tai chi moves and walked out without saying goodbye.
Mosley sat stunned, convinced his family’s past had torpedoed him. Instead, he was hired and now runs Palantir’s UK business.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:viy533g7pvyy7cesicxbqvm3/bafkreic5uyohukwuqdohjyvqmgpzyhsfrxmi54s4m46b3575qg4mkazyvu)
In his “most notorious [job] interview,” Karp met Louis Mosley, an Oxford graduate whose grandfather Oswald Mosley was the British fascist leader during World War II and once named “worst Briton of the twentieth century.” As soon as Mosley sat down, Karp began reciting from memory, for several minutes, one of Oswald’s 1939 speeches demanding Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. When finished, Karp executed tai chi moves and walked out without saying goodbye. Mosley sat stunned, convinced his family’s past had torpedoed him. Instead, he was hired and now runs Palantir’s UK business.
Crazy? Would a crazy guy do this?!?
Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.
The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.
Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.
Really scary. North London Jew here (went to Alyth Gardens shul). I now live in the US—where we’ve also seen recent attacks on Jewish targets.
And, yes, I’m so tired of the “but Israel” folks, ugh. I loathe Netanyahu (he’s a war criminal) but people who think “Israel = Judaism” are antisemites.
As @goodlawproject.org have pointed out, among many others, Palantir is a company inextricably linked to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and the Labour government as a whole. When they come out with scary shit like this it is time to cut ties, fast.
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A red wallflower with a small red ladybird sitting on it, there are pale blue forget-me-nots in the background
#TinyJoys a ladybird on a red wallflower #GardenersWorld 🐞🌱🌿
And they’ll refuse to let the AIs work remotely and demand they turn up at the office too
A shiny brown beetle is walking down a brick wall
Common sun beetle, a form of ground beetle, walking down a wall. Fancied a change from the horizontal? #Gardensky 🌿🌱🐞
large orange cat in good health is sleeping soundly with an angelic smile on his cat face
“Jorts is an 18 lb neutered male domestic short hair. Evaluated for extensive evening screaming. In good health; behavioral. Very affectionate. Vet enjoys visiting for fun”
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
'Guillon de Prince said on Saturday that other French families must confront their historical allegiances to slavery and the state should go beyond symbolic gestures to address the past, including through reparations.'
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.
