And if they hadn’t merrily handed over 5 million quid to offload the Obs
28.08.2025 09:27
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And if they hadn’t merrily handed over 5 million quid to offload the Obs
A pile of books on a wooden table. Titles include Spider Woman - Lady Hale, a Life; Material World by Ed Conway and Prophecy and Sacrilege by S. J. Parris. Peeking out the bottom is a book by the author Lissa Evans.
Flowery socks embroidered with the legend Fuck All The Way Off.
Best birthday socks from @hannahcem.bsky.social and a beautiful pile of books from my Mum. I'm particularly excited to get cracking on the @stephmerritt.bsky.social ones!
Happy birthday - honoured to be part of the festivities! 🥳
Even during genocide, two brothers in Gaza bring reading to their community.
The Art of a Lie is one of my books of the year, and it was a treat to interview Laura in this beautiful venue 🤩
What could possibly go wrong?
“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner.
But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger"
For the love of humanity, stop asking this scam machine questions! Stop asking it for advice! I get it, it was an entertaining novelty for a hot second. But it's bad. Stop stop stop.
Women seeking asylum in Britain are sisters, not strangers.
If the government is serious about tackling violence against women, it should do more to protect refugee women.
Glad to sign this letter & grateful to all who signed @4refugeewomen.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
You have completed your full transformation into Martin from Friday Night Dinner
Not the actual London Library as I first thought, which would have been amazing, but still a great story 🦊
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
It looked like the aftermath of an unimaginable catastrophe. High in protein though, I expect
This reminds me of when my son decided to see if you could make a ham smoothie in the nutribullet.
I bought an ice lolly this morning after swimming and it was so cold it froze to my lip and ripped off a big chunk of skin, and suddenly there was all this blood dripping down my lolly stick and my hand, and it just goes to show that summer is extremely dangerous, look after yourselves out there ⚠️
My son just ran into the kitchen, skidded to a halt and said, ‘Raynor LOSE, am I right?’
Hollow laugh from every woman who dates left-leaning men
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Not many men can carry off a sash...
Think this might become my equivalent of the Obama speech in Fleabag...
Yep, my son has AuDHD & seeing it used as an excuse for being a dick makes me livid.
Yes, exactly! It's a topic I'm really interested in, even before this debacle - your book is on my TBR list!
Well worth a read (you can get it free but have to register) ⬇️
Thousands meet their MPs to show huge demand for climate action
- Mass lobby in Westminster is kicked off with giant image on cliffs of Dover stating ‘89% of people want climate action’
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This morning, once again, there’ll be a bunch of people and organisations wrestling with the issue of deleting their X accounts. “But what about our follower counts?” Doesn’t matter. “But the reach they represent?” It really doesn’t matter. You think it matters, it really doesn’t. 1/
She is indeed Outstanding!!! 🙌🏼🍾
I do miss it! Felt I should stop when I found myself watching newcomers & thinking ‘well this is just what X/Y/Z was doing in the late 90s!’ & then realising these kids weren’t even BORN & have never heard of X/Y/Z
As long as it doesn’t cost anything, because I won’t have any money left after my July tax bill & no-one will be around to pay me (another reason why August sucks if you’re freelance) 🫠
I used to quite like August when I decamped to Edinburgh for the month, not least because it would often feel quite autumnal by about the 17th. Now I don’t do Fringe reviews any more, it’s dogshit
The real 500 Miles: how a smash hit was spun from lies, deceit and desperation Craig and Charlie Reid found fame and fortune with the story of their 1,000 mile walk. We can reveal that the truth behind it is very different.
Another day, another revelation…