Julia Laite

Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’

Yes, couldn't agree more. But as one of these progressive voters, I'm here to say it's already way too fucking late. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is exactly how I feel about it.

omg omg omg I will dream of seeing this some day. Parade of Legends.

Meet the GOSH therapy dogs

Feeling blue? Meet the team of Therapy Dogs at GOSH. Yesterday, Ozzy managed to get the first smile out of Kid the Younger. And I'm thinking of changing my name to Billy Fizz. www.gosh.nhs.uk/working-here...

Thank you Charlotte, so far he's doing really really well. The main challenge is to stop myself from weeping constantly because of all the love and care and heroism I'm seeing every day here from these amazing kids, their parents, and all the workers and volunteers at GOSH.

thank you Sarah-Jane!

As Kid the Younger recovers on the ICU from heart surgery, I'm reading Percy Jackson aloud by his bed. Not only is it the only thing that comforted him in the most difficult hours; it entertained & cheered me too. Thank you @rickriordan.bsky.social. Three cheers for the incredible power of stories.

My god, this image. A bare bones concentration style barracks. Mahmood, in a trench coat reminiscent of the SS, gazes at it with what can only be described as a look that delights in human suffering.

The Labour Party deserves to be eradicated for this.

So just to make sure I've got this straight. Matt 'women should breed young' Goodwin is now suddenly concerned about husbands controlling their wives' votes?

a very cool looking teen girl wearing very cool shades exhales a very cool cloud of smoke/vapour

'European Girls age 13-15 have world's highest tobacco use for age group'....which is why we've chosen an image that makes it look really fuckin' cool.

v v pleased for the greens and here’s sincerely hoping this prompts a major realignment of labour (a man can dream)

More than one, and on a hardwood floor.

Well one good thing about a beside vigil is that you get breaking news that the Greens beat the Racist Assholes. What a bright spot and what perhaps wake up call for Labour to maybe try and stop making decent people hate them.

A painting of a man holding a whaling harpoon

John Sakeouse, a Greenland Inuk whaler and draughtsman who kayaked to and then boarded a whaling ship to visit Scotland in 1816. He’s said to be the first Inuk to visit Scotland on his own free will, though Inuit had by this time been spotted for centuries in kayaks around the Northern Isles.

Truly it is.

Thanks. 'Here we fuckin go' remains the mantra. x

Kid the Younger is out of heart surgery & it went well. A long road yet & still on the ICU, but I'm overflowing with gratitude & love for the NHS & GOSH especially. I'm so proud to count myself amongst a People who created this institution & who fight for it (& within it) every single day.

Streetlights glow amid the greenery of a London streetscape. In the distance, fluorescent hospital lights.

Great Ormond Street, looking west toward the hospital.

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

I concede this point entirely :)

Feckin' freeze-thaw avalon.

I am I swear I am! But most of all, my skis.

And the kind of snow where everything, including city streets, becomes a ski trail.

DYING to be home, with skis.

It's *wild* and also torturous to watch from afar, as a x-country ski lover.

My SIL reports that the banks are now so high that *their snowblower no longer can get the snow up over them*

A giant snow drift in a porch

A snow Bank dwarfs a salt truck

A stop sign buried in snow

My sister in law sent me pictures of the snow outside and near their house. 56 cms fell yesterday, on top of over 100 already down, with more on the way. This is nuts even for Newfoundland.

Now to see one actually pluck a pigeon from the sky...

There is absolutely no way I am going to that country for the foreseeable.

Congratulations, Isabelle!