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Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

Reform managed to shed a remarkable eight councillors in September alone, and have lost 24 since May, for a range of bizarre reasons.

Doncaster and Durham lead the charts for councillor drop outs, losing four apiece since the May elections.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Bit much to pick on English degrees when they spelled Britain wrong on their leaflets

Apart from the objective stupidity of it, the things they want to cut contribute massively to the economy, so even by their own pathetic, crushingly unimaginative and soulless standards it makes no sense at all.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

Oh fuck off

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That looks lush. I’m mourning the day my tomatoes and cucumbers run out and we’re back to the tasteless supermarket versions.

The power of teachers ❤️

I was just thinking that this would be a great way of mosques trolling the far right :-)

I thought Spike Lee’s excellent documentary ‘When the Levees Broke’ was very clear on that. I remember sitting here in the IK watching events unfold in stunned horror

Today’s pickings

Also, my drawing is so shockingly bad that I wouldn’t stand a chance of remembering what I’d drawn because of the effort involved in trying and failing to represent it. It would outweigh the ‘remembering by looking’ aspect of drawing

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Bloody hell. Carl Sagan must be spinning in his grave

I live in Bristol UK but know that would be a very bad idea.

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STOP UK HATE FEST - email the Home Office Over 5-6 September, Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. We’ve stopped gigs like this before, now we need to put pressure on the Home Office to block the...

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The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents | Tim Hjersted Tearing down the few allies we have in power is a gift to the establishment. The problem isn't their imperfections. It's that there's only a few of them instead of hundreds.

I think a lot about this article I read from the US a while ago. They are ahead of us, hopefully we will turn back before the loathsome big F does actually gain more power - but it’s worth thinking about imperfect allies and the voting decisions we have to make www.filmsforaction.org/articles/imp...

Wisdom from Gary Younge on a bookmark printed at Stevenage Library by The Dept of Small Works. Words to live by in these dark days. Up as part of the very worth seeing Bristol Print Collective exhibition at Centrespace www.centrespace.org.uk/whats-on/pri...

the juxtaposition of 'let's enjoy Paddington bear!' and 'let's deport human migrants to the Taliban!' is too perfect

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on not surrendering in advance ‘pretending you know what will happen is a worn-out excuse for not participating in determining what will happen’ www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-not-surre...

It’s looking a bit desperate in the park - we’ve had less than a cm of rain in the whole of August and the trees are shedding their leaves early. Someone has thrown a packet of sunflower seeds into the spring though and they’re looking lovely

Luke Jerram’s moon in Bristol
Harbour this evening - for Gaza

Annie Lennox, "Gaza is now officially in a manmade famine. On top of being bombed, shot at, Palestinians are being obliterated" #SaveTheChildren

Floating moon on docks this Sunday 9-10pm if anyone wants to swing by. Launching at The Cottage and towing to the Arnolfini and back with moon music.

Funny they don't seem so bothered by Jenrick's three homes (including a grade 1 listed manor) plus his forth home in his constituency rented at taxpayer expense.

Wonder why.