Benefits of home educating - my self-directed learner kid finds out all sorts of weird stuff I didn’t know, and tells it to me.

TIL that owls’ eyes are shaped like tubes, so they can capture more light. And that’s why owls turn their heads like that. Because their massive tube-eyes can’t move side-to-side like ours can.

I’ve read the book, but I’m not sure what your question is?

A former Plaid Cymru Chief Executive is now being paid £190k a year as the BBC's Nations Director. This is living proof that the BBC is infected with left-wing bias right to the top-

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.

So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

Absolutely.

Holding boundaries is difficult. You have to practice it on the small stuff to ever be ready to do it on the big stuff. Unfortunately it doesn’t tend to get you promoted into senior positions in large bureaucracies.

Exactly. Once you start paying the Danegeld it will never end. Unfortunately the quislings of the BBC and Starmer’s cabinet do not understand holding boundaries with fascists.

Apparently a pump dispenser of toothpaste, next to a Filofax, looks like a plastic explosive bomb and detonator, to a mechanised X ray robot.
As my friend discovered when his luggage was blown up at Manchester Piccadilly, some years ago.

Part of a weird rock, showing round shapes, a few inches across. Also shown, the info board that accompanies the weird rock. From a gallery at National Museum of Scotland.

Close up of weird rock. The shapes are black and dark grey. Roughly circular, with layers. The rock between is whitish.

Text of info label:- Weird rock How did the mysterious spherical shapes in this rock form? The spectacular concentric and spoke-like patterns, called orbicules, grew as the rock cooled from its hot molten state. The dark areas are full of iron minerals. Dark and light circles developed as the iron concentration varied while the rock was cooling. During cooling, there were a limited number of points around which orbicules could grow. Over time, they settled together under the force of gravity. Orbicular granodiorite Western Australia

OK, but how do we KNOW there aren’t creatures living in the molten magma, with these being their dead bodies?

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

A very small stuffed prímate in a museum display. It has ears like a vampire bat and it’s eyes are large but scrunched up. It’s fingers and toes are long, with sharp claws. It looks kind of evil. It’s part of the Monkeys exhibition at National Museum of Scotland.

Th Sulawesi tarsier looks like an evil gremlin.
@nationalmuseumsscotland

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

I think the statistics show that a depressing number of men are pretty indifferent to whether their sex partners want to be doing it.

Vulture's circling this morning. The people who made Farage a household name, dress up right-wing grifters as academics, both sided the distinctly one-sided economic debate around Brexit, had Kuenssberg texting interview questions to Boris Johnson... need to stop being such lefties, apparently

100%. But also, it’s not like if you do some vacuuming your wife now owes you sex. You should be doing the vacuuming because you live there too.

"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."

A Street Through Time Have you ever wondered what your street was like thousands of years ago? This illustrated history book for children takes you on a 12,000-year journey to find out the story of a single street.Think of...

Sorry this is late, but this one just popped into my head. I absolutely love this book, and my son and I have spent hours looking at it together. dk.com/products/978...

And another one teaching people what clothing-related words mean. This would improve Vinted no end. No Loopylu23, those are not harem trousers.

When I’m queen of the universe, I’ll have a massive campaign teaching everyone safe breaking distances from the car in front.

Don’t give them ideas.

CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."

The more the media pursue the Government for yet another mishap within a public organisation, the more I realise the total shitshow inherited by Labour was worse than we could possibly have known - because the media didn't do anything like their job for at least 9 years.

Have Men Ruined The Workplace?

“Hey, cute fit!”
My goddaughter’s friend complimenting her outfit. Kids are so brilliant.

Incredible that WWII has been the origin myth of the West for 80 years - saturating the culture, looming large in political rhetoric - and yet these leering beasts have been allowed to just saunter back into power as if no one has read a single history book.

My fave para from BBC news coverage about this.

“They have lost a total of nine councillors since, leaving them with 48 representatives on the council, which is seen by the party as a test case of its ability to govern.”

I don’t know what happened to the quoted skeet. But it was about Kent CC losing another Reform councillor.

My son just made up a story of a demonic, haunted pen, that makes everything you write with it tend towards evil.
Then we decided it’s a metaphor for AI.