Peter Sketch

Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!

Shouldn't have pinched all those ancient high maintenance buildings off the Catholics in Tudor times...

#ATrainADay returns:

Oliver Cromwell starts the climb out of the Harbour Station on the last passenger train/railtour, to use the branch line. Just a couple of departmental trains followed before the line was closed forever.

Yes, absolutely. These two both called themselves chapels, as far as I know, but then both were bult by the Prims to serve the rapidly-expanding number of rail workers so "chapel" would probably have seemed the more obvious term at the time.

Fair point.

Total amateur Putin had to feed hundreds of thousands of Russians through his meat-mincing machine in order to achieve NATO expansion on his doorstep.

Consummate professional Trump, OTOH, may achieve EU expansion next door through the medium of getting a Missouri auctioneer to tell a weak joke.

Badenoch’s self-conception continues to be fascinating. Thinks she is a diligent and deep thinker, isn’t. Thinks of herself as v rightwing and the 2006-16 Tories as soft Blairites, yet can’t go “yeah. And?” in response to “this benefits the richest”.

So sorry.

The two mosques in the centre of Swindon are both former Methodist chapels. But that's probably not what these people mean by "church", what with Methodists being well known for being left-wing politically.

There was a critical mass of normie (left/centre left) UK journalism / politics twitter moving across here en masse in a weekend, with lots of starter pack action.

Not everyone stuck around and not everyone quit X, but it's given UK bluesky a v different feel from American bluesky.

I am so proud of this big, weird book - if you have kids in your life (or just anyone who likes good comics) I would be super grateful if you preordered this. I just really want to make another one!

A fabulous start guiding our 2026 YCN Goshawk Safaris for me & Jono. Multiple views despite the bad light, plus Willow & Marsh Tits, Dippers, Ravens and great guests enjoying the beautiful landscapes & tranquillity @northyorkmoors.org.uk @birdingdad.bsky.social

The detailed and informative replies to the quoted post show how this site can be very good for discussing news events.

No site is perfect, but Bluesky has many merits.

And this sort of engagement is better than I had with 1/4 million followers on Twitter.

If you are serious about "never again" then remember: it's not about standing up to a line of tanks when the camps are already running. It's about standing up to social & professional pressure when the whole thing is just getting started, when it's not yet cool to do so. That's bravery that matters.

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Just quite fun how journalese is stuck in about 1993, a world where a Flat Screen TV* is an indicator, vegetarianism is a hippy niche, and coffee comes in white and black

*you literally can't buy a non flat screen

Several rosettes of leaves, each with a cluster of small white flowers in the centre. The overall plant looks a bit like a cauliflower.

A phone snap from this morning - Giant Butterbur growing in a boggy part of my local park where dense iris growth was recently cut back. #WildflowerHour

A flowering stalk bearing a few tiny white flowers, each on the end of its own small stalk. The flowers are more of less globular.

I think this is Common Whitlowgrass, in a car park in Bristol on Monday. But to be honest I was so focused on getting a close-up of the flowers (it was on top of a wall so easier to get at than usual) that I neglected to get a decent photo of the leaves. So I'm not certain. #WildflowerHour

A small plant with three-part leaves like a smaller version of clover and a small yellow clover-sha[ped flower.

Black Medick growing in a road verge in Bristol on Tuesday, during a brief break in this weeks incessant rain. #WildflowerHour

Two large pale blue flowers among a tangle of glossy green leaves.

Out and about in Swindon yesterday. Didn't have my big camera with me, so here's a phone snap of Periwinkle growing in a hedge. #WildflowerHour

Coltsfoot Tussilago farfara on the dunes at Braunton Burrows this week. Always a cheery find on a dull day. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sadly a day late for #CelandineDay but my favourite little Celandine patch is still flowering its heart out for #Wildflowerhour It was looking glorious in today’s sunshine! 💛🌞

Several white flowers each with 5 petals and long anthers.

Red letter day today - my first sighting of Cherry Plum of the year. In the car park at Oxford City FC on the way to watch Charlton Athletic Women playing Oxford United. #WildflowerHour

A single panel cartoon. Moominpapa leans over a newspaper on a table, holding an empty glass. Snufkin is seated on the opposite side of the table, head in hands, puffing on his pipe disconsolately. Moomonpapa says to Snufkin: 'Tell us all that'a happening out in the world!' Snufkin replies: 'Fuss and misery..'

Mood

Has an electoral coalition ever been so misunderstood?

I like this guy.

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upon further consideration, i would like to read the Bike Lanes are Anti-Sex Worker discourse, please. i would like to fry my brain beyond belief. who has screencaps

With enough time you could do a frame by frame of which deranged bits of twitter have fed into this.

Screenshot of BBC News headline "Team GB face uphill task for four-man bobsleigh medal"

Well that seems unfair.