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TAKE ACTION: Sign petition to tell the Lords not to block Assisted Dying Bill Sophie Blake, a 52-year-old mother with stage four breast cancer, has launched a petition calling on ‘the Government to do everything in its power to ensure that when bills are supported by MPs & the ...

Please sign this petition if you are British. Those of us who know we have a future of uncontrollable pain should have the right to help ending our lives when it all becomes too much. The current Bill will not give us that, but it's a step in the right direction. humanists.uk/2026/02/06/p...

Loved this book-- @julietemckenna.bsky.social never seems to run out of fresh takes on British folklore!

Fun with bollards!

Mouth and Muscle - The Rumpus In Tierney’s shows, hockey runs on two blades: muscle and mouth. You need the athletic strength, speed, and skill — and if an opponent asks you, “Nice onesie, does it come in mens?” You need to be abl...

I am in @therumpus.net today talking about how Heated Rivalry is connected to both chirping in Letterkenny and Shoresy, and also Pride and Prejudice and Austen film adaptations: therumpus.net/2026/02/02/m...

“Epstein Files dump causes Bitcoin collapse” is a great way to end January 2026.

To be clear: the majority of assaults in prisons are not committed by trans ppl. Prisons in the UK have tolerated excessive force by guards and prisoner-prisoner violence since we first built rock walls.

This isn't about safety.

It's about ideology. It's about dehumanization. It's about genocide.

Oh another reason to be pleased I'm getting mine on Wednesday!

Honestly you'd have thought by now every officer policing a demo would be shown a picture of Tatchell and told 'Do Not Arrest Him because he knows the law better than you'.

But we taxed high incomes a lot more than we do now, there's a reason the Beatles wrote 'Tax Man' - the top rate of tax was 90%.

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Books are not clutter. Clutter is all the other stuff that gets in the way of having more books.

Massive tree in a forest

Turkey Oak at New Shute House, England

A quercus cerris about 250 years old, with one of the largest unsupported crowns of any tree in the UK.

Photo: Jeroen Philippona

A graveyard covered in snowdrops

Forever young, sisters Mabel and Emma are host to an ever increasing cover of wildflowers

They fell asleep days apart, comforted by their eternal bond, embraced by their closeness to nature’s finest

Cheers! Happy 21st Anniversary, Smart Bitches! - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Hey, guess what?

Smart Bitches is 21 years old today! 🍾🥂

So we're giving away custom champagne flutes because obviously.

Happy anniversary to us!

Which is why we fight, and why none of the parties will admit in their manifestos that making the NHS private is policy.

This was well over five years ago (maybe seven?), when theoretically corridor care didn't happen in August, which is when it happened.

any possibility of treatment. His oncologist spent every check up raving about how wonderful it had been to save his life, and to have early stage tissue to study. His prognosis was as if he'd never had a cancer! The NHS has it's problems, but they do great work all the same.

It was incredible luck, the Dr felt a lump, that was investigated because 90% of them are malignant, and investigation turned up something odd elsewhere. Surgery took out both, original lump turned out to be benign and the odd thing to be a 1 in a million cancer that is usually found when way beyond

It happened a few years ago, he was properly admitted later that night, and one of the residents on the ward saved his life by discovering an unrelated tumour, so while it wasn't great on the day, the final results were literally life-saving. And yes he's all better now. Thank you!

It would have been good to have been able to add my experience of my husband getting corridor care while delirious, but that didn't seem to be possible.

My husband was admitted to the local hospital because he was delirious, but they couldn't find a bed, and he was initially cared for in a corridor, opposite the toilets(!). Staff were trying hard, but there simply weren't enough of them. I had to leave him there and I was genuinely scared for him.

The more medical staff tell their stories the more difficult it is to brush the extent of corridor care under the carpet. Numbers don't hit most of us the way stories about actual people do!

You just know the kid got shouted at, and was running away.

Thank for sharing that!

Purple graphic with a thin white border and the Colchester Museums logo at the top. Large white heading reads “Closure Notice”. Body text states that Colchester Castle has lost power again today, Saturday 31 January, and will be closed until further notice, with updates to follow.

⚠️ Temporary closure – Colchester Castle
Due to a power outage today, Saturday 31 January, Colchester Castle is closed until further notice. We’ll share updates as soon as we have them. Thank you for your patience.

Constructive dismissal?

Freeze dried take: It already is.

🧵 about the way the British in Africa used the excuse of stopping slavery to steal most of the continent. If like me you weren't taught about this in school history it's definitely worth clicking through and reading Lester's keynote address too.

Thank you, particularly for sharing the keynote address. The history I did for O and A Levels back in the 70s did include a fair bit about the East India Company, but _nothing_ as I recall about the British and Africa.

Damn right, that level of privilege fucks people up, it would be a kindness to the whole lot of them to remove the wealth and the privilege that comes with it.