Neil Turner

At some stage, someone in the government needs to look at the Palestine Action situation in purely pragmatic terms: is proscription specifically achieving any of the goals they wanted it to, or is it proving entirely counterproductive?

Two puffins - with their beaks bright in colour - face each other while sat on a white rock

An image of the Farne Islands. A rocky coastline, punctuated by sea water, is in the foreground. An old, stone building stands at the top on the small hillside

Exactly 100 years ago today, the Farne Islands came into the care of the National Trust - a whole century of care and conservation!

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

A chart of resting heart rate over the last 6 months, showing a precipitous drop since mid-June

looool see if you can guess when I left my last job, using only this chart of resting heart rate

I've just been offered a dream job: doing exams in the nude while my teeth fall out.

This is excellent advice.

A photo of Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire, now in the care of The National Trust

Whoops, it looks like someone accidentally dropped this Tudor hall in the Cheshire countryside and it went all wonky.

say what you like about rockabilly music, but it's amazing how far a genre can go on titles created by coupling car manufacturers and a random integer generator

[on ornithology trip]

and up there on that branch we have a juvenile robin

[robin does armpit farts, giggles]

Watching videos of police dragging away grannies for holding an anti genocide bit of card, thinking about the time the Met buried reports that one of their officers was a predator, then after he used police ID to kidnap, rape & murder a woman, they then arrested women for holding a vigil for her.

Perhaps they were photos of you with a Ford Sierra, rather than an Escort.

Rich people have always bought a bunch of random shit, and lots of them have never cared how they get that random shit, just that they have it

It was far longer than it needed to be.

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.

Wild to see how the DOGE hiring process was all about "vibe checks" and connections, not merit or experience. The right loves to preach meritocracy, but here they're running the same insider game they accuse the left of. Funny how that works.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-do

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

A photo of a rapid antigen looking test except it’s a multi tests with a control strip and also L G B T G I and A strips all across the one test. All of the strips are activated in the colours of the pride flags for each of LGBTQIA.

Been feeling a little queer lately.

This is objectively a smart policy whose only possible counterargument is "but personal freedom." Which is hopelessly weak if you think about it for even a moment. Cars are the only realm of society where routinely, lethally, breaking the law is accepted.

Made another one for the literal films challenge on B3ta

Having a rest following the allistic hellscape that is Costco on a Saturday afternoon.

a photoshopped screenshot of the Post Interactions settings pop up that has a button photoshopped in that reads, "Only people who will laugh at my joke" -- the photoshopped button is circled in red

dear bsky i have a suggested new reply setting

How we handled poor phone reception - Neil Turner's Blog Our holiday in Wales was good, but we didn’t always have good phone reception whilst we were there. Now, it’s a holiday, and you can argue that we probably should have had a break from phones, social...

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See it, say it, sorted.

Laughcrying at airbags being an optional feature instead of the mobile phone.

A sign with a man with his hand out

Absolutely no high fives

Every time I read something new about Unbound, it makes the situation somehow even worse than I previously thought. They had problems paying authors on time back in *2019*.

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Am I sleep deprived or does this gnome look a bit like Tonty Blair?