Jayne

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.

AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

Seriously, whilst the U.K. government remains on X it’s impossible to take them seriously over online safety.

Small Prophets in the style of the old Sea Monkeys advert

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

Grenfell demolished

Sharp intake of breath when you come round a corner and see how much of Grenfell has come down...

And how much justice done nearly 9 years in? None.

this is my GlamBot.

The UK government has successfully made it harder for women to organise, find camaraderie and share knowledge, while simultaneously ensuring only the vilest most bigoted women are left in a position to do so.
All by targeting and excluding trans women. It’s as clever as it is disgusting.

This isn't just about HE underfunding but about the additional expectations that are continually placed in Unis. Driving local economies, cultural provision, health provision and bursaries for students, spin out company support, visa checking. All important stuff but are we now expecting too much?

I checked my vaccination history last year using the NHS app to send a message to my GP. I got both mmr jabs as I'd just missed the rollout in the 80s. Worth checking if there's any doubt.

Trying to help my elderly Dad renew his E.ON Next tariff following an email from them. Their website is so crap - nothing works. Can't get a quote, can't see the tariff options so he can work out what's best, definitely can't renew anything. 🤬

Enjoyed Small Prophets a lot. A gently strange, quirky tale. Both funny and melancholic.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Europe desperately wants the US to be Normal Again so it doesn’t actually have to engage with any of the hard work (and spending) that engaging with reality actually involves.

So if Rubio gives a speech with ~better vibes~ it gets lapped up, even if it’s meaningless on substance.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Critical incident declared at Nottingham hospitals A high number of elderly people on wards and respiratory cases in A&E prompt warnings from staff.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Critical incident declared at #Nottingham hospitals

There are some Star Trek fans weirdly obsessed with “decorum” and they really fixate on how Holly Hunter sits in the captain’s chair on STARFLEET ACADEMY. One guy left a comment on the official FB whining about it and so Captain Janeway herself responded to drop the hammer

Tawny wrote a whole emotional Insta post about her and Cirroc and everyone working so hard to make sure that it felt like it did justice to Avery and being in regular communication with him to ensure that it had his blessing, people really think a Black Trekkie writer is fucking around with that???

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Just going to leave this here

i also don’t think we even know the scale of theft and corruption this *single family* has been responsible for, i am only certain that it’s far larger than anyone currently knows

Why would anyone be worried about having their personal data handed over to a company that works directly with ICE and the Israeli military? Well, I'd rather not be worried about people of colour, left wingers and members of protest groups being disappeared from NHS premises.

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

A special recording of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, free for everyone.

Things the UK media aren’t talking about enough:

- Palantir
- Epstein files revelations that don’t involve Andrew Windsor or Peter Mandelson
- Reform omnishambles (Farage/Bannon democracy smashing, telling people they can’t work from home whilst leader works from home, counsellor racism).

“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely”
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

James David Van Der Beek photo, looking

Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning. He met his final days with courage, faith, and grace. There is much to share regarding his wishes, love for humanity and the sacredness of time. Those days will come. For now we ask for peaceful privacy as we grieve our loving husband, father, son, brother, and friend.

James Van Der Beek, who starred in the teen drama series "Dawson’s Creek," has died at 48

just billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe throwing out some serious made-up numbers on TV

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.