This is super interesting.
The last one I can read fluently is 1600.
I can then still read it and figure out (almost) every word, with some puzzling, but then lose it almost completely at 1200.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
@akcmacleod.bsky.social
This is super interesting.
The last one I can read fluently is 1600.
I can then still read it and figure out (almost) every word, with some puzzling, but then lose it almost completely at 1200.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.
20.02.2026 07:52 β π 521 π 194 π¬ 16 π 21π Well!
17.02.2026 13:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Do entry level baking (let them lick the spoon) then pull on wellies and let them run in the rain. Take them to the closest swimming pool to tire them out, and they have their baking to eat later. It can be a lovely day!
15.02.2026 10:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's not exactly a conventional Valentine's Day experience, but, on February 14, a group of people will visit the atomic bomb shelter at Bervie Brow on the north-east coast. It's a remarkable place, a throwback to the 1950s when Cold War tensions were high!
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...
π§οΈ En los primeros ocho dΓas de febrero se han acumulado en EspaΓ±a 75 mm. Es una cifra cuatro veces superior al valor normal de ese perΓodo.
β‘οΈ En poco mΓ‘s de una semana ya ha llovido casi un 50 % mΓ‘s de lo que suele llover en un mes de febrero completo.
Just did a quick tally of how many tickets are left on the WRU web for Wales v France on Sunday. I make it 16,638, which is more than a fifth of the Principality's capacity.
Grim times.
Saltire Sessions: Gerda Stevenson
The Saltire Society talks to Gerda Stevenson β actress, writer, director & musician β about storytelling, the Scots language, loss, & Gerdaβs new #shortstory collection CAT WUMMIN, published by @luathpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93G...
By-election bar charts, off-licence edition
05.02.2026 16:20 β π 45 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0Received this text message from my father yesterday. Panicked that he had had a stroke, or similar.
Turns out it was my iPhone trying to transcribe the Irish language.
This is why Shakespeare is the greatest genius who ever lived. And this is just from a few pages he wrote in someone else's play.
05.02.2026 14:50 β π 351 π 82 π¬ 7 π 4This video brought tears to my eyes.A dad has been waiting for son Ivan to return from Russian captivity for over 3yrs
Today,he received the message
(families of Ukrainians in Russian captivity often gather when news of an exchange appear,hoping today their loved ones will finally return home)
πΉTSN
They were so desperate for him to be!
04.02.2026 14:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Breaking news about the new driving taxes in Iceland
04.02.2026 08:58 β π 93 π 31 π¬ 4 π 6Some truly fantastic pun work in the replies here...
04.02.2026 00:01 β π 65 π 12 π¬ 6 π 0This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
This is great: Meet Hereditary Peer Lord Hampton β The Only Serving Teacher In Parliament www.politicshome.com/news/article...
02.02.2026 14:12 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1A wonderful photo of STAN LAUREL at his Santa Monica home in 1961 with his Lifetime Achievement Oscar.
(check out the βMona Lisaβ over his right shoulder)
A single Mars chocolate from an assortment tub
Being sold for THREE POUNDS
an incredible listing on Vinted, supreme game
01.02.2026 10:50 β π 52 π 12 π¬ 2 π 2I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took Β£10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Really sad to learn of this. Jim was a really kind man. Generous with his time, and driven by duty. Steely in an understated way. A real loss.
I came across Jim in several capacities. Political. Legal. Spiritual. Academic. Always unfailingly decent and fair minded. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
βMy kids buy me foodβ: civil service pensioners offered emergency loans as nearly 90,000 face delays
29.01.2026 13:58 β π 22 π 8 π¬ 4 π 4This is very correct
28.01.2026 16:50 β π 24 π 9 π¬ 2 π 1Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
28.01.2026 11:46 β π 94 π 22 π¬ 4 π 5Quilt art with image of purple baseball boots
Poem text
'When I Am Old I Shall Wear Purple' quilt art by textile artist/quilter Nancy Messier is named after the 1st line of the poem 'Warning" by Jenny Joseph, about fearless nonconformity and the liberation of older age #womensart
28.01.2026 08:50 β π 273 π 73 π¬ 4 π 8At the in-house laundry at Tickhill Road Hospital, staff are washing more than patient gowns and bed sheets. Since last March, the hospital has been running a free service for people in Doncaster who lack access to washing facilities and are preparing for job interviews. For those who do not have suitable clothes, the South Yorkshire hospital has also created a βcommunity wardrobeβ, enabling local residents to borrow suits to help them present themselves more professionally. βSome people might say this is ludicrous, that the NHS is subsidising interviews,β said Steve Forsyth, Tickhill Road Hospitalβs chief nursing officer who helped create the initiatives. βBut we have a responsibility to the community. This is preventive work, as employment links to physical and mental health.β
The rise of the βNational Health Stateβ - fascinating stuff from @laurahughesft.bsky.social and @amyborrett.ft.com. Calls to mind teachers bringing in food, toiletries and clothes for pupils, albeit on a less institutionalised basis. (Source: www.ft.com/content/cb76...)
28.01.2026 07:42 β π 28 π 7 π¬ 4 π 1This is excellent news, although following on from both Mary Berry and Prue Leith, she has some pretty big Chouxs to fill.
26.01.2026 14:24 β π 202 π 26 π¬ 6 π 0Great journalist and what a voice.
25.01.2026 13:05 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0