Baby octopus

Well he's gone viral *now* at least, but not quite in the way he'd hoped. Thank you Labour List for helping bring to even more people's attention that Darren Jones was suspended from the Greens in 2024 for transphobia and now says Labour is a good home for his values

A shirtless man in an open anorak and tracksuit bottoms staggering down a rainy Scottish housing estate

They’ve turned the Greens against us

Sheep turned the verdant hills and temperate forest of the Scottish Highlands into a depopulated wasteland of rock and grass.

Space for raising sheep was the excuse made for the clearances.

We can't return the natural glory of the north without the fall of the sheep.

Yet more evidence that Labour could prevent a Reform government if they used their huge Westminster majority (won on just a third of the vote) to bring in electoral reform. If they don't, it's only because they value the chance for a future unfair Lab majority more than they value defeating fascism.

At the moment, for every 100 English & Welsh voters intending on voting Reform at Westminster, only 72 Scots are doing likewise. Combining with the Conservatives it's 66 for the right. That's still a lot of votes, but it's still a huge relative gulf in backing that makes a meaningful difference.

man as the oil price explodes it sure would look incredibly silly if you were a political party calling for tax cuts on oil companies right now

The Vallum Fritz Welch Print Set from Robert Dallas Gray The Vallum Fritz Welch Print Set from Robert Dallas Gray

then this beautiful set of prints based on fritz welch's artwork for The Vallum. again profits from these go to Medical Aid for Palestinians robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/merch/the-va...

Cloud Moon March [David Moré], by Robert Dallas Gray from the album The Vallum Mixes

next up The Vallum Mixes -- reworkings of tracks from my album of last year by various luminaries. these are pretty extraordinary and take the pieces to entirely new places. all proceeds from this one go to Medical Aid for Palestinians robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-...

Last Missal, by Robert Dallas Gray from the album Missals

for this #BandcampFriday I want to highlight some stuff that might have flown under the radar ... first up, my mini-album of last year, Missals, a sort of concept album based around a 1962 tape echo unit. riyl durutti column, the cure, michael rother robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/track/last-m...

Hey kids do you know what a prompt injection attack is

We regret to inform you that Roblox is At It again

Love when a journalist leaves up a blatantly false claim like this for over a day, without retracting it, when people have thoroughly debunked it and shown that the claim can be traced back to a single white supremacist source.

I'm going to have to read this now just for the biblically accurate angel emoticons

I simply think Americans have elected enough Nazis and should really give electing non-Nazis a go instead. Dismiss the criticism all you like, just don't be surprised when your guy starts coming out with the talking points of the white supremacist lobbying industry within 2 months of gaining office.

If you had any standards at all you would not be backing this guy. Unbelievable how easily you people can all rationalise wanting to vote for the former mercenary with the SS tattoo who fantasised about joining in with the white settlers war against Native Americans. Get a better candidate!

I had a lanyard when I worked in a residential childcare setting with young people with significant emotional social and behavioural support needs. Although it was in my pocket most of the time rather than round my neck because, well, the young people

Nominations haven't even closed yet. There's still time to get better candidates!

YouTube video by Betty Boo - Topic Boo Is Booming

I am clearly in tune with the universe because I woke up with Boo is Booming running through my head this morning, and I've just discovered it is Betty Boo's birthday. Hooray!

Also hot DAMN this is a good track. In my top 5 all-time, I think.

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Were they browsing the

*dons shades*

world wide web

I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that all the people who Streeting takes 'expert advice' from have an easily discoverable anti-trans bias.

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We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account.

Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?

Unfortunately not in the UK though where sex/gender discrimination is perfectly lawful in sports - equality act 2010 s.195.

In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a £185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.

Apparently Mothin Ali has been receiving death threats off the back of the statement in the commons the other day, well done Starmer for allowing this to take hold and not shutting it down at the time

The only extra lane that can fix traffic congestion is a bike lane.

View from above of a small toilet space. The floor has been covered with a random pattern of shiny and dull copper pennies, which were covered with a resin to form a permanent floor surface.

Angled view of the floor, showing the pennies are cut to curve around the base of the toilet, and go under the margins of the sink unit.

Angled view of the pennies going off into the distance, showing the lined pattern and the shine of the resin.

Ten years ago today I completed my DIY masterpiece.

A photo of a pale green moth with bold zig-zag markings in black and cream.

Moth? Moth!

Here's the NZ endemic moth, the appropriately named Exquisite Carpet, *Asaphodes adonis*, which I just uploaded to #iNaturalist. It's known only from NZ's South Island.'

It's always a treat to find these […]

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Eating it any other way is just giving in to The Man. The Croissant Touching Man.

This is why you should always wash your croissants before eating them