Sarah May

The backbone and candour of Mary Robinson on the crazy making propaganda coming from the USA

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks, Mar. That'll be me. I'm 3 years from retirement, and also looking at possible redundancy before I can get there. It's terrifying.

"Future already here," four camouflaged guys in a Ukrainian foxhole with two dozen killer drones and a Starlink

*Just take whatever they're doing and scale it up

UK should not back a war that boosts Vladimir Putin Rising energy prices inadvertently strengthen Russia and weaken incumbent European governments

'!f you want to create the conditions for a chaotic and unpredictable reordering of our party system, “the governing party is in office during a sharp price shock that the opposition loudly supported the causes of” feels like a pretty good way to do that.' 👏 @stephenkb.bsky.social

'I ain't draft dodaing. I ain't burning nc flag. I ain't running to Canada. I'm staying right here. (you want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, out I ain't going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I'|| die right here, right now fighting you, if I want to die You my enemy, not no Chinese, no vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer vhen I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice." -Muhammad Ali in 1967

“HIELANMAN'S UMBRELLA” should be a new law of journalism, which states that if AI generated photos are used in a news article, all reporting from that publication should be instantly distrusted.

I sometimes think the biggest cultural disaster for the UK is the fact that the USA speaks English.

The whole sad pitiful idea of a #SpecialRelationship is just one example of the resulting problems

An illustration of an owl with head slightly tilted and crescent moon above. Poem text reads "かたむいた月のふくろうとして" I am unsure of an appropriate translation.

'Owl and Crescent Moon' - Kozaki Kan, ca. 1990s.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Absolutely!

This should not be a profitable business model.

Everything the others said plus, learning to write is learning to think (the robot lifting weights at the gym analogy) and the poisoning the well/asbestos point, when what hasn't been created by humans permeates what has, there is no humanities, AI eats itself

Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West informed his insights on class

🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…

Country diary: A riverside walk reveals the city’s history written in plants | Susie White Lower Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne: Under boardwalks, in concrete, on window ledges, seeds borne by water and carried on feet survive

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, Susie White checks out Newcastle's urban plants with James Common, whose new book - Urban Flora of Newcastle and North Tyneside - is out today! commonbynature.com/urban-flora-...

@bsbibotany.bsky.social #countrydiary #naturewriting

New artworks planned for Castleford subway The project is part of plans to improve routes to and from Castleford railway station.

🧵Public artworks celebrating Castleford’s heritage, landscape and sporting achievements will be installed in a subway near the town’s railway station. Twenty-two pieces by artist Ellie Way will line the 40-metre Beancroft Subway, drawing on themes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

they should make the microsoft lads try to find a document they’ve saved to sharepoint next time they all get on stage to announce something new

Reuters: Syria's Kurds caution Iran's Kurds against aligning with US against Tehran

"Famine Balls" sounds like something Lord Trevelyan's son would be nicknamed at school.

A reading list for our times:

The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber, David Wengrow
Humans - Surekha Davies

All of these are about why humans act the way they(we) do.

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‘From the article: A spokesperson for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “It is categorically untrue that the UK only has access to two days of gas supply. We have a diverse energy mix and are confident in our security of supply.’

Crunchy decision to run with the headline, ey?

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Hope the Mondays pass soon

“As rain poured down on the city of 10 million people on Sunday morning, authorities warned of toxic acid rain and many residents woke up with pain in their throat and eyes burning.”

Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Who should be in the Assembly of Experts to pick the UK's next PM?

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

This athlete has an origin story. A spider bit her or something

Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
• More hardline than father
• He’s the IRGC candidate
• Relatively young: 56
• Avoids public
• Trusted by father, clerics
• Was in military during Iraq-Iran war
• His wife, Zahra, killed in Israeli airstrike w his father

Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.

Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.

I’d rather have nice safe emotions about shows on the entertainment media; having them about things real-life humans said and did just led to stupid decisions.