Jack Sommers

The Wheatstone Pond Summary: The Wheatstone pond, site of seven suicides in the last five years, is to be drained and filled in; but there is more lurking in its slime than old toys and model boats. Suggested level: juni...

This is about ponds and model
Boats, no mention of miniatures though books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

YouTube video by sniem Reds - train station scene

Lots of great Diane Keaton roles but Reds is the stand out for me youtu.be/X5MtATxkyHM?...

I will do it for $29,000 - no $29,900

Having to explain Graham Norton to my Australian fiancée

‘Wait they all sit on the sofa at the same time? They drink wine?’

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

‘Does… anyone want to switch seats?’

I… don’t know

Dining across the divide: ‘There he was with his goatee, shaved head, tattoos – but never judge a book by its cover’ A leftwing voting skeptic and tribal Tory party member struggle to agree on nationalism and the role of the state. Can they find any common ground over social media?

This is great. These are two men who’d be shouting at each other at Question Time, but after introducing their polar opposite positions they turn out to have a lot in common www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

If I were still on Twitter, my bio would be ‘after some surface level research, this really does get scary’

Luna today:

I asked my best friend to marry me and she said yes!

Insta telling my mutuals I liked a cute couples meme with questionable gender politics

Had never heard of Kirk until Saturday, when my apolitical school friend who lives in Arizona told me I should listen to his podcast

Exc - The publisher of the Washington Post, Will Lewis, is facing fresh questions over his independence after leaked files revealed he gave extensive crisis support to Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser.

Lewis spent two days with Johnson in No10 as part of a team battling to save him.

I feel like we need to stop complaining some people are still on Twitter, and start accepting that 2012 Twitter isn’t coming back

Had to double check this was real (it is)

But no reference to the asteroid is what I mean! But for an addendum added in 1990 when he just goes ‘so we now think…’

It’s so weird watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (1980) when he starts giving potential reasons the dinosaurs died including a volcano poisoning the atmosphere…

2016: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Sun tells ITV News that multiple sources say the Queen backs Brexit

2025: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Times publishes an article saying the Queen was a Remainer

Worth it though

Doctors develop AI stethoscope that can detect major heart conditions in 15 seconds Upgraded medical tool can diagnose heart failure, heart valve disease and abnormal heart rhythms

This is the kind of thing AI is useful for - where large volumes of data that are traditionally processed by humans are gathered (in ways and volumes humans can't) and processed (in ways humans can't) by the system, to support humans making decisions.

‘‘We don’t understand the interest in changes to our society-upending products, we’re just trying to fulfil a technological goal that has captivated the human imagination for decades’

Donate to Help Dax the Cat Live Long and Prospurr, organized by Emily Reynolds Sweet Dax the cat was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma earlier this summer. Dax is… Emily Reynolds needs your support for Help Dax the Cat Live Long and Prospurr

My friend needs help paying for her cat's medical care. Even if you can't donate, can you share?

Support cats like Luna for as little as £10 a month? Well her insurance alone is more than that so that’s a bargain

Insta’s algorithm is good it’s serving me sponsored reels featuring *my own cat*

‘Just take a photo of an American flag, the EU flag, and the tariff flag… what do you mean there isn’t one?’

Might be a black cat thing…

By @catneilan.bsky.social

How Epping lit the fuse on migrant hotels crisis Nationwide protests fizzle out after few answer the call in the wake of legal ruling

Genuinely illuminating piece about the hotel protests in today’s Observer observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Lucy Connolly’s first interview: I was Starmer’s political prisoner Northampton childminder speaks exclusively to Allison Pearson, the Telegraph journalist who led the campaign for her release

Incredible thing about this headline: it was the Telegraph that introduced the phrase ‘Starmer’s political prisoner’ - she just agreed with it www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...