Jim Hughes

This should be as timeless as that Michael Gove "I can shoot all the aliens" one

Michael Marmot: Labour has reneged on its child poverty promises Lifting the two child benefit cap is an important step but will still leave 4.15 million children in poverty, Marmot tells Elisabeth Mahase Michael Marmot, the UK’s leading expert on health equity, ...

"About a third of children are now growing up in poverty."

Michael Marmot, the UK’s leading expert on health equity, urges Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take bold action to tackle child poverty in this interview with The BMJ
https://bit.ly/40rQ5Ip

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How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

*2026

The theme tune was an absolute belter. Also the only kids show that featured the phrase "oh bumholes" in it's intro, as far as I know...

Shortly they will sit in a room with some trendy/eccentric looking types who will use familiar words in unfamiliar ways, and will take their feet to tell them "keep doing that, but point more in your publicity pics on X" or something similar

The phrase "mainstream media" has become a pejorative term. We should instead use the phrase "professional media" to distinguish it from the chancers, Russian shills and partisan axe-grinders calling themselves "news sources" on the Internet.

Photo of a black woman wearing a patterned blue and yellow dress which is the same pattern as the background

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #womensart

"If we try to get 5 of those reform votes by completely alienating the remaining 9k Labour votes, we can win it back next time!"

*runs in little circles going "eeeeeeeeeeee"*

"Obviously this was Andy Burnham's fault and if he hadn't got involved our approach would of course have worked, so let's keep doing that but more so....."

This is from the Allister Heath column generator...

This is fun

After becoming the 1st African American female to successfully perform open-heart surgery and developing the antibiotic Aureomycin, Dr. Myra Adele Logan developed x-ray technology processes that more easily and accurately detected breast cancer.

#HeartMonth #BlackHistoryMonth #Radsky

Image from article in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence

New mammography dataset with BI-RADS, breast density, machine ID, and outcome data freely available to the research community https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.250375 #ASSR26 #NeuroRad #MSKRad #radiology

this is useful for those looking to move away from the Google/Amazon clouds

Derpy Tiger Bow | AdorkaBows Width: ~6" (15cm) Center Credit: YoshiYoshitani Clip Style: 60mm Alligator Clip, most easily worn on the back or right side

If you like bows you should be following @adorkabows.com ~!

Anyway there is a handmade bow with my pin on it if you wanna grab it

www.adorkabows.com/product/derp...

She's got talent!

Oooh that's a good photo!

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280 million to detain 4,000k people, of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

That works out at $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst" – not to mention the murder of two innocent US citizens.

This is what Nige Fartrage wants in the UK.

I always love an animal x-ray

I don't know why I wanted or brought a Dremel. All I know is suddenly I felt I NEEDED one. Think it's a 40's thing

My Dremel died on its 2nd use, which I use as the excuse why I don't live in a house filled with elaborate filigree and complex models and robots doing my bidding

"Maybe I DO need a lathe..."

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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"It's got something to do with centrifuges, so just spin it round real quick"

A sign outside the Marie Curie Hospice in Newcastle.

Here's this year's first big charity push, pals. I'm running the Leeds Half in May in support of @mariecurieuk.bsky.social and in memory of my lovely mum-in-law Sue, who so sadly died this month. It's an amazing charity. Throw all your spare money my way, please. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

Great thread, and: CRM is a 50-year-old aviation safety discipline created because experts identified hierarchical cockpit culture — dominated by arrogant, know-it-all men, usually older, from the airline's majority nationality/ies — as a major contributing factor to crashes and other incidents.