Martin Coyle

And yeah, I think that the DOGE folks at agencies kind of had unilateral decision making authority in a way that's kind of scary because they both had the we should come into government and do common sense things mindset without realizing that the most common sense things are actually the hardest to accomplish for very specific reasons.

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

The tops of two carrots look like eyes at the top of a plate. Below, two slices of onion form a mouth

My plate can't believe I didn't finish this 📷

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A shot from Windermere. The boat's wake is visible in the water. The sky takes up most of the picture life white clouds dissolve into wisps. The land is a bunch of nested hills.

Over hills, over the lake, clouds and clouds and clouds 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty

Colourful umbrellas are strung over a narrow, old fashioned street. The sky is the bluest blue

The Umbrellas of Ulverston
📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty

The Ballyclare Gazette from 2012: Four men cleared over Gowdy attack. Picture shows four young kids in fancy dress, one of whom is Mario out off of computer games.

It’s-a me! I’m innocent!

Incredible development. US entering tin pot autocracy territory here.

hey i just met you
and you’re a white whale
so here’s my number
and call me ishmail

Balance still apparently means being nasty to reasonable people, and reasonable to nasty people.

A starving Palestinian child.

“Israel has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure without causing starvation…”

But no more.

Devastating reporting from @theguardian.com’s Emma Graham Harrison on the grotesque calculations behind Israel’s engineered famine.

Please read.

Congratulations Prof Michele Dougherty!

I’m reading Blade Runner and I love that Philip K Dick imagined a world with nearly undetectable humanoid robots and a machine that lets you mentally access all the empathy and pain of the human race, but a guy still needs his secretary to look up numbers for him in the phone book.

A green path leads down between two wizened trees. Above, the clouds look like they belong in a renaissance painting.

... and I turned around and..
📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty

A view over Windermere with sub turning hillsides golden green

... and I turned around and...

Tips For Surviving A Rip Current Fight the urge to remain calm—you’re drowning, this is a big deal.

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A view of Windermere and countless hills beyond. Above, clouds mix with blue sky and it all feels kind of limitless

I took a short climb to find endless views 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty

Pure joy

Good morning BlueSky
It's Monday so...

Horned luing cattle lie down across a path

Lake District road block
📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty

Fisher Price are missing a trick not selling a My First Rodeo toy.

"From administrative hurdles when changing gender marker to losing access to medical records or having care stopped, the issues have a profound impact on people."

Our latest research shows that trans and non-binary people are facing hurdles at every stage of their care. Read our recommendations to ensure people can get the care and treatment they need with respect, dignity and without discrimination. www.healthwatch.co.uk/news/2025-07...

World Central Kitchen | Donate

World Central Kitchen has been able to provide water & fresh bread while their food is stuck at the border.

www.worldcentralkitchen.org/donate

Palestinian mother holding starving small child

There is no context - none at all - that justifies the deliberate, calculated starvation of children.

#Gaza

Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

Black and white photograph of a person wearing a fedora and a trench coat, holding a cigarette in one hand, standing beside a leafless tree.

Black and white portrait of a young person with a serious expression, featuring short, styled hair.

An elderly individual holding two black and white photographs, one of a young person in a coat and a hat and the other of a young woman with curly hair.

Image contains a detailed black and white historical text about Jerzy Bielecki, a World War II escapee from Auschwitz concentration camp, detailing his courageous escape with a fellow prisoner, Cyla Cybulska, in 1944 and the subsequent events of their lives.

21 July 1944 | Two prisoners, a Pole Jerzy Bielecki (no. 243) & a Polish Jewish woman Cyla Cybulska (no. 29558) escaped #Auschwitz. They were in love. Jerzy managed to get an SS uniform & staged a fake escort. The escape was successful.

Learn the story of Jerzy & Cyla below.

“Useful idiot” is such a fun term because up until the halfway point it could conceivably be heading towards compliment territory.

Fabulous! Such a beautiful book. So glad to hear it's travelling well

A bestseller in Germany!!

Yvette Cooper: Stop attacking the right to protest. Tell the Home Secretary to repeal extreme anti-protest laws and protect our right to protest.

Email Yvette Cooper and tell her that the right to protest is part of any functioning democracy and if she wants to even pretend we’re that, she needs to stop preventing pretty much all protest the government doesn’t like.
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BBC Radio 4 - That Mitchell and Webb Sound, Series 5, Episode 2, Haydn's hashtags A difficult interview at the BBC Proms.

Proms season again, innit.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...