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The Society's lecture programme resumes in September when we welcome speakers @gsoh31.bsky.social, Meleisa Ono-George and @sathnam.bsky.social, among others. We also hope to welcome you to these public events, in-person or online. Further details of our autumn events bit.ly/3RIOJrQ #Skystorians

The World Cup without UEFA means no Mbappe, no Bellingham, no Haaland, no Olise, no Yamal It means no England, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium It means no Zidane, Tuchel, Klopp The World Cup this year without Europe would have just been Argentina & Egypt in the final 8 UEFA must hold firm

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer

cashier today told me he knew me from twitter and said him and his partner still use “the butter’s penthouse” 😭

Better than the alternative and you look great

Don't push too hard!

The next trip will probably be to Dignitas www.thetimes.com/article/5d2c...

I see your doom scrolling, and I raise it this. www.news.com.au/technology/o...

Birmingham Literature Festival is BACK! From the 8th-12th October plus Readers’ Day, featuring a stellar lineup, including: Sathnam Sanghera, Zakia Sewell, Dr Kate Lister, M. John Harrison, Margaret Busby, Adele Zeynep Walton and many more! Tickets: birminghamliteraturefestival.org

Louise Casey makes the point that care is underpaid compared to the NHS - another example of a Cinderella service so painfully laid bare during Covid-19. Care workers get an average annual salary of £23k. NHS healthcare worker starts on £25k. We undervalue care as a society.

Andy Burnham has gone up in my estimation by 900% since he has made social care an obsession.

Rupert Lowe claims to detest far-right ethnonationalism and neo-Nazism. Yet a string of extremists have been out campaigning for Restore candidate Marlon West ahead of Thursday’s Greater Manchester mayoral election.

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

The students don't have kettles now. Blew my mind

Went back to my old room at college. Intense! www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/magazine/iss...

I went to the same school as Bill Oddie (KES in Birmingham) and there were legends that he'd once arrived at school on horseback and also had put up diversion signs which meant all the traffic along the main Bristol Road had to pass through the school grounds but I don't know if either is true.

Don't make it a sex thing caitlin

No one talks about how a large percentage of seats in an imax basically give you the experience of watching a film on your back, on your living room floor

I am *absolutely sick* of hearing about young people as 'benefit scroungers'. Nearly 60% of welfare spending goes on pensioners! The people writing this stuff know that too.

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.