Everyone’s so excited, the aurora has almost made Twitter nice again for a nanosecond

Make this a manifesto pledge for the love of god

I did say this

Sad news, but what a life Shirley Conran had - campaigning journalist, taught working mothers not to feel guilty about dumping housework AND the goldfish scene in Lace theguardian.com/books/article/…

Young conservation scientists - tell ConservationOptimism what makes you optimistic docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…, and join a chorus of voices from around the world, on how we can make the world a better place through coming together with #ConservationOptimism !

‘I was up drinking til 3am. With AI people’. But of course.

Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie.

She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being 'attractive and attracted'…

The reason I trust Stephen’s judgment is that when he gets it wrong, as we all do, he reflects publicly & honestly on why. In the current Twitter climate that’s harder than it should be

interesting from Sienna Rodgers on what leftwingers isolated under Starmer are thinking (reminds me that 9 years ago we were all doing similar pieces on what Labour MPs isolated under Corbyn were thinking) politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

Missed all the W Mids drama because I was at the cinema watching Civil War and this isn’t the only reason I’m saying don’t bother with Civil War (great idea, extremely silly film) but it’s definitely one of them

from a while ago but interesting background to some of this year’s results (NB what ⁦The Mill⁩ is doing in long form local journalism is really worth a look generally) manchestermill.co.uk/p/paranoid-sty…

Enjoying @tombaldwin66 & Marc Stears’s England:Seven Myths & this from the chapter on Blackpool & supposedly left behind towns did jump out after the by-election result

The correlation between ‘going slightly mad reading London turnout data’ and ‘having been up half the night’ feels quite strong on election Twitter

It doesn’t match Boris Johnson being turned away under his own voter ID laws, but I was once charged a rail penalty fare under regulations I had drafted

If you’re a parent of teenage boys, this ⁦Catherine Carr⁩ short series on boys in their own words is funny and sad and sweet and thoughtful all at the same time, and really worth a listen (been dipping in and out all week) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

this is a thing of such nerdy joy Adrian Mole would have had it on his wall, 10/10