Nicole Sykes

These cats. So uncultured.

Thorin hates it if I sing. Comes and meows at me until I stop.

Till the soil BEFORE the nuclear fallout.

It's not like there's traffic at this time in the morning!

Nice to see everyone in UK BlueSky up so early for the big news today: India’s updated GDP series! Maybe the Indian economy is already bigger than Japan.

YouTube DIY Dads are providing an invaluable public service.

Though the limiting factor on Scouting numbers is volunteer leaders rather than demand from children.

Guides are in decline while Scouting numbers have remained broadly stable (I believe)

And like... do you think people choose these routes? Do you not think that there's (usually) a huge amount of grief involved in eg. realising you won't conceive with your own eggs? So much so that we legally require people doing so to go to counselling?

Once again, I'm left feeling despaired that the debate around falling birth rates is not focussed on those with workable economic solutions, rebalancing still outdated gender/parenting roles, leaning into modern working practices - but instead by weirdos with deeply misogynistic & often racist views

No thank you Sam

A creepy man looking creepy

Were I a male gynaecologist.

And - for some reason - I had decided to join the “European Society for Aesthetic Gynaecology” (🤮)

And I wanted to put my majority-female patients at ease.

THIS IS NOT THE PICTURE OF MYSELF I WOULD USE

Couldn't help the contrast, watching Blair at the Board of Peace this week while talking to friends and colleagues at the Multibank that wouldn't exist without Brown...

I told my mum we were watching Life of Brian in history at 15, and she was so appalled she called the headteacher.

"I don't feel I should have to explain to you why you're not putting that mouse on my bed" is also a phrase I don't feel I should have to say at 1.30am.

We’re not on the high streets or hanging in the cafes/pubs which are easy to vox pop. Because we have internet shopping and jobs.

Ripley and Jones have discovered the heated airer! #catsofbluesky #catsky

Great report by @rhistorer.bsky.social on yet another bit of the state in tatters because of short-termist sensiblism:

bsky.app/profile/rhis...

Oooh. That would be mega.

The Dutch as outspoken outriders saying blunt things that would be aggressive from Macron or Merz is very funny, everyone leaning into their bit

Of course. Why would you invest in soft power?

It just helps in the kind of warfare that:

a) Russia has shown it's actually good at;
b) Russia is waging on the West already;
c) The UK/NATO nuclear deterrent is useless in preventing;
d) Costs a fraction to fund compared to military hardware.

this is the description of life in a cult

The soft play on a morning like this is a demon-filled hellscape.

The grim tragedy of inclusive communities of WI women disbanded due to the destructive power of transphobia promoted so widely and unquestioningly by broadcast and print media.

Organisations like the WI have been undermined and attacked under a banner of divisive hate directed at trans people.

Amazing!!

What a graph

Now I'm just thinking about how sexy the behavioural analysis that you must be able to generate from players' choices on video games. I'm in the wrong line of research.

When the video game player approaches you, and you've got a little red exclamation point above your head waiting for the interaction, what's the stock phrase you lead with?

Just back from the launch of the LPP. Great to hear @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social and Ed Miliband extolling the virtues of community energy.

Particularly pleased that Ed emphasised that "this is the glimpse of a new economy". And a government asserting that ownership matters.

Vidhya is well known in the communities sector, well respected for her intelligence and competence, and well liked.