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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 10m

I got it in two. But my first word achieved what your second did. Now trying to work out your 1st word. I have one idea but that rules out what I thought your 3rd word was...

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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 14m

I got it in two. But my first word achieved what your second did

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 19h

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 26m

In fact why was the ticket machine offering an any time day ticket on a Saturday? There is no peak!

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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 29m

If there is not an off peak day return fare, when I select day return it should show me the off peak open return ticket as well as the anytime day return and the first class day returns. I a) knew that there was a cheaper fare and b) was surprised at the lack of an off peak option so went back

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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 59m

Christ church Cambridge wasn't one of the ones I was expecting. Turns out to be also known as St Andrew the Less which rings more of a bell but day it was StAG and Holy Trinity in the city centre that were the big student places and headship I'd guess though I don't actually know

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone who tells us that arts and humanities are frivolous wants to control our stories. It's as simple as that.

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Dr Ieithydd (Carys) @yrieithydd.bsky.social · 1h

And the media barons

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 2h

It won't matter and it isn't the point - transphobia is the point and that's all it is - but if we're going to define rape as gaining sexual consent by deception, that opens up an awful lot of totally normal situations to prosecution. Lots of people lie to get someone into bed.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

"Fires the bigotry neuron" is one of the ways that process is described! Engaging in bigoted patterns of thought and speech at inapposite targets genuinely does alter a speaker's patterns of thinking! Or, to put it differently, "ironic" racism incepts people into real racism.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1h

We have decades of evidence that regularly repeating statements that "ironically" borrow from the language of bigotry and apply it to inapposite targets genuinely do alter the taboo threshold at which the speaker both believes in and is willing to express bigotry against actual marginalized groups!

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to the Telegraph for a headline even worse than Sky News's sterling effort in telling us the new Archbishop's husband's name before her own.

gerrarrdus @gerrarrdus.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at the @telegraphnews.bsky.social headline, which manages to name him but not her, apparently so.

Torygraph headline: "Trump beaten to Nobel Peace Prize by Venezuelan politician
Despite brokering ‘peace in the Middle East’, US president is overlooked for accolade he has so openly coveted"

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

incidentally I enjoyed the interview on BBC News last night with a woman from the Nobel committee who pointed that so long as Trump was using the judicial system to go after his enemies and sending troops into peaceful cities, he probably wasn't a strong candidate for the Nobel peace prize

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1d

We have - happily - never got into that whole US debate on whether burning the national flag is free speech or not, but I’d be fascinated to know if Jenrick would walk into court with someone who took a cigarette lighter to the Union flags he was attaching to lamp posts the other week.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Call me crazy but I've got a sneaking feeling that putting the country in charge of a politician who likes to encourage people to publicly burn religious texts won't work out too well

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

Increasingly feel that half the problem of *gestures at everything* is men with adequate opinions that not everyone will agree with finding it very difficult that some people don't agree with their opinions

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Irim Sarwar @irimtated.bsky.social · 1d

What Trump did was nothing extraordinary or special to him. He had financial incentives that pushed him to do it.

What he proved is that America always had the way, not the will.

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Irim Sarwar @irimtated.bsky.social · 1d

If you're asking why Biden didn't do diddly in 2023, when it was clear Israel's reaction was going to be genocide/scorched earth, bear in mind that he horrified Begin by saying that he'd kill all the women and children.

He could have cut off arms sales and this would have been done two years ago.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 23h

The M-W entry for "primer" lists these as two separate words, but why would they be? Surely they're different uses of the same agentive noun, created from the verb 'to prime' in a totally standard way. Nobody pronounces the verb as "prim". I'm baffled.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Phil Groom @philgroom.bsky.social · 23h

Could someone please explain to #BBCNews (and others as necessary) that there are no new ichthyosaurs, just old ones that we didn’t know about?*

✅ Newly discovered species of dinosaur
❌ New species of dinosaur

*Exceptions may apply in Legoland and science fiction.

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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 22h

#PopeLeoXIV has urged Christians to rediscover the link between faith and commitment to the poor, in his first significant teaching document since taking office in May #Pope #Vatican