Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 2h

Reached Jingo in my guards reread and would like it not to be chiming quite so clearly with the times we're in, please.

1 1

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 3h

Inasmuch as we have a mission statement - it's something like this ⬇️

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 4h

A Discworld message for the rest of us, this Party Conference season

Josh Kirby's illustration of Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Great A'Tuin the star turtle, floating through space with 4 elephants on his back, that are in turn supporting the flat, disc-shaped Discworld

Caption reads:
Read Discworld.
Because cunts are still running this one.

2 12

Reposted by Jo the Hat

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2h

All of "Jackie" added to the British Newspaper Archive. Every last page. I mean, that's unexpected. Also quite brilliant. blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2025/10/06/j...

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week

We welcome iconic best-selling teen magazine Jackie to The Archive. Browse every single edition of the weekly magazine for girls, from 1964 through to 1993.

blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

1 6 10

Reposted by Jo the Hat

John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 15h

Me: Is there something I could do differently to improve my sleep?

Doctor: I recommend not looking at your phone for at least an hour before bed.

Me: So nothing then.

5 94 370

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 4h

Lidl product developer trying to murder Arthur Shappey... #CabinPressure #DwagonFwoo

Freezer containing Dragon fruit flavoured Solero knock offs.

Reposted by Jo the Hat

V.C. Willow 📚 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 @authorvcwillow.bsky.social · 5h

Sound up 📢

Brilliant bit on consent by Brit mum using tea as an analogy.

It's funny but gets the point across.

Always, always get enthusiastic, willing consent, or sex is not consensual.

#Consent #WomensRights

Lawrence Williams @ldwilliams-uk.bsky.social · 6h

An interesting way to get the meaning of consent across

5 7

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Mobeena @mobeena.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe they look bored and moody because they’re fed up of having their expressions policed. Maybe they’re thinking about the state of the world and the condition of womanhood in the 21stC. Maybe they’re thinking are thinking about having a fish finger sandwich for dinner. Either way…

a bald man wearing glasses and a blue suit says `` i don 't see how that 's any of your business ''

Alt: RuPaul is wearing glasses and a blue suit and the GIF is captioned “I don’t see how that’s any of your business ''

media.tenor.com

1 1 3

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Mobeena @mobeena.bsky.social · 5h

Have seen two instances of people feeling the need to ask why women in a public space look “bored” and “moody”.

NO ONE OWES YOU A SMILE, SUNSHINE

6 8 24

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 6h

This is EXCELLENT. An EXCELLENT programme about an EXCELLENT man. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social — help yourself to a medal.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great Lives - Oliver Postgate - BBC Sounds

Andrew Davenport, creator of In the Night Garden, chooses Oliver Postgate.

www.bbc.co.uk

2 16 47

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 5h

Genuine Q (not being a dickhead!): is that 'factoid' in it's original sense of being 'not true' or in the Steve Wright sense of 'a short fact'?

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 7h

bsky.app/profile/dere...

trick van treat @derek.bike · 11h

illustration of a man looking into a window with his hands on the glass and saying “yes… ha ha ha… YES!”. his shirt says “sickos” on it. his head has been replaced by a toronto blue jays baseball mascot’s head

1

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 10h

5 18 110

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 13h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

55 3.1K 11K

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 8h

we need to bring back the Horrible Histories primary school trick where you describe in detail something done by the nazis, get the audience to agree that it's abhorrent, then reveal that it was actually 'our lads' last week

AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 8h

I actually think it might be interesting to ask some of these flag-shagging freaks to give an account of the First World War as they understand it. Because increasingly it seems to me they don't. 'Lest we forget' has gone from an urgent moral injunction to a smug piety.

AJ DISMEMBERS! @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 8h

At this he became very uncomfortable, I think because he was actually being invited to *think* about the War rather than use it as an excuse for soft, smug 'lest we forget' sentimentality. So he spluttered 'WELL ANYWAY TRUMP WON SO THERE' and slunk off.

10 26

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty sky this evening.

Above a dark playing field and a silhouetted treeline, the sky is pale gold and pale blue with a croissant-shaped band of cloud pressing in. The cloud goes from dark grey to apricot where the setting sun catches it. Dark leaves encroach into the frame on the left.

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying that this photo includes a row of tulips

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee * Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. Policymakers said there were also threats of a “sharp repricing of US dollar assets” if the Federal Reserve lost credibility in the eyes of global investors. It comes as Donald Trump’s continues to attack the US central bank and threaten its independence. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

3 41 180

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 1d

I'd probably have died before I was 30 in the 19th Century, let alone in medieval times. For all the horrors of modern life, am grateful to have been born into these days not the old ones.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

1

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Still a bit disappointed they didn't use this cover

A mocked up cover for the new Ann Cleeves novel titled The Killing Stones. It features Orkney Library & Archive's balls on the cover.

5 6 210

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not up to Fozzie standard yet, I think this is more representative...

a stuffed chicken with a red rooster head

Alt: Muppet chicken scoffing then muttering

media.tenor.com

5

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 1d

I can feel the chill coming off Vetinari across the multiverse at the small error in the antepenultimate paragraph... The aristos try to replace the patrician *with* a monarch, not replace the monarchy (which, as all Discworld fans know, ran into Stoneface Vimes's axe a long time ago). Otherwise A+.

John Wyatt @johnniewifi.bsky.social · 1d

Good points here

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Has Kemi Badenoch actually read Terry Pratchett?

She claims he’s her favourite author, but his books have a few lessons for her

www.newstatesman.com

2

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

63 1.6K 5.3K

Reposted by Jo the Hat

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

26 760 1.9K

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Mi nam is cow
An wen in daye
I fele the erj
To hit the hey
A ston or carre
Mi pilo iz
Or els a shepe
On wiche i zizz

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

1 15 58

Reposted by Jo the Hat

Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, this is amazing.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

1 42 100

Jo the Hat @jothehat.bsky.social · 1d

We didn't mean to get a part Bengal cat, that bit came as a surprise!

1