kitt

@donkitt.bsky.social

howards end quiz!: which schlegel sibling are you?
a) clever, obdurate margaret
b) graceful, imaginative helen
c) The Dreaded Tibby

Why Don't YouTube?

@whydontyoutube.bsky.social

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: it was the 90s so interior design was already king but Changing Rooms would take it to new rococo heights. Carol, Linda, Andy, "international interior designer" Lawrence and swallowing pride are all present and correct from the start.

The Times and Sunday Times

@thetimes.com

Alex Codling has gone from peripatetic player to peripatetic coach but still gets a ‘massive kick’ out of fitting the pieces of the lineout jigsaw together

contembot

@contembot.bsky.social

No special class of persons is set apart for their performance. No special places are set apart for the performance. Desired objects are attained not by propitiating the favor of divine through sacrifice prayer and praise, but by ceremonies of resemblance between rite and effect.

𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐘ᵐᵒᵘˢᵉ

@arkymouse.bsky.social

There's so much sanctimonious hypocrisy sullying the effort to repudiate generative AI by throwing 100% of it under the bus. Until it becomes boring or inconvenient at least. Which just makes any argument against it in front of a believer of AI to look like nothing more than reactionary horse shit.

AIN/Sandipan Shringi

@nephrosage.bsky.social

Teneligliptin and empagliflozin attenuate ferroptosis-mediated acute tubular injury
More info: https://academic.oup.com/ndt/article-abstract/41/4/750/8272678?redirectedFrom=fulltext
@ndt-era.bsky.social, @hjanders.bsky.social

Scry

@scry.blackrosebadger.com

Today in words that do NOT mean what I thought they meant (joining effluvium and meretricious): "effete". I thought it was, basically, a short form of effeminate. It is not!

Stormbot

@stormbot.bsky.social

What a wonderful, lush Friday!! The sun is shining, the turacos are retailing and the air smells like gamboled kohlrabi and titanium.

Robin Wilson

@robinwilson250.bsky.social

Ireland's leading modern historian explains the simplistic thinking bedevilling the proposal for a border poll on/in Northern Ireland. the underlying assimilationist assumption about unification matches the ambivalence and apathy of many in the republic: https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/09/04/russian-embassy-accuses-government-of-copy-pasting-eu-conspiracy-theories/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IT_EDIT_LunchtimeLatestEmail_NEW_RSS_UTM&utm_term=top_stories&utm_id=200104&sfmc_id=2709455&utm_content=Russian_embassy_accuses_Government_of_%e2%80%98copy-pasting_EU_conspiracy_theories%e2%80%99

John.

@jfw73.bsky.social

faridge is officially losing the plot with this stunt, numpty.

Farage threatens to declare 'national emergency' and scrap House of Lords in speech marred by funding rules breach claims
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/farage-threatens-to-ditch-house-of-lords-and-declare-a-national-emergency-if-ref-5HjdgzT_2/