Amazing what difference a year makes! Last time we were at Butlins, little kid was still barely verbal and was too small to climb up the Sky Park towers to slide down with his big brother. Now he’s so big and confident and excitedly telling us all about it.

A child walks across a mesh-covered bridge silhouetted against the sky.

Where is big @luke@social.sdfeu.org ?

A shocking indictment of Ealing Labour Council from a young black woman.

When I was in primary school the air pollution was so bad, it stopped me from going to the local park,” she says

Higher Ground.

A music streaming app interface displays a single titled "Higher Ground" by hovercraft, with playback controls visible.An album titled "Higher Ground" by Hovercraft is displayed on a digital music platform, including details about the release date and track length.

The same legal scholars who would never question Israel’s right to exist as a state - despite its own contested borders, ongoing military occupation, and complex governance issues - are suddenly very concerned about technical legal criteria when it comes to Palestinian statehood.

Last week Starmer proscribed Palestine Action. Yesterday he advocated the ultimate Palestine action - recognising it as a state - while simultaneously making that recognition dependent on Israel continuing its genocide of the Palestinian people.

Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0 I am stunned, shocked and appalled by the continuing support Starmer is offering Israel, because that is what he really did yesterday.

Every time trying to file urgent documents online at Companies House. They say the will send a confirmation code by email, but it never arrives. You ask for another one, then both arrive after you’ve forgotten that you were waiting, and now you’re timed out and have to start all over again.

Big kid has video-documented my pizza making process by creating a “cooking website” while I made pizza on Saturday.

(For some reason the videos aren’t only seem to play when you load the site in a private or incognito browser.)

Google NotebookLM podcast “deep dive” on my AI music restoration project and the democratisation of creativity (which I hadn’t thought about).

Transcript

Look away if you’re not interested in reality, right and wrong, or changing it. And yes, that’s politics.

Israel admits no proof of Hamas systematically stealing UN aid. [original NYT article with its misleading url.]

Israel destroyed over 1,000 aid trucks, leaving supplies to rot.

Documentation of American and Israeli forces murdering Palestinians seeking aid.

The pattern is clear: Israel used false claims about Hamas aid theft to justify a blockade that has created mass starvation, while simultaneously destroying aid shipments and shooting people trying to get food. This is the very definition of collective punishment and using starvation as a weapon of war. It’s a war crime.