Morag Joss 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻 @moragjoss.bsky.social

Writer, mainly novels, sometimes libretti. Apprentice grandmother

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Zoey Deutch doing her impression of “a face that’s had cosmetic surgery” is comedy gold. 😂

[Shambo of Luxembourg @BradfemlyWalsh]

Why has the BBC got incels writing its headlines? This huge man, already a known stalker, grabbed this young woman by the hair, tried to sit on her, said gross things and tried to force her to kiss him, for 15 minutes until stopped. He absolutely does deserve this sentence.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

Call you old fashioned? Alright, old-fashioned, @PatrickChristys, let us go through the decades you prefer.

The 1960s: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley tortured and murdered five children, buried them on Saddleworth Moor, and recorded their screams on tape.

The 1970s: Peter Sutcliffe murdered 13 women with hammers and screwdrivers across Yorkshire.

Dennis Nilsen began strangling young men in his London flat, dismembering them, boiling their skulls on his stove, and flushing the remains down the drains.

The 1980s: Michael Ryan shot 16 people dead in Hungerford. Fred and Rose West were raping, torturing, and dismembering women and girls and burying them under their house in Gloucester. Their own daughter among them.

The 1990s: Two 10-year-old boys abducted a toddler from a shopping centre in Liverpool, tortured him, and bludgeoned him to death with bricks and an iron bar.

Thomas Hamilton walked into a primary school in Dunblane and shot 16 five-year-olds and their teacher. Harold Shipman was murdering his patients by the hundred.

The 2000s: James Watt and his family enslaved a man for a decade, tortured him with baseball bats, air pistols, boiling water, and pit bull attacks, then decapitated him and dumped his body in a lake.

Mathew Hardman, 17, murdered a 90-year-old woman, cut out her heart, placed it on a silver platter, and drank her blood.

The 2010s: Derrick Bird shot 12 people dead across Cumbria.

Thomas Mair shot and stabbed an MP in the street while shouting "Britain first".

The 2020s: Jemma Mitchell decapitated her friend, stored the body for two weeks, and drove 200 miles to dump it.

Those are the decades you prefer. And for each decade there are 20 other equally horrific incidents.

And here is the thing, old fashioned Patrick. According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, violence, burglary, and car crime have fallen by close to 90% since the mid-1990s. The ONS confirms that violent crime is two-thirds lower now than in the 1990s.

The country you live in today is measurably, statistically, dramatically safer than the one you are nostalgic for. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

And I am not even touching Glasgow and its past knife crime epidemic.

So, which decade was better, Patrick? Tell us.

[Nancy Rommelmann @NancyRomm]

My daughter sends. She knows all about this. Also please come over so I can feed you

[Effel @flcro]

@paulhutcheon He is his own man, that’s obvious. NS was her own woman, she didn’t imitate Salmond. I wonder who you think your audience is with this interminable stuff.

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

Well done to the social media person at Rowhead Farm near Stirling in Scotland for what is possibly the greatest Facebook post of all time …

[Brian Gallagher @BGallagherColl]

This was nearly over before I pressed the button. Adult Kingfisher is feeding a wee fish to newly-fledged junior 1 (with back to camera), then junior 2 arrives, and then all three exit to left of frame. On the River Kelvin in Glasgow this afternoon.

[Morag Joss 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻 @moragjoss.bsky.social @moragjoss]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The government tell us to turn our heating down and eat less red meat for net zero. Yet they ram through gigantic hyperscale data centres that consume as much electricity in 24 hours as roughly 89 average streets use over an entire year. We are being treated like suckers.

[Morag Joss 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻 @moragjoss.bsky.social @moragjoss]

And their network, paper or whoever employs them MUST support them in doing so.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

I think it's about time women journalists started walking out on Trump. 'Ok Mr President, you've now insulted me three times during this interview and that is enough. You either apologise or I terminate the broadcast'.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Vance vigorously supported the mass pardoning of the January 6 rioters - nearly 100 of whom have already been arrested for other crimes. And he lectures Britain - a country with a fraction of his nation's per capita homicides.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

A most touching detail from @ft obit of Sir Alex Younger

[Conor Wilson @ConorWilson2]

The landings were enabled by thousands of codebreakers, signallers, nurses, factory workers and intelligence assets - many of whom were women.

What a ridiculous hill to die on on today of all days.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that accolade.

It's hard to know where to even start.

I'll go from the top and try wade through it, to arrive at where the focus should already be. /1

[Morag Joss 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻 @moragjoss.bsky.social @moragjoss]

Wonderful!

[dave trott @davetrott]

In an Edinburgh restaurant a waiter asked me if I wanted a Glasgow salad.
I asked what that was.
He said chips.

[Stoney @martinis2018]

Edmund Charles Tarbell (Peintre américain, 1862-1938)
- Le Voile bleu, 1898, huile sur toile, 73,7 x 61 cm
(Musée des Beaux-Arts de San Francisco).

[Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci]

This week I came across the obituary of a photographer named David Plowden. I was unfamiliar with his work, but decided to browse his website after reading that he specialized in photos of trains and industry.

I’m not much of an art guy, but these photos are astonishing. (1/4)

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

Jon you are and always have been a legend. Your decision to share your last big story will do so much to help people afflicted with Alzheimer’s. Sending you and your family love and sharing this picture of the last ever @Channel4News I presented with you in December 2021. ♥️

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

'Beach.' (c1928) Kenneth Macqueen developed a watercolour technique early in his artistic career that captures the freshness and spontaneity of a seascape. He sketched first, then made his pictures in the studio; the result, a simplified and reconfigured picture.