I'm trying to make my Mum's cheese sauce recipe

I adapted a basic recipe by adding walnuts and cinnamon but it looks great!

I'm having a go at making banana and walnut bread today. I'm not much of a baker. But it's in the oven and smelling great! 👍

Delighted to see my #Udemy courses on propaganda and disinformation have helped people in 44 different countries (!) become more digitally literate. Incredible to see such an impact for a course equipping people for our misleading and manipulative online environment. www.udemy.com/course/propa...

Look at this beautiful creature Tozi and I came across this morning on our walk! Sadly he seemed to have lost his mum.

Post din-dins

25 minutes before din-dins time

So.... such is the weird world we are in, I received this email. And checked the BBC to see if this is true and there's no new update on Iran. Who knows what reality is...

Yes except it's weird things like... for example, this in Indiana is the same but not proper balsamic dressing - some kind of watered down dressing that doesn't taste as good. And no rosemary. These are prepared products so surely easy to standardise?!

I'm visiting UCLA today and watching an interesting talk by @jennyjudge.bsky.social on 'Algorithmic Recommendation and Changing Tastes'

I met this sweet boy today. Notre Dame has 3 comfort dogs who wander the campus with their handlers all day giving love to everyone. This is Finn, he's got his own business card. 😆❤️ You can literally call the Notre Dame campus police and ask for a comfort dog to visit if you are having a bad day.

Nowak murder: police accused of ‘anti-white bias’ five times more likely to stop black people But of course it doesnt stop the US state department engaging in a little foreign influence to stoke far right lies and division in their supposed ally. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Tozi is extremely unimpressed that Mommy had something yummy smelling at 1030pm and only gave her a carrot. Even though she's had a LOT of treats today.

I explained the way these posts while conveying strength to his supporters, suggest to opponents that, for Trump, normal rules do not and will not apply...

Best dog ever.

Is he suggesting this is Maduro's tracksuit? www.msn.com/en-ca/war-an...

Current status: Frozen Pea therapy

It's not Mother's Day in the UK but I'm still thinking about my Mum seeing all the tributes being shared. My Mum's been gone for four years now and I still miss her every day.

Best dog in the world is looking after me.

I had surgery on my foot this week and am stuck on the sofa with my swollen foot elevated above my heart on 3 cushions and a saggy, old cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams... they were meant to deliver crutches today. It is SO painful to walk... nothing on Netflix and this is not fun.

Given the ABSOLUTE DISASTER that Brexit was, it is insane that Labour haven't committed to a return to the EU, and used Brexit to attack Reform. They are not going to win by reinforcing anti-immigration narratives. They need to *contest* everything Reform stand for and FIGHT.

This is a sad day for Britain

This is just SUCH a silly thing to do to BBC content outside the UK. The BBC is an invaluable source of British cultural influence and authority depended on by the world. Keeping it a free resource for the world has way more value than $8.99 a month to Britain.

Delighted to see this new review of my recent book The Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry co-edited with @vianbakir.bsky.social in the journal Media, War and Conflict!!! Check it out! doi-org.proxy.library.nd.edu/10.1177/1750... @mwcjournal.bsky.social

IMPORTANT: The US Government is trying to censor all satellite imagery of the Iran war that's used to fact check incidents such as bombing of civilian infrastructure by journalists like @bellingcat.com researchers in their forensic investigations www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Tozi woofed in her sleep and woke up. Then needed to come and check to see if I'm ok.

Delighted to see this new review of my recent book co-edited with @vianbakir.bsky.social in the journal Media, War and Conflict!!! Check it out! doi-org.proxy.library.nd.edu/10.1177/1750... @mwcjournal.bsky.social