Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Falkirk probably should have won that game but a point gives us a small cushion over other relegation-threatened teams like Rangers

Europe should tell Trump and RFK Jr. it exports an amazing alternative to Tylenol called paracetamol and use that as leverage in tariff negotiations.

a big hamburger

Douglas Ross says he was physically assaulted by a government minister after raising a point of order about seagulls. 10/10 story, no notes www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

The road to this happening has taken years and I genuinely found it very odd listening to the end of the debate today thinking “this is just going to… happen now?”

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

Today I learned.....

The thing is, not just is this not true (of current Reform intenders or especially their 2024 vote), but it's actually somewhat unusual in British politics to be the most popular party and have a support base as deviant from the median voter.

Labour MP Sharon Hodgson’s office targeted in suspected arson attack

Clyde Tombaugh lived long enough to be called by the team developing what became NASA New Horizons asking for his permission to visit Pluto Also he could have heard the Macarena on the radio

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

A final little bit from me in today's edition: the south London flagger who told the BBC he was one of many “hardworking business people” hanging British flags -- and his £98,000 false injury claim When I called him, he gave this gem of a quote

Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.

22-27 July 2025, the OAE Center China Nanjing and other Chinese research and science popularisation institutions organised an astronomy teacher training in Beijing and the grasslands of Inner Mongolia with more than 120 participants from all across China 🔭 #astroedu astro4edu.org/news/pq769I0/

The proceedings of the second edition of the Astronomy for Education in the Francophone countries conference organised by the OAE Node France that took place from 9 to 11 November 2023 have been published. They are available as a printed book and as a free PDF online at hal.science/hal-05195898v1

"Twitter is not Britain" still applies but now means something different

Big question of era: why have Mam and Dad gone proper fash? The reasons why we assume 'extreme material' just affects bairns are really something to unpack. "When Grandpa Turns Extremist: Digital Immigrants, Radicalisation and the German Reich Citizens Movement" gnet-research.org/2025/03/31/w...

I do sometimes wonder if maybe Ed Miliband wished to be the most popular and effective person in Labour on a cursed monkey's paw.

HOPE not hate can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/e...

Morons sabotage weather stations in County Durham

I know we’re all desensitized to this shit by now, but do you ever think about how insane it is that a large portion of this country recreationally takes horse dewormer for no reason other than ideology?

Pakistani Brits significantly outperform the average in school performance and are much more likely to go to university. So yes just racism from someone else whose mind has been destroyed by twitter.

Slightly diminish a band Ionised Milk Hotel

Incredible case in court today

Mirza Khan, 103, is among the last few living veterans of the WW2 Burma campaign, which will be commemorated on VJ Day 80th anniversary this Friday www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These are massive shifts. Recency bias and bad news bias can lead us to think everything is getting worse. But many things are getting better!

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

It's notable how little conservative there is about the current Conservative Party. The fixing the church roof type of moderate Tory has long since left to join the LibDems and what's left is a fringe of radical weirdos who want to burn everything to the ground.

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

When you name your company without consulting any Scots

Obviously I am old enough to remember this rumour, and am delighted to learn (next post) how it came about.

When your company name hints at feats that your equipment would struggle to achieve

Looks like the evacuation in Hawai`i was early enough to get people out of danger. Hopefully there's no idiots who go to the beach to watch the tsunami like in 2011

Betelgeuse is a double! Fun to learn something new about a familiar star.

July is of course the month when Central Scotland and Northern Ireland really give off those community of common worship vibes

Travis, make sure when you send your theory to physics professors that you write it in green ink. That way they will know it's important.

2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?

Small climate change indicator: Brechin City vs Falkirk has a cooling break due to high temperatures

With the release of DR19 of @sdssurveys.bsky.social we published a suite of tutorials to help astronomers use the data. I’d like to highlight two tutorials that are a little different and are targeted at introductory astronomy undergrad classes. 1/4

Also, check out his amazing video visualising the @milkywaymapper.bsky.social survey on our YouTube Channel, by Szabolcs Mészáros of the MWM Survey Calibration working group: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5w2...

🔭LVM is a robotic SDSS facility at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert mapping the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies✨ Get an eye on LVM with our image gallery: www.sdss.org/science/imag...

We have a data release! Check out sdss.org/dr19 for all the data that just became publicly available with our 19th data release #DR19

Almost all of these people are children or pensioners! The Tories are just hopeless now, perhaps it's best they're replaced by Reform UK after all. They've moved to the right of Farage anyway.

Today is a big day for us: it's DATA RELEASE DAY!!! And to celebrate our nineteenth data release, we have not one, but two papers for you to read all about our data: we have a DR19 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.07093) and an SDSS-V Overview paper (arxiv.org/abs/2507.06989) #DR19

RAS Syndrome in football www.footballtriviagroup.co.uk/rac-clubs/

You can't do demographic sweet spot politics when you're not in a demographic sweet spot, and the consequences of that are a harrowing realisation a lot of people in politics are hiding from.

"America Party" sounds like it should have been the 4th single off a 1983 album by KC and the Sunshine Band. It charted at no. 17 in Finland

Here's the original reporting source on the deaths of Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva (who played for FC Penafiel) in a car accident in Spain. The report speculates their car suffered a blown tyre. efe.com/deportes/202...