i could really go for some absolute power right about now. i could do so much good with absolute power it wouldn’t affect me negatively at all

The Lovers

buying shares in a company that sells little canadian flag patches for americans to stitch onto their backpacks

At #PMQs Keir Starmer was asked about South East Water after repeated water supply failures. He said: "The environment secretary met company bosses last week to stress the need for accountability" This is the response of somebody on their side, not ours.

He's sorry so he gets away with it?

One reason I am gloomy about Britain’s ability to rise to this geopolitical moment is the sheer parochialism and unseriousness of much of its media. The Times, which used to be a serious paper, does not have a single comment piece today on the gravest international crisis in 80 years

Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people 🟢Grn - 20.5% 🔴Lab - 20.3% ⚫Ref - 20.1% 🔵Con - 15.5% baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners

Drop it like it's... on Mars 🤟 European engineers are testing our four-legged #ExoMars landing platform by dropping it onto simulated martian surfaces. 📽️ @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social, @airbus.com, ALTEC Space youtu.be/V3uEDeAjQ6w

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Beavers are back in London 🦫 Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

I'm pro death penalty but only for this particular kind of person

this is about to transform into a Decepticon called Lavatron or something, you can't fool me

And finally

goblins

Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood

NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre. The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle. The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"

"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent." Some thoughts on student loans www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

We're so excited to share the results of the ALMA large program ARKS that studied the distribution of dust and gas in a sample of 24 exoKuiper belts. With @lucaroundtheworld.bsky.social, Meredith Hughes and a large collaboration, we just published 10 papers presenting our first results arkslp.org

Inspired by @toasty.cx saying modern design is ass, a reupload of my lil design banger thread from twitter alt text contains model onfo where I have it!

UK home secretary here. If you were reading this without prior knowledge of the UK political system, you'd have no idea which of the three principal parties vying for power she belonged to.

Me pitching a train ad campaign

Damn Severence really was about being in britain

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

one of the reasons the current Labour party leadership - who are COMPLETELY INCAPABLE of enacting any form of policy despite having the biggest majority in decades - are so embarrassing is that they're student politicians. they literally just wanted to get elected they didn't realist there was a job

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Gandalf's "a wizard is never late, nor is he early" and Kesha's "Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in" are essentially the same sentiment

For Penguin Awareness Day, a Typology of Pingu expressions. Source: instagram.com/p/CKa390dD4TC/ Part of a 40th anniversary exhibition in Japan the other year.

"I'm a woman" ad spot to help fix company

Today's struggle for weird centrist British War Dads I see

John Green is going to be fucking furious

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Godspeed, buddy

I'm reminded again of my friend Lexi's superb piece in the spinoff in the wake of a pandemic era worldcon nominally held in Wellington. The tendency for those from afar to project fantasies onto this blank space that is in fact real place with give or take 800 years of human history is a real one.

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

this is a Larger Pacific Striped Octopus and no joke they are EXTREMELY interesting, because they're one of the only social octopuses. they even pair-bond!

might just throw out all the pact of night modifiers on my next Hades II run because I'm absolutely sick of getting bodied by Prometheus then almost but not quite beating Typhon.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

The lineup is looking trashtacular so far 🦝✨ Only a few days left until launch!! (please send me strength)

[In development] Blake’s 7 reboot 🚀 "Emmy-nominated The Last of Us director Peter Hoar has launched a production outfit and is working on a reboot of cult British sci-fi classic Blake’s 7." We'll see if it really happens, but I'm interested.

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I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”

what have they seen