When Farage finally reappears in public, don't forget to ask him about the £5mn quid bung he took.

Absolutely…. #BookSky

I and many others have mentioned hundreds of times that the MAHA movement is not based on the scientific method. It is based on grabbing single, poorly-conducted papers that support their opinions and ignoring the rest of the literature.

NEW ETHICS RESOURCE 📚. Positionality reporting in research varies widely, and rarely grapples with how marginalised, privileged, hidden, or apparent identities create different complexities. This paper examines what that actually looks like in practice. tinyurl.com/4p75ts7a #Scicomms #Positionality

Keiko Minami (Japanese, 1911-2004). Small Girl With Bird (1955, etching).

Children in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan were found to be exposed to more climate hazards than anywhere else in the world. The Sahel region has more than 4 million children facing the triple threat of heatwaves, extreme heat, and sand and dust storms www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Suspected human-to-human sexual transmission of dermatophilosis uk.style.yahoo.com/suspected-hu...

Heron from quite a while ago now.

Musicmaker by Jan le Pair - Pencils on paper, 60x80 cm.

My Microsoft 365 subscription expires on July 11. After that, no more Microsoft for me! I'll be using Libre Office, VLC Media Player and GIMP for watching video and editing images, Duck Duck Go and Firefox for web searches, Proton for email and Ubuntu for my operating system. Freedom!

Aaaaaaand there it is…

We live in the stupidest timeline.

France became the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away unsold food. Lawmakers passed the Loi Garot, which requires all grocery stores larger than 400 square meters to donate edible food to charities and food banks instead of sending it to landfills.

How to conceptualize Elon Musk being a trillionaire: The median US net worth is $192,000. Most folks are probably ok casually spending $20 on something. Elon’s equivalent to the “casual $20“ is $100 million. Elon can spend $100 million the same way the rest of us buy lunch. That’s the scale.

More Disco Less Fascism DJ Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, at the Carnival Against Fascism in Brighton city centre yesterday. The Carnival brought an estimated 4000 people to the streets to oppose a planned hate march by a right-wing group calling themselves 'Patriots'.

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

Lois Mailou Jones, American (1905-1998), Textile Design for Cretonne, 1928, watercolor on paper, 71.1 x 53.3 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

I had a long piece of cut paper so I painted Beeker in gouache.

Why would we dismiss our own knowledge like this? Why would we fall for the same patterns all over again? History cannot repeat itself, it doesn’t have agency. But people absolutely can choose the same types of trajectories and currently we collectively are doing that.

Most importantly: as a cis woman; a feminist; a historian - this will *never* be in my name. Then: an equalities body that chooses to exclude a specific group; chooses to limit human rights of one community - it is an equalities body that has already dismantled itself and any legitimacy with it.

Tip Toe is the first present-day UK show I've seen that fully voices the sense that things are getting very bad very fast. It's hard to take, but then so is the news

Saw some incredible fungi today in the woods! 😍🍄‍🟫🍄 #Mushrooms #FungiFriends 1/x

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

“Criminal damage has never been treated as terrorism within the UK justice system before and it is dangerous to treat them as the same thing. We should all be worried about what this means for other individuals taking direct action in protest of a genocide or any other issue. #palestine #activism

A society with one trillionaire and millions of people in poverty is something to be deeply ashamed of, actually

Proud to be from #Brighton. Anti-fascist demonstrators vastly outnumbered the anti-migrant thugs and prevented their march through the city. There was dancing, chanting, inflatable pool toys and even a bit of DJ'ing from Fat Boy Slim. #Resist

The press want you to believe there are violent protests in Brighton today. Counter protesters outnumbered the Fascists by many thousands. We sang, danced, and waved inflatable bananas and hearts in the name of tolerance and diversity. Fascists not welcome in Brighton.

The Carnival Against Fascism crowd on the left, vastly outnumbering the right wing on the right. Brighton brought the noise! Love and solidarity X Pic courtesy of Sussex Police

The existence of a trillionaire is a policy failure.

The world's first trillionaire received 38 Billion Dollars from the US government. But, no, we won't have enough money to pay for school lunches for your kids. Or give you healthcare. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

💥 *Brighton Carnival Against Fascism* 💥 *Saturday 13th June* 💥 Queens Road at 11:00 AM Racists plan to come to our city, calling for ‘mass deportations’. Not in our city. This is Brighton. Not here, not anywhere. anticapitalistresistance.org/events/carni...

“I wonder whether Elon Musk would be able to point out Belfast on a map – or similarly, Nigel Farage and others who have been whipping this up. They all need to butt out of Belfast.” www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

An interesting paper on the withdrawn newborn Hep B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

ALERTA! ALERTA! BRIGHTON ANTIFASCISTA! Saturday!

THIS IS BRIGHTON... BRIGHTON IS ANTI FASCIST CARNIVAL AGAINST FASCISM THIS SATURDAY 13 JUNE 2026 11 AM QUEENS RD

Visited a sacred site today

Tomorrow, anti-immigration thugs will march on #Brighton. Come along to the Carnival Against Fascism to demonstrate how unwelcome they are in our beautiful city. #Resist

Lucy Doane (U.S., 1908 – 2010). Sea Winds (mixed media on board).

Elon #Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #ofcom is worse than useless, it is actively dangerous to the UK

Congratulations to Elon musk who is now rich enough to end world hunger over 165 times and still stay a billionaire but choses not to.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Monet painting Water Lilies

“Healthcare data should be protected by organisations that reflect the stated values of the NHS. These values include care, transparency, accountability and respect for human rights." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/get-...

New - Toolkit for research capacity strengthening in fragile and shock-prone settings Practical guidance for designing, implementing and sustaining your own program, based on the ReBUILD experience buff.ly/mTmM3ni @lstmnews.bsky.social

“It is 40 degrees Celsius right now in the city and boiling hot to step outside and even by wearing this full-length chador, we do not have safety because even hijab-wearing girls are being arrested. It is straight hell for us” www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-a...

There’s a reason they’re targeting libraries. They don’t want you educated. They don’t want you to have a nuanced view of history. Or to read novels that will give you empathy. Or to know about inspiring women, Black or LGBTQ people. They want you intellectually small and easy to manipulate.