This, completely.

The UK news space is dominated by by blatant enablers of authoritarian delusionists (including the BBC), while the government does its best to toady to the same, to whom no rational appeal can be made. The Starmer government may well go down as the final nail in the coffin of UK democracy and reason

Little man, the country that the rest of the world sees “going to hell” is the USA, and that entirely as the result of the mind-buggering stupidity, greed, corruption and bigotry of you, your fellow apparatchiks of authoritarian idiocracy and of the delusional fools who voted for you.

Climate change is a con job, Trump announces to world leaders. Then criticises Obama for flying in a 747 to play golf. Not enough use is made of the stage hook by the UN, in my opinion.

Has anyone seen the speech DJ Trump to the UN? He is suffering from senility for sure, likely has dementia!! 🇺🇸Is in deep💩⤵️🕳️‼️ @maddow.msnbc.com ,👍🏽,it's up to the🇺🇸👥to save ourselves&perhaps🇺🇸(I hope)‼️In front of the🌍,🗣️'…climate change is a hoax…ruining the🇪🇺economy…;I have a saying"drill baby drill"'😟😓

Brexit Britain pays the bill so Donald Trump can lord it over us. 🇬🇧 UK exporters: $1.36bn in tariffs in just 4 months under Trump deal. 🇪🇺 France & Spain: less under the EU. 💷 🇬🇧 farmers/manufacturers foot the bill while elites roll out red carpet. Had we rejoined Europe, we’d be so much better off.

This is amazing.

True then, true now

I need a considerably bigger desk…

Same here. Voted labour my whole life, so has my family. Now I’m almost certainly voting green at the next election and so is my entire family. We know neighbours and friends doing the same. People look at labour and they see liars in suits, it breeds apathy, fascism excels under apathy.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

This from the Tories wouldn’t have surprised me: after all, a meth-crazed scorpion will pretty much behave as you’d expect. I’d didn’t have particularly high hopes of the Labour government, but I’d expected better than this authoritarian, sycophantic appeasement of corrupt fascism. Starmer has to go

‘Onanocracy’ - brilliant @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I wish I’d thought of that one! 🤣

86 years ago today.

The UK government is seeking to establish sovereignty in key areas of technology, including AI - there’s even a current UKRI grant call for it. Yet, at the same time, they’re handing our public data to politicised foreign operators (Palantir, Google, Microsoft) and doing tech ‘deals’ 1/2

The BBC, Sky, ITV etc (and even LBC) are in full dribbling sycophancy mode for the Dayglo Fuckwit. There must be a reckoning for this egregious enabling of corrupt fascism. At least The Guardian is covering the protests and Channel 4 will kick off its “100 Porkies by Trump” broadcast at 10pm.

Windsor Castle right now waiting for Trump’s arrival 🤣

France appears to be trying to solve its financial deficit by having Nantes-Atlantique airport confiscate everything it can from outgoing travellers. To whit: 1. My iPad stylus ('lost' after they insisted on dismantling my entire luggage into its constituent parts; 1/3

The BBC and Sky are unwatchable for news now, so it looks as though C4 is stepping up to the mark.

Nicely played 😂

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

A scammer is selling subdivided plots in our area, on a flood plain (we call it ‘Loch occasional’) in a conservation area. When people then roll up and expect to build on them, it then just ends up damaging the local environment and in the inevitable court case apple.news/AqDzrGsd4SdS...

“We will continue to shoot ourselves in the foot until things get better”. Despite stiff recent competition, the most incompetent and self-destructive government of my lifetime. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ooh. Interesting, much. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For this bloody idiot, and their fellow travellers: Apple explicitly aligns itself with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance and is a member of RMI, even if it doesn’t state RMAP compliance. By going after the responsible companies, you give the actual offenders a free pass to continue. #nocongonophine

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.” — Douglas Adams

Timely reminder, to shut out the bigots, haters and delusions from every aspect of civilised life. If you’re a National Trust member, VOTE to keep the bastards out. #nationaltrust

Post-eclipse full moon… #eclipse #bloodmoon #astrophotography

Just a glimpse of tonight’s lunar eclipse - very hazy in central Brittany, so we could only see it once totality had passed… #eclipse #bloodmoon

I just had my first experience of the ISA (Euronanny) speed limiter in a French hire car. TL:DR; it’s actively dangerous, and could only have been designed and mandated by people with zero knowledge, understanding or care about driving, road safety or how to improve driving standards.

Today’s insight into the deplorable state of political discourse in Xenophobia UK. Well, mostly England… mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...

This one almost predates the Internet!

When we moved to the Scottish Highlands, it was partly in anticipation of accelerating climate change. The risk we knowingly took 20 years ago was that, although the long term trend is milder and wetter, if & when the AMOC collapses, we’re suddenly an arctic ecosystem. So we’ll keep the log burner…

“Vladimir Putin is in trouble. Isolated, outmanoeuvred, and stalled on the battlefield, Russia is tottering financially and militarily, while Zelensky's Ukraine continues to hold the upper hand.” ⁦‪A good piece from ⁦‪@EngelsbergIdeas‬⁩ Engelsberg ideas.com/essays/russias-reckoning-is-coming/

🧪 Any medical student learns early on that more of a good thing doesn't always help more. AI ventures need to learn this the hard way. Good thing that VC folks don't read scientific papers, otherwise I don't see how the AI companies' valuations could survive these findings. arxiv.org/html/2507.19...

Day 4 of all the upstairs sink & shower drains being blocked. Have fruitlessly tried four different sets of chemicals, so probably now in breach of at least one Geneva Convention. The Keith Moon School of Drain clearance beckons…

Aug 26, 1965 - “Climatic Change appears to be underway” – the commencement speech that should have rocked the world Carl Borgmann at University of Tennessee; "CO2... traps heat from the sun, and climatic change results – not overnight, but slowly and surely” allouryesterdays.info/2025/08/25/c...

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

How many cinemas provide free marmalade sandwiches for audience participation when watching a Paddington movie? 😍 #BalquhidderHall #paddington

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

It’s clear that Tesla has basically given up in the UK: lack of response to service requests; inability to provide parts requested; failure to provide correct part numbers for block exemption; empty showrooms and then calling the customer a liar when mistakes are pointed out to them. Death spiral?

Led By Donkeys are in court in Janyuary, after hanging a banner on scaffolding across the road from Labour HQ Free speech is being silenced in the UK

Fascinated by the backward tail of Comet 3I/ATLAS. Due apparently to higher sublimation on the sunward side. I’d love though to think it to be a deceleration burn… spaceweather.com

Andy’s figures look plausible, and the scientific &technical illiteracy/innumeracy of the UK government has been demonstrated so often that it’s painful to keep commenting on…

I tried, I really did. “Told you so” doesn’t even begin to cut it.

He did. It’s like watching an elderly mobster with dementia, who should be being guided to his armchair in the nursing home, where he can continue to play out his fantasises of power and influence in his head, however small that space is.

He torches Globes and swears a lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oktr...

Summer in Scotland always demonstrates a pretty toxic mix of riding and driving idiocy. But this year is excelling itself - on a 90km round trip to Stirling today, I saw five incidents of dangerous behaviour. Including this… #roadsafety #riding #bloodyGSrider