Like almost everyone else, I thought this was a spoof - but no

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

No, you're listening to a bluegrass version of Mad World...

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Rather fabulously the Ceefax subtitles are out of sync #totp

Tom Morello leads the crowd in ‘Killing in the Name’ at First Ave 🎸🎶 🎥: @chrisrstrib.bsky.social

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

HT @brianbutterfield.bsky.social

British-US printmaker Clare Leighton, Snow Shovellers, NewYork, 1929 #WomensArt

Edward Norton "I'm sitting here talking about Movies while an illegal army is being mounted against U.S. Citizens"

Crowd is massive, now overflowing Congress Plaza and taking up a block-long stretch of Michigan Avenue. Reminder: this event was only announced yesterday.

I never usually buy the usual arguments about the BBC but the 6 music bulletin this morning gave most of its time to Kristi Noem and more or less in passing mentioned that video evidence showed the bloke to have been unarmed. It was really something.

genuinely stunning image

PLEASE GOD.

My cat is having his morning nap and is hiding his eyes with his paw.

BBC News reports that Netanyahu is joining Trumps 'board of peace' They could have mentioned that Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes that include using starvation as a method of war, directing attacks against civilians, & extermination as a crime against humanity. But they didnt

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

BREAKING: The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, just delivered the strongest rebuke of Donald Trump we’ve seen yet regarding Greenland. Wow.

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

In case you're grumpy...and unaware...the Harry Hill Podcast with Stewart Lee this week is an absolute hoot.

@icegov.bsky.social When I watch the footage and read what you do to people, murdering innocent civilians, kidnapping them, terrorising communities, I feel the same sickness I felt watching 9/11 unfold. You are not protecting anyone. You are terrorists. You are the danger. Trump is a dictator.

I remember nothing before Top of the Pops. My first ever memory was watching Super Trouper on #totp Thanks to the internet I know this was November 1980. I was almost 22 months old.

I think the wait for the new Grand Theft Auto is as long as we were waiting for this episode of #totp Broken Wings is GTA VC.

Waiting for #totp

When this episode of TOTP aired I was pregnant with my eldest, he was born a few months later. The song on the radio in the delivery room the moment he was born was Phats & Small Turn Around. I clearly remember thinking fuck no, do not turn around.

BBC Radio 6 Music Huw Stephens Now Playing Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Into My Arms

Not the one would go with personally but good to hear. I am more likely to answer with British Airways Flight 5390.

You wouldn’t let someone this confused drive a car, let alone operate heavy machinery.

@robertdallasgray.com Oh my I just noticed the gig news! Something to look forward to!

I just saw an advert for a job that said "AI interview based on your resume". Why would anyone want to work for a company lacking the human in human resources?

Politie in vuurgevecht in Utrecht! 🥰

What the fuck BBC.

ICE/CBP just shot two people in Portland.

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

This is just murder.

This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

Finally I've seen some snow fall this winter. Albeit briefly. 3/10 CM3 5 #uksnow

No notes perfect "Show this to someone who's just woken up from a coma since 1995 and try to convince them it's not satire" headline

Crisp walk by Fenn Creek today.

I dunno, the things you do to try to stop people calling you a paedophile…

Is it definitely not Sunday today?

Pinch punch.

I am seeing in the new year the same way I always do, working on my website so all those festively newly engaged people can find me.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

THIS IS SO FUCKEN PUNK IT RULES