Headline writers: "let's cram in as much gammon-bait as we can". Yes, it was a crime and yes, he's guilty. But do we have to feed the prejudices of the worst people all the time? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Epic indeed

1/3 If you've read about the University of Sussex penalising Kathleen Stock for speaking out about biological sex, and being fined for it, this was disinformation. Now that the High Court has decided please read this corrective: www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

"Leaders in the sector say the sheer pace of the AI race leaves little room for climate considerations right now" Yep, couldn't have said it better myself. They'll burn everything down if it means satisfying their anxiety-driven panic-build www.axios.com/2026/04/30/d...

Oh no a huge number of professional scientists are copy-pasting fabricated information into their work, how can we possibly figure out how to stop this www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A little cave lion carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago! 🦁 Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is one of the world’s oldest known works of figurative art. Excavated 1930s, from the Vogelherd Cave, Germany. 📷 me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Italy rugby doing an adopt a fan promo for the next women's 6 nations game in Rome www.onrugby.it/2026/05/01/i...

Fossil free futures www.carbonbrief.org/santa-marta-...

One day I would like to see May 1 restored as a workers' day in the UK. La Fete du Travail. Workers' rights are not an impediment. This should not be a party specific issue

May we all soar through May. 🖼️ Soaring, Andrew Wyeth, 1950.

Daughter wants to go up in a hot air ballon (as well as try ultra light flying of some kind). Gulp.

Now would be a good time to review investment in forms of agriculture that need less mineral fertiliser and globalised supply chains, e.g., agroecology, local food systems, based on diversity, healthy crops, and protecting the soil www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vile.

White privilege is having the most deranged fantasies of inflicting violence on those less fortunate & less white than you treated as the musings of an overactive far right imagination rather than a reason to be hauled in front of the counter terrorism police .

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Muslims don't deserve to be randomly killed because of Hamas actions. Jews don't deserve to be randomly killed because of Israeli govt actions. And the extent to which their communities speak out doesn’t justify violence against them. It's disturbing that I'm having to repeatedly explain that.

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Low standard of driving/lack of enforcement in Derby u/date: tonight, at congested major junction I pause at green light bcs I could not cross junction due to traffic. As one should. What does most e/one else do (white vans, audis, tosslas...)? Beep, scream, drive around, and block junction worse 1/

The value of labour & life that Britons stole from enslaved Africans in Barbados is staggering. But it’s important to undermine the anti-reparations myth that this astronomical sum is being ‘claimed back’. Reparative justice isn’t a bill; it’s an agreed new deal. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Viking-age gaming board (replica), from Ballinderry, Ireland. For the Viking war game ‘Hnefatafl’, the object of which is to drive the King piece into one of the corners. This replica at Roskilde Viking Ship Museum, Denmark. Original at National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. 📷 by me #Archaeology

June 2027 will see a new SPS agreement between the EU and UK. Not as good as still being a member of course … but a real help to horticultural / flower businesses. www.instagram.com/reel/DXtmlkV...

If you want to piss me off, it's easy: just breezily assert that our tech regulation problems are the result of the fast pace of technological change racing ahead of the plodding speed of governmental action: pluralistic.net/2026/04/22/u... 1/

Perhaps the ex-footballer is particularly susceptible to this kind of radicalisation, spending ... their adult life in a kind of gilded cage, living by the hard uncomplicated certainties of performance and self-optimisation, before retiring and being forced to stare irrelevance squarely in the face.

We've decided we have too much money, so THIS SATURDAY (2nd May) you can visit for just FIVE QUID and kids go free! 🤩🤩. We're even laying on music, craft stalls, refreshments and that. Oh! Oh! And there's going to be a bouncy castle!! What's not to love??! 😍🏰

Life imitating art again. Nice to see Lee Anderson doing exactly as my imagination tells him... www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/731...

6pm Today! Over on You of the Tube!

What a STUNNING quote: “I just think the American market is ahead of us [and] the same thing is going to happen here....it just will take a bit longer and it will be a bit harder because more people will be saying, ‘hang on a minute, we don’t want to be burning greenhouse gasses"

“The Iran War was lost because Trump and Miller and Hegseth simply couldn’t believe that White people wouldn’t be triumphant. That notion was truly incredible to them.”

Jazzy....

The MET, never not at it. Not sure the rot can be cut out. When will real action be taken to at least try? Northamptonshire police shamefully playing the compliant lacky's. Stories like this should concern us all.

I basically agree with this. When I hear of colleagues in the environmental NGO world doing scenario planning exercises for how to engage with a Reform government, it makes my head spin. If Reform gets in, we are all - everyone in civil society, almost irrespective of the issue - utterly f***ed

Imagine when the Met is paired up with Palantir.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

WADNR's plan is deadly madness. As are @usfs.bsky.social @calfire.bsky.social BLM, Caltrans, Interior Dept & @sierrapacific.bsky.social's mass contamination of California's waters, forests, & public lands with Monsanto / Bayer's malignant Roundup (glyphosate): serial killer of soil, plants, & us.

Did u know?The female Red Mason bees are emerging.Their scientific name is Osmia bicornis,"bicornis" meaning 2 horns.There are 2 protrusions on the front of her face which she uses to bat down her nesting material - masticated mud, sealing her nest from predators & weather extremes. Gorgeous 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝

Titanic hits Zuckerberg www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hero washing hundreds of murdered schoolgirls. Media can't resist the glamour of 'embedding' www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

🚨 Is this the future for the A38? Aerial images of the A47 works in Norfolk show the scale of destruction: trees and habitats lost, rising emissions, and years of disruption for residents.

Farage - Epstein - Russia: part of the brogues gallery on the far right

Australia is #7 in the world in terms of number of new data centres, between Canada and Japan - Green Web foundation's amazing new 'state of the fossil free internet' report is out now: fossilfree.greenweb.org/2026/

With signature, you say? Nah, lemme chuck it over the 200cm garden gate. Sure there's nowt fragile inside

Not enough being done on forced labour

The rare Derbyshire elongated sun cat in its native habitat

Agreed

Man of the rich pricks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The High Court has just confirmed what many of us knew. The Office for Students fine of the University of Sussex for supposed ‘free speech’ infringements was a biased piece of right wing culture war politics and had nothing whatsoever to do with free speech. Sussex vindicated and the OfS exposed.

Tired of soaring supermarket bills? 🛒 The PM is planning a bold new law to match EU trading rules, slashing border red tape to finally bring food prices down. Let’s show him the public has his back! Sign here: 38d.gs/9sc0

I'm horrified and appalled at today's antisemitic stabbing attack in north London which continues the trend of rapidly escalating violence and terrorism against British Jews. British and diaspora Jews should not be held responsible for the actions of the Israeli government. I discussed on ILTV.

A really good read and character

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'free' #BookQW #BookSky Livak's at liberty to do whatever she wishes - once she can decide on her most profitable course of action. This is secondary world epic fantasy not from the point of view of some chosen one or long-lost royal heir. Livak works for herself.