Long shot, but are there any observational radio astronomers out there (preferably someone who specializes in spectral line studies of comets/Solar System bodies) I could chat to about the latest 3I/ATLAS observations here? #astronomy #3iatlas #journorequest www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17473

This reminds me of the early days of the internet when there was the US Christian Reviews of films website (what was it called??). And out of all films that got zero, not horror, not porno, no it was South Park: The Movie 😂

Oh good I was worried some hungry people might get some food

Just finished watching "Breaking Rank; Inside Israel's War". It should be available on ITV Player if you want to catch it. Awful but vitally important watch. Astounding hearing directly from perpetrators. Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I'm sorry to be a hipster about it but I left the Labour Party in 1999 because of their position on asylum seekers (we didn't have the term "migrants" in the olden days). I didn't trust them on immigration before it was fashionable.

Such sad news to hear that Geoffrey Bindman KC has passed away. One of the architects of UK equality and human rights law, he was an inspirational figure - as well as being kind & extremely good company. www.bindmans.com/news-insight...

Drives me mad that people talk about Danish immigration policy as a *political* success without bothering to look at the polls.

Mosques set on fire, shot at with air guns, and smashed with paving slabs. Just the latest examples of the real world consequences of the political mainstreaming of racism www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Viktor Orban has; Systematically undermined the judiciary Changed the electoral system to ensure he is always in power Undermined the free press Pardoned a paedophile Used public money to fund organisations backing his ideology Created the template for autocrats to take over democracies

It’s ironic, because Lammy was brought up by a single mum in Tottenham, and won a scholarship due to his talents. Whereas Cummings grew up on his family estate and went to private school. Where would he be without that leg up?

We are recruiting a few different new roles @Moreincommon_ UK, if you're interested in any of them and think you'd enjoy our work do take a look. www.moreincommon.org.uk/about-us/jobs/

From 2027, all pregnancy-related care, including #abortions in the first 12 weeks, will become fully free of charge in Switzerland. The Swiss Parliament has adopted a historic reform that removes insurance deductibles and co-payments for all care throughout pregnancy.

RFK proving yet again that he's not a doctor.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

“Facial recognition is unlike any other form of surveillance. It enables automated and ubiquitous monitoring of an entire population, and it is nearly impossible to avoid. If we don’t stop it, it will be used not to keep us safe, but to control and oppress us.”

This is even being upstaged by the journalist who wrote it.

We can't be cutting social security anymore, people are barely coping. It should be seen as much as a human rights issue as access to justice. www.bigissue.com/opinion/jp-m...

once again struck by the way the left always has to moderate itself in left wing areas in case it puts off moderates elsewhere and the right just... never thinks about that? at all?? and no one calls them on it???

The exportation of MAGA to the UK is horrifying. But the crypto part of it will be hilarious.

Fascinated to learn that this quotation refers to Baldwin’s own hatred of his dying father (Notes of a Native Son, 1955, p 101).

We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.

New report details the harm caused by EHRC interim guidance

why did this take two fucking days though? did the Prime Minister have his notifications switched off? was he stuck in the bath? why, exactly, is this obviously true thing something that apparently needs running past the boss anyway? what is *wrong* with their comms operation?

Eartha sums up how I feel about “compromise”

So the Renters Rights Bill has finally passed. S21 evictions will soon be no more. A few reflections on the long road to get to this point 🧵

Nice piece here on how LLMs don't exactly reflect their training set in what they produce but amplify the most prominent parts of it, filtering out the variety: www.ian-leslie.com/p/why-are-ll...

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Please, for the love of god, look at how much the ADF are investing in the UK.

As it seems to be the fashion to import US politics to the UK, I wait with anticipation for "No Kings" to come here too 😀

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

This machine kills fascists.

Trans people have been warning this would happen for well over a decade, as a consequence of the US extreme right's funding of "gender-critical" transphobia in the UK.

This is a crucial point And why the ‘stay on X/Twitter so you don’t cede the public square’ is such a nonsense argument It isn’t Hyde Park, it’s a billionaire controlled algorithm *designed* to spread far right ideologies

Jonathan Sumption over egging the "grotesque" approach of the Strasbourg court, and playing down the consequences of leaving the ECHR. When UK Govts did commit rights abuses in NI, it was only international obligations under the ECHR that acted as a brake: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

fuck off with this shit you racist cunts. i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language. abolish the home office.

"The tax system gets worse and worse over time." @danneidle.bsky.social makes the case for big-picture tax reform.

I recommend zooming in on the picture and looking at it left to right. It's the fact that everyone looks cool until you get to Diane and then everyone looks less cool

RIP Diane Keaton My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool. She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out. What a unique talent & human being.

Sigh. The reason why authoritarian regimes put on global sporting and cultural events is to give them a licence to operate. It detoxifies them, creates ambassadors, and white-washes their human rights abuses. The articles justifying doing a comedy event "because Saudi is changing", IS WHY THEY DO IT

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from). Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

Caollfhionn Gallagher KC reflects on the legacy of her friend Conor Gearty, who recently passed away... He “won every debating competition in sight... Debate breaks down certainty, forcing you to enter the mind of the holder of an opposing point of view.”

Given that we are following the US-Trump playbook here in the UK, I wanna know how many judges/lawyers are picking out their indictment wardrobe. Because James' look is 🔥 * Yes I use humour to make political points.

Usually just Edinburgh tbh

Comedians who will do a gig for Amnesty International and then in their same lifetime comedy-wash Saudi Arabia are contemptible. Of course I'm not surprised by some, others I am utterly disgusted by. I'm not angry, I'm disappointed. Fuck that, I'm angry and disappointed alongside Saudi women.

I'd like to agree with this and do with 50% but "it's (ECHR) part of the problem".. "Article 3 and Article 8" reform is necessary, is absolutely not correct. It does not diagnose the issue, which I'll try to do....

OMG young people are being taught the bare fucking essentials for them to hold down a job in the UK! Shock! Horror! Have we fallen down the Trump rabbit hole so much? This is preparing young people for being normal humans in the workplace and should not be headline news