Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?" Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country" Labour have gone utterly bonkers

“You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sadnesses can meet, and therefore both of us need to feel less sad.” HBD, Mark Rothko ...

What do we want? Musk to face consequences? When do we want it? Right after we’ve provided material support to Musk!

It's not just justice. It's also preventive action. bolsonaro is 70. our president is only nine years older. if we had convicted trump for jan 6, it is hard to imagine any of this happening

they are so long

The depths of evil www.bbc.com/news/article...

With Melvyn Bragg retiring, @tomwhyman.bsky.social introduced me to the best episode of In Our Time where Bragg just kicks off at the guest historian for --reasons--. (Skip to 14:40 if you don't have the patience to listen to the whole thing.) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Yet more evidence of the damage that the chronic lack of post-2020 ambition for UK high speed rail is having on transport inequality: platform edge doors were a key accessibility opportunity that HS2 offered by operating a uniform fleet. Now they've been abandoned.

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to one another, render true and perfect justice in your gates.” Zechariah 8:16

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Years ago there was video of Tommy Robinson in Italy physically attacking a black African man who had gone there as a refugee, and now he is doing this. Someone yesterday asked “why is Farage so successful” and the answer no one seemed to want to give was “a lot of people are very, very racist”

Ibrahim Noufal, brother of Al Jazeera staffer Mohammed Noufal who was killed in a deliberate Israeli strike on a journalists’ tent, hands out handmade bracelets to children amid ongoing attacks and forced starvation in Gaza.

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

2. Bing Brunton and John Tuthill use this example and others to argue that neuroscientists will need to develop embodied models of brains if they hope to understand how animals actually work. /end

1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that. What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward. (D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)

Volunteers map 10,000 routes in Great Britain to help make walking accessible

Manifest destiny and “heil hitler” on official government accounts. Absolutely fucked.

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

Christ these are daily war crimes and the EU won’t do a thing about it.

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

In a new essay, David W. Brown writes about a nine-month search-and-rescue mission for a mutt named Scrim. “I hope he can find a sense of belonging in New Orleans. In searching for him, I certainly did,” Brown writes.

Me to my friend’s cat: lol. it’s almost like you like the box better than the toy! haha! that is so funny. what the heck. Cat: If you loved a joke as much as the laugh, the sun as much as its warmth, your lover as much as their love, you too would love the box as much as the toy, two-legs.

Leaked footage from the Associated Press, shows United States security contractors, firing on unarmed Palestinians at food collection stations in Gaza. But they want you to believe, Palestine Action Group, Bob Vylan and Kneecap are the problem

This Palestinian boy is comforting his younger siblings after they were injured in an Israeli attack that targeted a displacement shelter in Gaza City.

As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’ Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.

Reckon I could confuse Sam Coates by saying I've got his nose. youtu.be/7fej5XgfBYQ

On Monday 9th June at 5pm, you could hear both me and Dr Grace Spence Green talk about writing disability in fact and fiction. Event at LSHTM, Keppel Street, London - all welcome.

Thrilled to be one Waterstones Junes Best Books List! Out on Thursday! www.waterstones.com/blog/the-wat...

due to israel’s morally unjustifiable actions we are suspending trade talks [5 seconds later] here’s our minister for beastiality enjoying a behind-the-scenes tour of all the latest UK-made genocide kit

Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

www.turkiyetoday.com/region/gaza-... [The declaration] called for “decolonization across the land, an end to the ethno-supremacist order, and the replacement of Zionism with a dispensation founded on equal human rights for Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others.”

The Mail should be careful messing with reporting about injured Liverpool fans. The Sun still doesn't sell in that city 36 years after Hillsborough.

The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in the next 48 hours if more aid doesn't reach them www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

can't believe thermodynamics won again

Mouser

Very happy to see my PhD work published and featured as the cover of MBoC. Thanks to Jasmine, Manasi, Giulia and of course Guillaume @gcharras.bsky.social and Alan @quantumjot.bsky.social for all the support! doi.org/10.1091/mbc....

Can you just ... not, Global and TfL? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

an old college friend, now a history professor at the university of arizona, wrote this. she's cis but even back in the early 2000s she got it without needing anything explained to her. i came out to her and she *didn't miss a beat* welcoming me to the lesbian sisterhood.

This is against scientific evidence and, in a more general sense, a twelve meter-tall pile of horseshit. I do hope everyone in the scientific community and outside raise up their voices against this. That is the bare minimum.

Gaza's Health Ministry says 602,000 children in Gaza are at risk of “permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities” due to Israel’s prevention of polio vaccines in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/afxnsl

The deliberate execution in cold blood of unarmed medical workers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Happy to share the latest work from the lab @crick.ac.uk. Outstanding work from Di Chen and Tony Fearns showing the link between Mtb membrane damage, calcium leakage and ATG8/LC3 lipidation in macrophages. Congratulations Di and Tony! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...