I welcome the expansion of the world-leading London Cancer Hub, which will further cement London as a global leader in health and innovation and create meaningful jobs and investment for Londoners.

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Hmmm. Is it possible that my Mac can’t see a USB stick properly through a hub connection?

But sure, let’s go to the dance.

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...

Well, yeah.

*pinches bridge of nose* I do not think this would be a good idea.

Thinking of putting Linux on an old MacBook Air from 2010. Mint? Budgie? Best how-to?

“Inspired by the project everyone knew was bonkers which has collapsed” is a heck of a pitch.

Today in “but how could we possibly have anticipated?”

‘It’s every conservationist’s dream to help save a whole species – and that’s exactly what we’ve done.’

Plus Russia is heading into recession.

Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt

Gosh. www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/1...

Yes. In fact I have so far written two books about it, which you should immediately buy! (bsky.app/profile/nick...)

“Cuanf“ is actually quite pleasing to say out loud. You can even double it as a salutation or a goodbye. “Cuanf cuanf, Pete, give my love to your family.” “Thanks, Tori, good doing business with you. Cuanf cuanf!” I would like to propose this addition to the lexicon.

Afternoon

Fascinating: Regulators in Europe deem illegal how many content creation companies define success www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Sad. Can't stay at existing building society. Now must go out into the world and find a bank which is not toxic. This seems like a tough brief tbf.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

This is all of us right now.

This cheered me up

Today I am prepared to concede that the world is all kinds of fucked up and optimism is somewhat hard to find.

From today’s Russian papers: “You don’t have to be an economist to forecast a recession: Russia’s export revenue is falling, budget revenues are falling, taxes rising, consumer demand shrinking…” Another paper: “Oil & gas revenues fall…rise in bread prices.” #ReadingRussia

*adds to list of things to resist*

It never used to be possible to attribute individual weather events to climate change and map their full consequences. Thanks to the work of two pioneering climate scientists, it is now

David Cameron had a go, way back when: 'a belief in freedom, tolerance of others, accepting personal and social responsibility, respecting and upholding the rule of law' Not sure what's distinctively British about them though. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Starmer's version is outlined here: 'Rules that protect those in need…Respect for difference, under the same flag…The freedom to live and let live…' Again, no real clue what makes them British. Both sets pretty light, Starmer's has flags. labour.org.uk/updates/stor...

this is vicious and correct www.economist.com/britain/2026...

That‘s the spirit.

Interesting write up of the prototype @heat-geek.bsky.social NanoStore - a combined heat exchanger and 60l hot water store. It’s still early days, but when this finally works, it will offer a route for space critical heat pump installations, with the heat pump ~ working like a combi boiler.

Morning Bluesky.

Art from a contemporary promotion for "THE LOST WORLD" (1925). #kaiju #Sizesky #fantasy #silentmovie #dinosaur #movieposter

You should never let your TBR pile fully deplete before buying more books. That’s like waiting until your kitchen is empty to go to the supermarket. - Michael

8️⃣ "Subjective probability estimates based on expert opinions are useful & indicate a substantial probability of an #AMOC collapse, particularly under high future warming scenarios." Expert assessments suggest a substantial probability of collapse if warming continues. Action now can reduce risk.

Also morally wrong.

This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party. www.sup.org/books/histor...

I slightly love this. Although, canonically, we know almost nothing about Smiley’s origins. His introduction in Call for the Dead stipulates that he’s impossible to place in terms of social class - I think that’s all we get about his background. Though I suspect it implies quite a lot.

This is unbelievable. By which I don’t mean that I don’t believe it, just that I think it’s beyond the scope of what should be considered doable.

This is a really important conversation about government conveying material facts to the public. #mustread

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

You want to know what a poor decision by a PM is?

Companies either weather climate risk now or pay for it later reut.rs/4qVrV4p

Morning xx

No. No, he is not.

A lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

#amwriting Here's a thing: I say from time to time in interviews about writing into the Smiley universe that my father preferred not to use overtly Latin-derived words. That's rather a fine line... 1/n