Some real “I didn’t vote for him” energy here. Why don’t you step up and deal with the problem yourself rather than expecting everyone else to just put up with this shit?

Thread and a delightful story for cinema fans.

Concentrating UK research in fewer unis is, predictably, a divisive idea Birmingham VC Adam Tickell acknowledged that “everyone would hate me for saying this” but that, amid an AI-fuelled grant surge, such concentration is "going to work better because there is never going to be enough money" 🧵

So… Farage to stand down from politics thus avoiding an enquiry, until 2029 when he decides it’s time to run again?

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

My colleague booked the day off. Because that’s what you can do when you have a job.

After a week of sleeping right through the night my cat was back to waking me up for breakfast at 4.30 this morning. Presumably she’d been watching the football.

So I wasn’t watching the football myself but this is the impression I got

Very funny to hear an entire sports bar in Canada boo the mere sight of Wayne Gretzky

Funny thing about growing up in Montreal, I remember learning about the horrors of The Conquest™️ but not about how angry the American colonials were about the Quebec Act.

With perfect timing I have returned today to the UK, just as a heat wave is kicking off in Montreal. My dad has central AC, mind, so the effects will be much less horrific.

I’m sat in this airport lounge waiting for my very delayed flight to London and the man opposite me has bare feet. Of all the problems today had presented this is the most affronting.

Really classic contract dispute where the parties used ambiguity to come to an agreement. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/w...

the paper that brought you dapper Nazism has just appointed itself arbiter of The Canon is public masturbation no longer a crime?

Joyeuse fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, @effinbirds.com

Just spent two days in Montreal reminiscing about being 25 and all the great things about that city. Now back to earth with a thud.

Currently visiting my dad. What are you going to get made about in your meeting today, I asked. I don’t know, he said. 20 mins later… I just said ‘morning’ I don’t have to say ‘good morning’…

There’s a few Bluesky pundits based overseas who think that because they’re being told multiple reasons as to why Starmer failed that this is evidence of his not being a failure.

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

If you need a little bit of a mental reset, may I suggest vibing out to this polar bear having a grand old time swimming in the sun to Enya. I’m not sure who is having more fun: her chasing after random vegetables or me trying to film her. #mammals

Really interesting paper. Wearing my funder hat I’m curious as to how the actual study turned out.

No seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim

Wasn’t that the plot for the most recent season of Only Murders in the Building?

I would say the one thing that could top this is the snow removal truck.

For almost the first time in 18 months it’s fun to be waking up in the UK to check overnight US Bluesky.

I see your baby bear, goose and elk bleps and I raise you a deer blep #mammals 🌿

Nice to see Restore following the Doge playbook

What I love about this is the guy has obviously heard the phrase and thought, that’s pretty cool I’m gonna use that.

Wasn’t David Lammy just saying that the govt won’t stop posting on X because that’s where everyone gets their information?

Me now every time I photograph a sunset

Ah, the British summer! I’m on a four-car train that’s usually eight. Across the aisle there’s a man in shorts and a t-shirt. Further along, a woman is wearing her winter parka.

It’s our village fair today. Pouring rain with a temperature of 13 degrees that feels like 7. I might not be going.

Oh come on. No one should have to choose between Anne of Green Gables and the Paper Bag Princess.

MONTREAL: “A total of 12 streets are being pedestrianized this year, encouraging local businesses and bringing outdoor festivities to the heart of the city and to some residential neighnourholds.” Via @cultmtl.com Another year of continent-leading street transformations trading cars for civic life.

I have had this cold for one whole day now and frankly, I am done.

When will the private sector use their influence to defend the U.S. scientific enterprise? Industry has benefitted from public investment in science for decades. If they don't support this degradation, they need to be aggressively and visibly lobbying Congress. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Jumper” is one of those words that I use to measure just how British my thinking has become.

This is one of the weirdest things about British culture: they absolutely do judge you for putting on the heat in winter. I think the bigger question is why is UK house building still so absolutely dire and the concept of insulation still hasn’t caught on.

Trying to imagine how this would look if a Reform government tried similar in the UK. It would be chaos.

Re-upping this helpful infographic from @charlesapple.bsky.social on water safety and what drowning really looks like. (It doesn't look like the splashing and crying out seen in TV/film.)

"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Good morning Bluesky! The moon was looking pretty awesome last night at 2am. Sadly I don’t have a phot but here’s one from earlier in the evening. #astrophotography

this website is not beating the allegations

Not now, Tony Blair!

This site will select a Rothko based on the weather where you are, just choose your location. rothko.joonas.wtf

Why did place names on a map of Canada matter to geographers in London? In the 1880s, a new railroad connected eastern Canada to British Columbia. As the railway expanded, Indigenous place names were added to official maps - including this 1886 map - which became a point of contention at the RGS.

Enhanced Games WTF

Is it just me or is today’s Iran peace deal fairly similar to the one from a month ago that everyone derided and that turned out to simply be over excited reporting?

3D printer company Bambu Lab went after a small developer for using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-agpl...