Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

I can’t compete with this

These stained glass windows in Gloucester cathedral byThomas Denny are some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

"JOHN BOWER had nyne Sones and seauen Daughters by his Wife ANN BOWER" Really John? Are you sure Ann didn't do most of the work there?

Ended up in a surprising new favourite weird place: the Folk Museum in Gloucester...

hulk speak for many

The GA 2026 Photographic Competition is now open for entries Submit up to three photographs on any geological theme for the chance to win a cash prize: 🥇£150 🥈£100 🥉£50 Closing date: Friday 28 August 2026 Full details on our website: geologistsassociation.org.uk/photocomp_en...

Hope to see Vance campaigning for Farage next, that guy has a Midas-like ability to turn things to shit

Really looking forward to JD Vance campaigning for Netanyahu later this year.

Orbán concedes, Tisza gains a supermajority, Hungarian oligarchs lose procurements and market shares, AND it materially hurts right-wing fascists around the world, esp the Heritage Foundation, who’ve been using Orbán’s playbook as a guide. Congratulations and thank you, people of Hungary.

"I'll just watch the latest episode of #ForAllMankind before friends arrive" turned out to be a mistake...

Behold - somehow, I muster inspiration to play an awkward, nerdy person who works alone in a dark room! Really great fun to get to play along with Riley, Tom et al in their delightful improv world. Please also make sure to check out the many episodes I'm not in.

Finding it difficult to focus today for some reason...

Ok, Stargate SG-1 S7 ep 17&18 "Heroes" hit me a lot harder than expected. Not just the loss of my favourite character, but everyone else's reaction was deeply moving.

We are so, so small. #Artemis

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

I love this for them.

For a guy who's not into politics, there sure are a lot of politics right here...

Off to the Louvre.

First time in Paris for 18 years. Mostly amazed at how the city has been transformed from car-centric. I *knew* it had changed but it's still surprising

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

“Life is like a HURRICANE here in Duckburg. Race cars, lasers, aero planes! It’s a DUCK BLUR!” Tourism Board Director: …. Steve, I’m genuinely curious, how did you imagine this pitch going over?

Saw 14yo perform in a theatre for the first time and was blown away by how charismatic and natural he was on stage.

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Never pressed a button so quickly

Two days left of the school term

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Knight Rider in 8 cellos youtu.be/eYf595EJAc4?...

And so we reach SG-1 season 5 episode 3 'Ascension'. *Of course* an ethereal alien would choose to become corporeal because he loves Carter WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT IT FIRST. And then mope around whilst she's at work...

The world is adding 1 GW of solar every HALF DAY. In 2004, that same 1 GW took a whole YEAR. That’s exponential S-curve disruption. Next up: 🔋 Storage explodes 🚗 EVs accelerate 🛢️ Fossil demand gets squeezed Sales tell you what’s happening. Capacity tells you what wins.

UK authors - I urge you to read this article about a school in Manchester who removed hundreds of our books from their library they deemed ‘inappropriate’ and share. This is appalling censorship - and it’s coming from the school’s head and SLT themselves. @indexoncensorship.org

Thought I was off to a local convention tomorrow having bought the tickets a year ago. Except I didn't buy the tickets... I suspect my mind was pretty occupied a year ago.

Surprised to find myself (currently) in first place on Galactic Cruise. Probably the most complex game I've played in a while. Starting to make sense now though.

Fun Mothership RPG session at Airecon despite one player's desire to remove all of the fun.

lol any way 💅

First game of Airecon: Fate of the Fellowship. Surprising win (albeit on easy mode) when both Rivendell and Helms Deep were both overrun by orcs.

Serious schadenfreude at seeing Buzzfeed's collapse after sacking writers and falling for the AI snake oil.

This is rather lovely and somehow relaxing - an interactive map of lighthouses of the northern seas lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app#3/48/-30

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/

Great to see the first Science Girl new physics video in three years (long COVID): youtu.be/B3m3AMRlYfc?...

Doing the school assemblies for science week. Trying to promote STEM whilst also addressing International Women's Day and highlight unfamiliar careers. In about 12 minutes of speaking...

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

I know there is a lot of pushback against doing this but parenting a child with PDA is very tiring. Constantly filtering everything I say and how I say it to try to prevent a meltdown.

It's been a long week. Please enjoy this synthwave remix of the Airwolf theme. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNna...

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Eldest is zeroing in on chemical engineering for uni. Top ten apparently: 1) Cambridge 2) Oxford 3) Imperial 4) Bath 5) UCL 6) Birmingham 7) Leeds 8) Edinburgh 9) Nottingham 10) Strathclyde Manchester only 13th surprisingly? www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-table...

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to