It’s a matter of risk management. The tear gas will be annoying but eye damage could be permanent. See:

Another example of the absolute mess Privatisation has made to the UK railways. Poor service, massively overpriced tickets and unpleasant jobsworths. The sooner the railways, rolling stocks and tracks are re-Nationalised (along with he water, electricity and gas), the better.

X-tinction - the life and death of the Twitter phenomenon.... And why it was finally time to leave. Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/10/07/t...

The highest electricity prices in the world, the highest train fares in Europe and rivers full of sewage. It's almost as if privatisation was fundamentally flawed.

An FOI seen by QueerAF shows the anti-trans organisation included in a consultation that led to RSE guidance that will introduce what has been widely described as a 'Section 28 2.0' https://www.wearequeeraf.com/section-28-2-0-rse-consultation-featured-four-explicitly-anti-trans-groups-foi-reveals

A deeply pathetic non-statement from the Royal Society. All so they don't get on the wrong side of a drug addled, lying, grifting, racist Nazi billionaire. What the hell is even the point of you, if this is the best you can muster?

I wrote this open letter to my fellow science journalists, but it could very easily be adapted to address @jay.bsky.team and the rest of the bsky team galileospendulum.org/2025/06/05/o...

1/ This speech made by Farage in September 2014, after Russia's first invasion of Ukraine, is a stream of Russian propaganda lies that could have come from Lavrov's mouth.

One of the things I take great pleasure in is that JK published her detective series under a false name because she was insecure about the idea that her literary work would stand on its own merits. And it didn't. They leaked her name to recoup their losses. I hope that haunts her every day.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

Weird some scicomm accounts gave the new “Tylenol in pregnancy & autism” review some weight. They don’t know the lead author, Baccarelli, had the exact claims thrown out of federal court for having ZERO scientific merit, when he was a paid “expert witness” in lawsuits against Tylenol makers. 1/

Deeply unlikeable, unsettling weird and laughably cringeworthy tech-bro billionaire thinks his chatbot ( which has been taught on the stolen knowledge of our entire civilisation) is too "woke".

Are we vaccinating under 2s more than a generation (30 years) ago? We used fewer vaccines, protecting against 8 infectious diseases. These complex vaccines, containing over 3000 antigens, were good, but there was room for improvement. 1/8

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

This is incredible news! We'll have to wait for confirmation as there hasn't been any paper released yet, but finding a viable treatment for a disease that has always been viewed as a death sentence is a fantastic medical breakthough!

The Farage playbook (it's not complicated): -Lie about a populist talking point. -Pretend to be jovial -When asked any moderately probing question: Get angry/ threaten/ say it's a "stupid" question/call questioner "disgusting" or insinuate they have a nefarious purpose/Lie about having no opinion.

Has anyone asked RFK jnr what a mitochondria is? Because I'm pretty sure he has absolutely no clue.

I like this. I really like this. It exposes the rank hypocrisy of these ‘patriots’. Kudos to whoever wrote it via @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Allowing the fascists to rename anti-Fascism an mispronounce it as "Antifa" was a mistake. It allows them to build a layer of misunderstanding between what anti-fascism: literally being against Fascists and Fascist ideology, and to pretend it's some sort of organised group.

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America is just gonna pretend Charlie Kirk wasn't a divisive bigoted piece of shit? And are deifying him over every other person murdered in the US? Quote his actual words? Lose your job. Call to mass murder homeless people? All fine. US just skipping merrily towards totalitarianism and fascism.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

This is a thoughtful, persuasive piece that needs to be widely read. In the current scenario we need more people speaking out like this, illuminating rather than generating more heat.

Two old men ride in a gold carriage across the old British man's front lawn, while hundreds of soldiers in silly hats play two anthems on repeat All to make the old American man feel special. Later, the British man's pedo brother will meet the pedo American &maybe talk about their dead pedo friend

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

I'm grateful to our brave officers who put themselves on the line to keep Londoners safe this weekend. The violence towards our officers and the racism we saw has no place in our city. The far-right wants to divide us. They will never succeed.

Fantastic day at @lshtm.bsky.social 's Health Misinformation: Unpacked! Look out for the LSHTM Viral podcast episode with highlights from today, dropping in the next week or so!

Why is is so hard for people to say these words?: Lough Neagh, the UK's biggest lake, is being killed by *livestock farms*.

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

Even if Elon's pee pee hadn't apparently been made unusable after one of his many, many gender affirming procedures, he would still be one of the most unfuckable men on the planet. Such a dry pee pee. So dry.

My clear desk policy... Byte Magazine, April 1977.

This piece is a worthy read. Thank you, @espiers.bsky.social. I appreciate honest obituaries. "I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Deeply disturbed by the extent that my aging father has been radicalised by YouTube, pumping far-right garbage into his feed. Only realised when he started repeating a bunch of far right dog whistles and then discovered it's been sending him Tommy Robinson videos.

Free speech is only important to Republicans when they agree with the speech. Fucking assholes.

Apparently grown MEN are now becoming young GIRLS to have an unfair advantage in non-competitive cricket. Bloody trans women de-aging themselves & hiding the greatest medical breakthrough in history just so they can beat teen girls at cricket. So glad the UK media has brought this to our attention

@rokhanna.bsky.social best to sit down and not embarrass yourself by talking absolute drivel about a dangerous transphobe like Graham Linehan. Everything you're saying about him is demonstrable bullshit.

This is one of my favorites

Despite calls for killing the PM, they’re treated better and with more deference than someone calling for an end to a Genocide

1,777 words v 343 words - How the Telegraph covered trans women in cricket v a rapist in swimming in today's edition

Some more of that 'leftist violence'

"There were 890 people arrested at a demonstration against the ban on the group Palestine Action in London on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police say." This protest last weekend was peaceful. At a violent protest this weekend... news.sky.com/story/politi...

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... Wonderful place London

Anyone thinking of buying a Tesla or still using Twitter- Be aware what Musk is doing in every country he can: causing division, stocking the far right and engaging in antisemitic, racist, homophobic and transphobic rhetoric. He is a danger to the world. Don't buy a badly made car from him.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...