Authoritarian targetting of minorities neither depends on, nor flows from, "ease of doing it". US has no federal ID cards and gov't is abducting people and sending them without due process to El Salvador. Not to mention that, if such a step IS needed, an authoritarian gov't will just introduce them.

By 2050, the UK is predicted to be short an estimated 4-5 billion litres of water a day. Clearly, Thames Water's desalination plant hasn't proven an efficient way of making us water secure. But which approaches might work? 🧵 1/10 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Facebook memories from 6 years ago. Plus ça change... @sturdyalex.bsky.social

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I miss worrying about things that were never going to happen

Thames Water customers can enjoy the warm glow of knowing a chunk of their enormous bills is going to fund a desalination plant used only 5 times in a decade and a half

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

Unintentional comedy from latest Live Trump Aneurysm... Points to Erdoğan - who has ruled Turkey for 23 years, is accused of rigging every recent election, in April jailed his main political opponent, then jailed the lawyers 😂 who filed an appeal - and says: "He knows about rigged elections." 👀

Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

“Even for Donald Trump, this was not normal. It was not normal for the UN General Assembly. It was not usual for any world leader, elected or not – dictators usually take decades to lose contact with reality in the way Trump appeared to have done today.”

Here is the real problem involving this administration and autistic kids: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump's UN speech was his most embarrassing showing since the "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL" one

I'm so sorry for my US pals, you must be dying of shame.

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A lovely essay by RJ Andrews on lucidity vs luminosity in information design: www.chartography.net/p/clarity-un...

This is well worth a listen on Emily Davison and the effectiveness of radical protest. She was a brave and committed militant suffragette who survived rounds of torture by force feeding, but is best known for stepping in front of the king's horse at the Derby.

Aerial fox , rooftop dweller . Shared by @GemmaConte1 for today's #FoxOfTheDay

The Refugees, 1931 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka #womensart

UK artist Helen Musselwhite combines hand cutting, folding and scoring paper and card to create her artworks, which are often inspired by nature #WomensArt #Autumn

At last something we can all agree on 👏

I’m only surprised this headline didn’t finish with ‘and why this is all good for Nigel Farage’

It's that (tiresome) time of year again the National Trust comes under attack, as voting gets underway for the 2025 AGM. If you're a NT member, have you voted yet? Here's the link ⤵️ www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

LONELY WATER (1973): Legendary child-frightener, and one of the most influential and effective PIFs ever made. Donald Pleasence's voice helped lower the number of child deaths by drowning and opened the door to the scary, deadly PIFs of the 70s & 80s. A folk horror film condensed into 90 seconds.

This!

Trump canceled an annual government survey on how many Americans struggle to get enough food. The data has been collected every year since mid-'90s, and is widely used by federal, state, local policymakers to make funding decisions for food-aid programs, & to evaluate how well those programs work

"The anti war president"

I’m so sick of seeing people talk about Antifa like it’s an organization or ideology. It’s much simpler than that. Antifa means you think fascists are cunts and oppose them. This is not a controversial position to take and yet… Anyways, I am antifa and you can be, too. Welcome to the party!

Don’t ever tell me cats aren’t emotionally intelligent. Yesterday I was having a really bad day and my two boys came right upstairs and dunked their tails in my coffee then threw up on the cleanest part of the carpet so take that cat haters

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.

'food scarcity, poor crop yields and rising prices, with some hard-hit regions already experiencing tensions and migration' River basins, breadbaskets of the world - hit hard by climate change, sand mining + dams blocking replenishing sediment. share.google/H0AKSWKmBQNl...

Road runoff will pass through vortex separators, a series of filters, wetlands + bioswales - the aim: to stop lead, chromium + PAHs from the highway permeating a chalk aquifer. Imagine the boost to wildlife if work like this were rolled out across the country. 🧵 1/ share.google/fw1bWR70pWML...

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Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

"Take back control" dude genuflects to foreign politician

Ok, fascist

The Two Ronnies (18th September 1976). "Four candles ... handles for forks."

Starting a conversation with “how are you” is wild like whoa that is a third margarita question these days my friend

Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Sep. 18, 2025 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2030 www.britannica.com/quiz/tightrope

#NationalFoxDay Fox by Ian Hamilton Finlay

Competition for most British sign on the Trump March won handily by: “Don’t give him the good biscuits!”

September 17 marks four years since the Taliban banned secondary education for girls in Afghanistan. It is a devastating anniversary that should make everyone angry – furious even. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

🚨 POLICE TOOK OUR TRUMP & EPSTEIN VAN They're obviously terrified of THIS photo of Donald with the world’s most notorious paedophile making headlines while Trump visits the King. So whatever you do - DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO Location: Windsor High Street, UK #trump #epstein

#TrumpNotWelcome #BanTrumpNow