Amazing views of the Artemis II launch filmed from NASA's WB-57 high altitude aircraft 🔭🧪 #Artemis Full duration on YouTube: youtu.be/pa-dMk2VnUg

'Taz and Emma said they had heard Nigel Farage’s name but didn’t know much about him.' What a blissful existence! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for the EU to end its Association Agreement with Israel.

I am UNWELL!!!!!! These pictures are SO AMAZINGGGGGG A few of my favorites of the images NASA released from yesterday's Artemis II lunar flyby. The crescent Earth? The solar eclipse?!? The details on the Moon?!?!? perfection

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...

New laboratory experiments from the University of Leeds shows that thawing permafrost can become 25 to 100 times more permeable, allowing greenhouse gases to escape into the atmosphere much more easily than when frozen. www.earth.com/news/thawing...

Following from @sarahowen.org.uk earlier this week another MP having to abandon their public presence due to threats and attacks. Its not a coincidence, I suspect, that its another woman. Something is badly broken

Reform UK use a press conference at Heathrow Airport to fulminate against “net zero” policies and unveil plans to scrap Air Passenger Duty. Last year, Heathrow Airport sponsored Reform UK’s conference and handed the party £36,000.

L.A. No Kings 'Lady Liberty' ig: @that.vvitch

I'd hate to see what not caring looks like.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

New Brexit metaphor just dropped.

He cycles everywhere. He just takes a lot longer now. Because he keeps stopping to pick up rubbish. Read about one man’s daily fight against litter – and what he’s learnt ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government www.gov.uk/government/s...

Greater Manchester Police has found "no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting" in the Gorton and Denton by-election, after Reform made a complaint over alleged "family voting" The investigation looked at potential offences under the Representation of the People Act

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Is it socially valuable? No. Is it economically valuable? No. But is it fun? Also no. as.ft.com/r/4b8e2109-7...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

I've unexpectedly lost my job. It's a major bummer. This is a long shot but if anyone has any freelance gigs going, or knows of a remote/hybrid role for a content guy in the south-west/poss London, please shout! Content design | UX writing | copywriting | editing | content management | articles

As @stephenkb.bsky.social says, I really think we oughtn't to be far off from a "turn your heating off a month early" public information campaign for this very reason.

Another forgotten story of an amazing woman - now recovered in a biography by her great-niece. She qualified at Kolkata Medical College, became physician to the royal household in Nepal, & the first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Europe closes airspace to US. airlive.net/military/202...

we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

This should be put to a House of Commons vote.

I see Donald Trump has been dry humping my pension again

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Brilliant news. The Lords backed amendments to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales, end police investigations, to pardon women who had previously been prosecuted, and fought off anti-abortion amendments designed to limit choice and access. 🧵 humanists.uk/2026/03/19/l...

Disappointing move by Bookshop Org. Supporting Spotify is not supporting artists. www.thebookseller.com/news/spotify...

This is great. You can now walk around the entire coast of England - including many areas that were once off-limits. The world’s longest coastal path.

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published. I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War. Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

LEEDS! TONIGHT!

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The UK government has scrapped an 'opt-out' policy to copyright which would have favoured AI firms over creators. filmstories.co.uk/news/uk-gove...

Oooh, fascinating: an app that detects nearby smart glasses and trackers. apps.apple.com/us/app/nearb... is the iPhone version; there's also an Android one

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

“A new study has calculated that increasing trees and other vegetation in urban areas by 30% could have prevented more than 1/3rd of all global heat-related deaths between 2000 to 2019. In total, 1.16 million lives may have been saved with more greenery during this 20-year period.” Via @euronews.com

Europeans when asked to unblock the Strait of Hormuz

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This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space. "In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."

"The statement sends an interesting political signal about just how keen the UK government is to get the SPS deal done." Following the announcement of the EU legislation in scope for the UK-EU SPS deal, Joël Reland unpacks why it is important politically & for business 🔗 https://ow.ly/g7k050Yti79

NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...