Petition for a tentacle eyeball spinoff along the lines of Quantum Leap starts here. #AlienEarth #NextLeapWillBeTheLeapHome

What we need in the middle east is a fresh pair of eyes. I'm sure they'll pick someone with no partisan history in the area to help sort things out. -takes big gulp of coffee- www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

That didn't take long. Nearly 900,000 signatures already petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Now we're going to name and shame people sentenced to community work too and publish photographs of them? Too woosy to go full Cersai walk of shame #Labour ?

“I am a Liberal, and I am against this sort of thing.” Liberal activist Harry Willcock spoke these words upon being stopped by a policeman 75 years ago. He was the last person in this country to be prosecuted for refusing to produce an identity card when demanded to do so by the authorities. 2/

We're in a cost of living crisis and Labour wants to bring in digital ID cards for everyone. They're risking turning the UK into a pre-crime state where we constantly have to prove who we are just to go about our daily lives. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And now we're proposing digital ID cards again. Gotta say, it's getting harder and harder to try and support this government. #Labour

Can you imagine how Republicans woukd be reacting if a Democrat pulled something as petty and pathetic as this?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/trump-hangs-autopen-photo-instead-of-biden-portrait-in-new-presidential-gallery

I'm sure Farage's UK doge attempts will be much more successful though. After all I'm sure all those Reform councillors have loads of relevant knowledge and experience.

I would encourage everyone in the UK to write to their MP to encourage them both to comdem Musk's comments and also remove any official accounts from Twitter/X. Make them know that we do not find his behaviour acceptable.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.

I could really do with a strong statement from the government right now condemning Musk's statements at the far-right rally today. We need to be highlighting that these views are not acceptable in democratic society.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Does anyone actually care how slim their iPhone is? You're just going to slam a case on it anyway. Feels like we're optimising for the wrong things here.

Libraries in metro stations is an awesome idea. Can we have this over here please? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I'm dumbstruck by this. It can only lead to new cars being made for the EU market using weaker US safety standards in a race to the bottom. I pray this doesn't hit the UK too.

Another Black person will be next, and another, and…

Amazed I've never heard about this before. A spoof BBC radio news broadcast from 1926. It's like Chris Morris jumped in a time machine: pca.st/episode/e47b...

I'm so far behind on Fortean Times at the moment. Have they found Bigfoot? Are ghosts real? I'm so out of touch. (no spoilers please)

I will echo this sentiment (and I didn't even write it!)

Hello! I am working on a project with the Royal Institution about the Christmas Lectures, and would love to talk to people who grew up watching them on TV, or now watch them with their own kids (or, ideally, both). Please share 🤗

@tracyking.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36604

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

There's an awful lot of people feeling betrayed by the Labour party today. Are we ever going to give taxing the rich a try?

Since we seem to be all about old fashioned masculinity again, let's not forget that that included protecting those weaker than you because it's the right thing to do, not for what you might get out of it.

1) Borrowed a Ferrari 2) Visited an art gallery 3) Lunch 4) Went to a baseball game 5) Sang in a parade

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Well, that was fun. #InsideNo9 #StageFright

Buckle up. New curse incoming.

And that's #Box2 from Theory11 and @nphstuff.bsky.social completed. Beautifully put together as was #Box1 and reasonably priced, although taxes and shipping to the UK are a bit much (I guess at least I got in before Trump introduces a puzzle tarriff!)

I feel the bar for something being a 'plan' is getting lower: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Remember to eat as many Soleros as you can today as tomorrow No-Solero-February begins. Sponsor me here www.justgiving.com/page/nolero This video explains it all www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuCR.... Well maybe not all.

This CANNOT be allowed to happen. Also: chlorine-washed chicken, GMO crops, high fructose corn syrup.

Today and in the coming days, remember

I always imagined Lynch as an alien who trained itself on blending in by watching 1950s American TV shows and then was always really impressed on what a 'normal' facade they managed to maintain having snuck down to Earth.

One of my favourite small David Lynch moments is when he tried to do one of those ceramic art cows for New York City and submitted this and was rejected.

Well that's another bugger for the week. No more Lynchian weirdness. #rabbits

Bugger. Not Tony Slattery.

Googly!

Bit late for the Christmas tree this year, maybe next time! #Guybrush #MonkeyIsland

The older I get the more I am Wonko the Sane.

What if we've had astrology the wrong way round and it's BECAUSE I met a tall dark stranger last Tuesday that Mars is now ascendent in Scorpio?

So, I guess the Smash mashed potato robots are canon in Star Wars now? #starwars #skeletoncrew #ForMashGetSmash

I see they cunningly left the door open for a second season of #WolfHall by not killing him on camera. #spoilers

Tim Burton should have stuck with the original batmobile design.

Enjoyed Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins tonight. I'm very much in the "Did you see that ludicrous display last night?" camp when it comes to football but it's not really about football. (disclaimer: it is still about a football team)

Another platform where I'm old 🙃

Just been learning about Christina the Astonishing from @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social and quite frankly if there's not a modern day magician who's nicked that name then what are you doing?