The Lib Dems have over 70 MPs but you'd think Reform does, the way journalists keep banging on about them

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

Cyn-arweinydd Llafur ar Gyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin yn ymuno â’r Gwyrddion Robert James ydy’r cynghorydd cyntaf yng Nghymru i symud o’r naill blaid i’r llall ✍️ Efan Meilir Owen

Hi! Would you like some of my lovely Christmas cards? I still have a small number of packs available and sending out a couple of times a week. You can find them here: ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad

Rosalind Franklin went to the same school - St Paul‘s in Brook Green, West London - as Cecilia Payne, who wrote the most important astrophysics PhD of the 20th century and discovered what the Universe is made of. Payne’s name is largely unknown, though she became the 1st woman professor at Harvard.

Aisling's stuff is fun and well made. Where else are you going to get stratigraphic jewellery. Check it out!

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“Reflecting on publishing demands, attending conferences, and seeking mentorships, I critique toxic cultures that not only valorize overwork but also ignore the detrimental impact it can have on physical and mental well-being.” [1/1] journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The government makes it it’s business to know that I own my car and to make me present it annually for inspection, and requires me to let them know if I sell it, it can’t be beyond the wit of man to do something similar for historical artefacts?

My unpopular thought on this is that the bling we pay million pound ransoms to land owners & metal detectorsists for... Is not worth that much money. I get that it has that exchange value, that a billionaire would buy it for that so we couldn't see it. But we, as a nation, don't get that much value

"The ethical inversion is stark, private gain: public cost." @tessmachling.bsky.social sharing another highly informed and articulate viewpoint on the current metal detecting crisis in the UK. 🏺🦣

Republicans (shrieking): STOP OPPRESSING CHRISTIANS WE ARE SO PERSECUTED WE JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO PRAY IN PUBLIC WITHOUT YOUR SCORN Also Republicans:

Cue the two hundred "nice dream, but MY family can't possibly fit in a normal car and asking me to try for the safety of other road users is the real violence" responses

In yet another addition of willful ignorance by the British tabloid press, the cyclical poppy furore. It is incredible it has to be explained to adults that there is nothing apolitical about remembering war and especially how it is used in the contemporary. www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...

Call for Papers: Sonic Cartographies: Mapping Music and Sound in Theme Parks 18–20 June 2026 Royal Holloway University of London Abstract Deadline: January 9, 2026. themeparkmusicandsound.org

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits. Due to our policies, we've done it in 9. In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

This is the BEST book promotional opportunity I’ve ever had: A PAID gig where the organisers guarantee getting the book into the hands of HUNDREDS of children. I keep telling them how grateful I am that they’re doing this for me, and in particular for this, my favourite book. Which you should read!

The Great Enshittification continues: with audible simply removing loads of books from my library that I’ve paid for. Hundreds of bucks basically picked from my pocket Fuck you, Bezos, you chrome-domed motherfucker. My last reason for using your hateful company just expired. Subscription cancelled

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

don't remember if I've mentioned this before. tell anyone you see using Google to do this. hiding "actually do what I asked" is another expression of the paternalistic techbro mindset that gives you "yes" or "not now" options for an unwanted new feature or only lets you hide something "for a while"

Following media reports? You mean by ⁦‪Byline Times? I know we cause you some grief ⁦‪BBCNews‬⁩ by criticising the role of Robbie Gibb - but credit where credit is due www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This thread is highly misleading in two ways. Firstly, historically. It does not fit with the scholarship. Secondly politically. It implies we are living in some fragile Goldilocks bubble of freedom.

Instead of framing our freedom as precarious in this way I would instead point to the historical research that shows how difficult it always was for those in power to exert control over people. And I would hence frame our political struggle as aligned with deep tendencies within human society.

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales. Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊 #Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.

"Casting [AI] errors as valuable for self-reflection without providing concrete examples of how that reflection has been beneficial does little more than create a per­mission structure for the failures of this technology." www.artforum.com/features/gen...

Like saying that LLM's hallucinate, calling the cladding off this robot 'skin' and 'muscle' is part of the con. That material is there to make it look more human. It has no actual function, the engineers weren't worried. Of course it could walk. What is the value of a robot looking 'humanoid'?

Muchos gobiernos quieren pasar página, pero la situación en Palestina requiere que mantengamos nuestra atención y presión. Por eso he escrito esto, que espero que puedan leer y difundir. Palestina, 734 días (y más) después. zonaestrategia.net/palestina-73...

Beyond the structural exclusions re: visas, childcare, and class, there's also still a great deal of in-the-room sexism that does lead to people poaching ideas without credit, pretty much unconsciously assuming that they don't need to cite a mere (fill in relevant group here).

Reform's Trumpian answer to a funding problem in my home county Lancashire - close care homes, sell to a Reform Party man! Let us be like Zhoran Mamdani and Zach Polanski and openly rebel against such corruption of our welfare state! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For the last 3 years in a row, we have recorded the lowest birth rates ever in this country. Affordability is a huge part of that. Green MP Sian Berry calls for universal childcare provision, free at the point of use, to be considered essential national infrastructure.💚💚👏👏 bsky.app/profile/sian...

It's interesting though. The article clearly says that whilst the data was shared with them, they used it without permission and then didn't credit it in their work. Stealing might not be the right word, but that's certainly underhand and all too common an experience for women in science.

The Danish social democrats saying the quiet part out loud: selling out on immigration (immigrants can’t vote) was worth it! Same here in Sweden. Reminder that there’s no such thing as “progressive on everything except immigrant rights.” (The family reunification policies are particularly noxious)

On the other hand, this is kind of their argument. 'you can't trust politicians' 'don't listen to folks saying what you want' which all leads to 'There is no alternative' The ghost of Thatcher cackles. Yes, there is an alternative, we can build it, and we can demand it. And we have to do that

It seems pretty risky to tell people they won't see the change they want if they vote Green, given that they already voted Labour and didn't see the change they wanted.

Uncanny Landscapes is always an inspiring listen. This episode is about a book I have *immediately* ordered which takes the form of a collection of (imagined) Sussex folk stories recorded by a (fictional) ethnographer using a Dictaphone he was given by J.G. Ballard. uncannylandscapes.substack.com

My slacker gardening approach vindicated at last.

Another good read for Saturday morning : https://isrf.org/blog/labours-white-paper-fails-higher-education #UKHE

Such a lovely, sweet, but definitely tinged with bitter thing to find while unpacking ye olde family Apple IIC. 2/3 people on this list are no longer with us, but we did so very much love our little 🍎.

I have used this mental glitch to rig "stakeholder sessions" with senior managers and academics.

Labour is already the most anti-immigration/anti-asylum government, in practice, there has been for decades. While people may be able to argue that Reform and Conservative would be worse, on this trajectory, with four years to go, it won't make a difference. #r4today bsky.app/profile/dani...

Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed. Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going. Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

In a world of Jeffs, be like MacKenzie.

These decorated bone slips were found during excavations at Cairn H, one of the Neolithic passage tombs at Loughcrew. They date to the 1st century AD, and they were found along with other material from the Iron Age, showing that the Neolithic tomb continued as a place of importance for millennia

Overheard, said by a mother to a small child as they came out of nursery together: "Oh no! There is MORE lava! We'll have to do a Really Big Jump!" #TinyJoys

Haven’t done a #tinyjoys in a while but the giant shiny tea pots at Chai Guys in seven dials market always spark joy

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 209 # 208 contd Bumblebee v Honeybee When searching for a specific ‘target’ #bumblebees are slower but more accurate than #honeybees which are faster/more impulsive and make more errors. Bumblebees sacrifice speed for accuracy. #bees #nature #facts

Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.