It's not just the UK that can learn from these policies. #Auspol www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Behind every man, there’s a better woman helping him look good.

Defunded, not defeated: Durham Pride returns bigger than ever after Reform UK funding cut thetab.com/2026/05/29/d...

I still can’t believe this Great Blue Heron let me witness this tonight. Those wild feathers are breeding plumes, and seeing them lit softly in the evening shadows felt almost unreal.

This is authoritarianism writ large. Please make a comment - we need to come together to stop this undermining of democracy by Russell Vought and the OMB. If you have an extra few minutes, call you congresspeople.

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Science: 'Hearing bombshell: Acting director of NIH’s infectious disease institute is out' 'NIH insiders tell Science they expect Powers, an infectious disease researcher who took a position at NIAID last year as a contractor, will replace Taubenberger' www.science.org/content/arti...

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Sea Life penguins to get better home with daylight. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The tally of people with Ebola is soaring, reaching roughly 1,000 cases this week. Here are the tools that experts say could help to bring the outbreak under control. go.nature.com/3PwRP1b

Look at its little face! Nawwwwww….

Yeah….

If only there were some sort of beloved story about the perils of using a fundamentally corrupt technology created for evil ends, even if you yourself have pure motives. Ideally one which made it clear at the end that there can be no compromise with inherent evil, it must just be stamped out.

Old white beardy man says what now?

FFS…..

Nigel Farage 'phone hack' reported to police after Reform misses 24 hour deadline Labour chair Anna Turley has reported Nigel Farage's supposed Russian phone hack to police and the National Cyber Security Centre as questions mount about Reform leader's claim www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.

If you want in - or just want to support… please consider becoming a Friend of the Bylines Network… …to be part of the close community as we grow this. —> bylinesnetwork.co.uk/friends-of-b...

I don’t think most folks outside the tech policy space know how wide the gap is btw how progressives feel about AI and where most lefty foundations and philanthropists are. Funders are pouring tens of millions into “AI for good” nonsense. There is almost no funding for actual work to address harm

Can anyone please help out my friend Ms Luci? Or please share this post. This is an urgent situation and every bit counts!

Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

This is great news.

Now I’m watching Andrew Garfunkel’s version and sobbing uncontrollably

And now I’m crying tears of joy…,

The ‘Who do you think you are?’ Episode with Diane Morgan is hilarious

🚨🚨Great news: #Hungarian PM Péter #Magyar announced his government will join the #EuropeanPublicProsecutor’sOffice — a sharp break with Viktor #Orbán’s long-standing refusal to sign up and a midst a race to obtain release of EU #ruleoflaw funding. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/pete...

Hungarian police approve Budapest Pride in break from Orbán era

It’s the gateway drug for fascism - I’ve been saying it publicly since some antivaxxer mum at my kinder group meet up told me ‘Well, you’re not a mother of a child with Autism!’ And I was like YES I AM AND IT WASN’T CAUSED BY VACCINES!!!!

I’m at the ‘opening my laptop is a major tech issue stage. I open it once a month to use Xero to send my freelancer invoice, then slam it shut again.

Watching the world let this happen leaves me speechless www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

What could possibly go wrong? 🤦‍♀️

Indeed!

Absolute Units returns! Listen to our latest episode with artist and disability rights activist Anahita Harding, exploring disability in museum spaces and collections. Plus, how we can shape a future that better includes and represents people with disabilities. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

yes, it's true — unfortunately our decision makers are utterly impervious to shame...

god, he was so young

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Yup. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“My tax dollars shouldn’t support disabled people who choose not to work!” Disabled people aren’t choosing not to work. Most would work if they could. Benefits are highly scrutinized. We do not need to justify our spending to every tax payer. We deserve dignity & autonomy.

Do you ever get the feeling three of the worse Despots on the planet have all been recently told they only have 3-6 moneys to live? Putin, Nettenyhu and Orange Hitler?

Mineral Museum organized by lickability of rocks, with tasting notes (and option to buy samples) of the Do Lick list and worst case scenarios for the Do Not Lick list. The Boring But Safe list will form a neutral zone between them.

No way in hell some random ass tech company is gonna see all my dildos

You can tell a man who hasn't ever cleaned for himself decided on this because if you knew how to clean you would know what you need to do. Someone said that all modern tech is trying to do is replace tech bros mom's and it's not hard to unsee this.

Do you all remember the hantavirus outbreak on a cruiseship? Honestly, feels like months ago, given what is happening with Ebola Bundibugyo... Anyway, @who.int just put out an update. In case you've lost track, 13 cases have been reported (11 confirmed and 2 probable) and that includes 3 deaths.

why don't you watch the Monterey Bay Aquarium live jellyfish cam and maybe you'll calm down

Instead of paying taxes, or improving the lives of his employees, Bezos is literally lighting towers of money on fire.

So, Trump’s proposed budget cut the NASA *SCIENCE* that is required to get rockets off the ground, by half. Let’s play this on repeat until NASA Science gets a 15% increase from 2024 levels with commiserate inflationary increases. #BreadAndRoses

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GitHub Repo here: github.com/Binomica-Lab...

SPLICECRAFT v1.0 IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! Open your terminal and type in "pipx install splicecraft" if you want to try it out, then spam "splicecraft update" often as I push updates frequently. A labor of love for the community I adore. Enjoy! 💚