WOW. Whole of UK: 371 million tonnes a year Just this one oil field: 250 million tonnes. Decision expected soon. All eyes on this Labour government 👀 #StopRosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social (Hat tip @esmestallard.bsky.social for the article: www.bbc.com/news/article...)

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Found this essay really interesting - on how the demand for US radiologists is rising, despite it being an obvious candidate for AI automation. It looks like AI might be labour-enhancing, not -replacing. And there might be a bit of Jevons Paradox at work (AI may be increasing the demand for scans)

You could tie this, and Farage's long standing admiration for Putin, and his work for RT, and Tice's comments about Ukraine negotiating territory away, into a strong narrative of treachery for these people. If you were good at comms that is. However...

If this isn't the splashing headline in papers for the next few days, you know the media is in their pockets too

Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records and the data was eventually secured, but nobody wants to take responsibility for the security lapse.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Billionaires fund the #classwar. Their political puppets manufacture a #racewar. Communities get divided. Billionaires take control and strip out public services. Citizens are left poorer, but have been conditioned to blame minorities. Can you see where #Farage and #ReformParty fit into this?

I would encourage non Indians (and also my compatriots) to read about Zombie firms in the country. Modi is all bluster about ease of doing business but setting up one is ridiculously hard and needs a lot of bribes, but closing a company is next to fucking impossible.

Cognitive disadvantage!? Offloading thinking to stupid LLMs that live on your face (AND IN YOUR FACE! ALL THE TIME!) will only serve to create generations of idiots that cannot think for themselves.

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Your fridge doesn't need to connect to the Internet, IT. IS. A. FRIDGE.

Boycott large screens!!!

Flock of hyenas the whole lot

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

He doesn't want to be doing this for the UK, he wanted to be shadow POTUS in DC. But he's persona non grata there now so like a virus he's looking for a new host to infect

the worlds largest global recipient of govt handouts is on a global tour trying to overthrow elected govts

Is it fair to call the Unite The Kingdom march far right? 🎥 @joemulhall.bsky.social, HOPE not Hate's Director of Research spoke to the BBC on why it's important to monitor who is at the event and what is being said.

According to experts on fascism one of the best defences that a country has against fascism is a strong trade union movement. Trade unions unite all workers and fight for better for all of us. Join a union ✊

Three uk newspapers have front pages claiming the trans ideology markings on the bullet!! So irresponsible! No lessons learnt!

This would be funny if it wasn't for the tragic state of journalism

Astounding justification by the BBC. I need to better understand the underlying systemic causes of this embrace of radical popular shifts where they move rightwards but receive the total opposite response if to the left.

This is a bad idea.

Thinking about gig workers in DC right now. The situation has put some clarity towards my long-held feelings: If I were aware of a business model which relies on putting its workers in precarious positions, I would not contribute to that business model's demand.

TBH - Court is siding with the rich, and also protecting our Indian culture. If people get access to scientific data easily, how will we be able to promote our Indian culture and all the historical benefits of non-scientific and religion driven solutions. /s but on a serious note 1/2

More "game changing" glass bricks! Yay! 😑

How has the Times managed to frame a story showing Labour adopting the Times’ law commission’s own recommendations as critical of Labour!! Labour is doing what we want!! Must be bad!! “Thousands of criminals to avoid prison to tackle overcrowding” www.thetimes.com/article/bf2f...

"Pixel 10 is a game changer" - sorry, which game are we playing here? The game has remained unchanged for a long while now, and somehow a new colour is exciting. Really strange seeing everyone getting way too excited about more AI in another shiny new glass brick.

Apparently it is so much energy that Hurricane Erin is projected to burn through more energy on its own than all the hurricanes of the entire 2013 season *combined*.

“Pushing your business to exploit social crises of which it was a significant driver by deploying dangerously tractable and addictive products with few consistent guardrails is wildly cynical, misguided, pernicious, and depressing. It’s also, unfortunately, extremely normal.”

Linux Mint ftw!!! (Also fk hp for not letting change the boot order in bios)

And given Microsoft's penchant for wrapping an old OS in new clothes and rolling it out as something brand new, I won't be surprised if this memory access is still part of Win11.

Oh Microsoft, why are you so stupid?

Car-free and car-lite places = more freedom for kids, yes, but also more freedom for parents!

1. I've said exactly this for quite some time. Expanding on Adrian's @sillyputty78.bsky.social point on X / Twitter here, Covid-19 has three distinct characteristics as a disease that enables it to be denied at a societal level.

Incredible pic from Paul Gillis this morning. If you want to show someone what Bristol is like, show them this, with the caveat that people out and about at the time in Knowle and Brislington went about their morning business without giving it a second look.

This framing of a disastrous recurrence of measles (entirely preventable) as an opportunity for investment is the ghoulishly disgusting capitalist attitude - and I hate it!

On #capitalism.

Why people continue to use Instagram is beyond me! Honestly the app is designed to treat users and content creators like shit, and now this.

The police are raiding bookshops and taking stuff of the shelves, and the whole Indian publishing industry is silent? It feels pretty eerie. Maybe they're discussing it on Twitter, I don't know, I deleted my accounts, can't deal with that place. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

This is incredible! Not that I have much hope something will come out of it. Most people will shrug this off with apathy. I wish people took this seriously.

We're not the weird ones, mate.

📹NEW VIDEO -- Israel killed Palestinians with AI robots, now everyone wants them Ousman Noor is one of the world's leading voices on the dangers of AI killer robots. He spoke with Declassified about how they're being battle tested in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0n_...

The only "art of the deal" skill that Trump has ever had was this: gain leverage and then use it to blackmail. He has always been a bully and a petty mobster. He'll blackmail universities into segregation and use tariffs to blackmail other countries. And he will continue until forced not to.

It will be a key piece of car use enabling infrastructure I presume for several decades. These are decades over which car use in the centre of cities needs to decrease. #sustainability

Eww.. kids should be playing outside, not glued to screens. Tech trying to solve problems created by Tech is weird.

Interesting new paper on the challenge increasing numbers of SUVs pose to climate efforts. “The current trend runs the risk of undoing climate achievements and solidifying unsustainable mobility habits unless there is a structural change in both urban design and consumer norms.”

I mean, it's kinda obvious this cannot continue to be just a Summer thing. Hope someone is advising @mayorhelengodwin.bsky.social to make this a permanent fixture. It's also one of the steps to reclaim our streets from cars, and hand them back to people.

You know the "Under-16s travel free" is working when you see non-peak hour afternoon buses being full - mostly by groups of teens, and some of them randomly getting on and off at bus stops and generally wandering the city being independent. Reminds me of my own bus adventures growing up.