"Why did you do this to me? For what reason? What is the charge? Trading secrets? Trading succulent state secrets?"

@adamhigginbotham.bsky.social just finished 'Challenger', found it really engrossing and well-written. (What was Scobee's problem with McNair playing his sax?! Seemed weirdly petty)

Just finished reading 'Challenger' by Adam Higginbotham. Didn't expect to be drawn in, but I was; it's a real page-turner

Utterly vile - Farage not only spouting Kremlin propaganda but denigrating the memory of those who died in the fight for democracy at Maidan

UK has lost its official status as a country that has achieved elimination of measles, as vaccination rates have fallen below the 95% required to achieve herd immunity. So sad, and likely due vaccine misinformation. If you haven't already, get your kids vaccinated ASAP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Isabella Wranå won gold for curling, but should've for this video

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...

@qntm.org Another adaptation of your book just popped up in my feed: youtu.be/3v8AsTHfAG0?...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Not sure if everyone knows this but Cypress Hill and The London Symphony Orchestra made that Simpsons joke a reality a little while ago

Here’s a good informational film on fascism made during Truman’s time as president. youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?...

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Burning all this money and these resources, let AI be the funeral pyre for this order of bloated oligarch class who dared to ask “what if there was no money or time for human dignity and care or imagination but we instead canceled the future and retroactively owned everything?”

When people ask me what it was like living in Cambridge I send them this picture.

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

Beavers are back in London 🦫 Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️

The USS Picard ship plaque - photo from Kit Stølen Instagram Perhaps this was the original plan - at the series end, rename the Titan-A to the USS Picard instead of Enterprise-G TBH, I would have preferred the USS Picard

Congratulations everyone, Big Brother wasn’t imposed on you, you bought Big Brother on Prime Day and installed him yourselves.

cut to me “going live” while crying and eating a rotisserie chicken over the kitchen sink

Years ago when I was still on twitter, I had that plugin that changed Trumps tweet's font so they looked like a 5 years old scribbled them with crayon. We need this now, but to work in all of the internet.

This is a huge problem: humans are not wired to cope with this daily torrent of disgust & dismay. It's exhausting & unbalancing. It's tempting just to switch off the news. But that surrenders the political arena - & the lives of all those it affects - to the hooligans & vandals who are trashing it.

If there’s ever been a case for the UK imposing retaliatory tariffs it’s here. I will gladly pay 10% to defend democracy 🫡

no one fucking calls you the space cowboy

Last week I reported on the 35 people ICE has killed in the last year. www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-your-d... Today Washington Post reports that on January 3, ICE killed another person, by choking him to death in prison. You don’t reform this. You don’t fix this by training. You ABOLISH this fascism.

I just finished this, and really enjoyed it

I can say goodbye to Star Trek because Star Trek raised me: aftermath.site/star-trek-skyd...

Everything probably fine

MAGAs: The left is escalating the rhetoric by calling us Nazis Also MAGAs: Look at our new podium, featuring a Nazi slogan about the time Nazis wiped out an entire village in Czechoslovakia and killed up to 5000 innocent people in retaliation for one Nazi being killed. "One of ours, all of yours."

what do you mean the stranger things documentary shows them writing the script on a computer with 3 chat gpt tabs open

FAO @lawlesscomiccon.bsky.social

Happy New Years! 🥳

Someone has lifted the QuickTimeVR movie files from 1994's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual", upscaled them then built an in-browser replica of the ITM's "Tour" module. mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/ #StarTrek

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

❄️ Our ExoMars TGO spacecraft revealed water frost inside the summit crater of Mount Olympus on Mars. Before this observation, it was thought improbable for frost to exist in this area. 🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/06/Newfound_frost_atop_Olympus_Mons

My favourite of the images I made this year: HOTOL taking off. It sort a long time in my head before I got around to making it, and it turned out just as I’d hoped.

🌪️ Our ExoMars TGO spacecraft captured these images of whirlwinds of dust on the Mars surface. 🔗 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Some film noir Christmas nonsense: youtu.be/yBubU4lY2cI?...

TICKETS GO ON SALE ON THE 24TH JANUARY!!!

joining the great machine consciousness

He saw the light.

Beats: youtu.be/zRuzs8Syrf0?...