Dutch province of Groningen hit by 3.4 Richter scale earthquake - the third biggest in its history. Earthquakes linked to local natural gas extraction, which ended in 2024. dutchreview.com/news/groning...

Witchcraft sceptics! My article in "@forteantimes presents Witches & Witchcraft" , on sale now.

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The American left is arming itself theintercept.com/2025/11/01/l...

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

How to tame to populists - lessons from the Netherlands eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/th...

Last chance to respond to Department of Trade & Industry consultation on late and disputed payments. Closes 23 October. www.gov.uk/government/c...

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

"Strange blue bird" appearing in Texas is first known hybrid between blue jays and green jays, the two species' long-standing geographical isolation from each other having ended due to climate change. thedebrief.org/strange-blue...

Citizen's Arrest Network @citizensarrestnet.bsky.social surround and "detain" Mark Thurston, CEO of @anglianwater.bsky.social on the platform of Coulsdon South station, South London for almost an hour. www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...

#Spycops - the Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, starting with three days of opening statements online only. Tune in on the UCPI youtube channel and get rolling coverage of all the developments as they happen by following @tombfowler and searching #spycops on socials.

With the full knowledge of her #spycops managers HN26 released mink from Crow Hill Farm in Ringwood, Hampshire on the night of 8th August 1998 (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

Peter Skelton recognises that the #spycops failed to follow their own internal policies let alone the national standards. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

Neil Sheldon is now reading out "The Home Office Guidelines on the Work of a Special Branch in Great Britain (1994)" at length. Reminds me of that kid from school asked to do a presentation who just starts reading aloud from the book the class is studying instead. #spycops ...

Harvest of tiny purple carrots!

Saturday 18 Oct, 6.30pm: The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk. FT regular Matt Salusbury investigates Suffolk's wildmen in an online event. Please email [email protected] and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...

The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook - naturalist Sir Richard Owen collected newspaper cuttings on sea serpent sightings over many years - one of the oldest cryptozoological cuttings libraries. My article from @forteantimes.bsky.social - mattsalusbury.blogspot.com/2025/10/scep...

NUJ responds to removal of journalists from @UKLabour Party Conference. "It’s a journalist’s job to hold power to account, and in a functioning democracy, elected reps must be transparent and open to challenge." #pressfreedom

The NUJ has issued notice to ballot members for industrial action at The Mirror and Reach's Scottish titles in a dispute over job losses, workloads, and artificial intelligence. The NUJ has asked members to vote ‘yes’ to both strike action and action short of strike. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum talk - Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo... @discoverdunwich.bsky.social

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription. It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

Faux fossil sauropod bones and a pterosaur, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday

Initial analysis of geological sample collected by Perseverance Mars rover is "best evidence yet" for existence of earlier life on Mars. Tiny spots in the sample are suggestive of iron-rich minerals that are often the product of reactions caused by microbes. gizmodo.com/perseverance...

"The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook" - my illustrated article on probably one of the first cryptozoological clippings libraries, kept by Sir Richard Owen, a Natural History Museum co-founder who coined the term "dinosaur". In this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social (FT 462. October 2025).

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries. These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

The man who has put up the most England flags in Manchester was caught in 2016 trying to smuggle 4 Vietnamese people into the UK. Now he is out of prison hanging up flags. Any old grift.

Fragments of Jurassic oyster 🦪 shells in Portland Stone(?) in the facade of the Mashall Building at the LSE @lseblogs.bsky.social - my current place of work. #FossilFriday @pavementgeology.bsky.social

“ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

Student newspaper The Stanford Daily is suing Trump Administration's for its targeted deportation of student journalists based on their reporting, in a First Amendment suit. theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Surge in cancellations of Refirm events in Norfolk eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/a-s...

Flowering artichoke in the front garden!

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

EFL teachers at Malvern House London, members of @TeflUnion, have submitted a formal request for Union recognition and are balloting for strike action over re-instatement of a teacher, for abolition of zero-hour contracts, for paid admin and prep time. teflworkersunion.org/malvern-hous...

Fossil sponge which I found among gravel on a path at Kenwood House. Thanks to @timholtwilson.bsky.social for identification. #FossilFriday

Megalania (giant Australian Pleistocene monitor lizard) 🦎, life size reconstruction, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday

After many years of trying I have finally managed to grow artichokes.

Places are still available for this event (free but book via Eventbrite as numbers are limited). A great chance to do some wildlife recording south of the border…

Handy "genuine mammoth 🦣 fossils" dispenser, choice of tusk or bone fragments for £1, with "choking hazard" warning. The Needles, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday

"Right of substitution” clauses inserted in delivery riders’ contracts - to deny them workers' rights by making them “self-employed” - are exploited by criminal gangs fuelling a market in swapping, hiring or selling riders’ app accounts to illegal debt-slaves. www.sadrabbit.media/p/britains-g...

Petrified wood, Alexander Pope's Grotto #FossilFriday

Ammonite, Alexander Pope's Grotto, Twickenham #FossilFriday

Fossil oyster 🦪 shell, Alexander Pope's Grotto, Twickenham #FossilFriday