Finally! Great stuff!

Totally

Ed Davey's LibDem conference speech was pretty much everything Labour's change was meant to be

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country. They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends. We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

Shabana is giving me the strangest feeling ever... How is it possible she makes me miss Priti??

They should

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

Same amount as the proposed nuclear power plant. Sure that would over a decade but if we add the useless £20bn of CCS technology and few other big ticket items....

So let me understand: the UK will not recognise the Palestinian state if there is a ceasefire. Odd. Sad. Headscratching. And more sad.

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. 
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

The single most amazing fact about the Universe The Universe is full of amazing facts, but the most amazing fact of all is that it exists in a way such that it can be understood. Everything else, literally everything, is built atop that foundation. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics #science

Humanity’s third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, is arriving now Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is now being measured and characterized for the first time. Here's what we've learned about it so far, including comparisons to 'Oumuamua and Borisov. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro

Of course. there are NO other ways to improve public finance other than cutting benefits 🙄🙄 Raise taxes for very wealthy (could easily raise £20bn): nope Abandoning >£20bn CCS technology for fossil fuel: nope Abandoning >£40bn nuclear plant: nope Oh yes I nearly forgot: joining Common market: no

Same here when I check my electricity bills Thanks Chancellor for the tearful cost of living 😰😰😰🤣🤣🤣

Privatisation without (proper) regulation = disaster Electricity, water, transportation

Nope. The moral imperative is to provide equitable access to welfare (esp to the most in need). The how? is the challenge but then again £40+bn in unnecessary nuclear power... vs. welfare provision decision decision #Labour #starmer

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Economists and analysts at Cambridge Econometrics found that, by 2035, the UK is anticipated to have three million fewer jobs, 32% lower investment, 5% lower exports and 16% lower imports, than it would have been. The report states that the UK will be £311bn worse off by 2035 due to leaving EU. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Is the Hubble tension real? Exclusive interview with Wendy Freedman Famed astronomer Wendy Freedman thinks that the Hubble tension might not be real. This is the most in-depth interview with her, about that topic specifically, that you'll ever see. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #cosmology

Great stuff!!!! (Why am I still paying 240/Mwh?? 🤔)

Energy efficiency is the unsung hero of Europe’s industrial competitiveness. Without efficiency gains since 2000, industry would use 1/3 more energy—costing tens of billions more every year. It’s not just energy prices that matter, but how smartly we use energy.

🤡 The new deal on Gibraltar demonstrates beyond all Brexit unicorns that: Britain 🇬🇧 wallowing in brexit 🦄 sovereignty accepts EU rules in practice to preserve borderless status of Gibraltar’s economy. Spain and the EU hold the cards: geography always wins. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/brex...

Global renewable energy capacity jumped from 0.8 to 3.9 TW between 2000–2023. China led with a 1,817% increase, adding more than Africa, Europe, and North America combined. The US (+322%) and India (+604%) also saw big gains. Renewables include solar, wind, hydro, bioenergy, geothermal & marine.

Asylum hotels are foreign aid appropriate?...under Labour? What has happen #douglasalexander? When you were SoS, you wouldn't have allowed this.... #ukaid

The men who exposed the horrors of Leopold’s Congo

Hi @startswithabang.bsky.social Ethan Would be great to hear what you think of this explanation/ hypothetical beginning.

Finally!!! ... yes... this is what is needed #heatpumps

We will keep a keen eye on the possible reduction of tariffs. If all electricity to households in Scotland will come RE, then we can't blame gas prices for high tariffs anymore. Let's see.

The mystery of neutrino mass is now smaller than ever The KATRIN experiment just gave us our tightest-ever constraint on neutrino masses: 1.1 million times lighter than the electron, at least. But they can't be massless, either. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics #neutrinos #science

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Over a century on still possibly one of the best aerial shots of any City, ever. EDINBURGH (1920) 📷 by Alfred G. Buckham

BlueSky CEO Jay Graber says she’s not just building the next Twitter. Bluesky is for everyone—and it could revolutionize how people communicate online www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Was the Universe “timeless” before the Big Bang? #AskEthan Even Stephen Hawking said there was no such thing as time before the Big Bang. But his reasoning was fatally flawed. Even today, it remains a great unsolved puzzle. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #physics #astronomy #space #Hawking

More than 26,000 small-scale renewable energy systems were installed across the UK last month eibi.co.uk/news/battery...

🚨🚨Another lovely nugget from #brexitland (I posted yesterday on a similar story reported by Guardian): Ministers are trying to sell a 1,300-truck #Brexit border check facility in Kent that is set to be rendered redundant by this week’s EU trade pact. So much WINNING. 🧵 www.ft.com/content/6676...

Net migration with the EU is still negative Total policy failure to be chasing these people away

For those of you who don't understand what needs to happen to Elon Musk and the other fascist tech-bro oligarchs, I have some recommended reading for you. In fact, I can sum up the whole book in one panel:

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'The real betrayal for farmers came from Boris Johnson.' Brexit is a disaster and Keir Starmer should’ve gone further by dropping his #Brexit red lines and rejoined the CU and SM.

10 space pictures whose appearances will deceive you Not every "spiral" is a galaxy; not every spherical collection of stars is a globular cluster; not every pair of overlapping galaxies are interacting. Appearances can be deceiving, even in space. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astronomy

We staged experts panel in Westminster with vintage tractors declaring: “Ration books are coming.” Experts say 🇬🇧 food system is precarious and days of finding any fruit, veg, meat or dairy item is at an end. “The party’s over — that’s gone. We’re in a new era now,” @proftimlang.bsky.social

I've often wondered if English football fans realise when they sing 'Football's coming home', that this cricket ground in the Partick of Glasgow is the 'home' of international football, or at least it's where the first official international match was held. Cont./ #glasgow #football #partick

The World Bank confirms that Saudi Arabia and Qatar have paid off Syria's outstanding debt

The primary energy fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with equivalent amount of clean energy. BUT: Not necessary because conversion losses don’t need to be replaced. 2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat. knowledge.energyinst.org/new-energy-w...

Unsubsidized costs per megawatt-hour in 2030: $33 to $51 for onshore #wind; $54 for utility-scale #solar; $105 to $113 for offshore wind; $214 to $319 for different SMR designs; $279 to $307 for conventional #nuclear plants. www.theenergymix.com/critics-slam...

We didn't dream it! 😡💥 The respectful way Keir Starmer talked about foreign workers when he was running for Labour leader is the exact OPPOSITE of the Farage-cloned way he talks about them now. But to see it here in black & white is still SHOCKING! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Care home Commercial Director Amy Clark, "We try to recruit locally as much as we can, we always advertise locally, but we very rarely get applicants" "And if we do get applicants, they don't turn up for interviews" "It causes us significant problems" Labour have lost the plot - disgraceful

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

Astonishing silence from UK news shows on this. Liberty took the UK government to court to defend the right to protest and WON The Court of Appeal ruled on 2 May anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL Will the Government now scrap these unlawful regulations?