They're literally doing the cartoon.

are you just going to do this for every generation

An important truth that I first read from the late Douglas Adams: "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

The 'adults in the room' (sic) are seriously rattled,.. This is the fight we are in. We cannot, just cannot, give up the fight.

“The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people.” ~ Carl Jung Patrick Kramer Do Not Swim oil on canvas

I’m sure that this is a better use of £1.3bn than preventing the collapse of the university sector, upgrading the rail infrastructure in northern England or indeed giving Leeds a tram without another business case because it’s always important to spend public money wisely.

It’s striking that MPs and the media are focused on how how “accusations of racism informed police thinking” rather than on how a “structural disregard for human suffering” shaped their response. Instead of interrogating institutional culture, their failures are conveniently blamed on EDI. #r4today

Looks like the Snake Pass Commons is set to open again. Walkers, cyclists, animals, assemble!

Yep I managed all this today, apart from drying hair. It was in fact thoroughly showered on the way home 🌧️

You can learn more about my upcoming Nature's Rights Bill, and sign up to endorse it as an individual or organisation, by visiting Nature's Rights website: www.natures-rights.org/uk-bill Thank you for your support 🌎

Cory Doctorow was interviewed by Anna Foster on BBC Radio 4 Today on the topic of AI. I've captured a transcript of the questions here in a short thread (with the help of Google AI voice-to-text. Good AI, thank-you.) 1/5

5 (five) coffee stops on my cycle to work 💪

come on, folks, give them some privacy!

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Happy World Cycling Day! Here's a picture of some children enjoying being out on their bikes at last month's Oxford kidical mass to brighten up your day!

Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns

This, in case it needs to be said, is the teaching grant for *STEM* subjects, which we have been told are the only subjects worth supporting. Humanities haven't had a block grant in aeons. This decision makes Labour MORE damaging to HE than the Tories.

See you there 👍

This is a historic moment: the first time the rights of Nature have entered the UK parliamentary process. The Bill recognises Nature as a legal subject, reorders the hierarchy of rights, creates a duty of care towards Nature and embeds Nature’s rights into UK decision-making across all sectors.

There is a very similar ratio of deadhead miles vs passenger miles for Uber/Lyft as well, FHVs in general seem to have a disproportionate impact on traffic congestion for this and other reasons

The question isn't just what govts are trying to achieve. It's how. Do we embed the common good into contracts, procurement & partnerships from the start, or pick up the mess later? And do we design policy w/ people, or just at them? Spoke w/ Channel 4 News about my book, The Common Good Economy.

Memories of the Summer of 1976 endure in the British memory, 35.9 °C, parched fields, standpipes in the streets. 50 years on and, in the last decade alone, temperatures above 36 °C have been recorded on six days in the UK and the UK’s highest record temperature now stands at 40.3 °C.

As Keynes, who knew a thing or two about financial markets, said: “Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

That started it, that started it That's how the trouble all began

My mum's no longer around but so pleased to have inherited her Denby Arabesque ceramics. I mean just look at this design classic of the era.

A little bit of Chelsea🌷arrives in Headington and for a good cause 👍

Went to this today and here is my absolute highlight:

1st derivative of position with respect to time is velocity. 2nd derivative is acceleration, the change of velocity. 3rd is jerk, change of acceleration. 4th is snap, 5th is crackle, 6th is pop. Something to consider next time you eat your cereal 😂

Yeah but inflation is caused by excessive demand, so we fix this by squeezing credit to households and businesses to put more people out of work.

Don't, whatever you do, walk. It is ILLEGAL and DANGEROUS. "Please make the proper transportation arrangements. Thank you." #motonormativity

For every on street charger option approved a council should also give permission for on street cycle storage.

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.

Not just Americans

A European visits China. Hilarious bits in this. " If I were a powerful Greek politician, I would identify the seaside towns most beloved by British tourists who have pints of lager instead of plates of food for dinner and open a national fracking enterprise there. Corfu first."

This is a thoroughly depressing read ☹️ but worth your time.

Oxford University and Diamond Light Source are partnering with the French synchrotron SOLEIL + two Paris research institutes to accelerate research on women's health, infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05...

Good to find this one is still bottle conditioned 👌 #Bskybeer

Jazz or the premier example of Ambient music...? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...

This is absolutely brilliant news. There is inevitably a lag in policies to address road safety showing results, but this shows they work. Families and communities are safer thanks to our policies news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshire-...

Even more terrible version of American Idol.

Too late, we've redesigned our corporate strategy to put it everywhere. It's just what the Traumatic Brain Institute told us to do yesterday.

Uhhh... #Musicsky I've only just realized NightjaR's "Glove Department" (featuring @panamsterdam.bsky.social ) samples Joni Mitchell's classic "Help Me". I feel like such a dunce, anyway absolutely love both:

If you mourn your BBC micro, think Windows 98 was the pinnacle of the PC, or really rate retro games, join the Bodleian Libraries digital preservation team for a hands on event + discussion about video game development 10-12 noon on 3rd June at the Radcliffe Science Library

🚶‍♀️🚴 @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social is deploying low-cost AI traffic sensors on residents' windows to monitor cycling, walking & car traffic on quiet streets > filling data gaps traditional sensors can't. Smart, scalable citizen science! kurrant.com/originals/ho...

The Labour Government's plan to destroy a world class source of soft power and export revenue is drawing admiration from autocrats and authoritarians across the world.

Quick, summarize America in one headline

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

A lovely essay about solipsism, billionaires, & the fantasy AI sells them from Cory Doctorow. I've always enjoyed these long threads by him & am happy to see them here. My habit when I share them is to start from his 2nd post, which links to the same essay on his website for those who prefer that

Same with most Big Tech applications, if you look in the right places, there is resistance and alternatives... github.com/the-momentum...

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.