This is a beautifully written, brilliantly argued piece by my friend Monika Bielskyte. I highly recomment it:

#Banksy statue 'blinded by a flag, stepping into the abyss' in Pall Mall #London near Piccadilly Circus & Trafalgar Square.

Yesterday's 'Resistance is Existence' event in London hosted by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social with Brian Eno, Jeremy Corbyn and others.

Thursday 26 March, 1pm Pacific / 8pm UK. Bill Diamond is the CEO of the SETI Institute, and he will be joining SK Live to talk about "The Signatures of Life and Intelligence and the Impact of First Contact." This is your chance to ask him anything. Visit www.sciencekind.com to sign up for free. 🧪

Pictures from yesterday's, 21 March 2026, London 'Stop Bombing Iran' march from Russell Sq to 10 Downing Street, Whitehall.

Since everyone, including me, always uses the same lowres google image, I did some digging and found the actual archive scans of Darwin's famous bad day "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders." as.amphilsoc.org/repositories...

US has cornered the market on stupidity

This is the man Senators who present themselves as serious human beings are going to rubber stamp into the office of Director of Homeland Security. Show some self-respect and some love of country and vote no.

But will the "ton of money" be used for free education and healthcare for Lindsey Graham's constituents and others across the US?????

Now imagine people’s lungs. Black rain has fallen over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities, coating streets and rooftops in dark, oily water. “The rain is actually apparently saturated with oil,” CNN reports.

"Those people" include children, the elderly, the sick, pregnant women 🙄 #LongLiveIran

Environmentalists: what are the health risks, and what is the long-term environment effect from the US firing on a Tehran petrol depot? Seen pictures of black particles in rain falling in Tehran. #Environment #Health #War #Security

Juliet Stevenson yesterday evening, Friday 6 March 2026 Whitehall- 10 Downing Street area. Rain didn't stop us for the International Women's Day, Stand with Palestinian women gathering. #IWD2026

In 1787, the first paper by a woman was read to a meeting of the Royal Society, Caroline Herschel's 'Account of a new comet'. See more on our interactive timeline: #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/women-in-stem/publications-timeline/

This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts. Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...

Another mic drop moment

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

I’ll just leave this here…

Death toll from US-Israeli attack on girl’s school in Iran rises to 150 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I think the bigger story here was one that Tucker missed cuz he actually believes in it too. Mike Huckabee quite literally believes our meddling in the Middle East is more about securing a landing pad for Jesus to come flying down on a white horse to rapture a few people and start the end of days

Happy Pale Blue Dot Day to all who celebrate 😀 #Astronomy #Space

Thank you. People in and around #AI #CognitiveScience #PhilosophyOfMind too were 'captured' by Epstein.

Two and a half million tonnes of water to make fake snow for the Winter Olympics - that’s the headline, the story is climate change. www.ft.com/content/0549...

This was going to air in the superbowl, but they couldn't afford the 8 million dollars for the 30 second ad. So, it's being shared on social media

I regret to inform, it turned out fine

Andrew Marr has a bit of history with predictions... 5 Jul 2022: Predicts the end of Boris Johnson. 7 Jul 2022: Johnson resigns. 14 Oct 2022: Predicts the end of Liz Truss. 20 Oct 2022: Truss resigns. 8 Feb 2026: Says Starmer will resign in the ‘next few days’. Will he be proven right again?

This new report shows the havoc AI is already wreaking in the creative sector. Evidence from 10,000 British creatives shows: - 58% of photographers have lost work to AI - 32% of illustrators have lost commissions to AI - 86% of authors say AI has reduced their earnings 🧵 1/2

*Capitalism is failing us. Instead of bringing a decent life it generates an outrageous gap between the rich and the rest; unaffordable housing, healthcare & education; racial & gender inequality; climate disaster. Economist David Kotz argues it's time we built a new socialism for the 21st century*

So true 👇 Starmer has no "sparkling charisma" and is not a "superb strategist", he is a very bad decision-maker. From must-read article 👇

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Labour Together paid a PR firm £30k+ to investigate journalists that were digging into how its undeclared funding bankrolled Starmer’s successful Labour leadership campaign Watch the video on Democracy for Sale's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_V5...

He really thought this absolved this guy any wrongdoing! The Lord of the Flies defense for a guy following a woman around a field site and blowing volcanic glass in her face!!

How about men not "turning into animals" by controlling themselves 🙄

Trump posts racist video about the Obamas. Karoline Leavitt dismisses criticism as "fake outrage." Tim Scott calls it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House." White House deletes video. @ericalgj.bsky.social @bellakwai.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Was the staffer’s name Donald Trump?

Too late. For all of them. They will always be known at a bare minimum as racist supporters of pedophilia.

NEW: Statement from NAACP president "Donald Trump’s racist video is disgusting and utterly despicable. Trump is obviously desperate to distract us from the Epstein files and his rapidly failing economy. You know who isn’t in the Epstein files? Barack Obama"

After huffily defending Trump for posting the racist apes video, the White House is now blaming it on an unnamed staffer. “A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” a White House official told Zeteo.

🫤 For the future of these graduates, stop interest on student loans, NOW.

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Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

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1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Have you seen my propaganda and information warfare starter-pack? bsky.app/profile/emma...

There are HorizonEurope grant calls on i) climate misinfornation, and ii) climate inaction with Spring 2026 deadline. I have an idea for a proposal for ii) leveraging citizen science, are you interested?

I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵

A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧵