I think since being prime minister of the UK has such a high regret rate, we should: * Open Prime Minister Identity Clinics with 2-250 year wait lists * Ask candidates how they masturbate * Allow them to stand for the election only while they undergo talk therapy to convince them that they can't

It’s a parasol guys. You’ve made a stupid new name for a parasol

Hilary Cass climbed out from under the bridge she calls home to tell the BBC there's no evidence of any harms to trans young people from puberty blockers. Infuriating! Evan Urquhart has more here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

My talk on Doctor Who writers David Whitaker and Terrance Dicks for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social now up in full at m.youtube.com/watch?v=KzwN...

Private Eye points out that former Ukip leader Paul Nuttall is heading up candidate vetting for Reform ahead of the next general election. Readers might remember when items on his CV were revealed as false during the 2017 Stoke-on-Trent by-election." #IronyIsStillDead

Sam Raimi didn't strap a Super 8 camera to a 2x4 so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Thread! 😃

Someone tell RG that Boss Cat to give it its correct title, was already a sitcom for adults.

Once I noticed they were playing footsie it really changed the dynamic of this statue

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Completely unserious country [Times]

there's something very contemporary about Scientific American getting gutted by the company running I Fucking Love Science

"You can either fry or not give me a lot of money" is one hell of a pitch

It’s wild that politicians don’t seem to grasp the degree to which universities contribute to the economy- local, regional, national. The failure to intervene is a stain on this govt - a shocking dereliction of duty to every worker, every local business, every student, every area that is suffering

We should all be much more angry about this and these people should be properly held to account

Over 40 economists write to leader of Unite the Union, rejecting her claim that Ed Miliband would destroy jobs if he becomes next UK chancellor "The net zero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers....these numbers will grow” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

On this topic and immigration, the current Labour government has been steering in the rear view mirror. When immigration plummets and hits OBR estimates and they have to bail out Russell Group universities it might finally dawn on them.

Grim timing yesterday as news of the Met Office Red alert flashed up on phones right in the middle of a big event about new Met Office forecasts for June 2056, showing potential peak temperatures of 45C in England. Stopping the CO2 emissions driving this is essential, but we also need to prepare.

They love cancel culture - so long as it's progressives getting cancelled.

Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr

this happened back in May. I don’t understand why more journalists aren’t mentioning it in their coverage of the president’s latest tantrum.

@doctorow.pluralistic.net say what needs said: "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia" pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d...

"Age verification means that *everyone* who does *anything* online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of *all* their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally *illegal* to avoid their tracking"

While we all swelter and struggle to breathe the terrorist organisations are having a get together to demand more heat.

I am so sick of this race to the bottom. Techbros with all the money in the world are just deadending our culture and we're all just expected to accept a slow demise. variety.com/2026/biz/new...

Journalism is in crisis—including science and environmental journalism. The industry is in really rough shape, and this blow makes matters worse.

If other news was reported like climate change:

Ooh! Proper Brexit you want is it sir? Ooh! Want me to give it to you do you sir?

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

Ok, this is VERY cool, and great fun too!

Which one is it?

The problem with technosolutionism is that it’s “helpy”. It looks like it’s solving A but it isn’t. In fact it wants to keep A as a problem so that you keep buying its solutions (& if you criticise it the boosters can point & say “oh so you don’t care about A???”)

Derelict telescope: choked by trees outside Cambridge is the “scintillation array” - 4096 vertical poles once connected with wires like so many washing lines - with which in 1967 Jocelyn Bell discovered “pulsars”. How has this piece of global scientific heritage been allowed to decay like this?

Chickens cheaper now than 20 years ago thanks to "efficiencies through the supply chain." We know what that means. £4 chickens can only be offered because chicken welfare is so utterly horrendous. #youandyours

Overworked cat requires competent butler. Must understand proportional representation, how to open a sardine cat without slicing their off fingers, and international relations. Previous applicants need not apply.

meanwhile, across town, samantha had also thrown her party into chaos. and she, too, was looking to make a fast exit.

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

so were they just lying about having written the kier starmer christmas special?

Another thing I am sure I read in an Iain M Banks novel.

The short term PMs will continue until Brexit succeeds.

My neighbor told me the UK keep eating his PMs so l asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to the UK and then his daughter started crying

Stahmer only now releasing what the three witches meant when they told him he would be Prime Minster only until Burnham would move to Downing Street.

Leaving them to sell oil and gas to other countries and continue to fuel climate change whilst getting richer and continuing to be an awful place for human rights and other abuses

What the *absolute* fuck?

Ed Miliband has been the most effective minister in this Government. And his policies ARE leading to one of the few areas of real job growth Diluting these policies will lead to loss of GDP and a greater loss of jobs so a wise PM will stand up to Unions wrong headedness on this very very robustly

Well this seems an excellent choice, yes.

One of the really difficult lessons of the last 100 years is that convenience - drawing on mass market capabilities to do things faster - is isolating and individualising. We become one in relation to the market rather than one in relation to other people. GenAI is the peak expression of that.

"Just fact check and verify what the 'ai' puts out, you'll be fine." (libraries gone; textbooks gone; web search gone; personal libraries logistically impossible; no time in newly abbreviated deadlines for verification) "OK. How?"

The secret to this problem is basically to whack a university nearby, because you suddenly have a high spending population, who go out quite a lot to sustain nice coffee shops and brunch places and also a cheap labour force to staff them.