Start by shutting down Twitter/X, you fools

Last time I looked the British Government was still using X. Apart from just ceasing to use it, I'd go further. Shut down the bloody website in the UK and make its reinstatement conditional upon him appearing in front of a Commons select committee. Make him account for his actions, for once.

Bold move by the crossword writer in the UK's i newspaper. But they likely realised that the typical Reform Party fan doesn't do cryptic crosswords so they're maybe safe from their ire. For those struggling with it - the key for is primary - take the first letters of the words.

It might of course escape their notice that in the Farage two-tier justice system, the killer was caught, charged, prosecuted, and tried before a jury of his peers – his lies of being attacked and being subjected to racism by 18-year-old Henry were not believed. He was convicted; sentenced to life.

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Getting really frustrated by the quality of a lot of web portals. One job site I am on pops up useful messages when I try to update my profile. It's a bit shite really and ends up wasting my time.

God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.

The unfairness of having to debate bullshitters is that the honest person needs to be all over the facts. The bullshitter merely has to sound convincing. Is it any wonder that most of us simply walk away?

I wanted Trump to live long enough to see his name chiselled off. Lately I haven't been that bothered. He can just pick a date.

It's awfully clichéd and predictable, but it has to be this. And the video is adorable. share.google/vUcxjirYxxe1...

I am possibly the only person ever to have suffered a chemical weapons attack at the hands of a cat.

Did the luminarium yesterday. Always worth a visit as there's nothing quite like it. This one was lower energy than previous though. The domes were smaller and less intense.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

#ChemicalWeapons #Disarmament #Syria #OPCW Remnants of Assad's chemical weapons program recovered, Syrian official says www.reuters.com/world/middle... [...] The OPCW said in a report on Tuesday that its team in Syria had visited several high-priority ​undeclared locations in the northern ...

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

Poor little snowflake blocked me for this observation. Pathetic.

British food is like the English language, itself a mishmash of many cultures and influences. And no worse for it. And the people who cook it are regarded as British no matter where their families came from.

Nottingham University is hoping to achieve a student-staff ratio in the range 18:1 to 22:1. across the board, which will send it plummeting down the league tables. Still it still won't be as low as Maynooth, where the ratio is 26:1 and growing... physicsworld.com/a/nottingham...

Agent: 'And what did you say the name of your act was, again?' Man: 'The Aristocrats.'

Have Canada joined #Eurovision yet?

If he needs security that badly, then £5M should build him a decent ballroom.

I can just see the Americans invading next to wreck the solar installations and then we'll be plunged into a Cuban Panel Crisis...

I jumped last year before I was pushed. This is a shit show, no two ways about it.

Koyaanisqatsi. Amazing experience.

My disgust for the current crop of political figures is eclipsing all my other feelings about life, the universe and everything. What a way to go on. Pygmies, the lot of them. We are now a five party system and there isn't a single person I look up to.

Oh FFS.

Green Weekend

So much for the injections.

But Doctor, I am Pagliacci.

Ten Thousand and One Maniacs

'Break'

The point of elections is to make politicians listen. I have yet to see any evidence that either Labour or Tories have started to listen.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Despite what the Trump administration says, the president’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71% cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025, our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes of U.S.A.I.D. “The world’s richest men are crushing the world’s poorest children.”

A very happy birthday to Sir Boaty McBoatface. The world would have been a much more mysterious and duller place without him over the past century. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... #DavidAttenborough

I often wonder how the demographics of Parliament would change if all candidates were required to have lived in a constituency for 5 years before being allowed to stand for it.

I have wished death upon no-one, but ...

I'm just wishing for Milliband to criticise people who would light their barbecue with petrol.

For calling out what, on the face of it, is an egregious example of a particularly insidious and persistent form of racism, I am apparently 'playing into the hands of racists'. Thankfully my accuser blocked me after that.

Fantastic news. Malaria is a scourge and every chance should be taken to eradicate it.

I thought for a while he'd peaked but Banksy still can cut to the quick. Marvelous concept and execution.

I have often had occasion to refer correspondents to this very response.

Did they have to wake him up to get him out?

Where have I heard that phrase before?

Perhaps he should set his alarm clock, get up and go to Clacton, just once?

This Government sees its mission as overseeing a program of managed decline. And not just in HE. As a friend succinctly put it: if only Starmer would get his head out of his arse. www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

As monarchs go, George III... didn't suck (except on Catholic emancipation), and most of the outrrrrageous tyranny the American colonists complained of was a load of exaggerated bollocks from people concerned about their right to keep slaves & dispossess Native Americans...

'Keaton always said, 'I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him.' Well, I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.'

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...