When I was writing this piece about the Ocean Cleanup, I had a surreal experience: They assured me that they only kill invasive species, and sent me a published paper to demonstrate that. But the paper said the opposite! I wonder how many journalists just took their word for it and didn't check?

I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

Over a quarter century ago, I spent some time in Australia backpacking. This meant I was continually broke and trying to find some work. One instance involved signing up with a casting agency, they told me there was this project in the works called the Potato People if I remember correctly. 1/4

This is a bit of a cringey desperate post but needs must….😢 I’ve just lost a couple of thousand self publishing a book - I’m a hybrid author (published traditionally and self published) and I decided to self publish my book I was most passionate about to have total control. BUT….

Every year on July 8th at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world population gets sunlight ☀️

Important thread to explain the origins of our galactic overlord Count Binface. Though this being a different by election, I suspect a lot of this manifesto still stands; countbinface.com/makerfieldma...

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

Gen AI will never deliver return on investment: it is fundamentally too expensive for what it offers Too expensive to build, train, run, and use. Get ready for the crunch. www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

well that's fucking amazing. good lord, lmao, thank god this comedian pulled it out of the fire.

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

#taxwealthnotwork youtu.be/vamgbxM-fec?...

📢NEW RESOURCE: A new web resource and accompanying report to explore the vulnerabilities to political interference of 33 key UK scientific public bodies & 11 scientific advisory committees! unchecked.uk/public_body_... 1/7

Happy with this one.

Juuust checking... nope, still Monday. #MondayMotivation

Wishing Mel Brooks a happy centenary on this day !! He was a big part of my childhood with films like Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. My sense of humour would not be the same without you. #melbrooks #centenary

Rare red warning. Risk to life. Stay out of the sun. Avoid unnecessary exposure. Picture editor: "Counterpoint: Run the fun-on-the-beach shots?" We won't improve heat coverage until we stop illustrating public health emergencies with beach photos. www.independent.co.uk/weather/heat...

I think I just barely escaped a shockingly savvy scammer trying to get my bank credentials. First, whoever it was had my actual phone number, my actual bank, and the last 4 digits of my account. They sent a "was this transaction you" message that looked almost identical to the ones my bank sends.

The world’s richest arsehole. JonathanPie.com

Share with someone who has a bit of money, and is opposed to wealth taxes on the super rich.

As always @garyseconomics.bsky.social lays it out as clear as it can get in relation to "taxing wealth, not work". And I think I know who the tax expert is he was referring to.... youtu.be/F8mfqPNdENw?...

PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.

Indirect prompt injection attacks are really in their infancy. As we enable more agents and more tools/integrations, the possibilities for this *fundamentally unfixable* vulnerability get scarier.

I am getting a lot of questions about the angler in Massachusetts who "accidentally" caught a great white shark and then released it, resulting in lots of viral media coverage. Some quick thoughts here, in no particular order. wbsm.com/nantucket-fi... 🧪🌍🦑🦈

Really great how every single media company is going to be owned by 3 white guys all loyal to MAGA. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

It's almost as if the whole point of the past seven years of law and policy on this issue was neither protecting children nor fixing social media nor curbing big tech, but building both a domestic surveillance tech sector and a captive market for it. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...

Since 2011, Elon Musk has been promising to put a man on Mars within a few years. He failed. SpaceX burned through billions of dollars of venture capital. It still isn't profitable and Mars is now further away than it was in 2011. If you're buying the #$SPCX IPO, you're the exit liquidity.

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

Ten years on from Brexit there are still no rules to prevent lies in election ads. We’ve tabled amendments to stop election ads like the infamous Brexit bus misleading voters again. Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them. It takes 1 minute. 👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...

Support the people not the billionaires at the World Cup #TaxTheSuperRich #worldcup2026

30 billion street and environmental scans from Pokémon GO players were used to train US military drones www.resetera.com/threads/15...

Picard management tip: If you only play to your strengths you may look competent but ultimately you will stagnate. Play to your weaknesses as well. Improve with practice. There is so much more to learn.

The UK government claims they need to stay on X because thats where people get information, but when that platform encourages violence and the creation of non-consensual pornography, their presence crosses the line into complicity.

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

As people ask why Starmer hasn’t just implemented a ban on social media for under 16s, I’m re-posting my Substack with some possible answers to that question …. tashthinks.substack.com/p/social-med...

You, but a cartoon

Monte Casino, 1944

61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics

The gap is not only a plug-in hybrid problem. 🔴 The divergence is also stark for combustion engine cars, including full and mild hybrids: real-world emissions exceed official values by 19%.

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.

the hungry observatory

Yes, calling a liquid "gas" used to bug me no end. Then I discovered that it ought actually to be "caz," not "gas." It's based on a trade name. A thread... 1/6

#ResistanceRoots Ida Rhodes was born on this day in 1900 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. She was a mathematician, computer programmer and lecturer who was instrumental in early computer development in the U.S. She was also a fierce advocate for the disabled, often at great personal sacrifice. /1

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Frustrated with the election pundits talking as if votes only 'swing' from one party to another. I did some analysis of the results, and my modelling (based on votes only, not polls) suggests that the largest movement since 2024 local elections (by a long way) is from 'Did Not Vote' -> Reform

So the Claude extension allows any other extension to inject JavaScript into claude.ai and run it? Cool cool cool. Yeah, don't let this one in.

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.