If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

Blimey, that was quick! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it doesn't matter if the movie is any good, NIN's soundtrack to TRON: Ares is the pinnacle of sober Reznor's oeuvre

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I was doing an online IPCC workshop and then NY Climate Week events all day yesterday so I missed the live version of President Trump calling us climate scientists "stupid people". Good times here in the US of A #nycw www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/c...

"don't even take my word for it, as a politician, listen to British doctors, British scientists" says Wes Streeting about paracetamol. Never heard him say that once about trans healthcare.

As the credited writer of some awful scripts I disagree

Research on sunlight reflection is often driven by large or badly managed deployments. Ken Caldeira, Cael, and I invite submissions for an AGU session assessing potential harms from limited deployment. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

This is the primary contributor to the acceleration in global warming in recent years. Cutting air pollution saves lives and is unequivocally worth doing, but it is also driving about a quarter (~0.14C) of the approximately 0.5C warming the world has experienced between 2007 and 2024.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

Cadillac mountain in Acadia National park Maine www.facebook.com/615526961141...

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

The speed at which the Trump Administration is outpacing satire is…not very funny really.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

I posted this six weeks BEFORE Charlie Kirk was murdered

The the “illiberalism trilemma” makes the descent into illiberalism a one-way ratchet: because in order to restore the legitimacy of the impartial rule of law you need to act against the illiberals (a) quickly, (b) effectively, (c) legally — but you can only do two out of three of these.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Except mostly they are not controversial, just inconvenient.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Your 6 here, @thehonestbroker.bsky.social, is very misleading. There has been no proposed project to implement geoengineering in Sweden. The SCOPEX project aimed to do science that would have implications for geoengineering, not to implement it. rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/playing-go...

I'm applying for research leave for 26/27, hopefully spring '27. Would love to know of any visiting fellowships that might be available in that time and perhaps suitable for me (will probably be trying to make progress on my water and world literature project).

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Really sorry to see news of more voluntary redundancies planned at Sheffield. As a Sheffield evangelist - it famously happens to everyone who studies there! - I'm so sad to see what's being done to my favourite university www.thestar.co.uk/education/un...

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.   Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.   Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

It’s not irony - its cynical and sinister political perversity www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

...or is there a broader agenda to entrenching NASA in the national security state?

Is this just of restricting workers rights... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Watched the hearing for the alleged shooter. The charges were read in full. The death penalty is on the table. Counsel has not yet been appointed for him. He was expressionless throughout.

We are so very fucked. The Ellisons--miniMurdochs--control CBS, want to control CNN, and now control TikTok alongside the odious Andreessen. Social media should be the antidote to big, old media. It is another propaganda tool. I prefer the Chinese.

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

I was so fortunate attend the closing performance of Free Shakespeare in the Park's TWELFTH NIGHT on Sunday at the revitalized Delacorte. Sensational theater, freely shared, and a testament to the importance of public arts in NYC.

You’re invited to the opening of my Exhibit at the Fredericton Public Library Wed, Oct 1/26 6-8! 20 original paintings (they’ll be there all month)

Is this just of restricting workers rights... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

We don't even have to imagine it.

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

This is, think, well said by Nils

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example? "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."