Chris Mason, Nick Eardley and Laura Kuenssberg are probably very busy, which is why they haven't yet launched their relentless pursuit of Farage's tax affairs and financial arrangements. But they will. At some point. I'm certain.

There is quite some irony buying stop the boats flags from Ali Express

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

Does anybody remember when Clinton bombed a paracetamol factory in East Africa to divert attention from the Monica Lewinski story?

Whoops, I guess you saw this @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Oh yes it is!

Alas! It is 68 years since the world was deprived of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from frozen excrement

The responses to this tweet are pretty bad. Starmer is in a bit of a pickle.

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I'm sad to report that Rainer (Rai) Weiss passed away yesterday at age 92. Rai developed the design for LIGO, he and Kip got it funded, trained countless researchers, and received the 2017 Nobel Prize. Rai always had time for students and treated us as equals. May his memory be a blessing

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This current press conference at the white house is just terribly cringe inducing. I'm glad I'm not one of the European leaders being rolled out to kiss Trumps ass.

This is amazing: From April 1990, four months after FLOOD was released, here’s @tmbg.bsky.social performing on The Tonight Show with guest host Jay Leno. They do BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL and ISTANBUL (NOT CONSTANTINOPLE), and yes, Doc and the orchestra play along. Inceedible. youtu.be/2AQ9nSbWJHI?...

Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.

'My best shot.' Sigue Sigue Sputnik at a Newcastle bed and breakfast, photo by Homer Sykes, 1986. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Winning....

Clear night, these photons aren't coming back...

Anne clearly playing mindgames with this "niggle" story since she's already done 140 km and is, as I have mentioned more than once, mad as a box of frogs.

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I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

If you watch The Wizard Of Oz backwards it's about a girl who escapes a lying oppressor and her subsequent journey to colour blindness.

Visiting mum again

Spending my whole life having to tolerate dudes in ten gallon hats & big belt buckles proudly proclaim "Don't Mess With Texas" only for it to reign for decades as the most fertile testing ground for political chicanery in a country where Florida exists.

I wonder if an Israeli coup to remove the mad butcher Netanyahu would itself be put down by Trump because he'd be worried it would give the US military ideas.

If I fiddle with my belly button will my bum fall off?

I did my PhD at Sussex because it has the most sunshine hours of any campus in the UK. People are surprised when they hear that, but they generally didn't grow up in Wigan.

Shining Science A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

Come on Starmer, recognising the state of Palestine is either the morally correct thing to do or not. It isn't a gambling chip or a bribe.

It’s why good orgs will sometimes pay their top specialists more than their managers. We need to break the unwritten rule that a boss should always be paid more than those who report to them. It stops the scramble of specialists trying to enter management roles they aren’t suited to

No taxation without representation.

I email random strangers who are in positions of power with my unfiltered thoughts on their ability to bring change to those who aren't in that position. Occasionally it works and brings institutional change. If you have strong feelings you should try it.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Oasis were good, but they weren't even the best band in Manchester in the 90s. I like them, I like their stuff, I respect them, but... When we went over the fence at Glastonbury in '95, we sacked them off to watch the wailers....

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"NASA Needs at least 3,000+ more people to be gone according to existing downsizing plans" (via @nasawatch.bsky.social). We are witnessing a senseless destruction of scientific infrastructure in this country with absolutely no positive outcomes.

@mbkplus.bsky.social makes an excellent point, but this is just the playbook. Anyone remember Colin Powell's "biological growth medium" ?

Important info for UK car drivers. If you want to pass your MOT but your lights don't work, just tape them over.

i’ve never heard anyone say that uranus is their favorite planet. justice for uranus.

One piece episode 286 FYI

The fact he still gets booked for anything in the first place is the shocking part. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/davi...

Gaaah what a week for music. Moving from "running away" to "smile" to playing all the versions of "shortening bread".

RIP big dog

I've done this! Unfortunately in shame. DESY-Karaoke induced plane miss. Only time I've missed a plane in my life.

I slept really well last night which is obviously good, but it does result in me having a bit of a cotton wool brain for much of the day. exhibit A - I rendered a video on my computer then set off to the photocopier to collect it.

Went on a half term break last week to Germany with 12yo son, visited the Panzer museum, Heide Park for rollercoasters, miniatur wonderland in Hamburg, the DDR museum and the computer game museum in Berlin. Every German I interacted with throughout was kind and charming, so, vielen dank!