Labour has done lots of delivering. Some good (renewable energy), but a lot extremely toxic to people minded to vote for then (LGBT+ rights rollback, abuse of refugees, changes to settlement rules). Delivering toxic policies more efficiently won't help.

labour's problem isn't comms you politically illiterate clown. im so tired of this shit. labour are trying to get me raped and killed bcos jk rowling demands it. that is not a comms issue. that is a bigoted bastards issue.

Hornet mimic hoverfly in the garden this morning.

Took one of the work pool cars out on Wednesday. Someone had left it in 'sport' mode. It neers touchscreen inputs to switch it back to eco mode. My car has an actual physical button to switch between sensible mode and 'who tf put 300Nm of torque in a boring saloon' mode.

As someone who has to worry about shallow eutrophic bodies of water quite a lot, I find it very funny to see a group of anti-regulation climate deniers panic about the outcome of eutrophic water and elevated temperatures on shallow water.

Accurate.

The growing number of beavers in the UK is evidence we really do have the power to undo damage.

The question I rarely hear put is this - what has this nasty little man got to say that is of any academic merit? What theory or philosophy that would be worthy of inclusion in an academic journal? And as there is none, why would any academic venue want to hear him speak?

Breakfast soundtrack

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Reminder that far from fighting the establishment, the transphobic movement is absolutely certain they will never be arrested.

As the World Cup approaches, people are using more and more football gifs. This is your reminder that Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of at least five rapes and sexual assaults and admitted one of them in legal documents.

If you're enough of a rapist POS the US president will intervene to get your 3 match ban reduced to 1.

This farmer's wildlfower margin I saw today (under one of the various agro-environment schemes) is absolutely swarming with bees and other insects..

And apart from the sexism of leaving this out of your Labour Vision, more women than men vote Labour as well you utter clots.

To take examples of 'scary' ingredients, Niacin and Folic acid are otherwise known as Vitamins B3 and B9, added as common fortifications to flours such as cornmeal and white flour to address vitamin deficiencies as a public health measure.

From FT. I think there may be a message here. SpaceX is as big as Amazon but "Amazon’s revenue grew to $717bn last year, with net income of $78bn, while SpaceX’s sales were $19bn, with a net loss of $5bn.

NEW ANALYSIS: Amid reports the govt is poised to water down EV targets, the UK's EV drivers are saving more than £1,100 each a year – and £3bn in total Plug-in hybrids, which could be pushed to make up for lower BEV sales, save three times less ££ www.carbonbrief.org/...

Jo Cox wasn't killed by differences of opinion and Brianna Ghey wasn't killed by finding friends online. Propagandised hatred and radicalisation are really dangerous actually.

Just had someone be incredibly rude in response to a post I made on fucking LinkedIn of all places.

Anyway, here is a Butterfly I saw today as a timeline cleanse.

The Suffragettes blew up Lloyd-George's house when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Nowdays people get angry at some paint thrown at Tufton Street 🤷‍♂️ This country is so bad at history - it wasn't 'some railings got chained to and then women got votes' - no people died, people were tortured.

Im imagining an axe thrown with “court approved protest tactic” inscribed on the side

The government of the time tortured Suffragettes.

RIP any moderation on social media then. Shit’s about to get so much worse 💀

This is a dream for social media companies. Now they can wash their hands of any & all responsibility for safeguarding because we’re all adults here.

This is the thing with the BBC. One section of it will cover the far right disastrously while another is diligently digging out the truth. It runs the gamut from courageous gold-standard reporting to Justin Webb

In addition to many other comments on the PA case, also worth noting the Home Secretary advanced an argument for an extreme widening of Article 17 - which would have massively curtailed free speech and association. Usual suspects silent on that.

This is how you get kids on unregulated matrix servers talking to nonces. Fucking idiots

In a strongly competitive field, this has to be one of the most dangerously credulous and foolish things I've read in a English Court of Appeal judgement.

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

Its wild how much Britain hates making any space safe for children. Safe social places online? Nah ban them. Safe streets by excluding traffic? But Mah Car! Safe walking or cycling routes to a local park? That's a nice to have, we need money for weapons.

"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control Starmer leave those kids alone"

This proposal is more instrusive than Winston Smith's telescreen.

Positive morning post.

My step-daughter created a LinkedIn profile entirely to spy on teachers. The kids are a lot smarter than this sledge hammer ban will be.

When this monastery was founded in 1051, neither Moscow nor even Russia existed. Putin hates that the fountainhead of Russian history is in Kyiv, not in the trackless wastes his own country.

Very positive research findings from Germany about the benefits of solar on re-wetted peatland. phys.org/news/2026-06...

Anyway, here is a Butterfly I saw today as a timeline cleanse.

"A teenage social media ban is the digital equivalent of seeing our parks full of needles, broken glass, and violent thugs – and deciding that a “KEEP OUT IF YOU’RE UNDER 18” sign stuck on the entrance is enough." www.jamesrball.com/p/a-teen-soc...

Nice little junction upgrade on my supermarket cycle route. (I know the critics are coming, I wish to assure you this is a vast upgrade on before)

My neighbour has departed to get a scaffolding pole.😬

If anyone knows how to get a stuck jackhammer bit out of a hole, and then also the second one that was attempted to use to free the first one, let me know.

I'm pretty sure they'll just start claiming solar panels cause flooding, or accuse the EA of not dredging rivers harshly enough.

Its amazing how much politicians do actually have big buttons labelled 'make life better', and how much the media scream when they try to press them. An astoundingly successful policy that has been the cause célèbre to oppose by 'common sense' leaders for half a decade.

Take a moment to read this. It could save you a lot of money.

citizen! to deal with you accordingly we must know - are you holding the firebomb of legitimate concerns, or the placard of illegal opinions?

There may be much wrong with the world. However I am sat on the patio, eating pizza, reading a book, and listening to goldfinches and greenfinches in the hawthorne tree. Savour the good things when you find them.

Yeah, the leg flails really scream 'person who actually works out and isn't just steroids'

A former health secretary complaining about investment in active travel? I guess his blind transphobic hatred isn't the only thing he totally ignores evidence on.