#BBC #News thought that the Panorama Tr*mp edit was essentially correct... Wow. Because it simply was not Ok in any way shape or form […]

“Adversarial poetry.” Love this. Obvs.

Uk folk. Think about Chester Le-Street in County Durham or Potters Bar in Hertfordshire or Maldon in Essex. How try to imagine that every single person there is dead. That's how many needless deaths there were as a result of Boris Johnson's botched COVID response in 2020. Him and his […]

The Guardian's UK budget game is fascinating! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2025/nov/20/you-be-the-chancellor-play-our-interactive-budget-game I got to a £23.4Billion SURPLUS by: Imposing a gambling tax + 3.6 billion Pays for abolishing the 2 child benefit cap Council […]

This is very good indeed on how Mahmood talks about race. To suggest that immigration policy and racism are linked "reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop".

‘I met a traveller from an antique land…’ This is #3i/Atlas imaged just a few mins ago in the pre dawn sky here in Oxfordshire UK. With my #seestar50 It’s quite bright! Showed up immediately on the screen. I’ve only gone and captured an interstellar comet! @&*!@#£!!! #astrophotography

This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.

The next UK election is going to be between Green, Libdem and Reform isn't it. (On a side note, if an MP switches party, there should be an immediate byelection)

‘I met a traveller from an antique land…’ This is #3i/Atlas imaged just a few mins ago in the pre dawn sky here in Oxfordshire UK. With my #seestar50 It’s quite bright! Showed up immediately on the screen. I’ve only gone and captured an interstellar comet! @&*!@#£!!! #astrophotography

Why don't more people use public transport - UK edition -? Because it's expensive and uncomfortable and basically completely crap. I'm at Didcot where the waiting rooms have been fitted with the world's most uncomfortable seats. These things were carefully designed to be uncomfortable. And […]

It's cloudy... 🤬🤬🤬 #aurora

It's horrible to have to say it, but having watched the #panorama clip.. It's straight up misleading and completely undefendable. You simply are misrepresenting what someone said when you cut out over 50 minutes of a speech to stick two phrases together. It's almost certainly defamatory as well […]

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Some spectacular #fungi to be seen on the dog walk this morning.

#Mosstodon Bernwood Forest in Oxfordshire Nov 9th 2025

@xankarn i have read this headline, “and given it more consideration than it is due already. Now, [NYT] fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying ‘You Can’t Fuck Off Past Here.’ Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off […]

I disagree. I don't think there's any evidence to suggest people will use more electricity because of removing VAT. Also yes, bigger homes will save more on the basis that more electricity is being used. But the reality is that better off people have the cash to better insulate their homes. So […]

Let me say this in plain English: a comet can just be a comet

*These native forms of LLM-Agent disasters seem interesting https://medium.com/towards-artificial-intelligence/we-spent-47-000-running-ai-agents-in-production-heres-what-nobody-tells-you-about-a2a-and-mcp-5f845848de33

A House of Dynamite (on Netflix) from Kathryn Bigelow is very much like Don't Look Up, in that it's excellent, and seems to have triggered a set of people who didn't like what it has to say. It's well worth your time. Be advised, it will stay with you... Like Threads did for those of us who […]

Steve from Gamers Nexus with an excellent (if profane in places) analysis of the #AI #Economy WTF Is Going On? https://youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4&si=ESotbV_TJEFQOCcu

I’m going to have to tap the sign again aren’t I: STOP ANTHROPORMORPHISING LLMS They don’t have a “drive”, they don’t “resist”, this language use is really dangerous, as it sets the wrong expectations of what the tech can do! Arghhhhh! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Right then the results of Tuesday nights #Stargazing and #Astrophotography with the #SeestarS50 -First clear night in AGES. Up first Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken about 90 mins after sunset when it was low in the western sky from Oxfordshire in the UK. Just […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Draft Tory legislation on removing indefinite leave to remain is insane. Would chuck out those not earning over £38K - including many pensioners! + social protections seems to include child benefit, so load of people with (British!) kids! They'd remove my sis & mum who've been here 50 years.

Key findings: 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. Gemini performed worst with […]

Grrrrr first clear night in AGES and I'm gonna be fighting those wretched Starlink satelites aren't I. #astrophotography

Die "KI-Blase" steht kurz vor dem Platzen, und @bert_hubert veröffentlicht seine Gedanken dazu als "pre-mortem". Neben den zumeist nutzlosen "KI"-Anwendungen benennt er auch ein paar ganz und gar großartige Punkte von "KI"/ LLMs, die es Wert sind auch nach dem Crash der "KI"-Industrie (und […]

The true cost of “solar power at night” with Reflect Orbital If you played SimCity 2000, you might've loved the idea of "beaming power from space" down to Earth. Reflect Orbital took that idea, tech-bro'd it, and now could end "night" as we know it. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro

Spicy take: Normal people shouldn't self host. From an energy use perspective, the users per watt are WAY higher in a data center. People are already awful at running patches and doing security updates. OMG are people awful at doing backups. From an ewaste POV, consumer electronics just […]

I’d like to ask Omid how the comedy gig will stop journalists being abducted and beheaded. There’s a reason Steve Van Zandt wrote Sun City… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/08/riyadh-comedy-festival-omid-djalili-saudi-arabia

*Curing Alzheimer's in mice *Skeptics will go, "heyn that's in mice," and rightly so, but curing it at all, that's a big deal https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02426-1

More #ukpolitics Speaking as a white bloke, if you show up somewhere and lament the lack of white faces in your field of view, rest assured that you have in fact been racist. Robert Jenrick isn't playing with words. By word and deed, he's telling everyone exactly what he is.

Hello... This is interesting. Esp the bit where the guy was jailed for wire fraud in the USA 8yrs ago in his early 20s. Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally | Business | The Guardian […]

THAT'S NO MOON THAT'S A SP- Wait. Hang on. Ok yes, yes aaah ok Alright folks nothing to see here turns out it IS a moon. All good, we aren't about to be zapped by a technogical monstrosity. The #HarvestMoon rises out of the clouds in the skies above […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

What do distant observers see when they look at Earth? If a distant observer takes a look back at Earth, what would they see? They'd see a more primitive version of our planet, of course, and beyond a certain distance, no Earth at all. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #Earth

Spending the afternoon at the #iet - delighted to see this! Read more about her at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/book-review-problems-have-no-sex-caroline-haslett-1949/

Well. Aren't those 'comedians' doing a gig in Saudi Arabia a lovely bunch of people eh. Erudite. Thoughtful. Holding a mirror up to our souls via the medium of insightful humour. /s

#ukpolitics (alert I guess) Supporting racist policies DOES make you a racist. Speaking as a white bloke, we white folks really don't like to tell other white folks that they've gone and done a racist. This, sadly extends to triangulating politicians such as our Chancellor. &, just to say it […]

Eemnesserweg #silentsunday #gooi #photography

'Rather than addressing the fundamental problems with existing verification systems, the Britcard threatens to digitise and amplify the very hostile environment policies that created these problems in the first place' blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Free software people I am begging you to stop naming your software

It's a glorious Saturday night in the mountains of southern New Mexico. The Milky Way stretches from horizon to horizon. Cygnus the swan is at the zenith. (North is left) First photo is a circular fisheye. It's field of view is greater than 180 degrees […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

The #Apple #liquidglass camera app is SO terrible! Utter usability failure. All that R&D on sensors & software & it's not practically useable to do anything other than point & click. The user journeys are awful. Cinematic mode - HDres 30fps cant be changed - just blocks the view There's a […]

OMG!!! iOS26 is TERRIBLE! I've had to change my background, and turn on a bunch of accesibility features - all cos I like dark mode. Soent 5 mins making the TIME on the home/lock screen vaguely usable And the pin lock is broken in dark mode - black numerals on a dark grey circular background […]

You remember the iconic picture of a black hole from the @ehtelescope? Now there are three - a mini-movie so to speak. The structure of magnetic fields changes, the brightness wobbles, but the ring remains rock solid. That seals the case for it being a black […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It’s not a lawsuit. It’s a threat and an attack on the systems that enable any sort of democracy to function, however imperfectly. It’s also a test.

Were Saint George to come to England he would be refused. He was born in Turkey, his mother came from Palestine and his father was of Syrian origin. His flag has nevertheless been appropriated by the English hooligan fraternity.