I have so far survived Sadiq Kahn's London.

So windy it's difficult to sleep.

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Tort butt. 🍑🐢💚

If you happen to be in Newcastle (up to 27th September), the Life Science Centre has a major dinosaur exhibition. I'll be going. 🧪 www.life.org.uk/whats-on/eve....

Have I told y'all how under our current economic and political system I believe that performing economic work is borderline unethical simply in and of itself. Not a philosophy I'd hard commit to but I certainly think there's coherent argument to be made there.

If the global community were serious about reopening the straight of Hormuz the thing they would be proposing would be sanctions on Israel that meaningfully limited their offensive military capacity. Ending the War is the most direct route to opening the straight.

Basicaly the whole point of Hegel to my mind at least is that I can simultaneously hold the somewhat contradictory potions that going to the Moon is right and good in a ST:DS9 Far Beyond the stars sense and that also Gil-Scott Heron's Whitey on the Moon is fair and reasonable critique of society.

Firing his AG won't change the fact that most of the world thinks Trump is a nonce.

Handsome from any angle. 🐢💚

Love listening to the quiet technical competence of the NASA launch control team. Such an antidote to so much that seems to be wrong in the world these days.

"There's nothing to do on the moon", what would I do with myself: I'd have to, like, contemplate my place in the universe, ponder the vastness of the cosmos, the fragility of life and our shared humanity or something.

Does Trump even have the political authority to remove the US from NATO. Like, it's a treaty ratified by congress surely. Surely he needs at least an act of the legislature at the very least, and given the scope of the decision possibly even one might argue a direct public mandate via plebiscite.

Fresh lettuce goes cronch. 🐢💚😋

And I say, once again, 'Fuck Labour' which promised to fix this and has done exactly the opposite.

"I am Felix Aurelian and I shall have my vengeance in this life of the next"

New Kneecap slaps if that's something you're into. Like some of their best work.

Who let the frogs out// Who, who, who, who, who?

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Would feel a lot more confident about the UK government's inquiry into CSE being evidence based and not pandering to the prejudices of the far right if there hadn't been a similar scale inquiry in the last two years that had made similar claims and then failed to deliver on them.

He stopped napping, decided that was a silly thing to do so he's napping again.

If there were any credibility in the "This is not an apartheid state, and this is not a state sanctioned genocide"

Really enjoying that Olivia Rodrigo cover of Book of Love. She's just a ridiculously good singer.

A sleeping tortoise for your consideration.

Hegseth almost seems to get it here:

How much does this just ooze Domestic Abuse vibes: Come back to bed babe or I'm canceling the kid's birthday party

I have the last slice of apple pie. (in my house for now, not like, for the rest of eternity or anything).

you can do it baby dino! 🦕🐸

Tort munch. 🐢💚😋

Off the top of my head the best Album of the last 30 years is NIN's The Fragile.

If the UK were to meet it's own gas needs via the North Sea it would need to increase the rate of extraction by 180 times compared to the 2010-24 average, we produced approximately one month of gas in that 15 year period. Climate concerns aside, we've already used up almost all of a finite resource

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I've got a 1st class physics degree, the paths evil me could've taken to enrich myself at the expense of the public good are too numerous and varied to mention. I guess start with middle management at BAE systems.

Kinda wild that the same government who very loudly claim people seeking asylum should follow not enter the nation by irregular means also think we shouldn't offer student visas to people who come from nations that they know people can make legitimate asylum claims.

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

The British far right will be like: "End the genocide of my people" and the 'genocide' they're talking about is fundamentally that Olivia Dean exists.

Doesn't seem controversial to me that political donations should be made in the legal tender of the nation. Like, banning crypto donations is perfectly reasonable and legitimate.

Today's tortoise mood is NOPE.

Of all the shitty things Trump has done paying a French energy firm $900Million of US tax money to not build a wind farm that they had planned is somewhere in the middle, but also it's really quite bad when you think about it in isolation.

Today's frog is the Chaco tree frog.

Mam is a fairly committed progressive who by her own admission 'doesn't really understand the trans stuff' but who is despite being lured in by TERFy types over the past few years quite firmly on the correct side of the issue, isn't sure if she can join the WI having been to a few meeting recently.

A chomping may, or may not be occuring.

Tort.

Discover the fascinating desert rain frogs! These unique creatures thrive in clusters and love to burrow. Learn about their near-threatened status today!

Got charged £0.88 for paying too much money into the bank.

Trying to work out the exact number of years it'll be before we get a biopic staring Jonah Hill as Donald Trump.

Tort!

Happy World Frog Day to everyone from all the Stickyfrogs! 🐸🌏😀🐸 They send Treaties to all their cousins around the world and an Extra Big Smile to the Amazing Frog Scientists working to protect them! #worldfrogday