As it's now Wednesday in enough of the world - this is looking like a banner year for Acta Prima Aprilia, with a number of submissions in this year's issue: www.actaprimaaprilia.com/2026-issue Here's some highlights

How can the answer to protecting privacy be age verification? The ICO seems to think so. Their fine against Reddit for relying on self-declaration is met with a call for intrusive biometric scans or ID uploads. All this when privacy dangers are emerging within the industry. Read our new blog ⬇️

Guess what I have to do today

Today on arxiv, a preprint of Richard Cannon's (my excellent PhD student) freshly accepted paper! If you enjoyed the Rosetta mission to comet 67P, you'll like the looks of this space-duck asteroid, as revealed by radar 🔭☄️ 📡🪨

It should be illegal for estate agents to list somewhere as having parking when it doesn’t

Very pathetic of the BBC to describe E2EE as “controversial”

Excuse me but this is a perfect use of the internet. gradient.horse

I LOVED this game. Spy Fox too.

Just another reminder that it's a horrible idea for any retro or hobbyist project to use Discord as their sole repository for documentation, updates or troubleshooting docs. 🙃

People who pronounce pronunciation as proNOUNciation should have their passports removed.

The photos don’t do it justice, it’s like driving on the moon

Just found out that my student loan payments are higher than my parents’ mortgage was 😒

I used to work here - happy to give advice to anyone who’s considering this 🔭

CORRECTED MAP: there was a sign error in the input so the CSpOC location was plotted wrong. Here is the correct version:

The Royal Astronomical Society is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Read our statement 👉 ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

The amendment would require everyone in the UK to perform age verification to use a VPN. If you think that’s fucked up, sign this petition and write to your MP.

Millions of people will see something like this, and by the time it’s debunked, it’s too late. They’ll never know. What if we had a system that notifies you after the fact? When something is removed/flagged for being misleading, everyone who saw it should be told about it (maybe a weekly report?)

🔭🧪#exoplanets

Cloud-based home surveillance was always a terrible idea.

This will be popular with the public, but then everyone will be confused when you suddenly have to upload your passport to view a Wikipedia page.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

One of the Bellingcat Discord members has made Wordle, but for identifying warships keel-fawn.vercel.app

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

Trump one month ago.

The two types of astronomy post

Telescope Types xkcd.com/3182/

Encryption isn't hostile. It's a bedrock of our cybersecurity 🔐 The UK's national security laws join a long line of attempts to frame encrypted messaging as something to be broken into pieces. Without it, we're more open to threats from hackers and criminals. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

Thanks, Google

I see all the RTO mandates are going well

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Excellent use of public telemetry

My nephew just found out about Santa, and his reaction is incredible

By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations. Read our new NASA article in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Has the Carrington Event been dethroned?

It’s that time of year where I just type “yes” into the terminal to warm up the room

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

I never thought a comparison could be overly harsh on Stevenage. But here we are.

One thing nobody warns you about with observational astronomy 🔭 is that you actually spend half your time pretending to be a meteorologist ☁️

I really wish the government would fuck off with this creepy authoritarian bullshit. Nobody asked for this.

Being on that list is a badge of honour

Remember when Obama jokingly predicted this in 2011?

After today’s surgery I am ~0.05% titanium. Would not recommend.

I can finally start calling him “the Andrew formerly known as Prince”

In her WHAT

If only someone could have predicted that OSA would be a disaster

Passed my viva 🥳

Check out our tiny rock featured by @eso.org ! Now available in Nature Comms: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We measured the size using the new lightcurve shape models and old radar data #TeamRadar 📡🪨🔭🧪