I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

The River Finnow, a tributary of the mighty Blackwater, makes its way down a gentle eminence that forms part of the way into, and up to the main street of, Ballyclough, Mallow, Co. Cork. Pictured here: the Finnow through Millstreet. #spéirghorm #ireland

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Historical Demography at the University of Bradford w Jo Buckberry on the AHRC-funded project "Dead and Buried: Investigating changes in health during the Industrial Revolution using documentary records and human skeletal remains"

Trump is turning Minnesota into a test case for federal abuse of power. After lies, raids, and a deadly ICE escalation, Tim Walz is done campaigning and ready to fight back.

British politics managing to feel even more like a TV show with an increasingly lazy set of writers, in that we are just increasingly just having plot beats of 'the most generic cookier-cutter European democracy' inserted into our politics.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who make small talk with stray animals.

The game is called football. There has never been a game called soccer… or even footie. It’s football.

"waaaaait a minute, this is only TEN pieces of silver!"

So. I went looking for more information on this... because, like the OP notes (via Big Hero 6), it feels cartoonish. Turns out they're designed for urban deployment, and this one hit 6500 feet altitude. And THEY'RE INFLATED. They aren't all solid. futurism.com/science-ener...

Switched over to Foyle’s War. Sam’s at a dance and her date is Danny Dyer!

ohhhhh so none of them know yet that they’re not getting $50K after tax withholding, do they

First thought: we are boycotting Target so please shop elsewhere if you can. That store should rightly be empty. Second thought: ICE is not welcome ANYWHERE where decent people are. Not even in boycotted stores.

Community pushed them out.

This is what I meant when I wrote that "we can overthrow them with a union of care."

Well played, Transport for London

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

Someone PLEASE put the Benny Hill chase theme music to this...

Taking this opportunity, while watching Interior Chinatown, to recommend the source novel (Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu) for your very meta novel reading consideration

TROUSER SUITS NOT BIG ENOUGH.

Family nagged me for years to get hearing aids. Finally gave in and have spent the last two days oiling every creaky door in the house. Oh, and those silent but deadly farts I've been dropping out everywhere I go; they're high pitched squeakers.

At the NYC protest. Powerful and tough.

Fascism is a global movement

ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊

100% this!👇

"Secretary Kennedy has vowed to ‘end the war on vitamins,’ surrounding himself with advocates for pills, powders, tinctures & IV drips that aren’t subject to FDA approval" Yup, RFK Jr is lying when he says he's pursuing "gold-standard science"–he's pushing unproven pills/powders/tinctures/IV drips😔

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

Bit disappointed to learn everyone is leaving Twitter. I assumed all the new followers was because I'm great.

Progressive MPs swarming over to Bluesky sir! Hundreds of ‘em.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Filing a report about Twitter on the App Store actually works, everybody do it

Again, the people who seem to be most damaged by social media aren't the kids - who are quite good at navigating it - but the middle-aged, who get caught up in extremism, fooled by misinformation, trapped by scammers, and addicted to porn. Stop focussing on the kids. Start with the rest of us.

N.Haven this morning hoping fir something exotic to be blown in unfortunately not today. 76 Shag, 1 BTD, 1 GCG and 3 RBM. 2 Purple Sandpiper on the small groyne first out from the Hotel. @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @studlandbirds.bsky.social

Here’s Dean with a much better thought-out take than the one I’ve offered this morning:

Booking now for this symposium on 25 April, featuring @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social @mwait13.bsky.social @tortietabby.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social and others working on Ireland in the 1970s beyond. Hoping for some interesting discussion! @iaphistorians.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

[Werner Herzog voice] Faced with 50% tariffs, the penguin walks off into the interior of the vast continent. With 5,000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death.

My son won one of those nearly impossible to win prizes from a throwing game on Brighton Pier. The fucking thing is massive, ugly, impossible to store anywhere and it scares the shit out of the dog.

Via No Context Brits

After getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 151: You don't need to describe characters in detail as soon as you introduce them. We don't tend to notice things all at once: we notice one or two main features first, then maybe add details later. Your characters can do the same. Let them learn as they go along.

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

Corey Booker is right. At some point someone is going to have to do something or we lose it all.

Five ambulances, a fire truck and a UN vehicle were struck one by one. The bodies of the first responders were then ditched in a mass grave. A war crime. Without anything close to the appropriate level of global outrage.

Aww!! ☺️ This is such a lovely review of Totally Chaotic History: Ancient Egypt Gets Unruly, which I cowrote with Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price and illustrator @rikinparekh.bsky.social So nice to see kids & adults reviewing a book together!

Real whiplash watching the Trump message go from “we’ll fix everything on day one” to “suck it up buttercup, this is gonna hurt.”

Credit where it's due, Booker is actually disrupting things the longer this goes.