I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.

brain baked on X, by an increasingly isolated and poisonous Labour leadership culture, and of course by Belphegor, the demon who lives in the basement of Home Office headquarters and possesses every new minister.

Bluesky might be bringing in an edit button. This strikes fear into my heart - I’m very worried about the potential for abuse and entrapment. I think this is a reasonable list of safeguards, at least. Still don’t really see why all this fuss just because some of you are so damned prissy about typos

here's what we're thinking: 1) you have 5 minutes to edit a post 2) you can only edit each posts once 3) images and videos can’t be edited 4) a prominent "edited" badge appears on the post 5) version history is visible to everyone 6) your account has to be at least a week old

there are various safety and spam risks, but the core problem is this: someone writes "puppies are the best 🐶", racks up engagement, then edits it to say something horrible or swaps in a link to a malicious site. now people look like they endorsed it.

ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

I love “Automatic” by the Pointer Sisters so much, and should really investigate their Earlier Work especially as they were responsible for this #totp youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

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Wes Streeting, Angela Raynor, and Andy Burham prepare for Labour leadership fight.

Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

I would like it on record - and for the benefit of all the social media listening tools out there that monitor for sentiment - that I think Wes Streeting is a slimy, repugnant little man And judging by his resignation letter, he's also unbearably smug

LabourList’s polling is consistently a few points off to the left of the actual membership. Streeting could be as high as 27 per cent!

My latest article got Lib Dem Voice on my thoughts about the 2026 local election 👇 www.libdemvoice.org/the-2026-loc...

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Reached that stage of any British political nonsense where it becomes impossible to distinguish between breaking news from political reporters, shitposts from random people, breaking news from random people and shitposts from political reporters.

Think some of you are starting to do the Corbyn thing again with Polanski (making an individual the sole paragon for progressive politics despite flaws and dismissing or getting defensive over repeated instances of questionable character or judgement that you wouldn't accept from other politicians)

Keir Starmer has resigned, that's right, resigned himself to the fact there's a long three years ahead of being prime minister

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

And all it cost was the life of one Romulan senator, one criminal, and the self-respect of one Financial Times journalist.

Roared with delight, kissed my partner, and started crying as if it were a goal, at a decision by VAR...but *Sisko voice*...I think I can live with it.

Good to see the LibDems gradually rebuilding the Kingdom of Wessex one shire at a time under King Ædward of Davey. Just Hamtunscīr, Wiltunscir and the Vale of Teste to conquer before the kingdom is reunited to fight back the Reforme hordes of Mercia and Essex

Guess he’ll have to do all his banking transactions via PaPal.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Like, a lot less stuff. “Private jets” absolutely should be first on the list for demand destruction (and if I were advising anyone with a private jet I would be going “things are gonna get quite bad, ostentatiously do this voluntarily first”), but it’s not going to save v many people’s holidays.

This policy, the replies to this, Keir Starmer’s ‘the petrol retailers are being naughty’ statement, Ed Davey’s fuel duty tax cut, Kemi Badenoch’s fuel duty tax cut, John Swinney’s price controls…is there anyone in British politics who understands “the Iran war means we have less stuff”?

It’s important to remember that this threshold is arbitrary and SO LONG AS NOBODY DOES ANYTHING TO DISRUPT THE PETRODOLLAR SYSTEM OR GLOBAL BALANCE OF PAYMENTS THIS CAN GO ON FOREVER. Okay, now let’s just go check on Donald Trump’s tax, trade, and foreign policy agenda and oh dear god….

I am also annoyed with Sky about my renewal, but I'll talk about that on the other account.

If there's one thing that makes me never want to work in construction again, it's the Construction Industry Scheme. We're good but it's so frustratingly technical sometimes.

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Lyrics are vastly overrated. Not everything needs to be deep, meaningful, heartfelt and insightful. Sometimes everyone just needs to board the Vengabus.

Thinking about how, for a good few years, hearing Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince on the radio was the summer equivalent of the Coca Cola lorry.

Ukraine is about to get an awful lot of European money. No more Cunt's Veto. A potential turning point in the battle against Russian imperialism.

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

Go Hungary. Hope is possible.

Watched all 6 episodes of Last One Laughing S2 in one sitting last night. It's so good! David Mitchell's joker was a surprise, Diane Morgan's was hilarious (well they all were).

Artemis II was a good dose of positivity. Great crew, great team at mission control, flawless launch, flight and reentry. Amazing sights of the moon. Different mix of people. European service module. This can be the future.

HOW did they get a live shot *before the chutes deploy* #artemisII #nasa

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That camera looking out the window, as the Earth comes into view, getting closer...

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Artemis II doesn’t reverse direction like its ground track implies. Far out, its motion is mostly radial (toward Earth), so its small eastward speed is slower than Earth’s rotation, so it appears to drift west. Closer in, tangential speed grows and overtakes Earth’s rotation, so it moves east.

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

I love that the "pter" in helicopter and the "pter" in pterodactyl are the same word. The names mean "spiral wing" and "wing finger" in Greek. HT @infinata.bsky.social

Thanks for the shout-out Reid! Safe travels from your European friends at @esa.int and Airbus 💞

I think this had been bothering me without me putting my finger on it. Ed Davey was a successful Energy Secretary for three years accelerating the rollout of renewables and now he’s arguing for major fossil fuel subsidies during a global oil shortage. There’s no way he believes it!

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

AND they picked Mr Wendal.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.