Adidas: what if we made clothes based on the evil air con guys from Terry Gilliam's Brazil? www.dezeen.com/2026/06/30/r...

I just saw this and it made me take my sunglasses off exactly like the guy in Jurassic Park. There's a story here, and I don't even know what genre.

Climate change isn’t a distant warning anymore. It’s here. The UK is in another heatwave, and this is what our “normal summers” are starting to look like.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

I will continue to be excited by graphs like this one. It shows UK electricity demand over the past 24 hours (white line) and the amount that is supplied by renewables (green). It reached 90% in the middle of the night & was 80% for much of the day. 🎉🎉🎉. Still lots more to do, but we’re on the way.

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed

being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

The horn of Africa is grieving because their -Their farms are no longer yielding -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our major rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

Meet the new toilet monitor, same as the old toilet monitor

This cartoon by Ella Baron from the Guardian today actually made me well up a little. We will keep fighting. Together.

oh golly gee i wonder if that's coz the previous government, Reform, and the current government all push the idea that we're being invaded by swarms of our fellow human beings

This government has participated in genocide. Here is a simple test for any would-be successor to Keir Starmer: Would you establish a full, independent, public inquiry into the government’s complicity in the greatest crime of our time?

I've been out as trans for nearly 11 years, on T for exactly 9 (!), and still consider it an exciting novelty to get called a 'lad' 🏳️‍⚧️

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On how to handle transphobic trolls online (and some words about what motivates them). www.crossdreamers.co... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

I've been resistant to using AI until recently, but this article really clearly delineates the impact of human engagement during the writing process compared to tasks like code de-bugging: friction from generating new understanding, vs friction before implementation www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.” — Ray Bradbury

🌍 The Horn of Africa is in mourning. Farms are barren, deserts are advancing, rivers are drying, pests are spreading, and crops are dying. Climate change is not a distant threat,it’s here. #ClimateAction #HornOfAfrica #ClimateCrisis

thinking about the gould quote again

If Keir Starmer resigns and we end up with Wes Streeting I’m going to crawl into a printing press

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

We're on the verge of a genocidal, nuclear war that our supposed "ally" has said he's ready to unleash. Would it be too much to ask for the Prime Minister to have something to say about it? Or do? Suspend US bases on UK soil now.

I think Keir Starmer should have more to say about the President of the United States threatening to kill an entire civilisation than a musical festival cancelling itself coz of a fucking dogshit booking.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

A collection of the most whimsical items in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library: 1. A board game (?) named Peanuts to President

This is in my lecture about design this pm, but it could usefully be applied to so much: “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” - E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful

In the future, this will be precedent for a situation where they did not use the 25th Ammendment and allowed a president to continue

I got a badge maker for making pronoun badges at the Trans+ STEM symposium on Friday!

Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, made 31 years ago.

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

I'm running the Cambridge half marathon in a few weeks to raise money for Alzheimers Research, in memory of my Nan, and in honour of my mum who cared for her with infinite gentleness and patience throughout other upheavals in her life ❤️ www.givengain.com/project/liam...

Boys are about three times more likely to be diagnosed as autistic than girls are. But a new study shows women and men are almost equally as likely to be diagnosed with autism by adulthood—suggesting younger girls may be underdiagnosed. spklr.io/6046D3D9u 📊: @unamandita.bsky.social

Travel funding is available for our Trans+ in STEM symposium in London on 27th Feb! Huge thanks to @prideinstem.bsky.social and @proud-science.bsky.social for making this possible🔬🧪🔭🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #lgbt #trans #lgbtSTEM open.substack.com/pub/transste...

There's still time to sign up for our one-day symposium for Trans+ scientists, researchers, and students in STEM! #lgbt #trans #transinSTEM #lgbtSTEM #STEM transstemuk.substack.com

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Travelling to Sweden via Copenhagen while getting push notifications about international diplomacy and my phone cheerfully starts playing this song to start my day open.spotify.com/track/0PkqVb...

Every Barbie is autistic btw, the special interests?? The fashion as uniform? The colour co-ordination??

Join us for a one-day symposium celebrating Trans+ students and researchers in STEM at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London on 27th February! Free to attend #trans #transstem #lgbtstem #lgbt #stem transstemuk.substack.com/p/sign-up-fo...

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

Thanks to @alexhorne.bsky.social, we are playing Shoe's Clues from the @taskmaster.tv crackers. Because we're at my dad's house, it includes 6 pairs of brown slip-on skechers distinguishable only by level of wear. It turns out that Shoe's Clues has a Hard Mode.

Who is being helped by excluding trans kids from colouring in shrinking keyring thingies, going 'stargazing' in the village hall carpark, and accidentally eating a firelighter you thought was a marshmallow? A pointlessly cruel action the in culture war. www.bbc.com/news/article...