This vision of the Tory Party no-longer exists. It barely exists in the Labour Party. Where is the case for 'profit for a purpose'? Where is the implacable opposition to inequality in the two old parties? It will be the task of the 'minor parties' in the years ahead to reassemble this perspective.

A good read from the Raspberry Pi Foundation about why we should teach kids to program, even as AI tools appear to make that skill unnecessary. #Computing #pedagogy #raspberrypi #programming static.raspberrypi.org/files/about/...

Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the Moon voxmeditantis.com/2025/11/19/e... #WomenInSTEM #STEM #OrbitalMechanics #NumericalAnalysis #Computing

🚨 SHOCKING 🚨 A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime. Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river. We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW. Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇

Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Driving through the middle of Avebury stone circle.

A really good reason not to choose Café Nero is the lack of respect they have for people who want coffee but not caffeine. The decaf is pre-ground and open to the air, and stale as a result. We saw this in a couple of their branches, but didn't order any decaf after the first one.

Streets that work for disabled people work better for everyone. Decluttering our streets makes our communities safer, easier to navigate and more welcoming. And we can all play a role in making that happen. If you could change one thing about your local streets, what would it be?

Thread 🧵 | My Experience with Bullying #AntiBullyingWeek 1/8 Everyone says school days are “the best days of your life.” I wish that were true. Here’s what I went through.

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

🧵 History lessons are important. UK schools now teach how Hitler came to not just rule but to cow the citizens of Germany into terrified submission. Unfortunately, older Brits just got the headlines, or were bored to tears by the perceived irrelevance of the Repeal of the Corn Laws, etc. 🧵1.

2024 was the 110th anniversary of WW1 and the 111th anniversary of your great-great uncle's ultimate sacrifice. I want to visit the Beverley memorial some day soon, also Bailleul.

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

My least favourite thing about the knife attack on a train is the inevitable increase in surveillance and restriction of freedoms due to an increase in security theatre.

You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…

Quite proud of my response to this question from my brother. 😄

Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.

Immigration levels are too low.

She should donate it to a museum.

Morning Bluesky.

Alt text done right. It's here for everybody, not just those who can't see the pictures.

PSA for night sky watchers:

No one who understands how “ai answer engines” actually work (and who isn’t committed to magical thinking about them) can take them seriously as trustworthy sources. You appear to believe they actually search for information. They do not. They synthesize responses based on proximity vector analysis.

Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.

This is a fantastic health breakthrough.

My sister painted this. I think it's awesome. www.instagram.com/p/DOtPx3SDPr...

It’s often when you have the fewest seconds to reach the Metro before it leaves that you find a puddle, a sunrise, and a tree all in the same view. But you have no choice. Freewill is an illusion. Bergkrystallen, Oslo 2025-09-21

Found this video from Chris Spargo on Youtube elucidating. Forthcoming changes to domestic waste recycling in England.

With reference to events in the US.

Before you buy the brand new Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses with the EMG wristband, you should be aware that measurement of the muscle response to electrical activity with EMG can capture and help infer highly sensitive information.

Not just Manchester - between parked cars and temporary road signs, pavements everywhere aren't fit for the purpose for which they are intended.

Great North Run Medal!!! Run through Newcastle, Gateshead and South Shields, medal looks like Sunderland.....

Shared Responsibility. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Space Engineers by @keenswh.com is getting a major survival mode update on Monday, and I'm stoked for it. #SpaceEngineers

Witnessing the rapid and extensive thawing of permafrost in Svalbard is truly impressive but deeply concerning

Apparently the UK government are doing an emergency alert test on the 7th of September so just in case anyone knows any current domestic abuse victims who would need to have their safety phones switched off so as not to be outed, please pass it in.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Now Farage is getting free publicity on Channel 5 news too. As no-one seems to be asking, for intance, The Greens, what they think, I'll post their reaction here!

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Btw, I remember there being some anxieties around folks expressing their opinions during primaries. Besides being nowhere near a presidential primary at the moment, now is in fact the time for people to express certain lines they expect candidates not to cross. Protect trans folks.

Remember, whenever you hear that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a deadly crash, what they mean is that the car involved wasn’t technically speeding. At least “not by much.” It presumes that the speed limit wasn’t too high to begin with. When it comes to death from collisions, SPEED IS ALWAYS a factor.

«I’m stuffed and just need a little nap» 🐝💤🌱🌻

One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.

My boys are too big/cool for the cargo bike now, so it totally warmed my heart to give my friend's little boys a ride today 🥰

JD Vance is in the UK RIGHT NOW!! Who’s around in the Cotswolds? 😎😎

Breaking: Rupert Lowe calls police after witnessing a small boat carrying asylum seekers, and landing them in Great Yarmouth in helicopters. 🐢💨

Storefronts don’t get more visible when they’re buried behind a wall of oversized SUVs. Bikes and pedestrians bring eyes to windows and feet through doors. Street parking does neither. Support mobility infrastructure over street parking and tear down the 4-wheeled wall to thriving commerce.

Today's letter from TV Licensing was in a red envelope. I binned it without checking whether they were professing their undying love.

No other nation puts asylum seekers up in hotels, why does the UK?