On today’s @jamesobrien.bsky.social @lbc post-analysis of PMQs Political Editor Natasha Clarke insisted PM @keirstarmer said those demanding an inquiry into historical grooming gangs were following a right-wing agenda. JOB rapidly and repeatedly reminded Clarke this was not true

Why are we ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment-Section 3? #NeverForgetJanuary6th

#RecipeOfTheDay is Butternut and Sweet Potato Curry – a blaze of colour, and bold flavour to match, to bring cheer and bright sustenance in this grey and dismal weather! It’s also #vegan, by the way www.nigella.com/recipes/butt...

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

Boris Johnson, who wasted billions of taxpayers £ on useless PPE, making a sick "joke" about a mass murderer for clicks. What an appalling little man.

Profound implications within neurolinguistics and second-language acquisition studies

“Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine” Christopher Morcom Paraphrased in “The Imitation Game” to reflect genius, but rather more apt when considering the list of ordinary men capable of sexual sadism in the Giséle Pelicot trial

In Europe, people can have nice solar things because their govs don't fight progress as much. Santiago Vernetta: “The beauty of the solar balconies is they are flexible, cheap and plug straight into the domestic network via a converter." Stephen Burgen www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Your friendly local Muslim & lawyer here to remind you Islamic Sharia permits abortion to 120 days, for rape/incest, when fetus is non-viable, to save the mother’s life—as a decision between a woman & her Dr Stop using our faith as your punchline. MAGA abortion bans are 100% ‘Christian’ nationalism

WRT Farage, when I see any image of him, I remember: “You're a vile one, You got termites in your smile You have all the tender sweetness Of a seasick crocodile” I cannot help but imagine thousands of insects nesting in his unhealthy, toothy, and overly smug grin.

Farage’s grin is menacing and he doesn’t laugh. He cackles

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

Kiss the sky #toronto #fog #fogTO

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Totalitarianism book review of essential reading for the next 4 years in the US. All of these titles are worthy of a position in a Xmas stocking! vm.tiktok.com/ZGdMTUeMD/

The media manufactured consent for Capitalism is really nostalgia for Socialism vm.tiktok.com/ZGdM3vWVX/

In that entire debate yesterday, only one MP made a cheap political point - trying to link winter fuel payments with assisted dying. But he's new and it was an intervention, so I didn't know him or what right-wing party he's from. Well, meet Adnan Hussain - one of Corbyn's 'Independent Alliance'. 😶

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... This podcast on WEF and The Great Reset conspiracy theory propaganda is worth a revisit

OMG this is amazing. From 2019: “More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU - the highest number of signatures in Essex - but MP Kemi Badenoch says ‘we run the country based on elections and not petitions’.” 🤣 😂 🤣

Saw an old friend last night. Back in 2016 our conversations got a little dicy when he became something of a fervent Brexiter... In pub he suddenly volunteers to me: "Brexit was a shit idea wasn't it. I mean - a really shit idea." I think we may be entering the time frame where people accept that.

Even as the ill-informed words tumbled from her gormless gob during #PMQs her own petard was dancing a jig around her neck

“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” appeared on the surface of the Amazon blurb to be a petty, shallow, violently patriarchal version of all WW2 cultural meme, and therefore a film outside of my target audience demographic. That said. I absolutely loved it.

He f*cked around. Let his ‘finding out’ be a lesson for the current intake of idiots

Did you know BlueSky only has 20 employees? We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to those 20 warriors (who are working 24/7 to keep up with the incredible growth) for giving us a space to share. We escaped hell to be here. Thank you, @bsky.app & Jay Graber CEO (not a billionaire)

I’ve just heard “Won’t You Stop the Cavalry”. Fuck. It’s Xmas, isn’t it? Bollocks

A lengthy but spellbinding Thread. 55 Tufton Street fingerprints are all over this evidence of political science 🧪

This message from Sturgill Simpson is everything 🔥🤘

Woefully pathetic

Most people outside of research are still unaware of how much the cyberattack on @britishlibrary.bsky.social is still affecting the research community one year on. Good piece covering that + need to invest in libraries www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/how-br... @timeshighered.bsky.social

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Elon’s feelers are hurted. Do not repost.

Important context here: ● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares) ● "a big farm" is 217 acres. Now let's see who's angry: ● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres ● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres ● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres ● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

Elderly men in tears…tears God-dammit…and all the little children turning to their apron’d mothers, wi’trembling lips uttering “Will papa honour his commitment in hosting the 2025 grouse hunt on t’top field, mammy?”

All my existing plans this this evening are cancelled

My new book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is an expose of what the 'custodians of the countryside' have done to nature in Britain. Out 12th Sept 2024, you can order a copy here: lnkfi.re/dsHR7n And here's my list of upcoming book talks: lnkfi.re/dwdbjr

New paper where Mel Andrews, Andrew Smart, and I outline how machine learning is laundering long discredited harmful pseudoscience and offer resources for research best practices to developers/practitioners www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Four more nudibranchs from #Humboldt tide pools for #Nudivember 🦑🤿

Sweden is prepared. “A new Swedish version of the brochure ‘In case of crisis or war’ will be sent to all households from 18 November for two weeks. Here you will find a version in English to download, order or listen to.“ www.msb.se/en/advice-fo...

“Look at the figures. 50% of UK trade, broadly, is with the EU. We cannot afford to ignore that. Then again 15-20% is with the US. So, we will have to duck and weave, but we have to do so within a very straightforward principle: Geography matters. That makes Europe more important than the US.”

Cutting winter fuel payment set to push between 50,000 and 100,000 extra pensioners into poverty per year, DWP admits - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Another splendid punctuation of two-tier hypocrisy

Five years in chokey. Right there. Presumably, the driver was arrested immediately? Nah. Didn’t think so?

You can literally see the German number plates. Because Einstein here has used a photo of a GERMAN protest in 2023. 838 people have shared it.

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Real-world Farmers problems

Found this in Austria….