I always like Pascal’s “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” People who happen to like doing that (like me) might just not be able to understand the majority of people who really don’t.

King Midas bukake

THIS 👇 If you want to *do* something with your skepticism, listen to the main segment on this episode of Skeptics with a K. @mrmmarsh.bsky.social does a brilliant job of highlighting how we can all get involved. www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/ske...

This applies to so much about this government

A really superb bow out by @qedcon.org - so much to take away from it - for audience who asked about the #knitting, #crochet and #trans ally poems - they’ll be in the next poetry book, but here they are

Devastating news for those like me who were sure Taylor could fix them.

For balance, I should remind you that Obama once wore a tan suit

Is the error that he’s not a terrorist?

Wait til you're begging Japan for satellite data for weather forecasts. Begging India for pharmaceuticals. When your kids have to learn Chinese for engineering jobs. We had it all, and we're throwing it away. There's so much going on that science is overlooked - but it will die without your help. 3/

"Maybe if we're dismissive enough of trans rights John McCain will rise from the dead and debate us on the optimal way to structure an earned income tax credit uwu..."

Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle

Chatbot interactions for the ages.

Doomers are effectively enablers. Shut up and get out of the way

Jesus. Unbeatable

Announcing the first of our panels and workshops! Skepticism: Looking back, moving forward with @richardwiseman.bsky.social, @profchrisfrench.bsky.social, @mrmmarsh.bsky.social and @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social. How to draw anything with @kempchi.bsky.social. qedcon.org/news/2025/tw...

We're less than a year in.

How expensive is it to have peacekeeping troops (in perpetuity?) on the ground in Ukraine vs arming Zelenskyy’s army properly now to defeat & humiliate Putin?

"I think we should deploy genetically engineered racist killer wasps to every Democratic city in America to fight crime." "No! That's insane." "Oh, so you think crime isn't a problem then?!? I was in New York last month and saw a MUGGING! At least the wasps would be TAKING ACTION."

We laugh at the naïveté of old timey audiences (allegedly) jumping out of the way of footage of a train coming towards the screen. I bet we’re going to look back on this sort of thing in a similar way

🇺🇦👀 Tsar-grenade! A 155-mm shell, on which the Ukrainian military installed a fuse from a hand grenade with a delay of only 4 seconds.

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Very sad, people with chronic and terminal illnesses are understandably desperate for anything that can cure them, and these quacks out for clicks and engagement, or who directly profit from this nonsense, are all too willing to take advantage of them in the darkest hour.

I have only just now learned that Ant Middleton is not the full name of Ant from Ant and Dec

Hello neighbor...ha ha ha...hello neighbor!

Gerrymandering undermines the power of marginalized communities by manipulating district boundaries to weaken their collective voice. For Black, Latino, Indigenous, immigrant, low-income, and other disenfranchised groups, this often means remaining unheard in the places where decisions are made.

A very good point – I feel a lot of us struggle to see the difference and the former is overshadowing the latter.

The more I see people I've known go down the radicalisation spiral the more I can see the pattern. A particular combo of predisposition, bitterness, a trigger moment, attention from the new tribe.... over and over.

It's pretty funny to think about how Pam Bondi prepped for the meeting where she had to tell Trump he is all over the Epstein files

[I type “I’m sorry” on a typewriter] “Holy shit my typewriter apologized!”

I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.

They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.

Biggest lesson I learned from attending a conference on teaching critical thinking in university: Take a belief away, replace it with cool science. ESP isn't real? Damn... but echolocation is! Otherwise, you risk making your students cynical about everything. (h/t Ray Hall)

will Twitter users have to do the same? because if not I really do worry this'll be the death knell for Bluesky as a Thing in the UK

someone better do a good skeet about this because it’s probably all that future historians will know about us

This is Elon with Grok

It’s fucking bleak

Are you allowed to shoot cholesterol if it’s in self defence?

Remember kids, you'll always be glad you were organized. 😂

“The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.” 😆😂🤣 You sweet summer child.

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

Not just trolling on the immigrant origins but on the fact that, for decades, the Trumps (Drumpfs) claimed to be Swedish not German in order to sell property to New York’s Jewish community and - let’s face it - because Swedish is a sexier heritage than German. theweek.com/speedreads/7...

@iandunt.bsky.social really appreciate the Striking 13 podcast/audio-file-of-you-reading-out-a-fucking-article. Is it going to be available on Apple Podcasts? Not sure if it’s the consensus view but I find the low effort lack of edits quite charming, and I’d rather hear it rough than not at all

Hegseth wanted a more aggressive military so I guess that includes military micro-aggressions, too

Never let them fool you into thinking the war cannot be won. The only thing we lack is the will to prosecute the war to its natural conclusion.

Trump said Zelenskyy wasn’t holding the cards…well, now we know Putin doesn’t have any Blackjacks. Just another way in which his war has Backfired. I hope his pain is as unBearable as these puns (Aviation fans: please clap)

Incredible! If they really hit over 40 bombers that’s a big chunk of the fleet - about a third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. The footage of the drone going over the burning Tu-95 as another explodes in front of it is fucking art.