Santa Claus is coming!

Why not do away with sex based categories for anything where it is not there for safety? This just looks like how men excluded/exclude women. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nice to see someone report this story properly.

"Why are out hotels used for immigrants not the homeless?" "Oh, no, we didn't mean those homeless people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing

Nothing shows peoples lack of statistical understanding like their amazment and belief in AI.

It’s the mark of an amateur – in journalistic writing, book writing, TV, whatever – that they think ideas are the currency, where the value is, and need fiercely protecting. Everyone has ideas. Usually ten before breakfast. Executing them well is the hard bit.

Urm where is the nearest Beaver to Norfolk? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

And now to stop feeding on reserves @rspb.bsky.social

Time to invoice the telegraph for using my illustration, I guess

Bravo for Lewis Goodall saying it out loud... "Affluence is essential for social democracy". Or in other words, we won't stab each other in the back if we're fat enough.

At this point Remainers should make a case rejoining the EU is patriotism because Russia was all over those who wanted to leave.

What happens if it tunlrns out not enough people care that he did?

I do not want my govenrment a party to this 'plan'.

Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people. If only there were a word for such a party.

Challenged again about whether he had stabbed anyone, he responded: 'No, not with intent'.

I think there should be a tax on people going to the papers to complain about tax

It's the hope that kills you

When are our leaders going to behave like the US isn't our ally anymore?

I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.

Wondering if anyone can confirm the left as Aglossa pinguinalis and the second as Eudonia lacustrata? 06/2025 Norfolk

So if AI succeeds loads of people lose their jobs as they're replaced by AI, and if AI fails, loads of people lose their jobs as the economy crashes?

I asked this a month ago and seems relevant today. Anyone with experience or knowledge want to actually discuss something?

Perhaps people that seem to lack basic human expressions like empathy shouldn't be listened to when they say machines can think.

It was 1938 and the man was Hitler.

Was it right for me to not shoot that man?

Also... error bars

I am quite happy to contribute a years worth of extra license fee to have the BBC call Trump his defamation threat. I don't care if they win or loose, I just know the only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them.

Jade Leung worked for OpenAI from 2021 to 2023. You would expect her to have shares, worth a lot of money - which will get more valuable if OpenAI remains only lightly regulated. Now she is the Prime Minister’s AI Adviser in No 10 - advising on AI regulation. 2/5

For all the talk of 'Broken Britain', so many things have got better.

Is this the first shots of Oswald Mosley in the new Peaky Blinders movie?

And 22% of under 40s in Yorkshire think that the LibDems do a better job at acorn picking than Ronald McDonald.

I'm currently updating and making corrections to the Ephydridae key prepared for the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social workshop. Please let me know if you've noticed any errors or anything that might need updating. Comments, DM or email to sjthomasbotanyATgmail.com please. #Diptera #entomology

It is NOT a Christmas documentary.

Tom seems to have captured the moment that a Redshank is shaking the salt out of its nares (nostrils). Waders operating in salty conditions have salt glands, near their eyes, that remove excess salt.

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk, @zackpolanski.bsky.social can we please learn from America and treat this moment like the existential threat it is and see the three of you work together.

Ah yes and lets whatch the Greens, Labour and LibDems move the numbers amongst themselves while they do noting about the proto-autocratic party.

What if there was a consensus on the tax reforms the UK needs? What if it was backed by policy experts from think tanks across the political spectrum, from the Adam Smith Institute to the Resolution Foundation? The consensus is real. The question is: will anyone act on it?

Urm they already teach mortgages in maths... it's called percentages and algrebra (they also do compound interest which is more complicated than mortgages). BBC News - Mortgages and AI to be added to the curriculum in English schools - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great talks about flies and you can join and watch remotely,- Saturday 15th Nov in Cambridge Museum for more detail - go to dipterists.org.uk/events/dipte...

It's code for we never want to be in government.

It's because when they say uncontrolled imigration they mean it's the fault of any immigrant since the middle of the 19th century.

🧪About that “152×” Yellowstone aspen claim (see WaPo headline). In a new preprint we show it’s a math error that inflated the effect by 768%. Corrected: 17.5×. Preprint: doi.org/10.32942/X2W...

The USA is now an extremist Christian country.

The Lib Dems have not helped with the misunderstanding either.

Pretty certain this means they've completely forgotten

Local, wild (not farmed) venison for sale in Lochalsh, supporting deer management. Would be great to see this local venison distribution widespread in England for muntjac.

A politics that claims to speak for "the people" against its "enemies" is always dangerous. "The people" are a glorious array of different ideas & interests, with democracy a dialogue between them. Populism is founded on a lie,so its fruits are always authoritarianism, simplism & conspiratorialism

Just to say, the people moaning about how difficult life is for young men are part of the problem, not the solution. They should have been helping young men to adapt to a new world, not making them lament a lost past. That past, with obedient, compliant women and old jobs, is not coming back.