Just rewatched Contact for the first time in a long time. What a great film. I’d forgotten its scale, how layered it was, how many great questions it asks. And it makes me want to watch Interstellar next.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Use this tool to find out if your local health services use Palantir software, and register your objection. It takes 30 seconds. Well done @goodlawproject.org notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Far-right tech oligarchs have the most pathetic ideology. They hate minorities, except when they are coding for them. They want no taxes, no rules, and absolutely no democracy. There is no grand vision for society, just raw greed and a relentless pursuit of personal interests

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

Happy Mother's Day!

Zack’s response to Shabana Mahmood. My friend sent this to me an hour ago. She said “This is why I will vote for the Greens. They have a moral compass of hope.” I wholeheartedly agree. Life’s difficult enough without a politician in the government advocating cruelty and marginalisation

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

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having spent a while watching this I would say that it was at its absolute funniest on the seventh, maybe eighth replay

Morning.

To de-stress, I often imagine myself as a dragon who solves the worlds problems by eating the people I deem responsible for them. I imagine the taste to be disapponting but the texture pleasantly crunchy and vindictively satisfying.

I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.

If you're going through it, there are people who want to do their best to help.

#ChristmasPresent #Ebook #ChangeEverything @hivestores www.hive.co.uk/Product/Nata...

Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect. “Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”

Nice of the BBC graphics team to capture @vicderbyshire.bsky.social’s inner monologue. #Newsnight

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

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One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes: “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.” More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

One of my favourite jobs of each year, filming the autumn production from @kes-drama.bsky.social at @kes-stratford.bsky.social This year it’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, which I’ve never seen… until now.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas." Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.

We're looking forward to Wednesday's matinée performance of Love's Labour's Lost with an audience of Y7 & Y6 pupils from local primary schools. With Saturday sold out, your only chance to watch is Thurs or Fri. Tickets are selling fast so book now before it is too late! www.ticketsource.co.uk/kes

This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Original titles to "Doctor Who" (first transmitted 23/11/63). Theme music composed by Ron Grainer; arranged by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. #DoctorWho #scifi

Does anyone know of any groups who offer support for people who have had a bad experience with the Court of Protection? Asking for a friend.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

You could be forgiven for looking forward to him being PM. 😂he will actually have to attend PMQs & fulfill his duties -what a shock that will be.🤣 He's a workshy, lazy grifter who barely fulfills his duties now as a constituency MP. Ask them, When was the last time he held a constituency surgery?

But if the government start taxing the likes of Starbucks & they leave, Are we seriously saying that Britain will stop drinking coffee? £3 billion in UK sales & they don't want to pay tax? It's time to get of the merry-go-round & use our smaller, local retailers who will pay their taxes.

Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

xkcd nails car bloat xkcd: Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Without asylum: Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist Queen would have been without a front man The other queen wouldn't have had a husband Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all . @nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧

Whimsical Illustrations and Motifs Dyed with a Traditional Wax-Resist Method Cover Caroline Södergren’s #Eggshells More info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/caro...

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Married her yesterday.