Who needs facts, eh? What a dumb timeline we’re in.

UK and Canada currently scratching their heads…

Not sure why BBC didn’t just show this chancer the other clip. Shouldn’t be left to Bluesky.

The temperature is expected to soar beyond 45 degrees in parts of Victoria on Tuesday, and it's predicted tens of thousands of grey-headed flying foxes will perish around the state. Volunteers are calling for @DEECA_Vic to help them reduce the deaths. au.news.yahoo.com/dire-predict...

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. “James Gillray’s map of England as King George III, crapping ‘bum boats’ into France’s mouth.”

Hmmm…Greenland looks like a classic market manipulation for the select few - follow the money.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

@iandunt.bsky.social www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

Genuinely shocking but regrettably unsurprising from this administration.

Time to ask Albanese which side Australia is on if this happens.

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF. https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

Greenland is giving me a Molotov-Ribbentrop vibe and I don’t like it.

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

If Reform got in and introduced the birth rule, England would lose Stokes and Bethell for starters. #ashes

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

You have literally no understanding of what you and your ilk have unleashed in our world of teaching and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. I have spent hundreds of hours over the last year dealing with problems generated by your "invention." Reinventing my classes.

This is evil stuff

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

Mobile Europe's @simondux.bsky.social combined streaming stats from T-Mobile Poland with Tefficient's FWA usage and take-up stats into a story on how streaming dominates mobile data usage and why FWA will dominate mobile network traffic. www.mobileeurope.co.uk/t-mobile-pol...

'There is no peace process. This is not negotiations over peace: it is the transmission of surrender demands from Russia with the active facilitation of the United States.' Read @keirgiles.bsky.social analysis on the Trump administration's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine⤵️

New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop." AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

And yet the country continues to flirt with Reform…

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@helenhayes this is not a Labour Party Labour voters recognise and if it doesn’t change course it will be consigned to history as an execrable exercise.

MAGA is through the looking glass.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

AI and LinkedIn are a match made in hell.

Fantastic news for the rarest (and largest) wombat.

Global Uncertainty Index F*** everyone who voted for all the shit.

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

Why this framing? Because the crisis runs deeper than fake news, vaguely defined ideas of loss of trust in institutions, or polarisation. It’s epistemic collapse, when we lose a shared sense of truth, deliberation becomes echo-chambers, and accountability turns performative.

North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Eye-opening

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies. This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD. www.umass.edu/news/article...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X 🧪

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up! We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

This is pretty shocking.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

High immigration and the UK-EU trade deal softened the damage of Brexit Farage would expose Britain to the full cost of his ideological follies

EMEA’s mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth – Tefficient - By @simondux.bsky.social in Mobile Europe www.mobileeurope.co.uk/emeas-mobile...

👀 this is sociopathic behaviour.