If you've never listened to The Bugle before this would be a fantastic place to start. Not only are @zaltzcricket.bsky.social, @alicefraser.bsky.social and @natogreen.bsky.social as funny and intelligent as ever, but hearing Nato talk about finding hope in the world was wonderful and very moving.

Reform won't be happy until the world lies in cinders.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

How does the new Senedd election voting system work? I tried to do 2 impossible things: 1. Explain it simply. 2. Explain it in one take. This election really matters so please share to help as many people as possible exercise their right to have a say over their futures.

A few hours ago, my timeline happened to go from some extraordinary photographs from the Artemis II crew 250,000 miles away exemplifying expertise, courage, and the fragility of our planet, to one of a screenshot of Trump threatening to wipe a "whole civilization" from the face of the Earth.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

NASA's live feed on the Artemis launch is here, and it's just started broadcasting: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U... I don't anticipate much happening for a while - the launch is currently scheduled for 11:24pm UK time. But keep an eye on the feed and share the link.

A massive happy release day to The Twilight Sad, whose 6th studio album "IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE" is out NOW on Rock Action Records. 💛🎉🎉 Already landing to rave reviews across the board, it's available on digital, CD and LP 👉🏼 twilightsad.lnk.to/goodbye Artwork by DLT.

The U.S has already spent $29 billion on the Iran War. That money could fund the free lunches of every public school student for the entire year.

They already can. They just don’t want to pay a fair market rate for it. Just take a moment to grasp that: this trillion dollar industry, which is apparently going to reshape the world, and which is rich enough to build its own nuclear reactors, has an existential need for our IP…

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

Harry Maguire? You know April Fools Day is two weeks away right? And in what universe is Harry Kane underrated? I can't watch a Bundesliga game involving Bayern where he isn't regularly described as the best striker in Europe, if not the world.

From The Archives:

It's the caring labour of coding that is constantly rendered invisible. Real Men move fast and heroically break things, ripping the future into the present whether we like it or not. Caring whether it's fit for purpose and methodically examining what's being proposed to assess it is for pussies.

Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. 'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

A few doctors striking for a few days will not be what causes the collapse of the NHS. Years of chronic underfunding and mismanagement will do that for you.

You want niche? Oh, we got niche.

When we talk about the need for a Hillsborough Law and for a change in the culture of the police, you only have to look at this tone-deaf, brazen and offensive response to the IOPC Hillsborough report from the South Yorkshire Police Federation

One for the kids

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This.

I'll take my shot at refutation. I don't hate America. I loathe everything you and your kind is doing to undermine and destroy its honor, promise and humanity. So I will join with millions of others in dissent, which is the most American thing there is. You lying, fearmongering, cowardly trash.

Worst. Rapture. Ever.

Can we also stop supplying weapon parts to Israel, suspend trade and impose a sports and cultural boycott to try and ensure there's a Palestine left to recognise?

A timely reminder that as President Trump attacks wind power, his sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for...bitcoins.

🔴 NEW: How disinformation spreads, why trust in institutions is collapsing, and how social media platforms fuel conspiracy movements and populist surges. Highly recommend this conversation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-algori...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Yes. The rest of us can learn that if one keeps repeating the same absurd maxim, backed up with plausible-sounding pseudoscience, we too can transform ourselves into a marketing vehicle potent enough to overcome both common sense and toxic workplace allegations and achieve sustained press coverage

Here's the world's richest (or 2nd richest) person calling for the violent overthrow of the democratically elected British government.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing #September11

Jerry Seinfeld had some thoughts at an appearance at Duke last night www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Alarmingly, 3.8 MILLION children faced hardship. That’s more than 1 in 4 kids growing up in households where parents are struggling to make ends meet or are skipping meals. A whole generation of children have now never known life without food banks.

OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart

🔴Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

There was a time when mainstream politicians and leaders of various stripes would have called this out for what it is, far right racism Now it’s being regularly and nonchalantly peddled my members of the shadow front bench in the House of Commons

❗️Two weeks ago, the PM said: 'I want to get child poverty down.' And we’ve got the answer… ➡️ Scrap the two-child limit.

PSA: Food banks shouldn’t need to exist in the UK. Let us explain why... 🧵

It saves us money on insurance, it saves lives and it saves the NHS money. But some people just can't manage to keep to a lower speed limit. And adding to it, Newport city council have ignored "valid concerns" and are intending to raise the limit back to 30 on 3 roads where schoolkids walk. Crazy.

"David Dinsmore is emblematic of everything that has gone wrong with the relationship between power and the press" Starmer has appointed a former Editor of The Sun – who has a criminal conviction under the Sexual Offences Act – as a communications advisor. Again, as always, the water we swim in.

Children experience more severe health issues due to poverty 📢 New report found: - 79% of paediatricians say impact poverty's having on health of children is becoming more severe - Children missing appts due to transport costs - Life-threatening conditions worsened by damp homes