We’re not involved, they’re just taking off from here

Again - Brits who are horrified by the actions of ICE in the US should pay attention to the cruelty and violence that their own government inflicts on immigrants here.

"Italy blocks our ship Aurora after the rescue of 44 people, who survived 5 days on an oil platform. We are now threatened with a fine of up to € 10,000. 71 people in the Mediterranean have been missing since the deadly Easter shipwreck."

There appear to be several Doris Day & Rock Hudson films on the iPlayer currently. For what it's worth I think Pillow Talk (1959) is pretty entertaining.

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.

Again, I don’t see how you can read this as anything other than Trump trying to normalize the idea of using nuclear weapons

It’s the same in Britain, where we have to ask ourselves: how come we keep supporting the horrifying war crimes of idiots and lunatics? And the actual, unedifying answer is: it doesn’t matter how stupid or cruel the mad emperor in Washington is, we kiss his arse regardless.

There is no excuse for downplaying or eliding the insanity of Trump’s morning post. It is the most unhinged public comment by a president in US history and should be reported and remarked upon as such.

The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as: “Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”

re-last post: also the last thing we need right now is more pleased with themselves scientists doing light entertainment, fuck no

Bruno Pinto and I found no significant educational benefits of humour in science communication in our study last year. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10..... This does not mean it's not worth doing if people enjoy it. Or maybe the jokes weren't funny enough. More research needed, as per usual

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What's your favourite story from space?

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

Perhaps it was on a defensive mission over Iran

anyway, the World Cup Cyclocross! On December 13! In Kelvingrove Park! was what I had to use Ticketmaster for; don't forget to get yours, friends www.ticketmaster.co.uk/artist/5220422

Scholars urge BBC to rethink changes to archive access Matthew Reisz for @timeshighered.bsky.social on the profoundly problematic (my words) research restrictions at BBC Written Archives [£; but free to read if you register] www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scholar...

I wrote a post about the instruments shown in this image and the two museum labels that have accompanied them since 2011. teleskopos.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/r... #histSM 📜

Lewis explains (I paraphrase heavily) that if you scream abuse and insane roaring accusations at left wingers and liberals, and calculatedly fuck over and expel their representatives, then left wingers and liberals will get upset and the won’t vote for you any more. To which I can only say: Yes.

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

Colonisation was also bad because colonial powers laid claim to strategically useful or resource rich territory which allowed them to gain advantage in the imperialist struggle between nation states. Is it too "humanities brained" to think this might be worth thinking about wrt "space colonization"?

This Easter weekend, there are a number of counter protests against far right anti-migrant demonstrations in cities around England. If you're taking part, make sure you know your rights greenandblackcross.org/guides/key-a...

And so it continues, the despicable illegal war of the Americans and the Israelis against the people of Iran. www.egyptindependent.com/us-israeli-b...

as a correction to a previous point of mine, if i were accused of being involved in espionage, the last thing i would want in the world even moreso than being accused of being inappropriate with one nuclear sub captain, would be news stories involving me trying to initiate a tryst with TWO of them

Is there a term for this www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

sad

the Wellington Cone has had its day, the Glasgow Twee Industrial Complex should pivot to BREAK ASS FOR EMERGENCY A SS on tea towels and postcards and that

Source www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Former Palestine Action prisoner Qesser Zuhrah was arrested today by counterterrorism officers, allegedly for social media posts supporting "direct action". Direct action means taking demands directly to the source of a problem, rather than asking others to intervene, and is entirely legitimate

Oh my goodness, we are all absolutely astonished to learn they behave like this. And the language, the way they talk about their colleagues! It’s come as an enormous shock to everyone, and it raises troubling questions about blah blah blah

From “of course I’m not transphobic, I’m just taking a job to bring joy to kids” to “you’re imagining transphobia” in less than a month.

War Crimes, all of it

The Knesset just passed a law mandating "Death Penalty for Terrorists", that will effectively apply only to Palestinians.

Investigation reveals Muriel Furrer was not found for 82 minutes after her fatal crash, as case closed www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/inves...

My one regret from Saturday's demo was not stopping at the Woodcraft Folk stand on Park Lane to partake in badge-making, should have done that

"This is not a comfortable argument, and most crucially, it was not addressed to tech companies or policy makers or open source developers." tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi...

In the comments Helen is blaming Lindy West for the decision to overturn Roe vs Wade

I like how the Volta Ciclista a Cataluyna leader's jersey is a Celtic shirt

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

Here is the British Journal of Sports Medicine's consensus statement after the World Athletics announcement: a "harmful anachronism" bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/7...

Pure propaganda for the BBC to be claiming it's not possible to know how many people attended, or to treat the police's fake estimate with any seriousness. The fact that they didn't have any clear presence reporting on the crowd tells you a lot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have a full page report in today's @irishtimes.com on Israeli attacks on healthcare in Lebanon & the crisis of international law. Read it online or in the print newspaper: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this.

Complaining that the people we're trying to bomb into submission aren't playing by Queensberry rules

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

For today's Together Alliance march, the Metropolitan Police says it's "hugely regrettable" that a feeder demonstration by the Palestine Coalition is starting a half-mile away from a synagogue because of last week's shameful arson attack in Golders Green. Blaming protesters for this is outrageous

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government www.gov.uk/government/s...

Liberal journalists looking for why they're so hated can examine their own silence on this and other examples of the endemic islamophobia of their industry, in service of securing the next podcast gig with Times Radio.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com