When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits. Due to our policies, we've done it in 9. In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

Under-explored (in my feed anyway) angle on AI relevant to the latest horrors. I have had unformed thoughts for a while on the potential uses of religion in this moment. Also stay for the parallel between Tim Leary pushing psychedelics and what current tech CEOs are doing.

SSRIs aren't the worst! I also laugh at the notion. "He doesn’t roll his eyes at people who say psychiatry traumatized them. He thinks a lot of them are telling the truth." Yes, treatment is full of bad & good encounters. Sikorav Against the World www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/sikorav-ag...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.

Mysteries of the new enshittified autocorrect: it has come up with the word “probanly” maybe because I mishit the adjacent letters b/n once and now overrides me with it every time after hundreds of correct spellings, why??

🆕 Congratulations to our academic, Dr Udit Bhatia, and the POPGOV research team who have been awarded a €9 million Synergy Grant by the European Research Council 🙌 Read more about their ground-breaking project focussed on democratic systems here ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ground-...

I quite like the idea that the tube’s gross bias towards N London is the result of Roman exploitation of ?bronze/iron age deforestation and cultivation of the area N of London while S London was held back by the impenetrability of the Great North Wood.

Short reminder that we have an #Archaeogaming session at the next #CAA2026 in Vienna! Please join us with a paper, the submission deadline is this Sunday! For more info have a look here: itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/09/26/b... #conference #gaming #archaeology

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

Oh, honey, no.

THIS IS SO GOOD

Well he seems nice.

Turns out I am from the plucky little South Eastern Ketchup Rebel Alliance and not just normal standard chip and ketchup-eating people as I believed

*Must stop retweeting the idiot AI CEOs even other people’s humorous dunks* It’s so hard though, they are so malign and so very dumb.

Sounds very compelling

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

🚨How is AI reshaping UK jobs? 🚨 Fears about AI causing hiring freezes, fewer entry roles, and pay pressure are widespread. My new research investigates whether these fears are justified. @kcl-spe.bsky.social wrote a great blog summarising my results!

This is very good

The media, who give every Nazi that puts on a suit and speaks in complete sentences without the n word a glamorous cover story profile: "Why would the left do this?"

Absolute bloody genius move; so of course it's mired in obscurity & planning difficulties...

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

it's happened, I am officially "ban selling fireworks to the public" years old

One from the actual Shire. A demonic elon musk about to be burned in effigy. #Lewes #Bonfire #Sussex 🔥

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today. Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

This CEO whingeing that the numbers are driven by a “surge” in mental health issues among the young and offering zero evidence for that whatsoever. Nothing else having happened since 2019 that might have moved the dial a bit on chronic sickness 🤔

Huge wins for the Democrats in state elections across the US last night. Chaotic authoritarianism is not popular.

This is the one, the quote for the banners I reckon

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Let's not forget that the only reason we're not talking about Boston @mayorwu.boston.gov's victory tonight is because she won her preliminary election so decisively that her billionaire heir opponent dropped out. ✊

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

I am glad to see Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick could praise the heroism of Samir Zitouni, alongside LibDem leader Ed Davey, and MPs across different parties

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

🚨🚨Things are just getting worse. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

Following the theft of France’s priceless crown jewels, we asked Professor Anja Shortland, an expert in the economics of crime (@kcl-spe.bsky.social), what the #Louvre heist reveals about museum security, organised crime and the economics of the art market. #KingsQs🧵⬇️

Excl: The driver of the train who made the emergency stop in Huntingdon, Andrew Johnson, told ITV News tonight that he was “just doing my job”. But he surely saved lives. He says the member of LNER staff still in hospital with life-threatening injuries “was the brave one”.

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

They aren't even hiding the cronyism because they know no one will hold them accountable.

Yes! This is much better than all the stupid "make November more miserable" initiatives

Posit: the early millennial Keep Calm tea towels era and all the bunting and baking and nice cup of tea etc, which was understandably mocked and picked over for problematic elements at the time, is in fact the correct way to handle the 21st century

If only we could convince governments to *offer* them to people of all ages!

I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

Updated thread on The Lost King film: I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten So what’s the real story? 1/15

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

Thinking about the Hallowe’en my dad dressed up for the neighbours’ grandchildren in a Venetian fox mask, a costume judge‘s wig and a long dark green bedsheet for a cloak, and had a complicated theatrical set up with doors opening and closing, porch lights flicking on and off etc.