Jenrick highlights how appropriate it is that the town he represents is an anagram of "wanker".

Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.

Trump’s Middle-East Fleece Plan

I'm sure we have some nuclear waste that we could store at Trump's golf courses...

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

Kemi, this is just a population density map

I'm really not sure what I can say - apart from "wow 😬" - without a flood of expletives coming out. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Our nation still rests its hopes on video.

Am I the only one twitching slightly at the lab coat and gloves in the NMR lab?

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..." then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live! people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US. it's MAD.

Renewable energy gives countries back their sovereignty from people like Trump and Putin

Nothing is more important when you're doing some illegal warfare than finding out what Elon and the arseholes left on X have to say...

Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.

So we can expect the construction of Trump Tower, Caracas in the Kingdom of Donalduela to start any day now. And an oil pipeline, presumably.

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

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.

Guess we shouldn’t be surprised when the Department of War starts one.

“and in other news, President Trump has ordered the bombing of Venezuela” “Caracas?” “not according to his doctors”

It's also such an easy political win. Point to Musk donating to far right groups like Rupert Lowe's and his previous support for Reform and say they're being funded by a noncebot.

Yes. Anyone who can read English to a decent level can understand this. Would've thought that was a prerequisite to being the chief political commentator at the Indy and a visiting prof at King's...

2026 won’t be better than 2025 unless we try to make it so. Over to us now.

And! I’ve been looking all over for this and finally found it

We have to choose good every day. We have to choose acceptance and equality and equity and justice. None of us are inherently beyond that. And the first step to doing good is recognising that you aren’t better than anyone else.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

there is no spoon

Lab benches, too - never the right height.

It's a crime we never got Muppet Hunt for Red October where the only humans are Connery and Tim Curry.

I can't venture to compare the expressiveness of English and Spanish, but I love Jorge Luis Borges's observations about how a skilled writer will use English's two distinct registers — the Germanic and the Latinate — to convey shades of meaning.

This might be a Christmas present for someone looking for a position in #TheoChem #CompChem #ChemJobs Faculty position in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Liege, Belgium www.uliege.be/cms/c_205421... Via the Psi-K mailing list www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

What with Tate and Paul getting knocked on their arse, and Williams finally outed a few days ago, this further news makes me think we're living through a Karma Advent Calendar, and boy could we be in for a treat on Christmas Eve tomorrow. Fuck the lot of these people.

Why, is Andrew on them?

If you are interested in main group heterobimetallic dimetallocenes, I have a fully funded PhD position open within my group. This project is a collaboration with the Kaltaoyannis group and @millsgroupchem.bsky.social. Home students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'm watching The Wrong Trousers and it's bonkers to watch it now, since a provincial museum in the north of England in an animation from 1993 has better security than the Louvre.

Getting AI to survey the literature for you is like feeding a journal to a dog and expecting to find some useful insights in its shit.

New fully-funded PhD position in my group on simulation of X-ray spectroscopy of actinide systems: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

See also teaching. It's important that the student does the work. Outsourcing to an LLM does nothing for learning necessary skills. And universities having policies to "Ensure students are trained on AI" is complete nonsense. Any graduate can easily use AI.

Hype. No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

A colloquial German word about someone viewed as low on intellect, especially popular in the 1990s, was Teletubbyzurückwinker. It means “one who waves back at the Teletubbies.”

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

I'm still amazed that the OfS allowed their rebrand. The Bolton Institute of Grifting and Corruption might have been a more appropriate name...

i have at least two questions

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

Get a load of this. 😆