The entire observable universe in one image. Artist's impression, we think. Not to any obvious scale. Art print by Pablo Carlos Budassi fineartamerica.com/featured/obs...

Threatening war crimes and mocking Islam isn't a sign of strength, it's a sign of weakness. The PM should rule out UK forces and airfields being used for any attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure. What more will it take for Starmer to call off the Royal Visit Trump craves?

Looks worth a read.

🧵 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies often cited in UK media stories on oil and gas But how independent is it? Its staff includes director of major sanctioned Russian gas firm and researcher accused of pushing Kremlin talking points New on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

A thread by someone who understands the how and why of governments wasting money on poor IT systems. Well worth reading in full.

That’s one hell of a cover…..

My friend and former colleague, the estimable Ray Corrigan ( @raycorrigan.bsky.social ) is now on Bluesky!

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Together Alliance: every major union representing millions of workers Unite The Kingdom: key speaker is the world's richest man

Lovely statue of Jennie Lee, mother of the OU, at MK station. Totally fitting place to greet visitors to MK!

“The United States contributes far more to worldwide suffering than any of our so-called ‘allies’ in NATO, and it’s high time these other countries started stepping up to the plate,” said the commander-in-chief

Is it my imagination, or are podcasts getting longer? It doesn't feel like it improves the quality.

Starmer’s decision risks repeating the mistakes of Iraq, and follows Donald Trump down a slippery slope. While Badenoch and Farage cheer this on, it is British households who are paying the price.

On the voiceless workers trapped by the US war www.itfglobal.org/en/news/gove...

Pep Guardiola: "Look around the world, we're becoming in incredible chaos and nobody moves a finger. Everything is behind-the-scenes. The world is going to collapse and still we're here talking about dark arts of one team or another. There are more important things..." More on cityxtra.co.uk 😭

Abd start the new one with AI...

A history of anarchism in Leeds... www.katesharpleylibrary.net/cc2hr6

Investment is the solution to making Europe more competitive. This is the message ETUC General Secretary @estherlynch.bsky.social carried to EU leaders from @pes.eu this morning ahead of today's #EUCO.

On point 1. of course Queen Mary I might have had a thing to say on that. It's also interesting, this airy assumption that Britain is a Christian country when the faithful including Christians are a minority in many places now. Except London of course (but the right ignores that for reasons).

Windows - @microsoft havecspent decades on an OS unable to perform its elementary functions reliably

GB News has turned into the Reform channel. After a New World investigation found hundreds of breaches of the rules on accuracy and impartiality, Ofcom has failed to do its job and act. We've seen what Fox News has done to politics in the US. We can't let it happen here.

Also occurs to me that there is a large part of the story in which individuals both drive the modern globalisation (everything, everywhere, cheap, now) and are the victims of it (optimise, economise) and that liberal guilt (I'll pay more, buy local) isn't much of an answer.

Oh.

You may be inclined to amplify Joe Kent right now because of concerns over the Iran war. Don’t. He’s an extremist with deep ties to Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers who never should have been in this role in the first place (sadly one of many in this administration). 1/

Trump Demands Staff Get King Of Hormuz On Line https://theonion.com/trump-demands-staff-get-king-of-hormuz-on-line/

...believed to be the first time individuals currently working with the ministry have spoken out about the national security risks Palantir poses... www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

Starmer found scrapping jury trials led to wrongful convictions in NI In report unearthed by the Telegraph his delegation found removing juries from Troubles courts meant cases “failing to secure reliable convictions based on properly tested evidence” www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03...

This parasite's company has billions in UK government contracts. I would very much like to know why.

Great that NHS waiting lists are falling, but I note that if this rate of progress can be sustained (374k in 18 months), to clear the 7.25m waiting list it will take nearly 30 years. The big picture puts it in context: www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

Wow... NHS and military provider Palantir CEO on gender & class im0lications of his texh. Looks like he could use a decent night's sleep, too.

okay so sam altman publically saying he wants people to rent "intelligence" from him like a power or water utility dropping the same day as a bunch of exploited african ai day laborers speaking out about their mistreatment by tech firms really tells us a LOT about what altman really means

Shy would anyone recommend Sheffield Hallam to a prospective student

Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence. Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry. We can’t have the lights go out because he’s having a strop on X.

Automated sandwich line by Bizerba.

UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI

Funil Hydropower Plant spillway gate.

Messi's legacy in tatters

The WEF identifies "analytical thinking" and "systems thinking" as "core skills", but considers "teaching and mentoring" outdated. Like Leslie, "I’m at a loss as to how we will live in a world where these skills are vital yet somehow emerge out of our very essence, without training and honing".

This is horrifying because it implies the Iranian school mistargeting was down to Claude layer in Palantir systems. What’s more horrifying is that if the rest of the article is accurate AI was a massive force multiplier for US/Israel strikes.

A DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. @evystadium.bsky.social reports. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

Hmmm...

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Belligerent, dangerous, amateur hour

IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays. The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best: