Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information. https://archive.ph/3GGyU Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist. But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

Yes. I suspect that they hoped that some crumbs would fall off his table. But they were also seduced by talk of space travel… Plenty of people seem to be starry eyed about the idea of going to Mars.

It looks like we're reaching some kind of turning point in the titration: The #royalsociety council is going to meet on October 1st to discuss what to do about their most toxic Fellow. I wonder what they will decide. I don't envy the members of council for being in the position they have got […]

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WELCOME TO WINDSOR CASTLE, DONALD TRUMP 🏰🇬🇧 The British public greeted him with a gigantic banner right outside the castle where he’s staying with the King this week—funded by 1,770 people. This trip is all about polishing Trump’s image 🪞✨ so please […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The first thing you notice when you arrive at St Pancras is the smell. Of diesel trains. #sad

Jeffery Dahmer and I Talk Cooking Recipes

[UKpol, Unite racist march] If anyone knows who wrote this, please let me know. [Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.] ‘I was the anaesthetic consultant on call at St Thomas’ Hospital yesterday. It is on the south side of the bridge that […]

Phillips O'Brien has a pretty chilling analysis of the Russian drone… incursion? … into Poland a week ago. He points to failures on a whole series of levels, but at the core is a complete denial of the idea that Russia is on the attack. https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/nato-states-have-failed

Firing liberals over stuff right-wingers get away with every day is truly honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy.

Am I to understand that after arresting many hundreds of quiet people holding signs under "terrorism" legislation over the past few weeks, after hours of "significant aggression" and "unacceptable violence" today the police arrested a total of NINE people? How reassuring that the new Home […]

Brian Kilmeade makes a great strudel! #firekilmeade #foxnews #USpol

WATCH: “Americans, you’re getting shafted.” @drmichaelsays.bsky.social on the obscene medication costs in 🇺🇸 vs. the rest of the world. Our system is broken. #MedicareForAll

Just tried a Brompton with Schlumpf mountain drive on the 18% slope nearby. Holey Moley Schlumpenroley! What an invention!

A very old friend of mine has gone on hunger strike to protest at Switzerland’s failure to act on Israel’s actions in Gaza. Quite a step. I ask myself whether I could do the same and under what circumstances. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kEpqkDf0G5c

Hardly the biggest issue tonight but it just feels deeply unsettling that the British government remains committed to communicating on a platform which is currently making it very hard for its users to avoid an unmoderated murder video on loop.

Another #prom night. Georgian polyphony with the Great Rustavi choir coming up, live on BBC Radio 3. Harmonic marvels (and fingers crossed for a spot of krimanchuli)

I’d like to be the umpteenth pedant to point out that British judges do not use gavels. US judges do, but not here or in the Commonwealth. Amazing what insidious impact American courtroom dramas have had on our psyches. https://mastodon.online/@streetartutopia/115168441681791203

– Videoen er en satirisk knyttneve. Den rammer inntil flere ømme steder i den norske selvforståelsen som et humanistisk foregangsland.

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#bd #livre #bandedessinee #bande_dessinee

😕 🇺🇸 We are very far off the cliff here folks

The president declares war on Chicago 😕

Using the US military as a force within the US against American citizens and immigrants rather than abroad against international threats is a good example of the type of mission shift I anticipated:

Here’s @walkerbragman.bsky.social explaining why @SenSchumer & @RepJeffries refusing to endorse @ZohranKMamdani is a big deal — it confirms what many believe about corporate Dems. As Zohran puts on a messaging clinic in every appearance.

I miss the days when "tilting at windmills" was a metaphor: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

It took 68 years to build the first 1 TW of solar, just 2 years to add the second. At the current pace, we’re on a 1.5-year doubling curve: 4 TW by 2026, 8 TW by 2028, and 10–14 TW by 2030. Panels aren’t the limit anymore—BESS & lithium are. ⚡☀️🔋 #EnergyTransition #Solar #BESS #Lithium #LFP

Can anyone recommend a clock repair place in London?

Just seen “Put your soul on your hand and walk”. Amazing and deeply moving film: conversations by phone between a film maker and a young photographer /photojournalist Fatima Hassouna living/trapped in Gaza. Terrifying and rivetìng intercut with Fatima’s wonderful photos of life and death in […]

Status: happily waterlogged. We needed the rain. But the sight of so much run-off and so many blocked drains along my cycle-ride this morning makes me wonder what happens the day we get what Italians call "una bomba d'acqua" (a water balloon of rain)

Spent several hours deleting mysterious duplicate quiz questions in Moodle - over 3000 so far. If you are using #moodle 4.x you are well advised to take advice before duplicating any quiz - my Question Banks were almost unusable.

I sometimes find that BBCWS's "People Fixing the World" is a bit lightweight. But today's there's a great episode from @helenczerski about flood defences in New Orleans. What makes it even better is the fact that Helen pronounces the name of the city correctly. #frontyardfloods #water #floods […]

Super smart visual tension and analogy.

Conservatives basically have a moral disability -- a pathological inability to extend empathy beyond their immediate circle -- and they don't even have the good sense to be embarrassed about it.

ICYMI — JD gave the game away on Bolton 👇🏽

Willie Nelson's song about Greenhouse Gases. I'm grateful to Peter Sinclair for the link - like him I'm amazed I'd never come across it. https://youtu.be/XgYQ2ntkwhk

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social I think that it’s time that Smotrich and Ben-Gvir came out and used the L Word that was used to justify German expansion….

So my question is whether using Microsoft cloud products is in breach of GDPR in UK or in Europe if data held by “the controller” can be shared with a third party (the US) on demand. https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/115067678552867460

I missed this in February - a chilling paper in The Lancet looking at life expectancy at birth in Gaza from 2017 to 2024. #genocide quantified. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/fulltext

@sellathechemist yep, a bit kne-jerky indeed: I have no sympathy for REF (etc) but I don't think we can blame those crimes on it. What is most shocking is the passivity of institutions in spite of the seriousness of what happened and in spite of the phenomenally enormous amount of work that […]

I missed this in February - a chilling paper in The Lancet looking at life expectancy at birth in Gaza from 2017 to 2024. #genocide quantified. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/fulltext

Did I read this right? Yvette Cooper is quoted as saying Israel is committing crimes against humanity in Gaza. That's quite a shift in tone, even though she doubles down on the Palestine Action arrests […]

The point isn't about yesterday, which went about as well as we could have hoped. It is that Europe has had nearly a decade to deal with the fact that the US is no longer a reliable leader and failed to do anything about it until v.recently. Now, because of that, our fate hangs on a crybaby madman.

Did I read this right? Yvette Cooper is quoted as saying Israel is committing crimes against humanity in Gaza. That's quite a shift in tone, even though she doubles down on the Palestine Action arrests […]

If you're in Puglia (which the FT say is the new Tuscany) head to Bisceglie to admire the fine Norman/romanesque churches and drop in on an exhibition of @maicolemirco cartoons. Then don't miss Trani, Andria's Castel del Monte, Barletta and on and on and on […]

Around the table right now, EU leaders are trying to drag Trump onto their position — raising the need to repatriate kidnapped Ukrainian kids, underscoring the need for a ceasefire — and Trump is instead rambling about his trade deals and the six wars he supposedly ended.

A sign of just how absurd all this is: Emmanuel Macron just thanked Trump for coming up with the idea of a ceasefire (which isn't even remotely true) right after Trump explained that he doesn't care if there's a ceasefire or not. It's like trying to negotiate with a child.

🔥 MUST-WATCH: “And that’s why it’s important to teach ALL history, Jillian — not just cherry-pick certain % when they work for your argument.” @debunktionjunction.bsky.social fires Jillian Michaels’ claim “only 2% of whites owned slaves” into the sun Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DNdRlSB...

Uninformed, panicked, outraged: “Children are being starved by the Israeli government!” Informed, calm, unconcerned: “They’re mostly starving SICK children, but I guess that doesn’t fit your narrative.”

You’re so close to getting it, Marge. #MedicareForAll