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Greta Thunberg is such a class act, even when she's been horrifically mistreated by the IDF she does not make it about herself and remains consistent in her messaging in wanting the relentless campaign of oppression and genocide against the Palestinian people to end.

Greta Thunberg provides the perspective that most western media will not:

It’s not about a few hundred foreign nationals being mistreated by Israel for a few days.

It’s about the #GazaGenocide, deliberate denial of aid, and Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law.

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

You should be angry at private companies making massive profits from our taxes to house the most desperate people in appalling conditions... And NOT the people forced to live in them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Illustration promoting the Archival Research Visitor Programme and the next deadline date of 10 November 2025. In the background, a model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes. Milky Way illustration by ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar.

Interested in research based on our archive data?

Then the ESA Archival Research Visitor Programme might be for you.

The next deadline for applications is 10 November 2025. Check out all the application details here 👉 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/vis... ☄️ 🧪 🔭

100% agree with that! "Every Moon is super" :)

A kangaroo plushie dressed in an astronaut suit stands on a table surrounded by stickers to take. The kangaroo is carrying a boomerang and an Aboriginal flag.

KANGANAUT! 👩‍🚀🦘That is all.

Looking up at a very yellow tree, in front of a bright blue sky with little puffy clouds

Looking across a grassy meadow where a couple of dogs are walking, to bright yellow-orange trees that are lit up by the sun, under a bright blue sky

Looking across a grassy field toward a large yellow barn and yellow trees, with puffy, flat-bottomed clouds marching toward the horizon in a bright blue sky.

Lots of tall white-barked trees in green and red woods, with bits of blue sky peeking through. A yellow dog is walking through the trees, and there are yellow leaves all over the ground.

Fall is happening so hard here. Gotta enjoy it, the colours will probably be mostly gone within a week!

Ok there's going to be a rather ranty blog coming soon... I've had enough.

Oh hey look I'm on CNN with a really wishy-washy summary of an email I wrote about Planet Y!

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/science/planet-y-solar-system-study

(Haha tooooooo many freaking interviews....)

A very relaxed stripey grey cat leaning her head on a keyboard tray and sleeping happily.

WOW so many emails and Zoom meetings and battling my cat for the keyboard.

Gold artefacts tell us stories - where gold came from, stories about who made them & how. Those stories weave into bigger picture of life in these islands thousands of years ago. We're currently only scratching surface.

But if we lose these items, we lose rich history that belongs to us all.

😔

Bronze age gold jewellery stolen in raid on St Fagans museum in Cardiff South Wales police issue public appeal for information after burglary at one of Wales’s most beloved museums

Awful news! Following the theft of the Ely Bronze Age torc & a Bronze Age bracelet in 2024,now more Bronze Age gold has been stolen from St Fagans Museum in Cardiff. 😔

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A spiral galaxy with large, open arms. A bar of yellow light, where old stars are gathered, crosses the middle of the disk. The very centre is a white point surrounded by a small, shining ring of star clusters. Thin lanes of dust swirl around this ring, reaching out to follow the spiral arms; also visible across the arms are red, glowing spots where stars are forming. To the right a star shines large and bright.

✨ NGC 6951: a starbusting spiral galaxy.

Nestled away at its core, NGC 6951 has another remarkable feature: a white-blue ring that encloses the very heart of the galaxy.

The dense gas in this starburst ring is the perfect environment to churn out an impressive number of stars.

Getting the ducts and vents cleaned in our house (probably for the first time *ever* in this 70+yo house). The guys working are super super nice, which I very much appreciate (I find people doing work for me to be very stressful, especially fixing stuff, which is definitely a little silly...it's […]

A selfie of me grinning behind a suspended skewer of kangaroo meat, hanging over a bed of chunky chips.

Time to eat the local fauna 🦘

Looking down a dirt road toward pink rays spilling across grey clouds, coming from a sunrise. There are some spruce trees to each side of the picture.

Good morning. It's -6C and very frosty (but at least it didn't snow...I'm not quite mentally prepared for that yet)

A china bowl full of shiny brown sweet chestnuts

I remembered a sweet chestnut tree I'd seen in the park, that was a bit pathetic then... but this is mast year!! 🏆

Despite already having been scavenged & squibbled (squirrel-nibbled!), I managed to get something! ❤️

...and it made me get off my arse, stop feeling sorry for myself & do a thing! 🤣

Hello, New Norcia 3 📡

When this new deep space antenna enters service in 2026, it will support our current science flagship missions, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, and will be a critical enabler for upcoming missions including Plato, Envision and Ariel. 🔭

A spiral galaxy with large, open arms. A bar of yellow light, where old stars are gathered, crosses the middle of the disk. The very centre is a white point surrounded by a small, shining ring of star clusters. Thin lanes of dust swirl around this ring, reaching out to follow the spiral arms; also visible across the arms are red, glowing spots where stars are forming. To the right a star shines large and bright.

A galaxy with a starbursting centre 🌟

Around the heart of NGC 6951 is a a white-blue ring that churns out an impressive number of stars.

Using Hubble data, astronomers have found more than 80 potential star clusters within it!

Read more 👉 esahubble.org/images/potw2... 🔭

A pile of small glass mosaic cubes in shades of blue, green, and yellow, on a white surface.

#MosaicMonday: colourful #Roman glass tesserae found in Geneva/Switzerland, dating 3rd/4th c. AD. 

Mosaic cubes were made of stone, pottery, tile, or glass. Glass tesserae were rather fragile. They were used rather rarely in floor mosaics to provide colours that...🧵1/2

#archaeology 🏺

I’m back on tour with my new book DOMINATION this week - travelling to Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull & Northampton. Expect plenty of monasteries, basilicas, hypocausts as I explore the end of the western Roman Empire and why it’s still relevant today!

I've had fun going through these this morning... soooo many 'names'! 😊

OK, by this logic...the surveillance of every facet of life--from comms to movement to social relationships to etc--which has become the norm over the last decades c/o the surveillance biz model, makes LE surveillance MORE possible than it's ever been in history.

But somehow e2ee is the problem?

Reform poised to raise Kent council tax as Musk-inspired attack on costs falters ANNA GROSS - KENT Kent's local authority will probably raise council tax rates next year as Reform UK struggles to find big savings under an Elon Musk-inspired cost-cutting drive. Kent was one of 10 councils that Nigel Farage's rightwing populist party seized in a swath of local election victories in May. He vowed to save "a lot of money" by abolishing "wasteful" spending. But Diane Morton, Reform's cabinet member for adult social care on Kent county council, told the Financial Times that services were already "down to the bare bones". an "We've got more demand than ever before and it's growing," she said, stress-ing she did not believe access to those services should be limited. "We just want more money." As with many local authorities in England, the bulk of Kent's budget went on adult and chil-dren's social care, as well as on children with special educational needs, which together accounted for about 50 per cent of its £2.5bn annual expenditure. All councils have a legal duty to bal-ance their books and will set next year's budgets in February or March. Ahead of that, most councils in England are expected to increase council tax by 5 per cent, the maximum allowed. "I think it's going to be 5 per cent," Morton said of where Kent would land on tax rises, adding that every 1 per cent increase equated to an extra £10mn. Council leader Linden Kemkaran, a former BBC journalist, said Kent was a test bed for the party's national policies and the "shop window through which everybody is going to see what a Reform government might look like". She declined to say whether council tax would be raised but other Reform coun-cillors said they wanted to avoid hitting the full 5 per cent. Reform's experience highlights some of the obstacles it may face in national government if it won the next general election and pursued its pledge to slash taxes and spending. "Everyone thought we'd come …

Meanwhile, in 'ya don't f*king say' land, Reform discover that governing ain't quite so easy...

' "Everyone thought we'd come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren't," said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent. '

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Tomorrow (10/07) at 10:30am ACDT, JAXA ISAS Director General Fujimoto Masaki will give a talk (online and on-site) about the Hayabusa2 mission 🛰️🔭, as a fragment of asteroid Ryugu is unveiled for display at the Australian Space Discovery Centre in Adelaide 🪨! Register below (all free!) 🧪

I am so so tired of doing interviews. Like, actually, really, completely tired.

But I need to do more, because more incredibly stupid things are about to happen in orbit.

Just did some prep work to set up for interviews this week. Now I need to do some more outside farmy stuff (even though […]

Every Reformer in England needs to see and understand this.