Mike Rogerson

The Venn diagram of first person shooter characters and MLB players is a circle.

So close to taking an unlikely but thoroughly deserved point last night!

Humanist Heritage: Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905) Those who, like myself, are in communication with the advanced thought and thinkers throughout the world know that hundreds —nay, […]

I'm no football fan but delighted of course to see #Lionesses retain their #WEURO2025 title. Perfect opportunity to remember humanist Florence Dixie, who, unwilling to conform to the strictures of Victorian womanhood, became the 1st president of the British Ladies’ Football Club in 1895.

First Global Comparison of Glacier Mass Change: They’re All Melting, and Fast - Eos By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its contribution to sea level rise.

The first global comparison of glacier mass change reveals a global loss of 273 billion tonnes per year, an amount equivalent to what the entire human population on Earth drinks in 30 years. 🧪

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"

And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

I... oh my god.
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The link between low-stress bicycle facilities and bicycle commuting - Nature Cities Bicycling offers a range of benefits for urban commuters, but the facilities that best facilitate bicycle lane use are still unclear. Using data from 28 US cities, this study found that bicycle lanes ...

"If you build [protected bike lanes], [bikes] will come." —science, again www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Do you need specific expertise or just to not be stunningly ignorant of basic facts?

Does he mean that they've increased the size of our armed forces by a sixth in hiring soldier number 7?

As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations.

A new KS3 BIG question from the @ministryofeco.bsky.social is "Can eating fish be sustainable?" for Biology & Food Tech. Including resources from @mcsuk.bsky.social & @proveguk.bsky.social to help children to understand there are ways to enjoy fish, or fish alternatives, while protecting the oceans.

This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it.

Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.

The sliding around on a sudden pitch didn't doing anything for my nerves!

I think I've chewed all my fingers off.

When will we know about tickets, @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social ?

I keep saying, it's not very A and not at all I.

I'm sure such a large, wealthy school will have a fully transparent investigation and do the right thing.

Even if true, it's an anxious divided nation not run on behalf of Tr*mp.

The World Needs Better Balance Sheets Traditional measures fail to capture the complexity of the global economy.

Here's a link (paywall free) to my @foreignaffairs.com article on the need for better economic measurement: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

*What* a finish. 💙

okay but the response will be 100% DEI free and each hurricane will get a name which leaves no ambiguity about whether it's a dude or a chick.

UK agrees to fly home wrongly deported Windrush generation man from Jamaica Exclusive: Winston Knight’s deportation order revoked by Home Office after a decade living on streets in Kingston

Just a reminder, in case anyone needs it, of the results of anti-migrant rhetoric. How many others aren't lucky enough to win 'protracted' (read: the Home Office is refusing to discharge its legal responsibilities) cases or are ignored and die in exile?

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Thanks for the tip 🎩

My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger

Win the fight

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment.

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I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt.

Starmer announces that immigrants should have degrees to get visas. But will reduce the number of foreign students who can come here and get degrees. So contradictory as well as small-minded then.

‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage

‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones