Edd Edmondson

Snowshoe cat curled up asleep, paw over his face

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Letting illness run rampant in prisons is just one kind of genocide.

Dismissed UT Professor Sought Financial Contribution from Epstein Foundation Former UT Professor Thomas K. Hubbard wrote a letter to convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein requesting funds for a conference critical of new Title IX rules.

Not exactly shocking news but it's worth noting that Hubbard seems to have requested money from Epstein to fund an anti-Title IX conference (something in line with, say, his class & multiple conference talks about how women are regularly making false rape claims)

thetexasorator.com/2026/02/03/d...

Wes needs to go from UK politics. I don't care how. What makes the public reject him - I don't care. Mandelson or whatever. Just he has to go and someone needs to replace him and take care of trans kids.

Lots of benefits to being in the capital. Being able to get curry goat is one - would never find that in my home town.

Wes Streeting and Louis Appleby should go to prison over this. It's a massive scandal and they covered it up. They knew what they were doing restricting access to care and they did it anyways because of politics.

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.

goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...

@ruthcadbury.bsky.social please note this. We raised it with you, and thank you for taking the time to respond to me on it, but this must not continue and Wes must go.

I’ll get it sorted. Dug out an email for them (cos of course they don’t put that on their website)

Thanks Thames Water for setting up a new account in the name of my dead wife, starting from well after her death, and having an online bereavement form that refuses to take the details because she died too long ago.

Is there any trace of life on 3I/ATLAS? Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb explains chilling theory If it’s alive, everything we know about life is wrong.

NO OF COURSE THERE ISN'T YOU DOORKNOB WHY DOES THIS CHUCKLEFUCK HAVE TENURE AT HARVARD AND I'M SLINGING DRINKS TO SCOTTSDALE'S MOST ENTITLED CHILDREN

Honestly fuck this stupid RAM shortage.

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

🔊 Calling UK early career researches in astro, particle & nuclear physics. Please sign this open response to the proposed cuts at STFC ⚛️🧪🔭

"Protecting the UK's reputation as a science superpower requires not only investment, but continuity, confidence, and people"

✍️ ecr-openletter-stfc.github.io

When Sinh was a kitten we got him one of these. No matter how often we demonstrated it to him he never managed to get one crumb out of it.

Good work by the staff.

(FWIW my blog posts are so infrequent that there's some politics in there I've moved on from slightly, but not a lot)

Written to my MP on social media bans for under 16s. I'm against this, and the related Online Safety Act. I've resurrected my infrequently used blog and put the email contents here: eddedmondson.co.uk/blog/index.p...

Those eyes! In love here too!

Hello from the UK's longest unbroken train platform at 602m. No alt text. It's a grey drizzly day and it's just a long platform.

Email appears to confirm Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photo is real The former prince has previously questioned whether the picture had been doctored and claimed he had never met Giuffre.

Oh I really genuinely... I mean really fucking genuinely... no sarcasm... not one fucking bit of sarcasm... thought the story was fake.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No wait, bad carbonara for 50.

Bad tailoring for 10 please.

wes streeting defended mandelson's continued friendship with epstein.

he's also a known mandelson acolyte.

the idea that he should replace starmer is outright stupid on its face.

so... wes is what labour will do.

@ruthcadbury.bsky.social Thanks to you and your staff for continuing to help sort out my GWQ neighbours who have no hot water and heating.

It's pretty good at certain kinds of optimising problems. These are not the same as extending mathematical knowledge by creating proofs.

Useful systems for assisting in generating proofs exist and they aren't LLMs.

A lot of us will repost a meme now and again without thinking of attribution but when offered the chance to properly credit a working comedian ffs take it graciously.

University begins High Court challenge against £585k free speech fine The University of Sussex says the watchdog overstepped its legal powers in imposing the fine last year.

'As the regulator for all higher education providers in England, the outcome of the challenge against the OfS will have far-reaching implications for its ability to enforce freedom of speech and academic freedom at universities.'

Abolish the OfS, the metastisising cancer of English HE.

One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.

Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.

# SpaceX February 2, 2026 ## xAI joins SpaceX to Accelerate Humanity’s Future SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform. This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to **make a sentient sun** [emphasis added] to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars! Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling. Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment.

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