Good thing the school didnβt get confused and send you to watch Caligula!
01.03.2026 16:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@davecl.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at Imperial College. Extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology, astrobiology. Writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody. Science for Fiction podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7HzQoyNyNI115W3kgqZAku?si=jK0XQYAyS1ubvzD76spbEg
Good thing the school didnβt get confused and send you to watch Caligula!
01.03.2026 16:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 1
Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and weβll have transgender people in our program going forward,β said CEO Roger Krone.
This is not just true of USians
01.03.2026 16:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How long will the far side stay radio dark with various plans for lunar communication and navigation constellations?
01.03.2026 16:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Looking forward to it!
01.03.2026 16:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This starts tomorrow!
01.03.2026 15:35 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Tulsi Gabbard released a fundraising video in 2019 titled "Trump's Path To War With Iran"
"We've gotta stop Donald Trump from starting a war with Iran."
On Feb. 28, 1998, Andrew Wakefield published a paper in The Lancet claiming that the MMR vaccine causes autism.
It doesn't.
Woman who attended SOTU to highlight her arrest without cause arrested without cause at SOTU.
ββI just stood up. I stood silently, with no signs. I was not blocking anyoneβs view of the hall. And then I was arrested.β
Well as it turns out both humans and computers are capable of targeting a girls school
01.03.2026 10:58 β π 81 π 33 π¬ 6 π 0And that awe and wonder also feeds into economics. Iβve helped numerous bestselling UK authors with science questions, inspiring books, boosting publishing & royalties.
01.03.2026 13:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministryβs casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Gosh I wonder whoβs going to profit from this war? Because it sure as hell isnβt going to be βworking peopleβ Keir Starmer, or all of the pub-goers who Farage seems to be fixated on.
Could it be⦠private corporations and their wealthy shareholders by any chance?
The subject also applies to many other countries eg. Aus, Can. You made an assumption which was wrong. You beed to own that mistake, not quibble.
01.03.2026 13:41 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If they named Trump as new Commander in Chief would Hegseth bomb Mar a Lago?
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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
A red and gold sky with the sunrise highlighting the underside of the clouds with red and pink. A plane sits in the foreground.
Very fancy sunrise Richmond. I approve.
01.03.2026 11:44 β π 79 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0People are going to keep insisting that UK anti-trans politics is really composed of jilted lefty feminists even as its leaders are literally running as Tory candidates.
27.02.2026 23:01 β π 570 π 128 π¬ 2 π 1My son came home CRYING. Teacher told him: 'Your book report on Nnedi Okorafor doesn't count. Pick a REAL author.' I was at the principal's office in 20 MINUTES. 'Nnedi won the HUGO AWARD. Define REAL! Principal sided with the teacher. I pulled my son out. HOMESCHOOL now. Best decision EVER. He just finished book 15. All African authors. His confidence? UNSHAKEABLE. b 1/2 Β©12.3K @682 G404 β’ 27 Top View activity >
Someone just tagged me to this viral post on Threads.
Iβm feeling rage.
Why aren't you having another revolution then? Forgotten the issue of no taxation without representation?
01.03.2026 10:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ignoring the fact that our host was talking about the UK not US, isnβt it the case that permanent legal US residents pay tax, and that you had a whole revolution about no taxation without representation?
01.03.2026 10:04 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0People are drowning in disinformation on a social media site run by a Fellow of the @royalsociety.org
01.03.2026 09:58 β π 25 π 12 π¬ 2 π 0Historically, these are TERRIBLE polling numbers for day 1 of a major US use of force, particularly against a well known and disliked adversary. Usually it only goes down from the start
28.02.2026 21:31 β π 1855 π 530 π¬ 25 π 13Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy
Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning βAI weaponsβ could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said βthere are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,β and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one
01.03.2026 09:27 β π 3276 π 669 π¬ 27 π 19The impact of job insecurity doesnβt fall equally. PhDs & graduates from poorer and diverse, backgrounds canβt afford employment gaps so are more likely to leave forever. Black, women, minority, working class, will go leaving a less diverse more establishment community behind & Labour are doing this
01.03.2026 09:53 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for βIAEAβ wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen Β· 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly
On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.
28.02.2026 23:27 β π 8127 π 2443 π¬ 232 π 238
Historic moment for rare cancers!π
The Rare Cancers Bill, championed by Dr Scott Arthur MP, has passed its third reading in the House of Lords and will now proceed to Royal Assent - becoming law. π
https://bit.ly/4qZ90oA
WTAF?
01.03.2026 00:04 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0World War Epstein
28.02.2026 14:32 β π 4933 π 1784 π¬ 200 π 69It might make sense, but do you want reviewers thinking of a the porcine counterpart to Laika?
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