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Brilliant phrase by a US friend of mine to describe the defence of a prolific paedophile by Trump, Bondi, Patel, Thiel, Musk and Bannon et al

‘The Creep State’

Aerial shot of highland landscape.

The Shieldaig Peninsula, with Upper Loch Torridon and the Torridon Hills behind. Photo: yesterday morning.

The text shows that there ar 44 Labour councillors, 3 Green councillors, and 4 Independent councillors on Islington council

How do 3 Green councillors have the power to dominate a council that has 44 Labour councillors and 4 independents?

“Capx” is a front for the Centre for Policy Studies, a dark-funded Tufton Street Thinktank.

Fresh fears for South West's rail link in Dawlish after storms Taxpayer money has flowed into fixing the rail line connecting Cornwall with the rest of the UK - but the elements have other ideas.

The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far).

And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!

Poverty is not real.
You should not be allowed to work from home.
Minimum wage is a bad idea.
Women need to stay at home and have kids.
Migrant workers are the problem.

I don’t know guys. It seems like Reform might not represent the working class at all?

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

A shining example of how that aristocratic adjacent political class is so utterly bereft of quality. Pompous, ill mannered and stupid, like really really dumb. 😮‍💨

He's such a monumental bellend.

Phillips "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for things they say"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social points out 2,700 people have been arrested for holding signs

And well done to Zack for challenging Phillips smear that 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' is antisemitic

Every American needs to watch this:

An intracellular meteor shower. EB3 comets tracking growing microtubule plus-ends in a cultured cell.

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government.

Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’

I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

This!

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer Green Party candidate for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

Hannah is the Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton.

She is also a plumber and dog rescuer🐕💪

What if you could visualise how electricity flows from a wind farm in Scotland to your home in London?

Ok it's not quite that simple, but it got me thinking that there must be a way of visualising the complexity of the electricity transmission grid in Great Britain.

This is my first attempt…

Announcing MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format The MapLibre Organization is an umbrella for open-source mapping libraries.

@maplibre.org Tile (MLT) is a succesor to Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT). It has been redesigned from the ground up to address the challenges of rapidly growing geospatial data volumes and complex next-generation geospatial source formats, and to leverage the capabilities of modern hardware and APIs.

Some of Saturn’s moons sculpt its rings with gravity.

Here’s Prometheus (right) dragging ripples through the F ring as it passes.

Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

#astronomy

“Anyone who needs me to be their neighbour is my neighbour.”

Tune in to Songs of Praise at 1.15pm on BBC One this Sunday to hear from our hosts Andrew and Jane, and how opening their home is a key part of their faith.

😂

How is what3whatevers still even going?

What3words is an opaque techy non-solution that seeks to lock people into a proprietary system that replaces a better system that was working perfectly fine. They're almost the last company I'd want to see influencing how government thinks

Excellent description of Gas Town!

Now I have to listen to the whole album

Staffer: "Can you move on?"
Smith: "I'll ask the questions I would like to ask, thank you."
Offord: "But that's not what we want to talk about."
Staffer: "I'm asking you nicely now."

Nothing to do with the UK government or Ofcom if you actually look at the details, mainly Irish gov actions that's pushed this change. It's been quiet the thing seeing and UK media and government dance around to ultimately support a pedophile platform. Don't vote for anyone with twitter!

Feature finder is a really neat idea @mike.teczno.com !

Wtf