Dr Jim Caryl

But if you’re Scottish and buying their shit, you should be ashamed of yourself. Reform is anathema to Scotland, and threaten our civic society even more than Brexit already has.

Or more foolishly, just to punish Labour or SNP, in an act of collective self sabotage. I have zero faith in many areas of England to not be swept up by their rhetoric, much like Boris convinced people in marginalised formerly Labour communities that they were Tories, and look how that worked out.

A party enrich the rich, propped up by an electorate who buys the ‘othering’ of all our societal problems onto immigrants, rather than the structural inequities of government systems and the meddling interests of the super rich.

This is important. We need to be aware of the doublespeak coming from Reform. We can’t sleepwalk into another unserious government whose only objectives are to create an authoritarian state designed to make money for the super rich.

Enjoying the new regular pine marten visitor to our Perthshire garden.

Time for the UK, EU, China, Japan and Canada to step up and build this astonishing medical technology, not only for Covid and flu. Trump and RFK won’t be there forever.

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

RFK’s staggering stupidity continues unabated, like much of the US executive. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

Interesting project that tracks how the US administration is breaking the government.

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

Woke up to sleepy hollow vibes on the edge of Dartmoor this morning

Good! Though my feed is completely chaotic, but enjoying this brief random spasm of content before the algorithm locks down my interests.

Just arrived. Hello everyone. The Sky Bridge app found that 40% of those I used to follow on Twitter are here, including most of my earliest follows. Looking forward to the remaining 60% finding their way over.

Ha, yeah, I've been hiding from X, mainly inhabiting Instagram/Threads, but miss the chat of Old Twitter!

Ah, I suspect it may be because they're using the Sky Bridge app to re-follow all their Twitter/X follows and the AI engine has you confused with Prof Stephen Curry at Imperial, who was a popular member of the science comms community in Twitter days 😉

I spent a large portion of 31st December 2019 playing it with friends in a remote Welsh cottage, laughing merrily at the absurdity of it. Haven't played it since 😂