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Photo of someone holding an old radium wrist watch.

Someone found this radium watch in their grandfather's belongings and brought it to us. What a treasure! The brown "burn marks" are caused by the radiation damage from the alpha particles stopping in the glass. Next step: activity determination. #nukesky

Can I get a “whoop whoop, in your face Farage!” 🎉🥳

Nasa moon rocket creeps to its launch pad in preparation for astronaut flight First journey around moon with astronauts in more than 50 years could blast off in February Nasa’s giant new moon rocket has moved to the launch pad in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The trip could blast off in February. Continue reading...

Nasa moon rocket creeps to its launch pad in preparation for astronaut flight

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The civil war breaking out in Gaza with executions in the street Hamas and rival militias clash amid public murders of supposed collaborators

The civil war breaking out in Gaza with executions in the street trib.al/bwV01Am

Reported on Facebook. Please go report this utter nonsense. It probably won’t even violate their standards but just make the point please.

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

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Remembering FOR NO REASON AT ALL today, News Quiz writers rooms where it was always impressed upon us that we had to be as sure as possible that information on the stories we covered were verifiable as 'there will be people who get all their news from our little teatime panel show'

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

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Plaque commemorating the battle of Cable Street.

89th anniversary of London's east end decrying fascism. #FascistScum

The Green Party want to radically redistribute wealth in this country.

For too long the rich have hoarded our money and run our public services into the ground.
For too long mainstream politicians have helped them do it.

Not any more. It’s time for real change.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Agreed. People already have too many ways to escape reality and their problems without this as well.

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

God: I am God. Worship me.

Abel: why?

God: because it’s….its…em, Eff off Abel.

Cain: what did he say?

Abel: …..Ineffable….i think.

man i fuckin wish ocd was the cleaning disorder and not the "everything i do is inherently evil and i am always harming people no matter how hard i try to be good" disorder

I’m just imagining the mental implosion on the Christian right if that were ever to happen.

If the transphobic view, that trans women are not in fact women…(which I completely disagree with), does that mean we could in theory have a a trans woman elected pope and not break any rules? #justwondering

Ignore buzzwords and watch out for wool: how to choose more eco-friendly fabrics – and avoid greenwashing From eco-polyester to ‘vegan leather’, not all so-called sustainable fabrics are what they seem. We asked the experts to demystify the marketing

Ignore buzzwords and watch out for wool: how to choose more eco-friendly fabrics – and avoid greenwashing

Rejecting the false narrative that frames trans people as a threat to women Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women. We're supporting Not In Our Name (NION) Women to fight back against this harmful narrative.

Trans people are increasingly being painted as a threat to women.

We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social to fight back against this harmful narrative. 👇
https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

Sainsbury’s no less! Living the high life.

A graph of per capita carbon emissions for the United Kingdom showing a consistent reduction in recent decades.

Total carbon emissions graph for the UK showing a large drop in recent decades.

Tories deciding the will no longer support CO2 targets is disappointing to say the least, given that they work.

Source: our world in data.

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A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Anyone on chess.com?

Cookbook curry recipe with minimal spices

Cookbook cover reads: “Marguerite Pattern’s All Colour Cookery”

Close up of recipe with very small portions of spices included.

Britain of the 70s people. They called this ABOMINATION a curry! The author of this book was like THE celebrity chef of her day. Britain before immigration, a pallid and bleak place indeed!

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.