Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.
Charlie Budd
@charliebudd.bsky.social
Photographer, video producer, writer and eater of cakes. Fond of trees, mosses and fauna and suchlike. Stratford-upon-Avon.
Just rewatched Contact for the first time in a long time. What a great film. I’d forgotten its scale, how layered it was, how many great questions it asks. And it makes me want to watch Interstellar next.
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
Use this tool to find out if your local health services use Palantir software, and register your objection. It takes 30 seconds. Well done @goodlawproject.org notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Far-right tech oligarchs have the most pathetic ideology. They hate minorities, except when they are coding for them. They want no taxes, no rules, and absolutely no democracy. There is no grand vision for society, just raw greed and a relentless pursuit of personal interests
University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...
UK to give homes ‘free energy’ instead of turning off wind turbines
Europe’s outdated and under-invested energy grid means huge amounts of renewable energy are wasted every year.
euronews.com
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...
Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say
observer.co.uk
I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it
Zack’s response to Shabana Mahmood. My friend sent this to me an hour ago. She said “This is why I will vote for the Greens. They have a moral compass of hope.” I wholeheartedly agree. Life’s difficult enough without a politician in the government advocating cruelty and marginalisation
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com
having spent a while watching this I would say that it was at its absolute funniest on the seventh, maybe eighth replay
James Vincent@jjvincent.bsky.social · 8mo agoanother robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
To de-stress, I often imagine myself as a dragon who solves the worlds problems by eating the people I deem responsible for them. I imagine the taste to be disapponting but the texture pleasantly crunchy and vindictively satisfying.
I've seen this going around today and it's beautiful, so here's a gift link.
Opinion | Martin Scorsese: ‘Rob Reiner Was My Friend’
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If you're going through it, there are people who want to do their best to help.
Glennyrodge@glennyrodge.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258
Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.
Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect. “Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”
I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes: “All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.” More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail? H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!
One of my favourite jobs of each year, filming the autumn production from @kes-drama.bsky.social at @kes-stratford.bsky.social This year it’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, which I’ve never seen… until now.
