Dan is gathering important data on spicy fruit, people. Please do this quiz thing.
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 3h ago"I" built an is-it-spicy-or-is-it-a-food-allergy toy, you're welcome and also I'm sorry, tell your friends spicy.sgc.rayandhon.com
Lynda Williams
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Personal account - medical journalist who likes Scouting, sailing, kayaking and reading. She/Her.
Dan Hon@danhon.com · 3h ago
According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
I’m looking for a freelancer based in Spain or France to cover the wildfires and heat wave. If that’s you, my DMs are open and I’d love to talk through story ideas!
🆕 ODD-POD: 🐴 A Deep Dive into Chris Nolan's Odyssey 🏛️ The one you've been waiting for. Every shot. Every choice. Every moment. Every controversy. What was in. What wasn't. All the experts. A review almost as long as the film. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4WtT...
ODD-POD: Podyssey's Deep Dive into Chris Nolan's Odyssey
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 25 July · 1hr 31min
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If Frost failed upwards any harder he’d be orbiting the planet.
Anthony Painter@anthonypainter.bsky.social · 2w agoWe're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great.
Four former employees from Southern Water, including the former Chief Executive Officer Matthew Wright, face a charge of conspiracy to defraud. www.gov.uk/government/n...
EA commences criminal proceedings against Southern Water
Four former employees from Southern Water, including the former Chief Executive Officer Matthew Wright, face a charge of conspiracy to defraud.
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the pervert glasses company is not beating the allegations
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w agoMark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
I need to make a 'The Luddites didn't hate technology, they hated technology being used to plunge people into hellish poverty' sign so I can tap it at times like this
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoGeorge Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
Ooh great, I’m sure everyone in Clacton will be thrilled to pay for a vanity by-election.
NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what?? Today @thenerve.news news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/
Is everyone following this? UK gov is going to subsidise energy for Data Centres at times of peak usage, meanwhile the rest of us get a 13% price cap hike. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Delivering AI Growth Zones
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UK authors! If you haven't done it yet (I haven't) it's time to update your PLR account! The deadline is June 30th!
Meanwhile, THE ENTIRE SKELFS SERIES SO FAR is available on ebook for 99p in total, with only TWO DAYS left on this offer. This amounts to seven years of work and almost half a million words, all for under a quid: geni.us/A8wWTa @orendabooks.bsky.social
More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...
UK half way to net zero
Provisional data shows UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions fell further across several key sectors between 2022 and 2023.
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This is vile, totally vile.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo agoFour people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made. BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump: "Nobody plays rougher than the United States. Look, our elections are totally rigged. We have rigged elections."
🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
Count down for tomorrow’s triple colony Beaver Scout camp to celebrate 40th years of Beavers officially in the UK and 40 years of our 1st Woodmancote Scout Group. All the excitement.
If you haven’t read the Skelfs, this is a total treat!
Doug Johnstone@dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 2mo agoAgain, let me humbly offer that this is the bargain of the century. SIX NOVELS FOR 99P - like, what the actual fuck?
@duolingoverde.bsky.social the new app image makes me think I have migraine aura - please can you change it?
From #ADA2026 - Survodutide, a glucagon receptor/GLP-1 receptor dual agonist, reduces liver fat content and bodyweight versus placebo in adults with #obesity and at-risk MASLD. 👉️ buff.ly/xokqQpT #GLP1
SYNCHRONIZE-MASLD supports survodutide for liver fat content and bodyweight reductions
Survodutide, a glucagon receptor/GLP-1 receptor dual agonist, reduces liver fat content and bodyweight versus placebo in adults with obesity and at-risk MASLD.
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