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Doing something new. Previously the Charity Engine guy. Over 1.5 billion CPU-hours donated to science and medicine so far www.charityengine.com/grants
Ukraine only targets military and logistics. Russia deliberately targets unarmed civilians. They are not the same #slavaukraine
24Hours Ukraine@24hoursukraine.bsky.social · yesterdayI want the whole world to see this. This is a Ukrainian vegetable seller in Kherson, Ukraine. As you can see, there is nothing military here—just a civilian trying to earn a living. Look at what Russia did to him. He was fortunate to survive, but he is now in the hospital.
By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.
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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
This is cool. The Center for Scientific Integrity (which oversees @retractionwatch.com) announces the first winners of its Ctrl-Z Prize for researchers with the courage to retract their own work. 🧪 centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/08/04/2...
The Center for Scientific Integrity announces inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z Award for courage in retracting their own work - The Center for Scientific Integrity
The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors a junio...
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Inconvenient facts for Reform's rabble rousing
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación de España@exterioresgob.bsky.social · 2d ago1/5 🧵 Entering Spain irregularly through Ceuta or Melilla does not grant any right to remain in the country, travel to mainland Spain, or move freely within Europe. It also poses a grave risk to life. No court ruling has changed this. 🔗 www.exteriores.gob.es/en/Comunicac...
This is absolutely glorious:
Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d ago#TheYearInReform Look, it's very simple. Nothing to see here. Move along. Reform UK is a party - sorry - a company built around British Patriotism and being frank with the public, and it is led by straight-talking anti-elite Nigel Farage.
Jarvis Cocker, New Order, Elbow, Dr Who (v. Eccleston), @daraobriain.bsky.social, Kraftwerk, Mogwai, Brian May, 2 astronauts (Peake & Hadfield), the Poet Laureate, the Lovell family & many more. Heartwarming to see how much the UK loves Jodrell Bank & astronomy🔭🙏 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory
New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cuts
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In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes www.ecoportal.net/en/in-massac...
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.
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Amazed that so many Americans don't know what a trump means to us Brits
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Johannes Kepler, not Newton or Einstein, is science’s best role model People often look to Einstein or Newton as a scientist's best role model. But Kepler did something more important: he changed his mind when the evidence demanded it. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #kepler #science
Johannes Kepler, not Newton or Einstein, is science's best role model
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
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Emma Monk has more journalistic integrity in her little finger than @telegraph.co.uk has in its entire being
Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · last wk.No, European heatwaves are not CAUSED by a fall in air pollution. The word CAUSED is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here! Let's look at what the study being 'reported' on was actually researching and what it found🤓 1/22 🧵
I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.
New story on Reform's finances from @annaisaac.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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The 20 biggest cosmic discoveries of the last 20 decades 200 years ago, we didn't even know what the stars were, much less what the Universe was. These 20 big steps, one per decade, help illustrate exactly how we got here. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #cosmology
The 20 biggest cosmic discoveries of the last 20 decades
200 years ago, we hardly knew anything about our Universe on cosmic scales. Today, there's so much that we know. Here's how we arrived.
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Just using an AI here is not even the worst part of it. The hallucination suggests the AI was not asked for impartial advice, but rather told to provide evidence which would back up a preconceived decision. As it could not find any, it hallucinated some instead. Heads should roll for this
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests
CW: rape US military bases in the UK are effectively acting as consequence-free rape centres. They should all be shut down. Why aren't the "protect our women and girls" crew storming these bases?
Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.
Remember the “108 ancient woodlands” HS2 was going to destroy? The actual ancient woodland loss for HS2 in full would be 39 hectares. This one ancient woodland that Reform wants to destroy is *40 hectares* This quarry will produce mostly crushed aggregate. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent council accused of 'ecocide' over Oaken Wood quarry plan
Campaigners are "horrified" by the plans but the council says "no decision has been made".
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Our latest voting intention sees cross over. Labour move ahead by 4. Their first lead since March 2025 & highest share since Nov 24 🌹 LAB 28% (+4) ⏩ REF 24% (-2) 🌳 CON 22% (nc) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (+1) 🟢 GREEN 8% (-3) 🟡 SNP 2% (nc) N = 2061| Dates 24-27/7| Change w 22/7
So it looks like the dark money Cottrell scandal around Farage now involves people in Trump's circle too
One of the reasons Tesla squandered its lead is because Musk went from attracting top talent to repelling it. SpaceX doesn't have EV levels of competition yet, but when that changes just watch the exodus
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.The Exploration Company with SpaceX ambitions aiming for a $2bn valuation ft.trib.al/0m58aOu
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Ukraine (defender): targeting Russian military, logistics infrastructure and oil terminals. Russia (invader): blowing up Ukrainian bus stations, apartment blocks and supermarkets. Not difficult to understand who are the bad guys here
Euromaidan Press@euromaidanpress.bsky.social · last wk.Russia struck a supermarket in Chernihiv, killing two people, including a 9-year-old girl Thirteen others were wounded in the attack, including a 10-year-old boy. Officials continue clarifying the full extent of the damage 🎥 State Emergency Service of Ukraine
If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses
Ethan Siegel@startswithabang.bsky.social · last wk.If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses.
Roger Waters 1979: in my album The Wall I invented a selfish and disaffected celebrity who becomes a paranoid Nazi as a cautionary tale Roger Waters 2026: At long last I have recreated myself as Nazi Pink from the classic AOR album The Wall
Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 3w agoTucker Carlson tells Roger Waters: "The Building 7 story doesn't make any sense at all. And I don't know why you would attack people who raise questions about something that doesn't make any sense. But they have. That's not a sign of innocence."
Sometimes the algorithm knows
Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Reform donations story is obviously exploding right now, and it just so happened that on Thursday I spoke to Ben Habib, Reform's former deputy leader, about what he knew and what he thinks of Farage now. It's worth a watch, it's pretty excoriating. Some key bits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_L...
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
