It’s expected to cause a crater 90ft across and 16 ft deep Let’s think up an appropriate name. news.sky.com/story/spacex...

SpaceX rocket is about to crash into the moon - here's what we know will happen

Space-tracking expert Bill Gray predicts an impact speed of 5,400mph - seven times the speed of sound - near Einstein Crater on the moon's sunlit western limb when it hits.

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Cool, they've invented something that can run their own spearphishing campaigns with malicious code, that'll help society - OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test

AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk

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#spéirghorm

Norman@noaasm.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wow, I am positively surprised - Irish government has kicked a Microsoft procurement potentially worth €1 billion into touch amid a political debate about the nation's overreliance on US tech providers and a move to free and open source software www.theregister.com/public-secto...

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming - The Economic Times share.google/GDGqQBgisqhG...

Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming

A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...

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Daily reminder that we don’t have a president. We have a mob boss masquerading as one.

You're right Kate, it IS obvious. The country desperately needs investment — we all see it. So who can afford to pay for it? Well, while wages flatlined for a decade, the fortunes of the richest (who pay lower tax rates because they own rather than earn) have exploded.

"After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain". The cruel Home Office is at it again! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

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It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Nigel Farage (2016), "It's legitimate to say.. If people feel that voting doesn't change anything" "Then violence is the next step"

of course Fox News not caring to find out - or choosing misinformation about - where Ceuta is before airing about Spain

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden? $30 million. The amount special interests have spent against @abdulelsayed.bsky.social in the Michigan Senate race? $60 MILLION. Twice as much to try and buy one Senate seat. It’s the many vs. the money. Vote for Abdul.

Important, because Farage's defence for not declaring Harborne's £5m 'gift' has always been very specific: he did not decide to stand until 3rd of June. Turns out this deal was struck mid-May (confirmed by RefUK) and facilitated by Farage's other big donor, convicted felon 'Posh' George Cotrell. 🧐

European Heart@bexbitchley.bsky.social · 4d ago

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-reform-leader-deal-george-cottrell-5gfrcrmb0

The timing is literally impossible to ignore.

2020 IMF study showed lockdowns did really reduce Covid impact. Bottom line, *as I read it*, was that key was *when* the restrictions were introduced. (So well done Boris for going on hols on Feb 2020.) Has anyone read any subsequent responses to this study? tinyurl.com/2m9azj3m

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 6d ago

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

Between the 1970s and 1990s the UK state made a strategic bet to expand Higher Ed. They poured in untold billions of your money. Now it's been handed over to private creditors to burn in a furnace. Then they just laugh at you: at all the taxes you've ever paid or will ever pay. True story. (2/2)

Ernst & Young fined £1,800,000 for dud audits of Made.com Did not establish that the business was a going concern, accepted management's assertions. No big accounting firm delivers good audits, act was poodles not watchdogs, fines passed to other clients. Audit itself is a fraud.

NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇

The people who falsely accused an Olympian of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are the same people telling you to trust them about the war with Iran

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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Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

...and this is how i found out the biggest by-election in British history was yesterday

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 6d ago

Greater Manchester Mayoral By-Election 'Exit Poll': Craig | LAB: 41% (+3) Astley | RFM: 22% (+3) Coggins | GRN: 15% (-7) Eckersley | CON: 9% (+1) West | RES: 8% (-1) Kilpatrick | LDM: 5% (+2) Farmer | Ind: 0% (-1) Via @FindoutnowUK, 30 Jul. Changes w/ 7-12 Jul.

Actual headline: “Yes, even we here at Daily Telegraph think Nigel Farage is a dick and a charlatan. I know, we were shocked too…”

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

I really hope that one day, when Trump is gone, there will be a massive reckoning at how many big companies and rich individuals handed over money to Trump's utterly corrupt "fundraising" vehicles. And when I say "gone" re Trump, I hope that means "gone to jail".

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 6d ago

“the boss wants this money" from @wsj.com, a deep dive into the extortion operation run out of the White House gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM

Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon

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While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.

I still find it hard to take any government seriously in their pronouncements about the economy whilst their higher education policy is effectively destroying one of the most productive - and regionally diversified - parts of the economy, just to placate racists.