Jared 🔶
@quantumjared.bsky.social
UK physicist 👨🏻🔬 with a US partner, rock climber 🧗🏻♂️, social liberal 🧡, LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, YIMBY 🚆🏠 (he/him). I regret to inform you we are going to win. PS: genocide apologia, transphobia, spam, & dickheadery will all get you blocked
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
The thing is that in this respect the BBC, operating under a default environment of E&W defamation law, is a bit like a bunch of cats dropped onto an oceanic island of flightless birds. The BBC has had to learn to survive in a far tougher environment and that leaves a certain advantage.
Driving a car is incredibly dangerous, it should be one of the most regulated experiences on earth, and it is very upsetting to watch people who correctly don’t trust the cops turn against automated enforcement because the alternative is relying on a cop’s judgement to enforce the laws.
Greens working with Nigel Farage to stop solar panels. Naturally.
The one climate issue uniting Greens and Reform in Kent
Insurgent parties of left and right find common cause in stance over major solar farm scheme but UK government will have final say
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TIL: one singular bus is considered Mass Transit™, but an underground metro is not.
Yeah. The moderate position that gets drowned out is: Lockdowns were necessary. Lockdowns were *hard* (and probably did lasting damage). Some lockdown rules and enforcement was absurd and counterproductive
This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors
JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent
Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.
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I’m announcing my new documentary, “The Great Channel 4 myth”, which seeks to determine if Channel 4 reporters are real journalists or a social construct
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 3w agoChannel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.
Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law
People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.
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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w agoMusk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?
at a very basic level, 'this grocery is 30 percent cheaper than other groceries' incentives people to *go to that grocery from outside of the neighborhood.* When you're trying to alleviate a food desert you may not actually want people coming in and clearing the shelves early.
Politics aside, do people believe federal government gas stations with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/b...
Trump promotes ‘Freedom Fuel’ stations that sell cheap gas. How they’re able to do so is unclear | CNN Business
President Donald Trump is heralding a new chain of gas stations that are selling gas for $3.479 a gallon, well below both market prices and wholesale costs.
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Look I don’t mind a bit of Glonzo on data centers but I want to make one thing clear: anyone campaigning against transmission is a climate denialist and/or a wrecker.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3w ago1. Two country music legends, Willie Nelson and Tanya Tucker, are speaking out about different pieces of the same enormous industrial buildout in Texas. Tanya Tucker is speaking out against the massive transmission lines crossing private land to accommodate the state’s surging electricity demand.
occasionally reminded that they charged the DJs on Radio Rwanda with crimes against humanity
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w ago"First the traitors then the invaders" is Elon Musk endorsing an open call to prioritise political murders + assassinations before violence against migrants and minorities. Still little recognition in the UK government at the persistence of the promotion of political violence - inc murder - by Musk
Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Liberals try to walk without putting one foot in front of the other, challenge level: impossible
PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 3w agogenuinely incredible stuff, negatively polarized against the very *idea* of objective information
It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.
Karl Whelan@karlwhelan.bsky.social · 4w agoChrist almighty. The British obsession with itemized “pay fors” for everything is insane. This is just really not how fiscal policy or government works anywhere functional.
Also seems to be the UK government’s plan. Yay.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4w agoOnce you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Watching Silo S3 [mild ep1 spoilers] and it’s incredibly funny how the line “I’m in Congress, I should be allowed to know if [the military] is going to bomb Iran” was written with full seriousness but now reads as biting satire 😅
The next D administration absolutely needs to replicate this with the red states In a Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, "tit for tat" is the only response that restores long-run cooperative equilibrium
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4w ago* U.S. HHS SECRETARY SAYS CMS IS PAUSING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA @reuters.com
I’d like to imagine they’ve set up a fight cage inside No 10, where Miliband and Mahmood are going to fight it out to the death for Chancellor
Not even Gianni Infantino as referee could’ve rigged this match
Political honeymoon latest: encountered my first anti-Burnham protest outside parliament (over oil and gas drilling). To govern is to choose etc.
Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Lib Dems taking meaningful action for climate change :)
Max Wilkinson MP@maxwilkinson.bsky.social · 5mo ago🌞Sunshine Bill Win!🌞 Today, the government announced that from 2028 all newbuild homes will come with solar panels as standard. This follows my private member’s bill last year calling for exactly that. I’m so pleased to have contributed to a meaningful law change law so early in my term as an MP.