It's a tragic commentary on scientific literacy and even general intelligence that the BBC feel the need to say the "no danger to Earth" thing.

I see Giant's Park Belfast has been set up as a Park and RIde for the Fleadh; are there plans for this to continue to be a Thing after it's over? It has always struck me that the North of the city could really benefit from something like this.

Colin is a man who shares our Deep Lore and love of Psions. I approve. [Do you have an old Psion rattling about in a drawer? Get it out, get it fixed, get it used, get it loved! 😘] pointinthecloud.com/2025-10-13-1...

This is pretty incredible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Woman has pioneering surgery for unborn baby with intestines outside its body

Theo became the first British baby to be operated on in the womb to correct complex gastroschisis, as part of a pioneering clinical trial.

bbc.co.uk

I totally love this wee bike loop - nice climb at the start, and then pretty much pure fun in the countryside. And free range eggs! (got 6, only 5 made it home intact) #NorthernIreland #cycling www.strava.com/activities/1...

I (Humanist) had a wee doorstepping Christian man try to tell me about Jesus and sin and shit, and when I told him about my time in Israel and Palestine he said he had no interest in visiting. Christians in the UK need to speak with Christians in the Holy Land. edition.cnn.com/2026/08/01/m...

Palestinian Christians call on American evangelicals to stop ignoring their plight | CNN

Christians in the occupied West Bank say they are facing rising pressure from Israeli settlements that are encouraged by US evangelicals.

edition.cnn.com

The best weddings take 45 minutes or less and have free parking. I don't need feeding or getting drunk. I'm watching you sign a register and then driving straight home.

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And nowadays literally *everyone* is breathing the stuff. Amazing.

Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 4d ago

Appropriately for Yorkshire Day, Joseph Priestley of Birstall, West Riding, is credited with discovering oxygen on this day 1774, building on earlier work by Antoine Lavoisier and Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

Inevitable Psion 5mx screen ribbon failure, repaired thanks to the Psion.community Discord crew (especially Bs()Dd) and the remarkable fabrication lab of JLCPCB - soldering required a very steady hand!

Shane, step away from ebay. You do not need more Psion computers. Well, maybe you do some day, but not right now. Leave them for other people who will learn to love them as you do, care for them, fix them, change the world with them.

I wrote a whole book trying to show how the science taught in school doesn’t have to be “an avalanche of pointless facts” and can instead be seen as a journey to the best creation story humans have yet come up with.

Why Don’t Things Fall Up?

Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…

alomshaha.com

@mqrigold.bsky.social · 5d ago

@biggreenbooks.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @alomshaha.bsky.social Would love help finding books for a 13 year old who reads a lot of fiction and does not enjoy school biology and chemistry, because they feel like an avalanche of plotless facts. Wise people, can you help?

Charlee and I are first on Greenisland Secret Beach this morning, apart from the gulls and waders

These people are actual terrorists with explicitly genocidal intent. There can be no normalisation of this raw evil. Netanyahu has this settler-terrorist's representatives in his actual government; he takes no action because he supports them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge

Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.

bbc.co.uk

Plenty of us Happy Lundys about!

Claire Mitchell@clairemitchell.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yesterday was some craic.This in the Irish News and a Féile panel on Irish unity. I wanted to say something about the emotional journey many of us are on with all this.

Odysseus was no Shackleton, I'll tell you that.

"Daddy, how did you and Mummy meet?"

I endorse this.

Wintermute@niallbrady.bsky.social · 6d ago

Use Libre Office

Office 365 in the browser is pure crap. I reply to an email, start typing, and if the letter A is involved, the email goes straight to archive. There is no way to turn off these "helpful hot keys". Microsoft, sort your products out!

Love me a good concrete pour, so I do!

Paul Rice@paulrice.bsky.social · 7d ago

This was the subfloor going in (April 3rd)

Scylla & Charybdis

Found this old pic of Olivia in Donegal...

Ats us so it is

Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · last wk.

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Northern Ireland’ Artist: SR Badmin

Dear The Man, your soi-disant "easy-peel'n'reseal" packs of bacon are, quite frankly, anything but.

Jesus christ stop it with the AI-generated "Karen screaming into car window" reels ffs

You wouldn't enjoy Qafzeh cave near Nazareth, Israel-Palestine... this was me in 2012, revisiting since my first experience there in 1993... still lotsa bats!

A couple of my Nazareth pals back in 2012

Reading the #Odyssey on my Psion netBook, as one does, and as Homer would have done... #retrocomputing

In addition to being an outstanding writerdeck, the Psion netBook is great for playing classic text adventure games. Here's Infocom's 1983 banger "Infidel"... #retrocomputing #interactivefiction