Even here on Bluesky, a lie (or worse a half-truth) can make it around the world before Sam Vimes has got his boots on.

Finally! Now my AI agent can walk my dog, and connect with my children, and comfort my wife as she cries herself to sleep at night.

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

Mind blown (Escherich/E. Coli). Love these little treasure troves from history.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d ago

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

Lots of interesting points in this thread and the replies. It's a genuinely remarkable change that you can have a Catholic prime minister, a Jewish foreign secretary, a gay defence secretary & a British-Asian home secretary, and those are among the least controversial facts about those appointments

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wes Streeting is the first UK Secretary of State for Defence who is openly gay. Gay people have been able to serve openly in the UK Armed Forces since 2000. Like PM Andy Burnham's Catholicism, something that would have been controversial is largely now a matter of biographical colour.

Looks like he picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines.

RIP Sam Neill, the Bond we never knew we had.

Sam Neill as James Bond - Screentest (1986)

YouTube video by Tyrozaphy

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Of course it’s a labrador. That is the face of a stoned dog. #vetmed

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dog rescued from Ben Nevis suspected to have eaten discarded cannabis

FTFY

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · 4w ago

Better with Kane surely…

I don’t mind it, but there’s no doubt it looks like a matte painting of an alien cityscape in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It looks shite. Sorry. It looks like the first level from a FPS that’s set in an indeterminate time in the future but they don’t want to do anything too outlandish.

I think the tech bros are only too happy to see the pushback against SM being funnelled into this wholly ineffective intervention. Instead of tackling the root cause of the problem - attention stealing, algo driven polarisation and uncontrolled misinformation/anti rationalism

“These teenagers we’re just in the process of extending the franchise to. Is there any way we can piss them all off simultaneously, so none of them want to vote for us?”

Sarah Viktoria 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🦗@sarahviktoria.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This social media ban is just a perfect example of policy driven evidence making. #bbcpm

Paging Lynne Truss… “Utah is suffering from such dry conditions that a group of kids with a lighter and a squirrel managed to start separate brush fires within hours, according to local media reports.”

Utah is so dry that a squirrel and kids with a lighter started separate brush fires

The two fires were sparked within hours on Tuesday

independent.co.uk

Straight back at you with: The “No chandeliers” does it for me

If we have to ban under-16s from social media so they don't have to see all the awful shit over-16s are doing, I'm thinking maybe under-16s aren't the problem.

Even Monaco has potholes now.

Rory Mitchell@rorymitchellf1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FIA says they are investigating track break up in the final sector. We might not get a restart if there isn't a quick fix, since the event clock has around 80 minutes left. #F1 #MonacoGP

To pick out just one of the fundamental misunderstandings there, fossil fuels are incredibly inefficient. We throw away 2/3rds, almost 400 exajoules, of our energy budget, mostly just extracting, moving & using fossil fuel, >$4.5 trillion, almost 5% of global GDP. Before anything productive is done!

The Incredible Inefficiency of the Fossil Energy System - RMI

Over $4.6 trillion per year, almost 5% of global GDP and 40% of what we spend on energy, is wasted due to fossil inefficiency.

rmi.org

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

It turns out that the tactic of "dithering for as long as you possibly can and finally being forced taking a decision that makes you look weak, pisses off one side immensely and buys you no credit with the other" is not in fact the secret code to being a successful Prime Minister

Exclusive behind the scenes on the first Amazon-era Bond film.

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

may have to update my banner

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

Is there anything to be said for getting Ken Clarke in?

Father Ted: Another Mass - Best Idea?

Alt: Scene from Father Ted. A group of priests are brainstorming what to do in a high pressure situation. Caption: “…another mass, that’s our best idea?!”

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Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The plans to make Andy Burnham PM have an increasingly "here's how we get a government of national unity to stop Brexit without Jeremy Corbyn being made Prime Minister" feel to them

The dawning of a beautiful day here in Avalon. Photo taken today on Glastonbury Tor. The sun is rising almost centrally now through the archway of St Michael's tower. I was lucky enough to have the place to myself this morning too.

A beautiful and heart-breaking thread.

Tim Clare@timclare.bsky.social · 3mo ago

106 years ago today, on May 7th, an undergraduate at Christchurch College, Oxford, drank a glass of port then left through the main gates for a walk. I've been thinking about him, & his walk, for years now. It's taken a long time for me to figure out why - why I've kept returning, near obsessed.

Next up, what’s the great British public’s view on Streptomyces sp. vs Actinomyces sp.?

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 3mo ago

NASA chief Jared Isaacman has said he wants to make Pluto a planet again. Asked last year, 50% of Britons say they consider Pluto a planet, with only 21% accepting the IAU's classification of 'dwarf planet' yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 3mo ago

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.

In Seine.

Bus sinks into the River Seine near Paris after nightmare lesson for trainee driver

The bus could still be seen floating in the water, close to the riverbank

independent.co.uk

BREAKING: The Miami GP is at threat of cancellation after doubts surface over the ability of US officials to keep a straight open for safe travel for a sustained period.

A century before the Wright bros, Sir George Cayley described the relationship between thrust, weight, lift & drag, invented a cambered wing with control surfaces, the tail fin, wired wheels. He built & flew a glider decades before engineering capability caught up with his vision for powered flight.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3mo ago

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.