I'm not exaggerating when I say that what Musk is doing with SpaceX is orders of magnitude worse than Michael Gove's Stonehenge tunnel boomdoggle. It's worse than the Taliban blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas.

Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 19h ago

Okay, so speaking as a professional archaeologist whose job it is to make decisions on this stuff, the moon should be given protections equivalent to, if not exceeding World Heritage status. What Musk is doing is an act of cultural and environmental vandalism and he should fucking swing for it.

We've survived the entirety of human history without data centres. We can't survive more than a few days without clean drinking water.

The difference--

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

Whenever I read a story about a bloke falling in love with a chatbot I just hear "mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the manliest of them all?" Someone needs to gender flip Sleeping Beauty

A courtyard in Delft, c. 1658, by Pieter de Hooch, Dutch Golden Age painter, whose domestic scenes with perspective views reveal subtleties of light & mood; a contemporary of Vermeer, he lived 1629-c 1679, worked in Delft and Amsterdam. National Gallery London

Under Stockport's Tower, pencil drawing by Dave Hartley.

Thanks! There's a blog post here with some better photos.

The white horses of Lutterworth

I went to Lutterworth today and was taken by these four white horses on a grassed bank at the bottom of the town's main street, which climbs...

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So I guess the fossil fuel industry won in the end. Feels like we've gone straight from "climate change isn't real" to "it's too late to fix it now, no point bothering". (Not that I'm saying that's true; it's just the feeling I get from many people this year)

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d ago

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.

This is blackmail, and with all due respect, they can go fuck themselves. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Carmakers ‘delaying investment in UK factories until EV sales rules relaxed’

Industry wants mandate forcing manufacturers to sell increasing share of electric cars each year to be eased

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Probably the most difficult thing YIMBYs face -- really, anyone who lives in a city -- is that government-subsidized street parking is one of the single largest barriers to affordability, safe streets, and climate action. That's because drivers view it as an entitlement, like social security. 🧵

WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2

They’re doing this because it’s basically kind of over for LLMs. They’ve stolen all the data they can take - all human work ever uploaded - and they still don’t quite work, but anything new in their data pool is now contaminated by their own AI excrement.

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

ALT: The Office: Woman Holding 'HOT' Sign

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For #MosaicMonday a #Roman mosaic with a mesmerizing 3D effect. Domus Romana, near Rabat and Mdina, #Malta , dating 100 BC. 📷️ 🏺 #archaeology

This is a really interesting point, which should have been obvious to me but somehow wasn't.

Jonathan Calder@lordbonkers.bsky.social · last wk.

Liberal England: The concept of the 'school run' dates from the 1990s And I have an Ngram to prove it.

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Defund America.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry what

Brilliantly written but devastatingly bleak article. Sharing it here so I can find it later. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

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I can't stop laughing

Chagos with Ed Milliband! [Am I doing this right?]

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ed Miliband is foreign sec

One of my favourite paintings, 'A Seated Woman Looking at a Child Through a Window', a ghostly 17th century work by the enigmatic Jacobus Vrel. Next to nothing is known about the artist, did he even exist? More than enough room for a Schalcken the Painter style BBC Ghost Story, I would've thought..!

Amazing work by Reform in picking Robert Jenrick as the man to tour the broadcast studios to portray Nigel Farage and his party as a model of probity

Jesus Christ this photo...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

She highlights an experience many of us will recognise - being spurred into activism by the experience of trying to get children safely to school.

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

Preparing to say goodbye to the mighty BBC Radio 4 Long Wave broadcast. The first service began 101 years ago. The transmitters at Droitwich, Westerglen and Burghead will be switched off at 0100 BST on Saturday. The 200 metre long AM signal at 198 Khz goes right through you and sounds fabulous!

Goodbye, long wave: alexperdurabo.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of BBC Long Wave: Goodnight, Droitwich

BBC Radio 4 Long Wave ends at 1am on 198 kHz after 101 years.

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This is a superb meditation in response to the switch off of Radio 4’s long wave service, as we say goodbye to our dear and steadfast friend tonight.

Alec Bowman_Clarke@alecbowmanclarke.com · last mo.

head over to youtu.be/p06wl6jTEAw?... to see a short film I made about the death of long wave