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Jodrell Bank isn’t a museum – it’s a place where science happens every day The funding cut threatening the observatory has caused a public outcry and reinforced the site’s image as the spiritual and practical home of astronomy ✍️ @teresa-anderson.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3UneUVN

Jodrell Bank isn’t a museum – it’s a place where science ...The funding cut threatening the observatory has caused a public outcry and reinforced the site’s image as the spiritual and practical home of astronomybit.ly

FFS. We told you. Repeatedly.

LATEST: UK confident of regaining single market access by promising everyone in European Parliament free access to National Trust properties, 10% off at M&S and one free photograph with a palace guard.

Many DOGE kids were monsters. The most chilling DOGE story I've heard was the anonymous testimony of NIH officials who begged the DOGE children who were dismantling their work to spare some long-running cancer research projects whose great promise would be vaporized if they were interrupted. 27/

Government destroys very successful export market, just to appease ignorant racists. As ever.

Puerto Rico is not getting enough attention! They’re suffering right now… #Pinks #USDemocracy

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Christian Nationalists distress me. Especially in bathrooms.

Well, at least Peter Oborne is a bit more accurate than many: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/rod-...

Rod Liddle played the politics of hatred - we should be honest about his legacyTributes praised a 'great journalist', but very few touched on the fact that he was also a racist, a bigot and an Islamophobewww.middleeasteye.net

UPDATE II: In new filing, BBC opposes Trump's bid to amend the complaint, also argues it won't narrow discovery because his "financial records are directly relevant to assessing his purported reputational damages." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

BBCTrumpOppAmend080626.PDFwww.documentcloud.org

Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions.

The recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.

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I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rulesLouise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groupswww.theguardian.com

"A decision that made sense in a British Rail spreadsheet does not in a regional economy." In praise of inefficiency.

Drought conditionsThis week: southern Britain has too little water; this map projection has far too much. But first: in praise of inefficiency.jonn.substack.com

I regularly think back to @okwonga.bsky.social's posts which (to paraphrase) highlighted one of Germany's biggest political challenges being an older middle-class which is well off, comfortable as a result, and in turn bored; so they ended up essentially radicalising themselves at dinner parties.

This story is insane www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ex-MP urges Tories to drop candidate jailed for campaign of antisemitic abuse against herLuciana Berger says Joshua Bonehill-Paine should have no role in public life because of ‘his racism and his view of women’www.theguardian.com

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’