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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".

@hankgreen.bsky.social i would love it if someone better at explaining would explain this one to me Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Literally, one of the top 10 things people should remember from high-school physics.

Feeling embarrassed by your past work is not a sign of incompetence. It’s a mark of growth. Regretting your prior decisions doesn't reflect poor judgment. It reveals new insight. Cringing at your old opinions doesn't display ignorance. It demonstrates an open mind.

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Switzerland built a 4,000 m² retractable solar roof producing 350,000 kWh yearly. It folds automatically and was funded by citizens adopting panels. The model is scalable for urban and commercial applications.

🚨 Rösti will die abgelehnten Autobahnprojekte durch die Hintertür retten! Trotz klarem Nein der Stimmbevölkerung vom 24. November stehen die verworfenen Autobahnausbauten wieder auf der Liste "Verkehr 45". Nicht mit uns! Autobahnmoratorium JETZT! 🛑 www.umverkehr.ch/autobahnproj...

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

Happy 10th year anniversary weekend to @dearhankandjohn.bsky.social! Thanks for reminding us that hope is the thing with feathers, sneezing isn’t normal, and-OH MY GOD, IT’S BURNING!

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

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Loved this TED talk from @angushervey.com of #FixTheNews: www.angushervey.com "The revolution is happening (just not on your newsfeed)."

"The end of the world is already here; its just not evenly distributed yet."

Imagine explaining 2025 politics to someone from 1995. Actually, don’t. Let them have peace. #Trump #CryptoPresident

i regret to admit this is me whenever I’m on a crowded hiking trail

Since we’re in a relatively safe space…this post is terrible messaging and I am baffled that it gets likes. Its root message is “who cares about the truth, just do the stuff /I/ think is right!!”

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

@alicefraser.bsky.social Listening to an old episode of realms unknown and was curious enough to ask the bot if you have made jokes about the glorious leader. I feel like this conversation in itself is worthy of satire 😅 chatgpt.com/share/682041...

She is still in custody www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

No matter how bad you imagine smallpox was, it was worse than that.

10,000 cases in the U.S. every year (and rising). abcnews.go.com/Health/case-...

30 April 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Henriette Michele Hacker, was born in Clichy. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

The crowd is now so big, it's spilling over to the "supreme" court.

The difference in national tax income if I pay nothing is basically unmeasurable. I really don't see why my family should impoverish itself, when the schools and hospitals are almost entirely paid for by other people

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

the ruling doesn’t require this at all btw, but it does show they can get away with it

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Loved recording this episode of The Happiness Lab with the brilliant @lauriesantos.bsky.social. omny.fm/shows/the-ha... And you can give directly to high TB burden communities at givedirectly.org/tb

@thegargle.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/nottheonio... One for your comeback.. Or maybe @thebugle.bsky.social can take care of this? 😜

Yep. Like all right wing bullshit, it's them projecting their warped worldview on others. From calling others pedos to tantrums about mixed-gender bathrooms to virtue signalling. Every. Single. Time

Do they still tell libs to stop crying? Which begs the question why the parties that are all about the rule of law throw such a tantrum when they get their comeuppance? Just wondering Le Pen and all your nazi brethren? Can you illuminate things for me?

Liberté, Egalité, Fuckaroundité and Findoutité.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

If you’re looking for some sleepy time white noise tonight, I had an ~~idea~~ this week… It’s a white noise video that donates all revenue to Partners in Health and you can watch it here: youtu.be/dv2XyqC-EQ4

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

Spotted in line at @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social’s #EverythingIsTuberculosis book event in Indianapolis. I love nerdfighteria.