Tom Hawkins

“If you see anything you don’t like during your journey today, you can text the British Transport Police on 61016” that’s quite a bold offer to make

How depressing

Would the @royalsociety.org like to explain why they still maintain Fellowship with a man who deliberately reduced Ukraine’s defensive capabilities, leading to multiple civilian deaths and casualties?

BlueSky has four types of users.

I have a fully funded PhD available for someone interested in solutions to plastic waste: www.ucl.ac.uk/study/doctor...

“Malevolent leaders” thousands of miles away with a grip on our energy bills. Perfect Halloween material, if only it were made up. Tomorrow’s Budget decides the future of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS), the government grant that knocks thousands off the cost of a heat pump. (1/5 🧵)

I wish I lived in the alternate universe where these were actually the epic collaborations they sound like, rather than just ‘two artists will each play separate gigs’.

People DO care about climate change, and more as time goes on. The headlines from this recent ONS survey are striking: 60% think it's an important issue for the UK 85% know they have already been affected by it People who care are in the MAJORITY. Never forget that. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

"Western civilization" is a concept that has already been through several washing cycles, not just to take the stains off but also to blend a lot of colours together.

Scottish music: Should you listen to it? buff.ly/41JTYhV

This is a very silly story. There is no "plot" and no "raid". Just a hysterical misunderstanding of a technical consultation. There *is* a real issue - but it's likely unintended and I expect it will fixed in the legislation. A 🧵 on what's really going on

We went on a quest to find the world’s most expensive electrons, and we found some that are worth $43 quadrillion per mole. Of all the papers we’ve written for J. Immat. Sci., this might be our favourite. PDF: www.immaterialscience.org/2026/electro...

via Dave Wright

Two views from Waterloo Bridge

"If they’d won the referendum 60/40 they could have been magnanimous, talking of losers’ consent and reaching out to the disappointed side. But 52/48? Show no weakness. Treat dissenters as traitors, and compromise as betrayal. Brexit means Brexit."

I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times. Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct) www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...

Why the Kremlin was pro-Brexit and why it still matters even if 2016 meddling didn’t swing the result www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Brazilian driver on our Belfast bus tour earlier this year repeatedly announced how everything was now fine, and I didn’t want to upset the Americans next to us by saying so but I was pretty sure that everything was not in fact fine.

looks like I picked the right day to not cycle

One would think this dynamic might be of interest to the Education Secretary, because HO is changing HE funding situation unilaterally; the Treasury, for similar reasons; and the Foreign Office because “we won’t take students from your country” has significant foreign policy implications

My fucking kingdom for a state willing to enforce their own fucking laws in the presence of something going bleep

The history of software is one of feminising and devaluing women's labour as nerdy, clerical, following specifications and requirements determined by men, and then valorising a presumed male hacker figure who disrupts and manfully disregards the needs of those relying on custodial maintenance work.

Is it just me or is this thing about the ‘About You’ page at a popular and hated online retailer not clearly (a) deliberately attempting to be funny (claiming that someone ‘smells faintly of cheese’ etc) and (b) set up to drive clicks to the online retailer and/or the site that reported it?

Andy Burnham's proposals are sadly incoherent. It's unpopular to say this. But you cannot want a National Care Service and an end to rough sleeping while making huge, detrimental changes to the immigration system. The Earned Settlement proposals need to be scrapped. Sign our petition.

#86: Villages

gm to whoever created this #grammargraffiti on a church wall in neukölln 🫡 ☕️ #berlin #deutschfüranfänger

The beautiful thing about horseshoe theory is that both ends insist the centrists made them walk there.

I’m excited launch my album Pseudologia Fantastica in the #EFGLondonJazzFestival on Sat 21 Nov at @worldheartbeat.bsky.social 🎶! The venue is really beautiful and it’s a double bill with Brian Eley and Ashley Wales SONGS. Tickets available now from worldheartbeat.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Come for the cute joke, stay for the Science article.

uh oh guys who last saw the boot media for the lift

(selecting the letters XPIDM from my rack, placing them face down in random squares) I refuse to play by Scrabble rules

I'm delighted to learn this, not least because the next item on my task list, which is to take my pet geese to see a well-known play by Samuel Beckett, is also a palindrome: "TO DO: Geese see Godot".

#85: Drama

Feels like this is one more step on the long road back towards having a state (in the broad sense) that actually. fucking. works. I think the symbolism of that sort of thing has an underestimated potential for unlocking further possibilities.

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

🚨Entry level developer and delivery manager jobs in Manchester! mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/28/w...

We started The New World in 2016 as a four-issue pop-up paper. Ten years later, we're about to publish our 500th edition. 🚨 So we're opening everything up until 30 September. No paywall. No catch. 🔗 See what all the fuss is about: buff.ly/OgU0K9b

For one moment I'd like a British mainstream politician to consider foreigners are human beings too.

trapped send help

Once I interviewed a guy who brought one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. I hired him but he immediately used his 2 weeks of PTO.

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33