40 years on from the Chernobyl disaster some species are showing signs of adapting to the radiation levels, though they are also impacting negatively on reproduction and mutations. Fascinating info about this unique 'rewilding' zone. #Chernobyl #rewilding #environment #radiation #nuclear #disaster

The Mandelson fiasco reveals the true nature of Starmerism This is a prime minister who does not understand the difficult trade-offs involved in governing

Keir Starmer famously said there was "no such thing" as Starmerism. He was half-right: there is no such ideology. There is however an approach to managing and running the country that is core to so many of the government's difficulties that we probably should call 'Starmerism'. In tomorrow's paper:

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

“Sure, I believe in censorship. I’ve made a fortune from it.”

~Mae West.

99 years ago today-4/19/1927-actress Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for “corrupting the morals of youth” charges stemming from her Broadway play “Sex,” which she wrote and starred in.

Image: Public domain.

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

A screenshot of the Artemis II capsule descending to Earth in a blue sky with three round parachutes in red and silver which looks like Tunnocks teacake wrappers

Plus being utterly charmed at 1.30am by the Tunnocks teacake style parachutes that brought the capsule safely down to the ocean...

#Tunnocks #teacakes #landing #descent

I hadn't come across the phrases 'Moon joy' or 'competency porn' until reading this piece but they exactly describe how I've been experiencing the marvellous Artemis II adventure. 🌕👨‍🚀🚀💕

#MoonJoy #Moon #Artemis #Artemis2 #ArtemisII #space #science

Electricity dashboard, showing 5.8% fossil fuels, 77% renewables, 16.9% other sources, 4.2% interconnectors

It's a bit gusty out there, but on the plus side, the UK is currently running on 77% renewable electricity right now. 🎉🎉💨💨
Yay nature!
(screenshot from grid.iamkate.com )

National housing demo graphic with museum of homelessness placard added on

Museum of Homelessness and @streetskitchen.bsky.social will be forming a homeless bloc at the National Housing Demo next Saturday 18th.
If you are homeless, organise or work in homelessness join us to march together

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Poster advertising talk by the photographer Stuart Roy Clarke at the University of Stirling on 9 April 2026. Photograph 'Three Generations Arbroath at Bo'Ness, 2014', by Stuart Roy Clarke.

Celebrating Scottish Football Fandom
Talk by Stuart Roy Clarke (The Homes of Football)
Thursday 9 April, 11 am, Pathfoot D3, University of Stirling
Supporting Scotland's #SportingHeritage
@sportingheritage.bsky.social @stuartroyclarke.bsky.social
#CultureOnStirCampus

Lovingly re-created from long-abandoned ruins, St Eloi’s, Llandeloi is a humble and moving early 20th-century evocation of a medieval Welsh church.

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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Something fierce. What Essex tells us about the fate of the plate glass universities The plate glass universities were founded on intimacy, radicalism and community. Adam Wright asks whether an obsession with growth has made those promises impossible to keep

'Essex is a cautionary tale of how a vision which began in the 1960s became turbocharged in the 2010s, only to burn out so disastrously in the 2020s. It’s a story that will feel uncomfortably familiar to anyone who knows the other universities wrestling with the same contradictions.' 1/2

Yes, surely someone must have worked out a methodology? IE using mobile phone location data, or even just agreeing roughly how many individuals can occupy the dimensions of a 10 metre long section of the road and extrapolate from that with drone footage.

5. Having said all of that, Democracy Volunteers made what is in effect a major political intervention. It’s surely not an excuse to say “we’re not a political organisation”. I would note that they won’t comment on the demographics of the people they saw doing this

The UK unequivocally condemns the Taliban’s ban on girls' education in Afghanistan: UK statement at the UN Security Council Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan.

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government
www.gov.uk/government/s...

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.

I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Lyceum Cinema to lead Govan town centre revival - March 2026 - News - Urban Realm Govan is to benefit from a £3m funding announcement that will support a range of heritage projects across the area over the next five years. National Lottery He

🔔 Huge news for McNair & Elder's 1938 streamline / international style #ArtDeco cinema ~ the dilapidated B-listed #Govan Lyceum (converted to bingo hall 1981 & closed completely 2006) will take centre stage in Govan town centre renewal ✨🎉 #ArtDecoCentenary #Glasgow www.urbanrealm.com/news/2026/03...

Well, this thread is so nice and wholesome! Exactly what the internet at its best can be; people kindly sharing knowledge to solve annoying problems!

A British seaside town in summer.

Passionate about seaside heritage? Why not support a campaign to recognise the seaside holiday as part of our living heritage!

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/news-the-sea...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com

📣 Opportunity: Oral History PhD Research Project w/t Imperial War Museums & University of Strathclyde.

An #oralhistory of women paramilitaries during ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland and Britain.

For more information visit: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

#Postgraduate #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles

My research into 'hedge porn' shows it was the lending library of the sexually curious I won’t beat about the bush: did you ever find porn in a hedge when you were younger?

Research on this done by Whores of Yore (Dr Kate Lister) in 2022. It was very interesting inews.co.uk/opinion/hedg...

For several months, people have been wondering why Reform hasn't declared any crypto donations, despite Nigel Farage saying they'd received some

Now @theobserveruk.bsky.social can reveal why...

‘Up the ’Ra!’: Nigel Farage duped into using republican slogan in birthday video message GB News host and former Ukip leader hoaxed into using phrase he didn’t know meaning of

www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Listened to the enlightening 'Origin Story' two-parter on John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill only yesterday! Thank you for doing these pods 🙂

The prevalence of nominally reasonable organisations discussing the increasingly wild, radicalised claims of the right as if they were real cannot be good for democracy.

Yes!!! Everyone's a pocket publisher.