That is an excellent verb, great work France.

That's the authoritarian way right? Thumbscrews for the powerless, helpless fawning for the powerful.

They don't want to try to regulate the tech companies. Which in fairness has gone badly before. It's far easier to make kids or parents or teachers legally responsible.

If phones can't be made suitable for kids they can't be made suitable for anyone, is my thinking. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater and pretending that we magically get the ability to cope when we hit age 18 is a distraction at best, honestly.

I dislike this policy. The potential to arrest pupils or parents for perfectly normal behaviour in the school environment is not in any way desirable to me, nor do I think it actually solves anything.

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Full rainbow over the river

Rainbow over the Clyde

I think an interesting parallel here is actually the right-wing distrust of, and attacks against, the very concept of experts and expertise.

Has audible changed their model so your credits only buy you access to a book for a month? All of the wording seems to suggest that without saying it outright and honestly I've no chance of finishing an audio book in a month...

I mean especially as we've just watched that happen in reverse with the general election.

Lols in West of Scotland climate...

Indeed, "living in a trollocracy can be exhausting". This perfectly encapsulates why I prefer this website to the one owned by the man-baby racist billionaire.

This is also true in the U.S. in the used EV market if you're looking at the low-end daily driver segment.

Recently priced America's cheapest used hybrids vs. America's cheapest used EVs, and the EVs came out on top *right off the lot*

Now add in the next 5 years of fuel and maintenance savings

New version of the matrix where humanity is not just a battery but a whole data processor...

a woman wearing a blue shirt and a white lei is making a funny face . ALT: a woman wearing a blue shirt and a white lei is making a funny face .

Someone said, this world is so boring; we don’t have mermaids, werewolves, vampires or other mystical creatures.

Someone replied and said, yall can’t even handle people with different skin colors

🫢 I was gagged

I had a pair, they were pretty good till they wore out last winter. Ah well also.

Ooh, @glasgow.ac.uk is giving an honorary doctorate to @ncuti-gatwa-news.bsky.social: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin... this Commemoration Day

Appropriate since we apparently gave the Doctor a degree back in the 1800s 😏 www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...

#DoctorWho #UoG

He has the vibes of someone who decided what a good man looked like and tried to step into that model without ever thinking about what good is or why he wants to be it.

Labour supporters seem to say that this is because the media isn't on their side, and okay. But in this day and age if you're running the country and you want me to see your message I should be able to see your message regardless of what the editor of the Daily Mail says.

There's a whole thread here which is interesting speculation. But one of my real issues with Labour is that they will not develop a narrative about what they're doing, or work to combat opposing narratives, and that's important!

Most Of The Microplastics In Urban Air Come From Tires Particles produced from brake and tire wear now represent the majority of emissions from road transport. As the EU cracks down on them, scientists urge others to follow.

Wear particles from tyres and brakes are far more prevalent and more damaging than you might think. My latest article for @forbes.com digs into some recent research on the impact of non-exhaust emissions 🧪⚛️ 👩🏼‍🔬

www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

I've been doing some work on river water quality lately and every specialist is like, 'yeah, road run-off is a massive issue but they won't talk to us.' I think it's because it's like sixth on the transport people's list of societal harms from roads, so they're not engaging on it.
Perspective 😳

... Are these REAL??

Thanks for the response! I guess I was excited by the idea of a highly dynamic atmospheric layer that we don't usually see, but I guess these moments of inspiration are generally obvious to the SME.

Coming back to this: I'm not an astronomer but I wonder if the sun has a secondary halo (beyond the corona) that we don't usually see because the sun is bright made up of cast off flare particles that, for reasons of speed or angle, don't quite achieve escape velocity?

This thread.

Labyrinth (the film) got past this by modelling the guards after playing cards, with upside down heads who explained the rules but didn't know the answer, and the upright heads who were asked the question.

Thing about recurring versions of the same puzzle is you notice specific issues. For instance, in this example, the guards shared the job of explaining the situation, meaning that one of the two guards was telling the truth, but the other was lying...

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

So often the question is “have we gone too far?" So rarely is it the statement: "They have gone too far." So often the question posed is "where does it all end?" So rarely is the question “how will we make this end?”

But I'll answer the question, now.