Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Our Sun
Sunday 19th April 2026
Seestar S50

Just been using my Seestar to show some neighbours our beautiful Sun. They were amazed to find out all about Sunspots and their size.
Proof, if needed, that smart scopes are great for a spot of astronomy outreach!

In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros

U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One

www.dvidshub.net/video/100269...

#Artemis 🧪🔭

Sounds like Britain’s Got Talent has got out of hand this year.

A birthday party invitation for Sunday 26th April, 12:00, picnic in Russell Square, Trip to Gay's The Word bookshop, followed by a bum-filled experience at The British Museum

It's our party, we'll look at #MuseumBums if we want to! 👍🏛️🍑🥳

We're celebrating 10 years since we posted our very first Museum Bum (on Instagram)

Are you coming along? 😁

That longterm investment approach doesn't work for these CEOs. Why help some other CEO in 20 years time? Better for them to jack up the share prices in the short term and hope some other company does the IP R&D that they can aggressively purchase in 20 years time. Like they did with Marvel and DC

"SKPT has equipped me with theoretical knowledge and with the new pedagogical strategies s that I can directly apply in the classroom" Sibo

Teaching KS3/4 physics out of specialism⁉️

Book your FREE #SKPT physics CPD Now! Sessions on #Forces, #Atomic Physics and #Waves starting in April at locations across England

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Agreed, 10 vastly expensive missiles, isn't beating 1000 cheaper ones or 10,000 cheaper drones. We really need to focus on building and maintaining the manufacturing base and materials supply lines for the wars of tomorrow. This is what China is doing and is doing well

Until we figure out how France and Italy spend their smaller budgets so much more effectively than us, posturing around spending ‘2/3/5% of GDP’ is very annoying. Treasury bad but MoD also seem spectacularly shit. French military today on 2.1% of GDP is the one we want from 3% in 2035 FFS.

I want to watch a movie tonight and I really miss the tactile experience of going to a store and picking one out. I really am not interested in spending 45 minutes scrolling through 7 streaming apps to find a movie I might enjoy.

About 45% of pet ownership is walking by them and badly singing little songs that integrate their names. If you can’t do this, then I’m sorry, you are not ready for the responsibilities of owning a pet.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a whopping 55% off in the Steam Lovecraftian Days sale! 💀⛏️🩸

It's a great time to check out our folk horror adventure set on the moors of Northern England. The answers lie in the soil...

Ok on a serious note, it cannot be exaggerated how bad formalized Iranian control of the Strait is for the world. The entire global economy rests on an American guarantee of free commercial shipping. That guarantee is gone. We don’t know exactly what will happen but none of it will be good.

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!)

This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

Yes, and I suspect part of this is to stop people like us looking at whats being blown up.

Amazing. Maybe for the more physics-involved folks.

They appear to be quoting from the US administration, rather than giving their interpretation

Grey/blue graphic showing Orion and the European Service Module arrays, cover of the ESA Forward To The Moon media kit

Check out our Moon media kit, covering #Artemis II step by step: launch, orbits, translunar injection, lunar flyby and return, highlighting Europe’s role at every stage. Explore how Europe is helping shape the next era of human spaceflight! @exploration.esa.int

esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/Moo...

Wallace and Gromit having a picnic on the Moon in ‘A Grand Day Out’

‘first humans flying around the moon in 50 years’ oh yeah well how do you explain this then

#ArtemisII

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Image of the Girls Scouts Cadette Comic Artist Badge featuring empty word balloons

Did you know that Girls Scouts can earn a Cadette Comic Artist Badge for creating their own comic? If your troop's looking for some assist, we're here for you: CAM offers private group workshops that can help creators of all skill levels reach their goal. More info at cartoonart.org/education-index

Yeah, there's a obvious reason Ukraine has become world expert in countering Iranian designed and produced drone warfare.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

Wait, flip the question then. What is 'good you' doing? Where you had the opportunity to do something good but didn't do it for any reason.
If you have any answer to that, but not the evil question, does that mean logically you're the most evil version of you. Time to grow a goatee!

The real scandal here is forcing children to play for the England football team. It's just far too much pressure for that age. There are plenty of adult footballers who should be doing the job. These kids should be back in school, no doubt with uniforms that cost £123

London!

I'm moderating at this event with the Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot.

Join us at 6.30pm at King's College 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b...

Calling all meteorite lovers! ☄️

Are YOU studying a BSc/MSc/MSci course and interested in a summer research project on meteoritics?

The Paneth Meteorite Trust offers bursaries for such internships and is accepting applications from student supervisors.

Find out more at: ras.ac.uk/awards-and-g...

Screenshot of text: Do you have any additional comments about Al in education and teaching? (Optional) This was a loaded and badly designed survey. Shame on you. Where's my opportunity to say I have a good understanding of genAl and choose not to use it? What sort of Al are you even talking about here - iterative or generative? Machine learning? LLMs? I've been using them in teaching for DECADES, but that doesn't mean I'm using genAl! You'll get the results you want but that isn't insight

Got that trash “AI in education” survey everyone else has been complaining about. At least there is a free text option. I’d fail a student who designed a survey this loaded.