Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

G&S - Rime Suite (feat. Mirella Díez) YouTube video by Games&Symphonies

Two years ago I was on stage at Palau de la Música Catalana singing the main theme of RiME with @gamessymphonies.com and honestly… I still haven't processed it. The best day of my life youtu.be/nfoCzKEeTNo?...

The term here is “freeloaders” — ‘moderate’ antivaxxers have long expected others to uphold the social contract and vaccinate while they do what quack doctor Bob Sears advocated in his parenting book as “hiding in the herd”. Then when too many weaken herd immunity & their kid may get sick they 💉

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over alleged child abuse images on X Owner of X summoned along with former CEO Linda Yaccarino over investigation by cybercrime unit

Rise and shine fam, it's prosecuting time #TeslaTakedown
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A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear throughout.

NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE TRIFID NEBULA TO START OFF ITS BIRTHDAY WEEK!!! 🌌

Peptides promise longevity and healing. Does the science back them up? The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence

Are you on a “Wolverine stack”? A “glow” stack? If you know what those terms mean, you’ve stepped into the world of peptides, an unregulated Wild West of wellness. @beebrookshire.bsky.social has the story @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧪

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.

In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.

Eight children were murdered in the shooting.

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the penne opticon

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

I’m guessing Noah Hawley won’t be making any shows for Amazon Prime for the foreseeable future www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Hilarious . Now moaning renewables are too efficient 🤣🤣🤣🫣

Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are "an insult" to the 230,000 people who died in the pandemic

🔴 Bereaved Covid Families Demand Nigel Farage Sack Conspiracy Theory Reform Candidates

Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice tell the Reform leader that the conspiracy views revealed by Byline Times are “an insult” to the 230,000 people in Britain who died in the pandemic

Indie dev ‘devastated’ after BAFTA pulls trailer at last minute, citing ‘wellbeing of our guests’ | VGC A trailer for The Quiet Things was allegedly pulled 24 hours before the Awards…

What the actual fuck
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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together.

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"Adults they say are having to regress to toys to come to grips with the world." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyK6...

"Every year tiny hands hand over millions of pounds for sweets and icecream."

1971: Something for the Children | Tuesday Documentary | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

Interesing bit of archive. I remember being a kid in early 70s. Automated battery toys like robots were really pushed hard but inanimate toys still always seemed to win somehow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyK6...

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

“Here were produced rubbishy newspapers… films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.”

- 1984, George Orwell

Tabby cat showing his belly on a sofa.

You all look better upside down actually.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Somehow firefox is bugging out and I can't copy/paste a URL bar any more. So can't show you the link. Is all software vibe coded now? Like copy/paste in some fields not working after recent update. So basic. WTF?

While trying to find the origin of a slang term I remember from about 30 years ago that nobody uses any more, I mostly get unrelated garbage but some of the garbage is great. I accidentally found a "salute the pig" website about weird pig breeds.

I'm no expert either. Just in an another part of the world. Rabbit vs hare stuff seems simpler in the UK. They look very different but that is probably not true elsewehere. About to dive into rabbit vs hare worldwide now!

Is it a hare?

That is a very different looking rabbit to where I live.

One of the reasons a phone is great tech even in public is it's very obvious when you hold it in your hand to do something. Make a call. Hold it up to take a shot. Scroll social media with head down because you are bored. It's all broadcast. So it doesn't evade scrutiny.

Back in google glass days I spoke to my local pub landlord about it. He decided it was banned immediately. Nobody wants to let their hair down in that situation. With phones it's different. You have to show it. Then there is the ritual of making sure everyone agrees to be in shot. It's not sneaky.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.