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.

@esa.int Advanced Radar Polarimetry / #Biomass course.

A dense week ahead to deepen polarimetric #SAR approaches & their applications to agricultural & forested environments.

Goal: better link soils, vegetation & water stress using radar data.

Back to @fortiain.bsky.social 📡📘 #Science #Ljubljana

Unmarked car. Unidentified individuals in balaclavas. Tell me how this is not some secret police with no accountability. America, you’ve become a fascist state.

Do you know how many Labour MPs are now on Bluesky?

It's now over 300 out of the 400 or so MPs!

And many do post!

I've created starter packs and a list!

Firstly the list:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.

You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️

Soon? 😬

This reminds me of when my boys were are nursery school. They made up prizes for the kids there too.

Trees Are So Weird YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Each year, I teach "Evolution of Plant Form and Function" to undergraduates - I've struggled to find good synthetic out-of-class materials - until recently. This is such a superb overview of the functional and physiological overview of land plant evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSch... 🧪🌾🌐 #botany

😅 bit of a stretch to equate a local council issue in UK with behaviour of POTUS in an increasingly autocratic US.

I watched Yarvin’s Sheldonian lecture. What struck me is that he’s describing real institutional failures, but he completely misdiagnoses the cause. He treats “democracy” as the problem, when the actual collapse is upstream.

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP!!

“Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
👇 #BBC

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

I have a very bad feeling about this...

“They are all lying… and dishonest people” — Kristi Noem threatens to double down on Portland & Chicago

They’ve all seen Death of Stalin, right?

Right? 😳

Rest assured, it’s their fault for not using BCC!!!

SEN SANDERS: AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos invest billions in AI and robotics that could eliminate millions of jobs while increasing corporate profits at workers' expense.

Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can.

But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.

Plan to Reflect Sunlight to Power Solar Panels at Night Upsets Astronomers Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.

Startup Reflect Orbital aims to power solar farms at night by reflecting sunlight from about 4,000 satellites, has recently requested a license for a 2026 demo. But astronomers warn the bright objects could be “ruinous” to vital scientific research.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Want a quick economic win? Look to university spinouts UK innovators too often have to find capital in the US — the quid pro quo is often jobs and facilities there instead of here

Want a quick economic win? Look to university spinouts on.ft.com/42XMTpl | opinion

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters.
At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...