Abbott on fire here. Sir Keir Stormfront must be the only person in these Island that didn’t think Mandelson was extremely problematic & Epstein’s plaything.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Car is king for Scottish Labour -

🚗 Blocking congestion charges
🚗 Aiming to blow active travel budget on fixing potholes
🚗Freezing Glasgow airport parking charges
🚗Protests against introduction of parking permits (~£200 per year)

Unbridled car use is stifling our economy & damaging public health

Abortion: the possibilities of progress Women's bodily autonomy and health, particularly with regard to abortion, are under attack. The politicisation of women's bodies and choices is part of a wider attempt to roll back human rights and fr...

The Lancet: "The politicisation of women's bodies and choices is part of a wider attempt to roll back human rights and freedoms of women and marginalised groups. ...It is a fundamental right of a woman to decide whether and when she has children, and is central to gender justice."

Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of “Brave New World.”

Creating baby geniuses to thwart the AI threat? (Yes, really.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202... - smart people being really stupid about intelligence

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

🔥🇺🇦The 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade "Kherson" demonstrated how the crew of a Yak-52 light aircraft destroys Russian Shahed/Geran drones.

A times headline linking to a story written by a man: “Never mind the manosphere — meet the angry young women.

Approx. 140 women per year are murdered by men in the UK, and there were more than 70,000 (reported) rapes in 2024, so maybe stop writing now, prick.

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

Modification of figure from Crick https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2003243.g001

<neutrinos passing through light-years of lead>

Gross.

"During her premiership as first minister, Sturgeon championed a “wellbeing economy” as she advocated for a shift in focus from traditional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth towards “collective wellbeing”, including environmental sustainability, health, and equality."

The clearest evidence that the increase in atmospheric CO₂ is due to humans is in carbon isotopes. Fossil fuels have no ¹⁴C and are depleted in ¹³C. As we burn them, the ratio of ¹⁴C and ¹³C relative to ¹²C in the atmosphere drops (look up the Suess Effect).

Anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drugs show no clinically meaningful effect www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

Frank Herbert I apologize for ever doubting you

Prof Giles Yeo - Gut Feeling: How new weight loss drugs work - 2025 British Science Festival YouTube video by The Genetics Society

If you’re looking for something to watch this weekend, here it is! @gilesyeo.bsky.social gives the @britsciassoc.bsky.social Biological Section presidential address.

Find out how new weight drugs work & spot @genotripe.bsky.social & @petergallivan.bsky.social cameos!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDk...

I get the sentiment - hospital staff do hugely demanding jobs and deserve better conditions - but the answer isn't free parking.

"Free" parking has huge societal and environmental costs.

[Alt text: Hospital staff should not have to pay hospital parking charges. Share if you agree.]

Nearly 160,000 uninsured cars seized on UK roads Seizure numbers hit a 17-year high as an estimated 300,000 uninsured vehicles are driven each day.

The stats here are horrific.
300,000 uninsured drivers on roads every day.
1 person affected every 20 minutes by an uninsured driver.
1 person a day left with life changing injuries every day by an uninsured driver.
Yet successive govts have failed to tackle this
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

Perfect name for something you use for your science and not give any credit

#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”

POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”

I am reassured on a weekly basis that cancelling my TV licence was the right decision

As a reminder, while there’s no Strasbourg case law on toilets, there are two on hospital wards and similar settings: the case of Goodwin, and the case of “I”.

This is legally unachievable.

This is HUGE!

100,000 women have now signed the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition.

It means conclusively that “gender-critical” transphobes, dishonest politicians, like Streeting and journalists claim that there is a “conflict of rights” between cis women and trans people they are lying.

End of.

Light blue booklet cover: "CITY OF OXFORD / A Balanced Transport Policy" (with the city crest) above "REPORT OF CENTRAL AREA WORKING PARTY TO COUNCIL - 5TH MARCH, 1973"

Oxford City Council's 1973 Balanced Transport Policy. wanderingdanny.com/oxford/docs/... This was hugely progressive, abandoning road building and looking to shift trips to public transport and cycling instead.

Today marks a year since the Supreme Court decision. We now know a revised version of the draft statutory guidance is due in May. We need to act fast to make sure it explains how trans people can still be included.

Write to your MP to tell them what they need to do, using our quick and easy tool 👇

We should start removing the citizenship of weasels like this. If you don’t like paying your taxes and want to live in another country, fine, go, but you won’t be getting back in

Sign here to ask for the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...