No music on BBC Springwatch apart from the theme tune. This is a huge improvement.

Three of the most terrifying graphs on the internet right now.

Mass deaths at sea are to the EU what mass shootings are to the US. - It keeps happening. - And every time, politicians pretend to be concerned. - And every time, politicians keep in place the government policies at the root of the problem. - And it keeps happening.

“The claim.. the film is antisemitic is a total lie. The festival organisers even had a lawyer examine the film who pronounced it totally devoid of antisemitism the principal commentators in the film are Jewish- the festival is actually banning Jews” dorseteye.com/glastonbury-su…

Staggering new anti-boycott Bill proposed by Gove - effectively banning public bodies from boycotting those who abuse human rights or the planet. Yet another utterly anti-democratic clampdown we've come to expect from this Govt. This Bill should be nowhere near our statute book.

Amazing thread. Basically the Bank of England's macroeconomic thinking is stuck 50 years in the past.

Ukraine trying to join NATO must have the sympathy of everyone who has been refused insurance for an existing condition.

Labour could sweep the London suburbs. All they need to do is offer a new car or van to every voter who needs one. #ULEZ #UxbridgeAndSouthRuislip

"Just so you know" Virgin Media ❤️ gutting their TV guide just so that Channel 4 can force us not to skip ad breaks. At least Virgin doesn't pretend this is some kind of improvement.

Yesterday at Haywards Heath we encountered that marvel, an open ticket office ⌛(showing railcards) "2 senior singles to Brighton" ⌛"That's £10.50" ⌛Card payment accepted, tickets in my hand ⌛on train with seconds to spare Beat that, you miserable, clunky ticket machines

Only a problem if they also sent the decryption key to Mali. Oh hang on, were these emails not encrypted? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Old and 'new' Radox shower gel. The convenient hook has gone. And the pack has shrunk from 250ml to 225ml.

Got an email purporting to be a job offer. But the idiot spammer had pasted an alphabetical list of about 100 email addresses into the To field.

OMG Anne Atkins promoting Neurolinguistic Programming on #BBCRadio4 Thought For The Day #TFTD #neurobollocks

Seems there was a similar lightning strike and fire at a biogas plant, also near Oxford, in 2016. Why aren't these installations adequately protected by lightning conductors?

What was the Cassington biogas tank, breached by lightning yesterday, made of? Metal? Glass fibre? Carbon fibre? I'm guessing metal would be safest, and carbon fibre - a composite of conducting and insulating materials - most vulnerable to lightning.

Nematodes. I just bought 6M of them for pest control. They are invertebrates smaller than mites. But I think you knew that. You just wanted to give us a reason to listen to the next series BBC More or Less

Justin Schmidt is to be admired not only for his dedication in getting himself stung by every bee, wasp and ant he could find, but also for his poetic descriptions of the peculiar quality of each pain #qualia #phenomenology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_s…

Both very deserving. Physics? Hmm. Everything is, I guess. I interviewed Hinton years ago at the University of Sussex, where he cut his AI teeth, and near where I now live in Brighton. Very bright guy. Possibly the first person to try to make me understand backpropagation.

From now on I expect to be posting mainly as rhamdu.bsky.social