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We don’t need MORE faith schools with the power to select 100% of their pupils based on religion. This does not promote diversity – it undermines it. Faith-based selection segregates children by religion, exacerbates racial division, and reinforces economic inequality. humanists.uk/2025/02/06/g...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 18 days ago • 807 comments

I guess now is a good time to remind folks there is a massive glut of PV solar panels just lying in US warehouses that don’t need to cross any borders and incur additional duties to start delivering more energy to American consumers and businesses. 🔌💡

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

1. If Trump runs out of immigrants to persecute, I suspect the next target for his performative sadism will be people with disabilities. Already, without a shred of evidence, he has blamed the air crash on disabled air traffic controllers, with horrible, stereotyping slurs about their disabilities.🧵

submitted 23 days ago • 93 comments

Word of the day is one I may have mentioned (frequently): a ‘snaccident’ is the inadvertent eating of an entire packet of biscuits.

submitted 23 days ago • 132 comments

i think it would be really cool if we had a way of evaluating different claims about reality using empirical evidence to see which, if any, is true

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I can’t speak for armed forces but the other things he highlighted here, scientists, engineers and universities, have all been categorically and demonstrably damaged directly by Brexit AND by the disastrous effect it has had on the UK economy and its priorities. I can never forgive such destruction

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

We’re in a new Gilded Age - which sounds great, but the Robber Barons are back. And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes: theconversation.com/andrew-carne...

submitted 33 days ago • 40 comments

Where do you find your news? Social media serves us up an increasingly skewed perspective on the world. Some of our traditional media is extremely politically biased. I like @theconversation.com - written by expert academics; curated but not politically steered by editors: theconversation.com/uk

submitted 33 days ago • 127 comments

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

submitted 37 days ago • 313 comments

The scientific method served humanity well for hundreds of years but it was rendered obsolete in 2013 with the discovery of Vibes

submitted 43 days ago • 83 comments

I did not anticipate how quickly people would move to comply with Trump. Makes it much easier for an aspiring authoritarian when so many potential obstacles are removed preemptively - billionaires bend the knee, Meta changes its policies, Wray resigns, Barr resigns, DOJ drops the cases against Trump

submitted 47 days ago • 58 comments

Have written about Starmer's speech- his best moment yet as PM. He implicitly identified what sits at the heart of this story: the emergence of a common UK/US online right, headed by the radicalised Musk. It is making extremist, until recently fringe politics mainstream in British conservatism.

submitted 48 days ago • 117 comments

It turns out that Farage was right; foreigners were coming for his job.

submitted 49 days ago • 142 comments

'Blue hydrogen' is hydrogen made from natural gas, the friendly-sounding name for methane—a highly potent greenhouse gas. The fossil fuel industry hopes to inject it into the gas grid for heating homes. But it’s as bad as coal for the climate, as @kevinclimate.bsky.social and I explained here.

submitted 51 days ago • 15 comments

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘crapulence’ (18th century): sickness or indisposition resulting from excessive drinking or eating.

submitted 53 days ago • 75 comments

One underappreciated difference between electric and gas infrastructure is that gas pipelines leak methane, which is terrible for climate and can blow up, injuring or killing people. Urban gas infrastructure poses far higher risks than power lines simply by existing, even if we use it very little.

submitted 57 days ago • 8 comments

I want to thank Elon Musk for attacking Wikipedia for being a part of the internet he can't currently control. It reminded me to donate to support Wikipedia, the best remaining thing about the internet. You can donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

submitted 59 days ago • 60 comments

submitted 60 days ago • 134 comments

Not an overstatement to say Wikipedia is the greatest achievement in information ever. It's also the backbone of the internet. Google doesn't work without it, for instance. It's kind of the last, best thing really working for humans on the shared knowledge front. Can't let him mess with this.

submitted 60 days ago • 89 comments

The myth of the genius sole inventor. Tesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning DOE bailed out Tesla with a big loan in the Great Recession. Tesla wasn’t profitable through at least 2021 without a government-created emissions credit trading program www.cnn.com/2021/01/31/i...

submitted 60 days ago • 21 comments

A few potential words of the day: Joblijock: a disturber of domestic peace (small children, cantankerous uncles, etc). Yule-hole: the furthest notch in your belt that you need to resort to at Christmas. Confelicity: joy in other people’s happiness. Merry Christmas.

submitted 61 days ago • 128 comments

Word of the day (of course) is ‘scurryfunging’, from US dialect: the frantic attempt to tidy the house just before guests arrive.

submitted 62 days ago • 108 comments

As a lynx deodorant survivor I can confirm that there is no robust & compelling contest of ideas when advertising millions hack your brain.

submitted 64 days ago • 10 comments

Word of the day is ‘bellycheer’ (16th century): feasting, gluttony, and ‘the gratification of the belly’.

submitted 64 days ago • 55 comments

I understand the point here, but strongly disagree. That politicians have failed to protect our democracy in the past does not justify a failure to protect it now. The risk that our democratic system could be flooded with foreign money is real and immediate. It needs real and immediate action.

submitted 66 days ago • 44 comments