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Planetary parade: Five tips for spotting all seven planets this week

How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar

BBC News report on Pope’s bronchitis tonight came with random coughing sounds…

Intolerance of intolerance is tolerance. You’re welcome.

35,000 people have now complained to Ofcom about GB News' contemptible homophobia. Please, join them. action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

Kanye West was quiet about his antisemitism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, and other prejudices for the last couple of years. Now suddenly he’s gotten very very loud. It is almost as if something changed recently that emboldened him.

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

Sorry, but new data has raised the probability of an asteroid hitting earth, not lowered it. It's now at 2.7%. Which would be a relief to many of us. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Hey America Just a heads up: This is what authoritarianism looks like 👇

I've written about Coronation Street and why a reduction of episodes a week could be an opportunity for the soap. uk.news.yahoo.com/itv-coronati...

'Alexandra Palace, January Dawn' (2017) by Emma Reynolds www.e-j-reynolds.com

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

I have many regrets about Earth, but making humans in a wide range of colors, shapes, and temperaments is not one of them. Celebrate thy diversity. Love each other.

The only inspo we need to head outdoors! 🍃 @angiecarteruk.bsky.social's stunning walk has us grabbing our boots - where's your favourite place for a stroll? 🚶‍♀️🌿

They are expanding their McCarthyite war on diversity to include people with disabilities, and doing it very clearly. Should someone in a wheelchair be able to work for the FAA? I think an overwhelming majority of Americans would say "of course" but that's not what we're hearing from Trump.

It looks like we are being couped, folks!! techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/e...

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

Currently Jupiter makes a nice visual (and photographic) combination with Aldebaran, the Hyades and the Pleiades. On view all night. 🔭 🧪

FACT. All of Greenland want to come and see my next tour. FACT!

👊 We're Lambeth Larder. We help local people struggling with money to find emergency food and other vital support. 🤩 We produce and share free information and resources. 👍 We work with local people, groups and businesses, connecting them to each other, helping create a stronger Community 🧡 💪🏿💪🏽💪🏻

It seems we might have the developments of a sting jet beginning to take hold, cloud head has become very defined in its curvature and there may be a little 'tail' developing.

Stormy seas… #StormÉowyn

NASA web pages this morning vs this afternoon

Oof, this is a curious read, and it’s nice to know somebody likes me! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in Chronological Order

One year ago since “Channel Islands” was said instead of “Natalie” at the end of a broadcast.

Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. www.space.com/goodnight-ga...

Rare comet may be visible for first time in 160,000 years. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

British people now dislike Elon Musk more than ever with more than 7 in 10 having an unfavourable opinion of him. Even Reform voters are now turning against him

Thou shalt not declare war on facts just because they always prove you wrong and stupid as fuck.

Incidentally, this is the only place to find me now. Having left Threads.

Who would have thought that the guy who created Facebook to rank hot women would turn out to be a moral coward

Morning from the Yorkshire Dales! We have now entered day three snowed in at the Tan Hill Inn, Britain's highest pub

7 years ago today, a tweet from my Irish friend @emmahynes.bsky.social changed the direction of one of my novels and inspired another when I discovered the wonderful Irish tradition of #NollaignamBan the Women's Christmas. Here is the full story > flamingnora.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-...

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false. www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...

The pointy-shoed corruption of medieval London. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK. For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.

Something something history rhymes something

For those who need to know - 'the greasy stains from just one pizza box can ruin an entire batch of paper recycling'.

A man keels over in a chaotic emergency room, an 88-year-old woman waits for 24 hours in the back of an ambulance, a depressed and frustrated paramedic can’t face his job anymore This is the reality of the state of the NHS right now and it’s terrifying 👇 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Now it’s dark, you should be able to spot faint Saturn to the left of the Moon and Venus. Jupiter is hanging brightly in the south followed by the bright red planet Mars in the East.

Stunning aurora over southern Australia earlier #AuroraAustralis #Victoria

Take a look at @thetimes.com pick of our 21 properties which make for a perfect visit in the colder months⛄:

In 2008, perfumier Geza Schön created the scent of the surface of the sun for an exhibition. He aimed to capture the smell of 'hydrogen and helium with a molten cocktail of copper, terbium, strontium, antimony, and europium' at melting temperature. 🧪🔭 #ParkerSolarProbe

Why do I go to church at Christmas, as a non-believer? To be moved by the power of human creativity—myth and music touching the mysteries of life and death. A reflection by Stephen McNair

Corrie Blog Post: Can these cameos save Corrie in 2025? http://dlvr.it/TGsDM3 << Click to Read #Corrie

Victoria Wood - As Seen on TV (18th December 1987). It's amazing the number of interesting conversations you can hear if you keep your hairnet jammed up against the vestry wall.