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submitted 15 hours ago • 202 comments

What you need to know about Trump's NASA budget in one quote: “This budget is like, ‘Here is a shit sandwich with no side of pickle.’ You don’t even get the plate!” 🧪 🛰️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Love this

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's not a bad day in the neighbourhood (and I'm a little envious of that glider pilot)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"Peter Dutton (has) jumped the shark". When you've lost Samantha Maiden ... #election25 #auspol

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

Been on here for a month or so now, and it's fascinating to see the algorithm at work. My Discover feed has progressed from its virgin state of "almost entirely wrestling" to "US politics, dad jokes, and lots of wrestling". Now I've posted something mentioning wrestling, it will no doubt revert....

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This was the "return of masculinity"? A whiny crook who lies about his weight, cheats at golf, melts down over jokes, pouts over portraits, tanks the economy with toddler math, & calls it strength, while demanding women carry dead fetuses. If this is manhood, we need a national testosterone recall.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

What you're seeing are wet microbursts—intense downdrafts from thunderstorms that slam rain into the ground, creating those stunning lobes. Like a reverse explosion from the sky. Captured in Perth, #Australia

submitted 5 days ago • 450 comments

“I assumed that a ‘roach motel’ was an inn for weary travelers like myself,” said Harold K. Roach, aged 8 days, as he struggled against the epoxy holding four legs, one antenna, and his thorax. “But it turns out that the vibe didn’t stand up at all.”

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Last tickets available for my show with the wonderful @rosieisaholt.bsky.social at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 24th. Please do come www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The tariff fiasco was alarming. By the story about Laura Loomer’s influence in Trump was terrifying. My column. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

The Space Sci community is reeling today at the President's proposed NASA budget. I'll admit that angry crying may get added to my to do list. Before that happens, however, the @aas.org has a letter for me to sign & I have phone calls to make. May Congress listen. aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Last tickets for my show with the wonderful @rosieisaholt.bsky.social at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 24th. Please come along www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-t...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Is this 1933 all over again? Leading Hitler historian Richard Evans weighs the evidence. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Nicely summed up www.itv.com/news/2025-04...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe's climate monitor said on Tuesday, prolonging an extraordinary heat streak that has tested scientific expectations.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Americans were told reciprocal tariffs would be simple. But where did those numbers come from? Read FT Alphaville’s take on the method to the Trump administration’s madness: www.ft.com/content/e025...

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

Trump’s 'climate' purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool originally developed by the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for local planners to identify the future risk of extreme weather events the US. The Guardian has recreated the future climate risk index as a free tool.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Can't tell if this is an April fool or just the most Telegraph article ever - surely no-one's really called St John Talbot-Chandée-Percy? www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments