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Zoom into a cosmic eye 👁️
This video takes you on a journey through space to one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula 🐈⬛ also known as NGC 6543. 🔭 🧪
Mer de Glace from Signal Forbes
1890 | 2013 | 2021 | 2024
Strong acceleration of the demise of the largest French glacier over last few years! 🧊🔥
Sarenne Glacier (Grandes Rousses, Alpe d'Huez)
1906 | 2025
Sarenne Glacier has gone few years ago (~2023)! ✝️
In July 1965, it was the 1st summer ski site in France! ⛷️
This is the future of all Alpine glaciers this century!
You can't say you didn't know...🧐
📷 G. Flusin/E. Thibert via PNE
I've also been struck by this. The Trump regime is normalising the decapitation of governments it dislikes by assassinating or abducting their leaders. There are good reasons why states have tended not to make this a norm.
"First-past-the-post system is creaking at the seams" and "Westminster is dangerously underprepared for a multi-party future".
Excellent piece by @drhannahmcd.bsky.social: the Gorton & Denton by-election raises much bigger questions about our democracy than whether Starmer survives as Labour leader
It's rather depressing that, in a three-way by-election with potentially seismic consequences - in which voters had a genuine range of options - less than half the electorate showed up.
By-election turnout is never great, but I don't think we should just shrug over this.
I'd like to congratulate Sir Oink A-lot on not only getting a very respectable 0.43% of the vote, but also beating out candidates from five actual honest-to-god serious political parties.
That'll do pig, that'll do.
The Monster Raving Loony Party candidate “Sir Oink-A-Lot” beat Ben Habib’s far-right and openly fascist “Advance UK” party.
Today's by-election is another illustration of the problems with FPTP.
The result may tell us less about what voters want to happen than whether they can game the system effectively to stop a result most *don't* want.
The electoral system should not be an obstacle that voters have to work around.
"Iceland will in the coming months hold a referendum on joining the European Union, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told a press conference in Poland."
#EU #Iceland
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Yusuf: "When Nigel is prime minister, there will not be a judge in the country that will be able to prevent flights from leaving."
Worth noting that the political precedents for saying, 'The judiciary cannot in any way check the powers of the executive' is not a happy one.
F@scists don't like (honest) journalism, ep. 63543 📝
And they won't stop until hitting zero axis! 📉
(WaPo is dead by the way, only remains NYT)
Chart: Chris Mooney for ReportEarth.substack.com
These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.
Entertaining, fascinating and informative
I've been meaning to run this analysis for a while: the probability of voting Labour at GE2024 in seats *gained* by Labour was higher for people who were younger, more liberal, on the left economically, more likely to favour immigration, do not think immigration is the most important issue, etc.
There definitely no way to deduce the described definition. Even the explanation provided is ambiguous. Is the "whole week" used to define the scale the previous 7 days, or the current calendar week? I would guess the former but it's unclear. It needs an "i" button to display the explanation.
Mistake in the article: The University of Innsbruck is in Austria, not Switzerland.
Wow.
"Against folly we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it; reasoning is no use; facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved — indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions."
FWIW, after 2+ decades in 🇬🇧 diplomacy my settled view is that BBCWS is *the* (not *a*) vital element of British soft power and the continued attacks on its funding are nothing short of barbaric and self defeating.
The Guardian leader brings this out very well. Letting the World Service die would be a form of unilateral disarmament in the info war between truth and lies.
My book about Britain ends with a memory.
Of the first time I ever worked at Broadcasting House as a guest commentator, what that meant to me, and what the BBC means for 🇬🇧’s place in the world.
The idea that the World Service could end is awful, and frankly embarrassing for the British Government.
I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
In the centre an opaque cloud of grey gas hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas, illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped spikes over them surround the nebula on a black background. Credit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (University of Washington
Hubble has captured a new view of the Egg Nebula 🥚 the first, youngest, and closest pre-planetary nebula ever discovered!
Discover more about the light show around this rapidly dying star 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪
This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.
Thanks. I figured it out now on iOS. If I set location services to “never“ the app refused to open unless I turned the location services back on, which is where I was getting stuck. But I figured out that if I set it to “ask“ then the app does open and I could switch it off.
