Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAdrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social · 01/09/2025British Airways are getting very snooty about what we're reading. 916911 169
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/09/20251 September 1939 | Germany invaded Poland which began the World War II. 288 days later the first Poles became prisoners of a new concentration camp created in the occupied Polish territories annexed into the Third Reich: #Auschwitz. Learn more: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/ 5397137 397
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Sky at Night - BBC 4 tonight at 21.50 - celebrates the 350th birthday of Royal Observatory Greenwich, and we get to talk about time and black holes. It's genuinely a great episode - please watch. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Four - The Sky at Night, Greenwich: A Journey Through Space and TimeThe team celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory. 47916 79
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This looks like important work on the impact of rocket launches on the upper atmosphere. 0335 33
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025England has the only privatised Water in Europe, the most water pollution, and the most expensive water. The UK has the only fully privatised energy, and the most expensive. England has privatised rail, the slowest, least reliable and of course the most expensive in Europe. 25547245 547
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAdam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 15/05/2025You know what I love most about being a freelancer? Chasing payments weeks, sometimes months l, and in one case 2 years after the work was done. 10532 53
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Anyone involved in publishing, reading, writing or editing scientific papers should read this argument against generative AI carefully. 13416 34
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025American shoots at delivery driver parked outside his house who asked for directions. This is why guns need to be banned. 2012533 125
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialscha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025There it is. The clam before the storm. 668245992641 24.6K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Thoughts on last week's alien-finding kerfuffle, including mention of spaghetti, and a golden rule for institutional press releases. Let me know what you think: www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/04/21/a... (PS Thanks to @annfinkbeiner.bsky.social & LWON for hosting me) 🔭 🧪lastwordonnothing.comThe Last Word On Nothing | Guest Post: A golden rule for publicity seeking aliens 99725 97
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/03/202521 March 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Gitla Smutek, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 29 September 1942 in a transport of 1,004 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 698 people murdered after selection in gas chambers. 8555126 555
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/03/2025On Wednesday we published an interactive map showing the tens of thousands of UK companies hiding their beneficial owner. It's now updated - with filters and search functions. In this thread I use it to uncover a truly shocking and unexpected case of hidden ownership. 17502231 502
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialPete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 20/03/2025May I recommend making yourself a cup of Yorkshire Tea (Malty Biscuit Brew is my preference) and sipping it slowly as you read the Yorkshire Post's latest album reviews – week on week, the best newspaper album reviews section in the UK. But *especially* this week. 2553 55
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 16/03/2025If you didn’t read this book in hardback (and even if you did) you should read it in paperback. It is one of the most forensic and grimly riveting explanations of how we’re all in this mess. 310513 105
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I feel I've read this several times already on this side of the Atlantic... 1869776 697
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/03/202516 March 1939 | A Jewish boy, Adalbert Berkovits, was born in Simleul Silvaniei. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. 23731167 731
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.sociallukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Here are some nice mushrooms 1789333432 9.3K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 09/03/2025As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud. 10540411715 4K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAndy Mitten @andymitten.bsky.social · 13/02/2025New Talk of the Devils podcast from @TheAthleticFC On data, youth team, Spurs and more in a big one. With Ian, Carl, Laurie, Critch and myself. On data, youth team, Spurs and more in a big one. podfollow.com/1495072403/e...podfollow.comTalk of the Devils - A show about Manchester United: Inside United’s player data department and Spurs previewNo midweek game but no respite; this is Manchester United! It's an epic show with no fewer than three FA Cup round-ups after the senior men and women and the U18s all booked their opponents in thei... 3563 56
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 13/02/2025A Telegraph journalist does not accept that judges make decisions according to the law, rather than the imbecilic whims of uninformed newspaper proprietors. 701506323 1.5K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/02/2025If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts 12658398 658
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialDave Brosha @davebrosha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Is it me you’re looking for…..? A self-portrait, photographed in my (literal) backyard here on Prince Edward Island, on one of the most magical nights I’ve ever experienced. #pei #astrophotography #naturephotography 1486590330 6.6K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025China is building renewable energy at more than 20x the rate of the USA, and now Trump has banned it It would be so easy for the US to build a Solar Power plant in the empty deserts in Nevada For $2tn they could power the West Coast forever But of course they want profit 627865 278
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Elsewhere in the interview being reported, he describes Brexit as the biggest disaster of his lifetime. An interesting choice of headline in the cirumstances... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukLord Sugar tells workers to get bums back into the officeThe Apprentice star says many young people 1091641320 1.6K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Just heard a report of a man killed in an avalanche just off the Herse lift in Argentiere, a place I've skied hundreds of times. It's made my blood run cold. 7742 74
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Reducing 'regulation' to increase 'growth' while reducing immigration & bolstering workers' rights & ruling out any return to the single market/customs union is such a mad project that I'm tempted to take the Reeves speech live this morning... 1061074144 1.1K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialSolway Firth Partnership @solwayfp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Would you like to get out on the Cumbrian coast and make a difference to the amazing Solway Coast National Landscape? Join the SCNL Volunteers on a series of practical tasks. More info at www.solwayfirthpartnership.c... 011 1
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Your reminder that the under-use of our courtrooms - at a time of record trial backlogs - is deliberate government policy. It began under the last government, and continues under this one. Because criminal justice only matters when there’s a cheap tabloid headline to be won. 8302139 302
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I've had it with Greggs' steak bakes. Gone is the jeopardy of bitiing into one and wondering whether you might get your groin scalded by a rogue, molten outpouring - now replaced with tepid mush that is no danger to anybody. 4632611 326
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 09/01/2025You should read this analysis. It is clear, concise and written so that virtually anybody can understand it. If you don't follow its author, you should. He was consistently one of the best things on Twitter and amassed a huge following accordingly. 2444681 446
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Another poorly framed headline - do better Channel 4. 1348042 480
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I mean, that's outstanding. 13550811068 5.1K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Does anybody know which firm of lawyers is acting for Truss in the crashgate affair? They are usually really keen to be named in well publicised cases. 5922021 220
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.sociallukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Here are some nice mushrooms 20311087591 11.1K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled. He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off. We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail. 762194842 2.2K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Are there any lawyers out there (UK-based) that have experience with phone banking scams? My daughter had nearly £4k scammed through a phone scammer and is not making any progress with her bank Revolut. There are lots more details but I thought I would ask for help. 247847 78
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAndrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Very sorry to hear about flooding in Greater Manchester. Greater Manchester is pretty much all in the Mersey river basin. It’s a tricky catchment, with lots of small rivers (and lots of stuff built near rivers for industrial reasons) www.merseyrivers.org 1123 12
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAndy Mitten @andymitten.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Stopped by the local football club in Ambleside in England’s Lake District. This is Reg. He manages the team and he’s also building a garage for the tractor. Football’s lifeblood. 91253 125
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 26/12/2024 Franklin D. Roosevelt - "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" 12623132 623
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialLucy Wallace - arranwildwalks.com @snoweider.bsky.social · 24/12/2024If you are in the Lake District over the festive period and fancy getting out for a walk, you might like these events that my brilliant friend Sharon is running. 0102 10
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialGib 📷 @gibcurry.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Bryce Canyon NP, Utah, 2023 #PhotographersOfBluesky #nationalparks #utah #brycecanyon #photography 01128 112
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialGib 📷 @gibcurry.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Bryce Canyon NP, Utah, 2023 #PhotographersOfBluesky #nationalparks #utah #brycecanyon #photography 145923 459
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 24/12/202424 December 1930 | French Jewish girl, Fajga Wajsfas, was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 24 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. 12507110 507
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialDaniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024True luxury is found in the simplest moments. 424195684269 19.6K
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBrian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Apart from the fact that Farage was an ordinary member of the public standing as a candidate, see the slant used by KGB News. Admitting to an offence brings a reduction in sentence, and here was probably the reason for the suspended sentence. See sentencing guidelines below. 1723736 237
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialPete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Do Anything You Wanna Do is a bit like a page torn out of a fanzine isn't it? Time takes typewritten declamations that broadcast a gauche, glorious certainty about the correct way to live and turns them into yellowing memorials to teenage idealism. I get it now. www.patreon.com/posts/i-gues...patreon.com"I guess that for Bryan and Martin, it would have been their Born To Run. And since last year, it’s become mine." Do Anything You Wanna Do – a belated appreciation. | Pete PaphidesGet more from Pete Paphides on Patreon 1311 31
Reposted by @mdr59.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The story behind this picture. This guy got bitten by a Rattlesnake it cost him £153k to save his life. They charged him $83,341.25 for antivenom that cost them $2,500. That is private healthcare and there was nothing he could do except pay. 1261789846 1.8K
