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@goatsarah You have gripping hands and eagle eyes?

@goatsarah Phenomenal. No thanks.

Is there anything Starmer can’t mess up?
All he had to do was say ‘nice beaver‘ and sign on the line …

No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/14/no-10-blocks-beaver-release-plan-tory-legacy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@Wen The US attitude to copyright swings violently.

It used to be that it was seen as an evil European restraint on American innovation.

Then it became the essential method for extracting money for media exports, on pain of death.

Now it’s irrelevant again as there’s more money to be made in unattributed theft.

@helenczerski I suspect most people don’t really appreciate how dilute ocean resources are, and how much collateral destruction their mining would involve.
Take your analogy, you can get the kg of calcium by destroying the surrounding 100kg of person.
For seabed deposits, what if you have to ruin 10,000 kg of seabed, 100,000 kg of seawater, and a million living things to get your kg of manganese?

An evergreen sentiment. RIP Janey.

I’ll be disappointed if that placard (in whatever state it’s in) doesn’t make it into the National Galleries archive someday.

@goatsarah Do orcas care about colour? No option for antifoulant orange or something?

@Greenseer

@goatsarah Not an original observation, but what they really hate is people not cowering in shame for being any degree different to them.

@cstross Timelines are always forking. Problem here was the LHC trapping those timelines into a bound state with us leading to random inter-timeline superposition at really inconvenient moments.

@goatsarah There’s the old LBJ adage about needing someone to look down on …

@goatsarah Can you explain to the orcas that you quite like la France insoumise and they should go and find a megayacht to harass?

@goatsarah @thelocalecho @zoe
Operation Churro sounds great!

@johncarlosbaez The fediverse in general is so much better suited to academia in just about every way. But, as you say, clearly a substantial number will stay until the bitter end, no matter how much Twitter turns into a fascist sewer.
Journalists, I can understand are reluctant to leave. What possible academic reason is there to be on Der Stürmer?

@goatsarah Kemi, as proof of there being shit in the woods without any bears involved.

@goatsarah Specific to the UK, I expect Reform to take over the remnant Tory shell as there will be nobody to oppose them except the rw loons who will welcome them. Reform get their hands on the Tory electoral machine, agents, membership and fundraising lists for pennies. And once that becomes private company data, not very reversible.

@goatsarah
Let’s take the Tories to net zero.

@goatsarah I would hope Debbie is listening to the calls for Trinity to disinvest in Elbit, then.

@emilygorcenski Do you have the name of the book? That sounds like fun.

@emilygorcenski Kinda surprising that a civilisation’s worth of horrendous weapons suddenly lose their owners but nobody is rushing off to salvage it and change the balance of power in the quadrant etc etc.

There should be at least a Ferengi/Nausicaan PlanetBusters’R’Us no-returns-accepted hypermart?