Hilary John
@hilaryjohn.bsky.social
La vie peut être épouvantable des fois and then it's over.
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🌹 Happy Valentine's Day
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1437, February 2017.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1437, February 2017.
February 14, 2026 at 12:39 PM
🌹 Happy Valentine's Day
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1437, February 2017.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1437, February 2017.
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Alex Stubb on EU competitiveness - excellent
"Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy"
MSC '26
"Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy"
MSC '26
February 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Alex Stubb on EU competitiveness - excellent
"Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy"
MSC '26
"Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy"
MSC '26
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Petition to replace BBC weasel Chris Mason - with anything really...
c.org/8S5p4BCssm
c.org/8S5p4BCssm
This campaign needs you now
Replace Chris Mason with a neutral voice
c.org
February 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Petition to replace BBC weasel Chris Mason - with anything really...
c.org/8S5p4BCssm
c.org/8S5p4BCssm
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Zelenskyy throwing shade at Hungary’s pro-Putin PM Viktor Orban in his #MSC speech
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Zelenskyy throwing shade at Hungary’s pro-Putin PM Viktor Orban in his #MSC speech
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”
🔥 🔥 🔥
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I triple dog dare @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to make a speech saying, "Neither will we bail the US out after it commits unmanaged hegemonic suicide."
US won’t be ‘caretakers’ of West’s ‘managed decline’, Rubio warns in Munich speech - latest
US won’t be ‘caretakers’ of West’s ‘managed decline’, Rubio warns in Munich: Live
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told security summit that the US wants ‘allies who can defend themselves’
www.independent.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 12:02 PM
I triple dog dare @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to make a speech saying, "Neither will we bail the US out after it commits unmanaged hegemonic suicide."
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Steve Bannon has claimed that he’s the guy who “headed up” the “Peter Thiel deconstruct the administrative state part” of Trump’s 2016 transition team and that Thiel protege Blake Masters was his (Bannon’s) “wingman” in that endeavor. (It appears that Thiel has been pulling strings all along.) 1/
March 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Steve Bannon has claimed that he’s the guy who “headed up” the “Peter Thiel deconstruct the administrative state part” of Trump’s 2016 transition team and that Thiel protege Blake Masters was his (Bannon’s) “wingman” in that endeavor. (It appears that Thiel has been pulling strings all along.) 1/
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Resolving the "measurement problem" in quantum mechanics would be a huge deal. Doing it without any exotic assumptions or additions to standard QM would be amazing. Now, I'm not reckless enough to say that is what has been achieved here, but...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Philip Ball thinks the phenomenon of decoherence might finally bridge the quantum-classical divide.
www.quantamagazine.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Resolving the "measurement problem" in quantum mechanics would be a huge deal. Doing it without any exotic assumptions or additions to standard QM would be amazing. Now, I'm not reckless enough to say that is what has been achieved here, but...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
www.quantamagazine.org/are-the-myst...
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The detail is a bit light weight after the last couple of weeks, but it is the national broadcaster telling us again and again that the king's brother lied.
#BBCPM
#BBCPM
while no surprise this BBC exposition of all the lies Andrew M-W told in his interview with @maitlis.bsky.social is pretty devastating!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Watch: How Andrew's BBC interview compares to what Epstein emails tell us now
Following the latest release of the Epstein files, claims made by the then Prince Andrew in 2019 are under fresh scrutiny.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
The detail is a bit light weight after the last couple of weeks, but it is the national broadcaster telling us again and again that the king's brother lied.
#BBCPM
#BBCPM
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It’s #FridayThe13th 🖤 the kind of day that makes us knock on wood, sidestep ladders 🪜, and watch out for black cats 🐈⬛
🔮 Preserving history shows how people have made sense of chance & misfortune
Luckily🍀, a #supersition collection awaits ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#Preservation
🔮 Preserving history shows how people have made sense of chance & misfortune
Luckily🍀, a #supersition collection awaits ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#Preservation
February 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
It’s #FridayThe13th 🖤 the kind of day that makes us knock on wood, sidestep ladders 🪜, and watch out for black cats 🐈⬛
🔮 Preserving history shows how people have made sense of chance & misfortune
Luckily🍀, a #supersition collection awaits ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#Preservation
🔮 Preserving history shows how people have made sense of chance & misfortune
Luckily🍀, a #supersition collection awaits ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#Preservation
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Today's anti-science pairing
February 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Today's anti-science pairing
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🔴 NEW - Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network
“Anti-elite” GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
“Anti-elite” GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network
Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, has ties to influential groups in the orbit of U.S. President Donald Trump. Goodwin, a GB News presenter and forme...
www.desmog.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
🔴 NEW - Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network
“Anti-elite” GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
“Anti-elite” GB News presenter standing in Gorton and Denton has ties to powerful anti-climate groups allied to Donald Trump.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Screenshot of map showing areas of London & home counties predicted to be below annual flood level by 2050. This is a screenshot from a global map. You can investigate how flood risk is predicted to rise where you live via link below:
share.google/V1FP4UpSUEHY...
share.google/V1FP4UpSUEHY...
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Screenshot of map showing areas of London & home counties predicted to be below annual flood level by 2050. This is a screenshot from a global map. You can investigate how flood risk is predicted to rise where you live via link below:
share.google/V1FP4UpSUEHY...
share.google/V1FP4UpSUEHY...
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MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
February 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
MISLEADING: A new academic paper by @qmul.bsky.social has attracted significant media attention by claiming that EVs & heat pumps deliver no proven carbon savings in UK ahead of 2030 clean power target - and should therefore be postponed.
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
Here is why this paper should never have been published.🧵
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As with everything else climate crisis-related, the sooner we take action to massively increase our domestic fruit & veg output, the better prepared we will be when our current fruit & veg imports decline away to nothing. It's not if, but when.
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/floods-...
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/floods-...
Floods in Spain and Morocco set to hit UK fruit & veg supply
The flooding has devastated farms supplying olives, strawberries, citrus, avocados and winter crops
www.thegrocer.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 AM
As with everything else climate crisis-related, the sooner we take action to massively increase our domestic fruit & veg output, the better prepared we will be when our current fruit & veg imports decline away to nothing. It's not if, but when.
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/floods-...
www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/floods-...
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“Power divorced from responsibility is the poison of states.” Tawney, Equality
February 13, 2026 at 10:54 AM
“Power divorced from responsibility is the poison of states.” Tawney, Equality
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This brave woman speaks for millions of British people.
Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.
Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.
This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.
February 12, 2026 at 10:44 PM
This brave woman speaks for millions of British people.
Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.
Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.
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In addition for every other valid reason not to get ChatGPT to do your journal peer reviews for you I heard today the argument that once you load an article into the programme it will become part of the training data set and you are thereby complicit in violating the author’s copyright.
February 12, 2026 at 9:47 PM
In addition for every other valid reason not to get ChatGPT to do your journal peer reviews for you I heard today the argument that once you load an article into the programme it will become part of the training data set and you are thereby complicit in violating the author’s copyright.
Interesting.
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:
February 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Interesting.
!
February 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
!
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Donald Trump isn’t going unchallenged — at least by us.
ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...
@chenoweth.bsky.social
ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...
@chenoweth.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Donald Trump isn’t going unchallenged — at least by us.
ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...
@chenoweth.bsky.social
ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...
@chenoweth.bsky.social
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Researchers have discovered a little RNA molecule - small enough to potentially form spontaneously, yet sophisticated enough to begin to copy itself - that could explain how life on Earth began over four billion years ago, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social reports: https://bit.ly/3ZvPS6s
February 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Researchers have discovered a little RNA molecule - small enough to potentially form spontaneously, yet sophisticated enough to begin to copy itself - that could explain how life on Earth began over four billion years ago, Science Director @rogerhighfield.bsky.social reports: https://bit.ly/3ZvPS6s
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Frightening new paper by leading planetary scientists warning of cascading risks in the #climate system 😱
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I previously explored the connectedness of key earth processes in this thread below 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I previously explored the connectedness of key earth processes in this thread below 🧵
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Frightening new paper by leading planetary scientists warning of cascading risks in the #climate system 😱
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I previously explored the connectedness of key earth processes in this thread below 🧵
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I previously explored the connectedness of key earth processes in this thread below 🧵
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Happy to be included in this article with MIT Technology Review about the QuitGPT campaign.
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1...
A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions
Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.
www.technologyreview.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Happy to be included in this article with MIT Technology Review about the QuitGPT campaign.
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1...
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We are not even at mid month and February 2026 is already the most record breaking month in history.
Over 170 countries are breaking heat records and next week will be the most extreme in world climatic history.
At least we got some cold records as well (more than the past years).
Over 170 countries are breaking heat records and next week will be the most extreme in world climatic history.
At least we got some cold records as well (more than the past years).
February 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
We are not even at mid month and February 2026 is already the most record breaking month in history.
Over 170 countries are breaking heat records and next week will be the most extreme in world climatic history.
At least we got some cold records as well (more than the past years).
Over 170 countries are breaking heat records and next week will be the most extreme in world climatic history.
At least we got some cold records as well (more than the past years).