Lex Schlup
@lexschlup.bsky.social
Take a look at https://www.solein.com/. It could save the world as we know it.
Completely agree this is great news - but we need a lot more.
Conflating this with abolishing juries (there is no question of that) diminishes your message. Finding a way to stop minor criminals intentionally clogging courts to avoid facing justice may be a good thing for justice overall.
Conflating this with abolishing juries (there is no question of that) diminishes your message. Finding a way to stop minor criminals intentionally clogging courts to avoid facing justice may be a good thing for justice overall.
February 4, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Completely agree this is great news - but we need a lot more.
Conflating this with abolishing juries (there is no question of that) diminishes your message. Finding a way to stop minor criminals intentionally clogging courts to avoid facing justice may be a good thing for justice overall.
Conflating this with abolishing juries (there is no question of that) diminishes your message. Finding a way to stop minor criminals intentionally clogging courts to avoid facing justice may be a good thing for justice overall.
Melania does billionaires?
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Melania does billionaires?
Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir
Zack Polanski is telling defence surveillance corporation Palantir to 'pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS'.
www.thecanary.co
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
@gurdeep.ca ... what would we do without him. He is magic.
Positivity Is Not Magic—Yet It Is Utterly Magical:
I'm not advocating for superficial positivity that ignores difficult emotions. I'm championing emotional equilibrium where we honor both light and shadow, where sadness coexists with joy. Read more:
gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/positivity...
I'm not advocating for superficial positivity that ignores difficult emotions. I'm championing emotional equilibrium where we honor both light and shadow, where sadness coexists with joy. Read more:
gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/positivity...
Positivity Is Not Magic—Yet It Is Utterly Magical
I'm not advocating for superficial positivity that ignores difficult emotions. I'm championing emotional equilibrium where we honor both light and shadow, where sadness coexists with joy.
gurdeeppandher.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
@gurdeep.ca ... what would we do without him. He is magic.
This will be seen by most as a rare but incredibly welcome bit of news about the UK's marine environment. A few will immediately spy and start to (over)exploit a commercial opportunity. Thanks to @oceanauk.bsky.social and others for all the work they do to try and prevent that.
December 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This will be seen by most as a rare but incredibly welcome bit of news about the UK's marine environment. A few will immediately spy and start to (over)exploit a commercial opportunity. Thanks to @oceanauk.bsky.social and others for all the work they do to try and prevent that.
I was taught about the carbon cycle and greenhouse effect in A Level biology in 1986, which is a neat transposition of the digits of the year Arrhenius did his calculations, and which also feels like a very long time ago.
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I was taught about the carbon cycle and greenhouse effect in A Level biology in 1986, which is a neat transposition of the digits of the year Arrhenius did his calculations, and which also feels like a very long time ago.
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This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
December 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Totally agree with the urgent need to stop fossil fuel, but linking one fairly typical UK winter storm to global warming undermines the argument. It's about averages, not single events.
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Totally agree with the urgent need to stop fossil fuel, but linking one fairly typical UK winter storm to global warming undermines the argument. It's about averages, not single events.
BBC Verify has 62 staff and a payroll of £3.3 million, and this is what we get for it. Scrap the department and send the money to proper open source investigators like @bellingcat.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
BBC Verify has 62 staff and a payroll of £3.3 million, and this is what we get for it. Scrap the department and send the money to proper open source investigators like @bellingcat.com
I don't think Elon meant human rights relative to each other. He meant rights relative to other species and the ecosphere itself. There is an irrational belief that we have the right to exploit anything and everything on the planet at will and without limit. Where is the consent for that?
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I don't think Elon meant human rights relative to each other. He meant rights relative to other species and the ecosphere itself. There is an irrational belief that we have the right to exploit anything and everything on the planet at will and without limit. Where is the consent for that?
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Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
us02web.zoom.us
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Cold, windless, long winter nights. Covering those is a choice between gas and nuclear. Nuclear is by far the lesser of two evils.
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Cold, windless, long winter nights. Covering those is a choice between gas and nuclear. Nuclear is by far the lesser of two evils.
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Taking this a step further, why does a bed need to be heated?
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Taking this a step further, why does a bed need to be heated?
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
The internet makes it possible to design in redundancy, but it's not baked in. You have to engineer your app properly. Most apps are locked in to a single supplier like AWS, Google or MS. That saves on development costs, but is bad software engineering - plain and simple.
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The internet makes it possible to design in redundancy, but it's not baked in. You have to engineer your app properly. Most apps are locked in to a single supplier like AWS, Google or MS. That saves on development costs, but is bad software engineering - plain and simple.
Good history of Twitter. Trouble is, X is the crack cocaine of social media. You know it's bad for you but it's incredibly hard to give it up. All those followers, all those likes. Well done for kicking the habit.
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Good history of Twitter. Trouble is, X is the crack cocaine of social media. You know it's bad for you but it's incredibly hard to give it up. All those followers, all those likes. Well done for kicking the habit.
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How should the government address the distortions of our political system? MPs in the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Elections have set out one approach, a National Commission on Electoral Reform
MPs suggest National Commission on Electoral Reform
In our increasingly fragmented and volatile political environment, the case for electoral reform becomes clearer every day. And as the political landscape changes, so too will the route
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
How should the government address the distortions of our political system? MPs in the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Elections have set out one approach, a National Commission on Electoral Reform
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📣 Scottish Govt has announced new rules for protecting its offshore marine protected areas. They are a big step forward, but don't go far enough. Our campaigns director Alyx Elliott has the story 👇
Stay with us in this fight. We will keep pushing until ALL MPAs are truly protected 🌊
Stay with us in this fight. We will keep pushing until ALL MPAs are truly protected 🌊
September 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
📣 Scottish Govt has announced new rules for protecting its offshore marine protected areas. They are a big step forward, but don't go far enough. Our campaigns director Alyx Elliott has the story 👇
Stay with us in this fight. We will keep pushing until ALL MPAs are truly protected 🌊
Stay with us in this fight. We will keep pushing until ALL MPAs are truly protected 🌊
Only electoral reform will save us from the devil. Never got the thing about chlorinated chicken though. Factory farmed chicken is terrible, but chlorination is no worse than antibiotics for dealing with bad bacteria in intensive farms. We drink chlorinated water every day.
August 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Only electoral reform will save us from the devil. Never got the thing about chlorinated chicken though. Factory farmed chicken is terrible, but chlorination is no worse than antibiotics for dealing with bad bacteria in intensive farms. We drink chlorinated water every day.
Good work, but by now, everyone is well aware of the scale of the problem. The question now is who will stop the water companies breaking the law. There is no meaningful enforcement. The replacement of OFWAT with an as yet undefined new regulator is unlikely to change things.
August 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Good work, but by now, everyone is well aware of the scale of the problem. The question now is who will stop the water companies breaking the law. There is no meaningful enforcement. The replacement of OFWAT with an as yet undefined new regulator is unlikely to change things.
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Watch as an activist is arrested in Glasgow for displaying a sign reading 'genocide in Palestine, time to take action'
'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police
'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police
July 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Watch as an activist is arrested in Glasgow for displaying a sign reading 'genocide in Palestine, time to take action'
'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police
'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police
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Wow! 😳
A first-past-the-post (#FPTP) moment.
🪑 21.7% wins the seat!
😅Just 0.6% of votes between 1st & 2nd place
5️⃣ 5 parties in double figures
🗳 Only 12.7% points between the 1st & the 6th placed party.
⏳Time to
GET PR DONE!
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation
A first-past-the-post (#FPTP) moment.
🪑 21.7% wins the seat!
😅Just 0.6% of votes between 1st & 2nd place
5️⃣ 5 parties in double figures
🗳 Only 12.7% points between the 1st & the 6th placed party.
⏳Time to
GET PR DONE!
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation
July 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Wow! 😳
A first-past-the-post (#FPTP) moment.
🪑 21.7% wins the seat!
😅Just 0.6% of votes between 1st & 2nd place
5️⃣ 5 parties in double figures
🗳 Only 12.7% points between the 1st & the 6th placed party.
⏳Time to
GET PR DONE!
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation
A first-past-the-post (#FPTP) moment.
🪑 21.7% wins the seat!
😅Just 0.6% of votes between 1st & 2nd place
5️⃣ 5 parties in double figures
🗳 Only 12.7% points between the 1st & the 6th placed party.
⏳Time to
GET PR DONE!
#getPRdone
#ProportionalRepresentation
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The government says it wants to "rebuild trust in our democracy".
This needs to start with giving everyone an equal vote.
Thank you to @tomgordonld.bsky.social, Sarah Olney, Chris Law, @alexsobel.co.uk @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social and @shockatadam.bsky.social for raising this in Parliament.
This needs to start with giving everyone an equal vote.
Thank you to @tomgordonld.bsky.social, Sarah Olney, Chris Law, @alexsobel.co.uk @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social and @shockatadam.bsky.social for raising this in Parliament.
July 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The government says it wants to "rebuild trust in our democracy".
This needs to start with giving everyone an equal vote.
Thank you to @tomgordonld.bsky.social, Sarah Olney, Chris Law, @alexsobel.co.uk @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social and @shockatadam.bsky.social for raising this in Parliament.
This needs to start with giving everyone an equal vote.
Thank you to @tomgordonld.bsky.social, Sarah Olney, Chris Law, @alexsobel.co.uk @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social and @shockatadam.bsky.social for raising this in Parliament.