Jim Thomas
@homomoleculus.bsky.social
In my hidden laboratory, I enjoy playing God and meddling with powers I can't possibly comprehend. Most of the time I just potter about. #actuallivingscientist.
The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall. #r4Today
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall. #r4Today
#bbctoday The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall.
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
#bbctoday The oleaginous Michael Gove who has participated in the iconoclastic destruction of, inter alia, education, our place in the EU, and respect for the political class, and first brought Dominic Cummings into government to help now mouthing out about how society can be fixed. The gall.
#r4today #bbcr4today. When he mentions that the BBC shows bias about Brexit, Global Warming, and Black Lives Matter Charles Moore's agenda becomes very transparent.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#r4today #bbcr4today. When he mentions that the BBC shows bias about Brexit, Global Warming, and Black Lives Matter Charles Moore's agenda becomes very transparent.
#r4today Your bias seems to be showing. At 7.00 o'clock you announce inflation has risen 4% (the predicted rate). Ten minutes later, you correct to no change at 3.8%. Did you have the knocking copy locked and loaded?
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 AM
#r4today Your bias seems to be showing. At 7.00 o'clock you announce inflation has risen 4% (the predicted rate). Ten minutes later, you correct to no change at 3.8%. Did you have the knocking copy locked and loaded?
Coruscant
What with all this the UK should emulate Dubai stuff, following hot on the heels of Singapore model, are there any other niche authoritarian city states we could go for? Brunei? Machiavelli’s Florence? Ancient Sparta?
October 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Coruscant
Reposted by Jim Thomas
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Mmm feels symbolic. Just finished reading Butler to the World by @oliverbullough.bsky.social as Trump rolls into Windsor.
September 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Mmm feels symbolic. Just finished reading Butler to the World by @oliverbullough.bsky.social as Trump rolls into Windsor.
Just found out that Amanda Feilding died in late May. I met her a couple of times. A true English eccentric and psychanaut. She could have been a character in a Blandings Castle novel, if Wodehouse took acid. Not many get an obituary in Fortean Times and The Tatler. www.tatler.com/article/aman...
‘Crackpot Countess’ or ‘Queen of Consciousness’? Remembering Amanda Feilding, the Countess of Wemyss and March, who dedicated her life to LSD research
As the Countess of Wemyss and March passes away at the age of 82, Tatler recounts the extraordinary life of the aristocrat who partied with Allen Ginsberg, married in an Egyptian necropolis, and once ...
www.tatler.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Just found out that Amanda Feilding died in late May. I met her a couple of times. A true English eccentric and psychanaut. She could have been a character in a Blandings Castle novel, if Wodehouse took acid. Not many get an obituary in Fortean Times and The Tatler. www.tatler.com/article/aman...
Why is the BBC front page reporting the fact that there are 20 protestors outside the #bellhotel? Are they gonna keep me up dated about the bus queue round the corner then? #asylumseekers
August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Why is the BBC front page reporting the fact that there are 20 protestors outside the #bellhotel? Are they gonna keep me up dated about the bus queue round the corner then? #asylumseekers
Reposted by Jim Thomas
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
August 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.
That's sensible, proportionate policing.
This thread is worth reading if you actually want to know about the situation around asylum hotels and what Reform proposes to do (essentially nothing).
Nigel Farage of Reform calls for protests emulating "the good people of Epping" around the country. He predicts he will be called "a far right provacateur" for calling for peaceful protests.
He proposes that 30,000 people in hotels with an asylum claim pending could all now be detained & deported
He proposes that 30,000 people in hotels with an asylum claim pending could all now be detained & deported
August 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This thread is worth reading if you actually want to know about the situation around asylum hotels and what Reform proposes to do (essentially nothing).
Reposted by Jim Thomas
Nigel Farage of Reform calls for protests emulating "the good people of Epping" around the country. He predicts he will be called "a far right provacateur" for calling for peaceful protests.
He proposes that 30,000 people in hotels with an asylum claim pending could all now be detained & deported
He proposes that 30,000 people in hotels with an asylum claim pending could all now be detained & deported
August 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Nigel Farage of Reform calls for protests emulating "the good people of Epping" around the country. He predicts he will be called "a far right provacateur" for calling for peaceful protests.
He proposes that 30,000 people in hotels with an asylum claim pending could all now be detained & deported
He proposes that 30,000 people in hotels with an asylum claim pending could all now be detained & deported
Scenes from Deep England “oh! yet
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
August 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Scenes from Deep England “oh! yet
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
And is there honey still for tea?”
Saw Cry Freedom in Kenya. The scene when Donald Wood (Kevin Kline) tells Steve Biko (Denzel Washington) that he shouldn't be in the Newspaper office as it was a controlled area? Biko replies; "this is my country I can go where I like." The whole audience got up and applauded.
Well-mannered arthouse screening of Michael Haneke's Hidden. Entire audience let out a communal horrified gasp at the throat-cutting.
Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema?
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
August 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Saw Cry Freedom in Kenya. The scene when Donald Wood (Kevin Kline) tells Steve Biko (Denzel Washington) that he shouldn't be in the Newspaper office as it was a controlled area? Biko replies; "this is my country I can go where I like." The whole audience got up and applauded.
Sounds like #Trump and Medvedev should take a listen to this right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJp...
August 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Sounds like #Trump and Medvedev should take a listen to this right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJp...
Reporter asks girls “what do you think of Chloe Clark?” Girls discreetly correct him”Chloe Kelly is great” suspect he doesn’t follow the football #r4today
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Reporter asks girls “what do you think of Chloe Clark?” Girls discreetly correct him”Chloe Kelly is great” suspect he doesn’t follow the football #r4today
Fracking is ivermectin for RW energy "gurus."
Both Labour and the Tories should really hope Reform continues leaning into “frack, baby, frack” stuff. It may be their best hope.
Fracking tests *vastly* worse than any other form of energy generation but they're still crapping on about it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Fracking is ivermectin for RW energy "gurus."
I see today’s #Times has got a highly polarised piece on scientists with opinions the right doesn’t agree with posing as news. Murdoch’s oil investments must be doing poorly.
July 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I see today’s #Times has got a highly polarised piece on scientists with opinions the right doesn’t agree with posing as news. Murdoch’s oil investments must be doing poorly.
K-pop Demon Hunters is good. A Grunge Frozen.
July 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
K-pop Demon Hunters is good. A Grunge Frozen.
Is it eating?
Researchers have found that inactivity is not the main cause of obesity. A new study published this week offers the best ways, in the long run, to avoid and treat obesity.
What causes obesity? A major new study is upending common wisdom.
Many people assume obesity is caused by inactivity and burning fewer calories. But our diets — and excess calorie intake — may actually be the cause.
wapo.st
July 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Is it eating?
#wimbledon Jannik Sinner is actually an actor. He has a role as a tennis player in the next Wes Anderson movie.
July 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#wimbledon Jannik Sinner is actually an actor. He has a role as a tennis player in the next Wes Anderson movie.