The new #SpaceWeatherWoman forecast is up! Learn the details of the coming #solarstorm & #aurora, watch region 3088 rotate out of view with a bang, & see why the radio-quiet conditions will not last for long with new regions about to rotate into view. https://youtu.be/zggTNrpa8Pg
After months of chasing starlings, photographer James Crombie captured this remarkable shot of the flock as it swelled into an enormous bird-like murmuration [read more, author's site: https://inpho.ie]
A glittering gathering of stars โจ
This spectacular #HubbleFriday view shows the globular cluster NGC 6558, about 23,000 light-years away.
Globular clusters are groups of stars bound together by gravity: https://go.nasa.gov/3RfSLT2
Please donโt allow the government to convince you the NHS is unfit for purpose. Weโre not failing, weโre being failed.
HOW can they have allowed the vacancy rate to soar so stratospherically?
Clearly they want us to fail.
Donโt stand for it. Help us to help you - please. Ends/
Staff are leaving because they cannot go on any longer. They love the NHS, they love their patients, but chronic understaffing & underfunding make conditions of work unendurable. It costs some doctors and nurses their lives. 4/
I know of patients who have died in their own excrement because wards are too overwhelmed to clean them. That is mid-Staffs level horror. Happening now. In 2022. With the govtโs full awareness - yet they do nothing.
It fills us with shame and anguish. 3/
Youโve all seen headlines like this. Emergency care has been in crisis all year - with the govt doing nothing to address this.
Imagine how it feels to see patients dying on your watch, in abject indignity, powerless to stop it.
It is soul-destroying. 2/
There are now an incredible 132,139 NHS staff vacancies - thatโs nearly 10% of the entire NHS workforce.
Vacancies have leapt up by 26k in the last 3 months.
Why? Why is the NHS haemorrhaging staff at such a rate?
Thread/
Predictably, Russia wants to stop UN nuclear inspectors getting to Zaporizhzhya Nuclear power plant today. Heavy Russian shelling reported this morning at Energodar next to plant & Russian combat helicopters flying in the area. #Ukraine wants the inspectors to reach the plant. twitter.com/BBC_ua/status/โฆ
Two pretty grim reports out today. @MichaelMarmot predicts thousands of children will die this winter due to fuel poverty, without govt intervention; @resfoundation predicts biggest drop in living standards in a century
https://on.ft.com/3RlAq7j
In Montana, people are returning library books full of bullet holes and library staff are leaving out of fear for their safety. My Lucid essay on how libraries and librarians become targets when illiberalism takes hold: https://lucid.substack.com/p/librarians-under-attack-across-americaโฆhttps://flatheadbeacon.com/2022/08/29/library-sees-resignations-following-bullet-riddled-books/โฆ
We're now targeting Saturday, Sept. 3 for the launch of the #Artemis I flight test around the Moon. The two-hour launch window opens at 2:17 p.m. ET (18:17 UTC).
I donโt care about Truss cancelling an interview in a contest she has already won
I do care about Johnson going on a vanity farewell tour and the Chancellor going on a New York junket when we still donโt have a plan to deal with the cost-of-living-crisis
The scope and severity of the flooding in Pakistan โ which has killed over 1,000 people โ is drawing comparisons to the devastating rains of 2010.
New satellite images capture the enormity of the challenge facing the country in responding to the disaster.
https://trib.al/3tEPIyd
Early in the pandemic, an exposure to COVID meant waiting anxiously for many days to see if you were infected. Now, the window is getting smaller and smaller, according to a new review published in the journal JAMA Network Open.
The countdown clock is on a hold at T-40 minutes. The hydrogen team of the @NASA_SLS rocket is discussing plans with the #Artemis I launch director. Operational commentary continues at http://nasa.gov/live.
The perils of voting for people who know the price of everything but not the value.
The spivs who are the only people available to drop everything and stand for parliament. 20 years later they're Secretaries of State in line to be PM.
We need better feedstock.
#VoteSmarter
This is because Truss sold most of the fuel storage & now we have a max of 10 days supply (other EU countries have up to 111 days). Therefore UK is having to buy fuel when the price is very high. Yet again Tory short term gain selling off storage comes back with a vengeance #GTTO
Conflict of interest:
A situation in which the aims of two different parties are incompatible
Eg:
โGovt recruited more than a dozen energy industry insiders into snr positions raising questions over refusal to crack down on energy cosโ soaring profitsโ
The idea that this sorry group of talentless Toriesโฆ
Who have had major roles in successive governments to date
Are going to somehow fix the problems they helped create
โฆis absolute insanity.
We discuss & despair at the absolute state of this in this weekโs
Looks likeโฆ
Whoโs OUT:
Priti Patel
Dominic Raab
George Eustice
Steve Barclay
Grant Shapps
Whoโs IN?
Lord Frost
Suella Braverman
James Cleverly
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Iain Duncan Smith
Whoโs F*CKED?
โฆthatโll be us
Surely not as bad as it soundsโฆ
โAmong those given key roles in energy policy are former British Gas director who is now responsible for setting energy price cap at Ofgemโ
โโฆand a non-exec director at the business department who remains a BP Board chairmanโ
Ah, itโs worse.