#NASA released a chilling audio clip of a supermassive black hole located 250 million light-years away.
We have known for decades that space isn’t soundless (Einstein predicted this).
Black holes don't emit a sound that can be recorded. However, sound waves, a compression... 1/
Texas just passed a bill making it a crime for men to perform in public while wearing makeup… have they thought this through? I mean, outdoor concerts, parades, circuses?
6 April 1944 | The Gestapo under the direction of SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie raided the Jewish orphanage in French town of #Izieu. 44 children and their 7 educators were taken to #Drancy & later deported to #Auschwitz. Only one person survived.
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, who brought Klaus Barbie to justice in 1983, later wrote: "Forty-four children deported - no mere statistic, but rather forty-four tragedies which continue to cause us pain ..."
An incredible achievement!
Congratulations to @jonny_cube for hiking the Rhyd Ddu Path in Snowdon! Jonathan was diagnosed with #PsoriaticArthritis in 2017. It hasn't been an easy road but he made it!
Thank you to Jonathan, and everyone who has supported and donated. 💜
[1/7] We hope you all have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend. 🌺 Our Helpline will be closed from Friday 7th April - Tuesday 11th April. A thread about how you can get support during this time. 👇
As you may be aware #foodbank usage is increasing across the country.
Our data shows yr to March 23 no. of foodbank vouchers redeemed by people in the St Albans area rose by 25%.
In 2002/3 we've issued 2.5x as many food parcels as year pre-pandemic.
Thank you for your support.
As you may be aware #foodbank usage is increasing across the country.
Our data shows yr to March 23 no. of foodbank vouchers redeemed by people in the St Albans area rose by 25%.
In 2002/3 we've issued 2.5x as many food parcels as year pre-pandemic.
Thank you for your support.
Interesting comparison to the UK, where this sort of behaviour would almost certainly result in the Defendant being summoned back to court to explain how this is not an attempt to intimidate the judge and/or contempt of court.
Universal Credit doesn’t add up and we’ve got the receipt to prove it.
This is forcing people across the UK to go without the essentials.
Join us & @jrf_uk to call on the government to guarantee that Universal Credit will at least cover #OurEssentials 👉 https://t.co/KnieA8vra1
Don't forget, we'll be closed from Good Friday - Easter Monday (7-10 Apr). If you need urgent help we have food bank centres open today & tomorrow. Click here for details: https://t.co/FNGrF0mhXL
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New sunspot AR3270 has rapidly grown into a behemoth with two primary dark cores larger than Earth and an unstable magnetic field. The sunspot is inset in this magnetic map of the sun's surface from NASA's SDO. 1/
'No matter who you are… We cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.'
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg comments on the 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree that former President Donald Trump is facing.
Tories HALVE social care workforce funding from "at least £500m" to £250m
Minister says gov "focuses on recognising care with the status it deserves"
In other words @Helen_Whately believes social care 'deserves' to be lied to?
AGAIN
Promise VS Actual https://t.co/b4ldbxD5RF
Very good and clear as usual. Now, if we can accept this baseline, rather than pretending it away, we could think of what to do about it.
But apparently thinking isn't proper Brexit. Only denial is the true Brexit.
Oh dear. @Ofwat have since 1991 had the ability to fine water companies up to 10% of their annual turnover.
Guess how many times they've excised that power in 30 years?
What's the point of a sanction if the regulator has neither the desire, determination or ambition to use it.