James Hutson
@jameshutson.bsky.social
Occasional illustrator, former animator of science communication explainers and all round information visualiser.
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James Hutson
@jameshutson.bsky.social
· Jan 13
This time last week I was lying on the floor of a London hostel room having a heart attack while I waiting 40 minutes for an ambulance.
And yet thanks to the NHS being fucking amazing despite insufficient funding, I am alive and it cost me… nothing.
Universal health care. Fuck yeah.
And yet thanks to the NHS being fucking amazing despite insufficient funding, I am alive and it cost me… nothing.
Universal health care. Fuck yeah.
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- Disney would be forced to make the "King of the Elves" Philip K. Dick story adaptation they abandoned
- Pixar would be forced to make their abandoned stop-motion movie "The Shadow King"
- "Phantom," "Reverse," "Dreaming Machine..." basically everything Satoshi Kon was working on when he died
- Pixar would be forced to make their abandoned stop-motion movie "The Shadow King"
- "Phantom," "Reverse," "Dreaming Machine..." basically everything Satoshi Kon was working on when he died
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
- Disney would be forced to make the "King of the Elves" Philip K. Dick story adaptation they abandoned
- Pixar would be forced to make their abandoned stop-motion movie "The Shadow King"
- "Phantom," "Reverse," "Dreaming Machine..." basically everything Satoshi Kon was working on when he died
- Pixar would be forced to make their abandoned stop-motion movie "The Shadow King"
- "Phantom," "Reverse," "Dreaming Machine..." basically everything Satoshi Kon was working on when he died
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Ireland should be doing this too. There isn’t an alarm bell big enough to wake this government up. We should be in crisis mode, but instead it’s still shaking-developers’-hands-at-the-race-course, business as usual.
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Ireland should be doing this too. There isn’t an alarm bell big enough to wake this government up. We should be in crisis mode, but instead it’s still shaking-developers’-hands-at-the-race-course, business as usual.
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A coyote & badger pair were captured on a trailcam by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) near Gilroy, CA in 2020.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
a black and white photo of a wolf walking through a tunnel .
Alt: A black and white trail cam focuses on a culvert (cement or metal cylinder for drainage). A coyote jumps to get the attention of a waddling badger, who then follows into the culvert.
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A coyote & badger pair were captured on a trailcam by the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) near Gilroy, CA in 2020.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
Look, I would absolutely watch a movie about these two, but there's also a fascinating bit of biology here.
Interspecies cooperation is well established between these two species.
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1. I do not think this is going to go well for them, because it is going to be just as clown shoes as everything they've tried to throw at Comey or James
2. "we can go after ex-military congressmembers for things they say in public" is really not a pandora's box the GOP wants opened
2. "we can go after ex-military congressmembers for things they say in public" is really not a pandora's box the GOP wants opened
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
1. I do not think this is going to go well for them, because it is going to be just as clown shoes as everything they've tried to throw at Comey or James
2. "we can go after ex-military congressmembers for things they say in public" is really not a pandora's box the GOP wants opened
2. "we can go after ex-military congressmembers for things they say in public" is really not a pandora's box the GOP wants opened
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
Every game designer parent I know bans Roblox for their kids
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.
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A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.
Yes. This. If you don’t rattle doors or windows, are you even sneezing?
Look, my father was a loud sneezer. And his father before him. I come from a long line of loud sneezers. It’s not much, but it’s honest work. (We get paid for how loud our sneezes are.)
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Yes. This. If you don’t rattle doors or windows, are you even sneezing?
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It has been a very short hop from ‘this is not who we are’ to ‘ok this is exactly who we are’
Swastikas, nooses and the Confederate flag are reportedly no longer considered to be hate symbols by the U.S. Coast Guard
Swastika No Longer Hate Symbol Under New U.S. Coast Guard Policy: Report
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It has been a very short hop from ‘this is not who we are’ to ‘ok this is exactly who we are’
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I've had a weird life. Over 30 years I've worked with, but never for, governments both in Australia and abroad, at both national and semi-sovereign levels of jurisdiction. The one thing I've learned from experience is that THE only good governments are ones that are willing to upset vested interests
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I've had a weird life. Over 30 years I've worked with, but never for, governments both in Australia and abroad, at both national and semi-sovereign levels of jurisdiction. The one thing I've learned from experience is that THE only good governments are ones that are willing to upset vested interests
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Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thread. “AI is patching up the holes in conspiracy theories and so making them seem more reasonable, making them easier to spread and more resilient to collapse” was not on my bingo card.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
AI relieves the pressure of cognitive dissonance. That’s … not great.
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“Original and interesting” is about as high praise as I could hope for, especially from an experienced and acclaimed science writer. Forgive me for the not-so-humble bragging but this book took me years to write (for a tiny advance) and it’d be incredibly gratifying if more people read it.
“At first glance, Alom Shaha's book is another of those compact hardbacks with six or seven essays that have done so well in the popular science field…But in reality, Shaha is doing something far more original and interesting”. Amazing Amazon review from someone who writes their own pop sci books!
Why Don't Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained
Buy Why Don't Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained by Shaha, Alom (ISBN: 9781529348194) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
“Original and interesting” is about as high praise as I could hope for, especially from an experienced and acclaimed science writer. Forgive me for the not-so-humble bragging but this book took me years to write (for a tiny advance) and it’d be incredibly gratifying if more people read it.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
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Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
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There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
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Male superb fairy wren standing in a chain link fence
From my archives
#BirdOfTheDay #round #Wrensday #photography #birds
From my archives
#BirdOfTheDay #round #Wrensday #photography #birds
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Male superb fairy wren standing in a chain link fence
From my archives
#BirdOfTheDay #round #Wrensday #photography #birds
From my archives
#BirdOfTheDay #round #Wrensday #photography #birds
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Weird. But I hold lots of odd views around spending public money to benefit the country and not Trump or weapons manufacturers
Australians appear to be increasingly warming to AUKUS. But one aspect still threatens to topple it for voters, writes Wanning Sun.
AUKUS is finding public support despite its many problems. Why?
www.crikey.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Weird. But I hold lots of odd views around spending public money to benefit the country and not Trump or weapons manufacturers
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Post of the Year.
“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Post of the Year.
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New at Tetrapod Zoology .... The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts, a remarkable group of giant and anatomically amazing group of extinct armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammals
The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts — Tetrapod Zoology
For some time now I’ve been interested in what the glyptodonts – a group of highly modified, large or gigantic armadillos – looked like when alive….
tetzoo.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New at Tetrapod Zoology .... The Life Appearance of Glyptodonts, a remarkable group of giant and anatomically amazing group of extinct armadillos tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammals
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Being difficult is the only path to change. We don’t get change by being obedient. accepting the status quo and accepting “This is the way we have always done things” as a good reason to keep doing things that way. We get change by asking “why?”, asking “who benefits?” asking “how can we do better?”
This is about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back.
adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...
adsei.org/2025/11/17/t...
The Art of Being Difficult
I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From c…
adsei.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Being difficult is the only path to change. We don’t get change by being obedient. accepting the status quo and accepting “This is the way we have always done things” as a good reason to keep doing things that way. We get change by asking “why?”, asking “who benefits?” asking “how can we do better?”
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i hate that the "nostalgia is bad" discourse directly preceded the moment accountability evaporated. remarks that once carried real fallout now barely flicker. imagine if Obama or even Bush said this. nostalgia (for that at least) is reasonable. not all mourning for old norms is bad nostalgia.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
i hate that the "nostalgia is bad" discourse directly preceded the moment accountability evaporated. remarks that once carried real fallout now barely flicker. imagine if Obama or even Bush said this. nostalgia (for that at least) is reasonable. not all mourning for old norms is bad nostalgia.
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