Andy Hull

🚨PERSONAL NEWS🚨 I started a fantastic new job today at Kivu International. It’s a brilliant, UK-based social enterprise which works around the world in politically switched-on and technically savvy ways to support locally-led international development. kivu-international.org

Last night, petrol bombs were thrown at Finchley Reform Synagogue in London. Mercifully, the bottles didn't ignite, and, on this occasion, there was little damage and no injuries, but the evidence of yet more anti-Jewish hatred could not be clearer. We are a resilient community and we will never succumb to fear and intimidation.

Zidane at Euro 2000 🤩 A superstar in his prime.

A young girl is her family’s sole survivor from an Israel airstrike. A baby is recovering from head injuries in another. The number of child casualties in Lebanon is abnormally high, doctors say. With @GarwenM @CunninghamCSky @Jeehad_jn @waeltaleb23

C. S. Lewis… always hits the nail on the head

I want to live in a world where kids dream of being astronauts more than being influencers.

This👇is quite extraordinary, showing how much Trump is uniting Europeans on all sides 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 him Elly Schlein, Leader of Italy's largest opposition party, (herself 50/50🇮🇹🇺🇸) furiously condemns Trump's attacks on her opponent Meloni. The whole Chamber stands up to applaud the whole time. My English s/t👇 "Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our Constitution is clear - Italy repudiates war. No foreign Head of State has the right to attack, threaten or disrespect our country or government. We are opponents in this Chamber, but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. We are asking for unanimous condemnation of these attacks and threats"

NYT headline for the ages

This picture goes hard.

@Rep_Stansbury “Pam understand the consequences of her absence and she is absent anyway, which means that she does not intend to suffer those consequences.”

Pam Bondi was subpoenaed to appear before the Oversight Committee today. This was not a “pretty please.” This was a LEGALLY BINDING congressional subpoena. If she does not make arrangements to appear immediately, we will move to hold her in contempt.

Wonderful to see London’s Moroccan Jewish community celebrating Mimouna🇲🇦, to mark the end of Passover, alongside friends of different faiths and cultures. A beautiful reminder of Morocco’s longstanding tradition of coexistence and shared heritage.

@anishmoonka Ship of Theseus

Your body replaces 98% of its atoms every year. Within five years, every single one is swapped out. The you from 2021 is physically gone. Not "mostly gone." Gone. The atoms that used to be your face are now part of the air, the ocean, somebody else's lunch. Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved this in 1953. Your skin right now is about a month old. Your liver, six weeks. Your stomach lining regrows every five days. Your skeleton is completely different from ten years ago. A few atoms do stick around for life, buried in some brain cells, in parts of your heart, and in your tooth enamel. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden tracked them using leftover radiation from 1950s nuclear bomb tests. The oldest surviving piece of "you" lives in your brain, your heart, and your teeth. Your brain is also erasing you. On purpose. A neuroscientist named Ron Davis at Scripps Research found that the brain has cells that release dopamine, the same chemical you feel after a good meal or a win, and use it to dissolve memories. When his team shut these cells off in test animals, they remembered twice as much. The chemical behind your best feelings is the same one shredding your past, and it never stops running. Ebbinghaus proved this back in 1885. You lose about half of everything you learn within one hour. A 2020 study from Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute had people live through a real experience and then checked how much they kept. At best, about a quarter. 75% of the details of your own life are being actively wiped by the organ that is supposed to be keeping track of it all. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Squeeze all of it into one calendar year, with the Big Bang on January 1st, and humans show up at 11:52 PM on New Year's Eve. Your whole life, every birthday and breakup and boring Tuesday, lasts 0.17 seconds on that calendar. Not even long enough to blink. Stars will keep burning for about a hundred trillion more years, then the fuel runs out and the lights go off everywhere. The last things left will be black holes, places where gravity is so strong not even light can escape. Even those slowly leak away over a number of years so large you would need a hundred zeros to write it. After the last one is gone, nothing is left. No light, no warmth, nothing bumping into anything else, ever again. The universe reaches total stillness and stays there. Forever. Brian Cox once described the window where life can even exist as one-thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth of a percent of the universe's total run time. You are in that window right now. Built from borrowed atoms, running on a brain shredding its own records, here for a fifth of a second on a cosmic calendar that ends in permanent silence. Anyway, hope your Tuesday is going alright.

And in this one, Trump thought he was portraying a nurse. x.com/Acyn/status/20…

When someone tries to downplay the president’s recent post of an AI photo depicting him as Jesus, as if he’s not trying to make himself out to be divine, you may remind them that he’s also posted these.

President Trump has posted this picture on social media of himself as Christ healing the sick. I’ve long given up saying how hard it is to think of any previous US president who behaved like Donald Trump, but comparing himself to Jesus puts him on another level altogether.

Top 10 Oldest Universities in the World 1 🇲🇦 University of al-Qarawiyyin – 859

A historic goal by Moroccan Idriss Jbelli ♥️🤯🇲🇦

I overthink and therefore I overam.

“Open the Strait or I’ll close it!” 🤦‍♂️