The EU has now gone full Soviet. Dark times. youtu.be/g-feCMFSpRw?...

Interesting to map how the suicide lobby works. 1. The use of international trade treaties, with Britain as a key node, means governments can be sued for shutting down fossil fuel production substack.com/inbox/post/1... a useful research article from @adamramsay.bsky.social

Signed up as a paid member to @zackpolanski.bsky.social's Green Party after spending an hour and a half yesterday arguing with my right wing Dad, who was crowing about Reform's numbers. Be the difference.

Just dropped: my project "Aristotle on Soul and Senses. Exchanges between Latin and Greek transmissions of De anima and De sensu" (EXDADS) with Lisa Devriese and Klaus Corcilius (Tübingen) got funding from @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social and @dfg.de! www.fwo.be/media/kounrb...

Food Security , anyone? Europe is losing its farmers. 5.3 MILLION farms have disappeared since 2005. Small-scale farmland is being eaten up by Big Agri corporations. Big industrial farms make starting out nearly impossible. #EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Anyone thinking of travelling to the US next year?

Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes. Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...

An important statement from the academics whose panel on Ukrainian mobilisation was cancelled by the Central European University, which is supposed to be a defender of academic freedom against illiberal censorship. Not so much, it seems. www.newglobalpolitics.org/censorship-i...

For those who live or work in Tower Hamlets, Lewisham or City of London. See replies for more detail

You don't need to go vegan to fix your gut. 🥩🥗 Eating 30+ plants a week builds a microbiome just as strong for omnivores. It's about variety, not restriction. How many plants did you eat today? 🥕 #Microbiome #BioHacking #GutHealthMatters #TheLolgic #HealthyDietPlan #NewYork #LosAngeles #USA

Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”. The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”

#175: Rainer Mumme, Church of Peace, Detmold-Remmighausen (1968)

One of the best threads on bluesky just bangers after bangers

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

You can give to the Hind Tajab Foundation, which is suing Israeli war criminals all over the world.

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

al Jazeera does Oxford no favours here in allowing Nigel Biggar and Lawrence Goldman to speak their minds freely about empire and morality. youtu.be/SZvkTmNQSy4?...

I’ve just seen someone—not even a bot—complaining on Twitter about Question Time that Fiona Bruce is woke.

This sounds depressing.

Ireland calling the UK out for being stupid enough to fall for this 'gender critical' bollocks.

📮Take back our 500 year old Royal Mail 📮 Buy back this national asset from its Czech billionaire owner Use the profits to reduce outrageous stamp prices and improve service Until 11.59pm tonight @ofcom.bsky.social is listening to YOU - take action on link below weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...

The costs of continuing to let Covid rip

New Entry "Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium" by Klaus Corcilius (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) plato.stanford.edu/entries/aris...

One of the voices we would have benefited greatly by hearing more from about Ukraine is Volodymyr Ishchenko, so this is very welcome, as is also his recent interview with Owen Jones, also on YouTube

Prevalence of impaired lung function in children after COVID-19 is 47% dominated by restrictive lung pattern Majority (73%) had mild C19, 78% were not hospitalized, prevalence of long COVID 18% Spirometry, cohort design conducted between 01-06.2024. Pediatric patients aged 5-18

The worry is that, when it comes, the debate over rejoining the EU will be just as frivolous as was the debate over leaving it.

“Moore is a colossal being, and he also sings and plays in a wonderful way.”

Thailand Medical News Launches Thailand Wellness News Site to Transform the Global Wellness Landscape www.thailandmedical.news/news/thailan...

Senior MPs including Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick and Darren Jones are claiming tens of thousands of pounds a year in taxpayer-funded rent expenses while either calling for or implementing benefit cuts on the poorest By me, for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

the Palestinian movement repeatedly instructs us not to use AI; it diminishes real Palestinians who are actually surviving a genocide, and moreover gives the enemy material evidence to claim everything we're is saying is fake, backed up by AI-generated garbage. we would do well to internalize that.

The BBC is in crisis, again. In the latest episode of On Politics, @lewisgoodall.com and @dannyhinduk.bsky.social join @piercepenniless.bsky.social to discuss whether the BBC is capable of surviving in the digital era. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild Fox (Tower Hamlets) Mouse (Tower Hamlets) Heron (Tower Hamlets) Falcon (Tower Hamlets) Kingfisher (Tower Hamlets)

Excellent piece by @almutrochowanski.bsky.social on the dangerous strategic chaos in Europe jacobin.com/2025/11/euro...

One big risk to the OBR forecasts has already materialised -migration is falling more quickly than their projections and that will hit growth and tax revenue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Seeing lots of admiration for this (on the other site, I confess) and there is some exquisite playing. Am I alone, though, in finding the opening of Op. 109 itself just too mannered?

I am so ashamed of my country. In Argentina, we have a horrible past related to the use of torture in the fight of an alleged "internal enemy." Sounds familiar? Coincidentally (or not), this bloody past also involves the 2 other countries voting against this resolution.

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

The hot debate on other side is over how to characterise analytic philosophy (or maybe Analytic Philosophy). Culture wars still raging on.