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Morning Kittens

What, Sunday evening already?

This part is also horrific:

One last thing: I often see people saying things like ‘never talk to the police without a lawyer’ and a lot of people don’t have lawyers and are like, what should I do? The answer is that you should not talk to the police at all.

Very pertinent comment below this story.

An interesting thing is going, here. In the cat world, being the one that grooms the other one means they're the boss. In the bunny world it's the other way round: the one being groomed is the boss. So these two are both thinking they're the boss. Original post

The annoying thing is that I agree with his diagnosis - decentralising health and social care (including scrapping national targets) is absolutely the right thing to aim for. Hunt did nothing of the sort when in charge, but that doesn’t make him wrong now.

I’m really glad President Zelenskyy is saying this out loud. More people need to realize this.

This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Waiting for the system justifiers on this platform to claim that Geoffrey Robertson KC "doesn't understand the law". That's what all of us who've made these points have been told. Maybe not understanding how this could possibly be right is a sign of our humanity. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

Catbus is REAL!!

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Drinking hot tea on a 30+ degree day, as god intended.

Comic strip from 1995 by @alisonbechdel.bsky.social yet gender cranks seem to think it was something that never happened before circa 2016 or so

I mean...

GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Electric SUVs are still SUVs and thus still terrible.

"It’s unfortunate that almost none of the people behind these accounts know very much about the ancient world." Unfortunately, ignorance is not the only thing wrong with them. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social on Elon Musk's X and the fascist statue accounts: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...

If only the current scam stock market had anything to do with value or reality.

What If Reform Wins by Peter Chappell describes that scenario in 2029 and is fascinating, well-researched and nauseating to read. It does an excellent job of referring to actual historical examples to support the various events in this possible future. 1/

This is the best explanation of patriarchy that I've ever seen: if we decide that wealth and power go to men just because they're men, then men must be superior. If men are superior, then women must be inferior, and we work to arrange the evidence to meet our conclusions.

JCPOA might be the most vindicated foreign policy of all time tbh

"This Farage parody account on X is more factual and truthful than Farage himself, which is hilarious in itself." via Susan Kovbasyuk

This is rather like the huge US market for tianeptine (“gas station heroin”) or similar drugs which are labelled “for research purposes“ or “not for human consumption” which are clearly lies. The growing market for psychedelics is similar, bypassing regulation for huge profits.

Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate. If you went on the Hajj, I hope it went well.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Again, great article. You can’t fight Godzilla with interest rate hikes.

Absolute banger, highly recommended. James’ audible rage at our usual government suggestions for the economy - austerity, means-tested benefits, slow industrial development - is impressive. We need price controls and wealth taxes linked to government spending, things that will actually help people.

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

Can’t disagree.

Here’s a similar article not behind a paywall and a picture for info. ndpa.org/drowningdoes...

Traditionally (since about 2010 at least) the US government has spent about double per capita on healthcare that the UK does. This obviously isn’t counting all the private spending on insurance. This is very notable in the VHA, which spends roughly 4x per capita compared to the NHS.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

This is certainly a terrible example of losing money to own the libs. The Starbucks Korea CEO, David Song, has already been fired, but the originator is probably Shinsegae chaebol chair Chung Yong-Jin, a Trump supporter. There are currently calls for his resignation too.

Fresh off his final Late Show, Stephen Colbert resurfaced in the most unexpected place possible: a public access TV program in Monroe, Michigan. The result involved Jack White, local hot dogs, reel-to-reel tapes, and pure chaos.

Mr Beaver knew what he thought about AI.

I've been thinking a lot over the past few hours about what old-fashioned organising when you can't rely on the government would mean today. There are so many things, including: - becoming a school governor - becoming a magistrate - creating a friendly society to cover bills but my best idea...

Absolutely spot on, no notes.

yin and yang

Minnesota has just become the first state to ban prediction markets. Gov. Tim Walz has signed a bill that makes operating or advertising prediction markets a felony. This sets a major precedent for those seeking to regulate or ban Polymarket, Kalshi, and other sites.