Oh wow yes that is the thing. That’s the specific thing that the Bible tells you definitely not to do.

Notably, a more foreign policy informed analysis - as opposed to a market-driven one - would recall that 'drag out negotiations until the other side agrees out of exhaustion' is the Iranian MO and has been since the Bush and Obama years. Always appear close, but never be closing.

A teacher described always having to be ready for an inspection as ‘intolerable’.

Hantavirus: No vaccine any time soon.

I love this idea of “radical listening” as a way of healing division. As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social writes: “they seem to have found a way of tearing down the walls dividing us. Do this everywhere, and who knows? We could have a very different country”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Most of the cruel, racist stereotypes now being propagated about Muslims and immigrants were originally crafted as antisemitic attacks on Jews. The language and sources are in some cases exactly the same. Prejudice against any minority endangers all minorities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cartoon by John Deering 💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯

My latest. America is giving dying mall vibes. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

The year is 2026. The world's most famous atheist has fallen in love with an imaginary being. Your suspension of disbelief is taking the beating of its life.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instinct only. Young Justice Foyle’s War Slings and Arrows Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Ashes to Ashes The Afterparty Due South Gilmore Girls The Greatest Love Ted Lasso Andor Frasier Avatar: The Last Airbender Wandavision Sky Castle

Political donations make a mockery of democracy, and the government's solutions are hopeless. Here's a really simple means of fixing it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“A few days of joviality will hardly guarantee Trump’s erratic affections for long, as Starmer found out the hard way. What will last far longer is the sense of complicity: the indefensible has yet again been legitimised.” My col. on the royal White House trip. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New native mammal for the £5 note.

Cutting cow methane by 45% is a huge deal - more than if every car ever went electric. BTW, BBC, it’s not controversial if only a few conspiracy theorists with no evidence object to it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The clue is in the name, guys.

Update from @glaucomflecken.bsky.social about the ongoing health management disaster in southern Oregon. youtu.be/nuXuF5tP4Ig?...

Satisfaction with the NHS has risen and dissatisfaction has dropped sharply – the biggest fall since 1998. Yet ratings for individual services like GPs, A&E, and dentistry haven’t improved. Something doesn’t add up. Here's why ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

This piece by @drstaceypatton.bsky.social should be required reading for every person in the #NotAllMen crowd.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

event betting sites are a scourge on society and need massive interdiction

"This is an important thing to think about."

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

Read Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler, which is a fascinating eye-opener (and if you needed one of those, the Fatherland was just the place for you) of a book.

I have an Erdos-Bacon number of 7. That is so much lower than I thought.

Great work, Hungary.

We Ride at Dawn

“At that point, the usual language of democracy becomes misleading. This is not a democracy with flaws. It’s an autocracy with elections.”

Long Sunday read 👉👉 open.substack.com/pub/mikegals...

Nearly had a heart attack #Cat #Caturday

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

What if cities allowed housing to be built at the scale demand requires? The Sen̓áḵw development, led by the Squamish Nation and constructed outside of Vancouver and its zoning rules, offers one vision of what’s possible. Writer Alex Mayyasi explores: https://ow.ly/cpxZ50YFfep

My expectation for this war was 'everyone loses,' but to be honest, if those terms hold and Iran gets to pull in $40bn a year from the Strait to fund their proxies and build their nuclear program - if this is the deal - then honestly the Iranian regime simply...won.

🤔 (From @qasimrashid.com )

#HappyEaster 👽 Thanks @warandpeas.bsky.social.

There's this myth that non-voters are just as aware of and engaged with current events as voters are and that they just haven't found the candidate that inspires them and no, that's not true at all, it's usually that they don't know anything about politics at all, which is the entire challenge.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Revenge is a dish best (soft) served cold.

"We expected protective paternalism to play a central role in explaining why some men perceive the tradwife movement positively... We were taken aback to discover that it was instead men’s overt sexism that played the most important role in their attitudes about the tradwife movement.”

That’s one hell of a cover…..

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

He’s making me tap the sign, isn’t he? — Jeff

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

This might be the most interesting real estate project in North America right now when it comes to the debate over how to build more housing and bring down the cost of rent. Today: The story of a place called Sen̓áḵw and the skyscrapers NIMBYs couldn’t stop. buff.ly/FM2xPrJ