Newspaper editors are fundamentally insecure about what stories deserve space and time and what don't. That's why so many of them embraced whatever was trending on Twitter and other social media - they could point to the numbers and claim it meant a thing was important. Nevermind that every […]

We might ask ourselves why the hell everyone in a position of power is bending over backwards to appeal to Reform voters, but not to appeal to anyone else.

#meta are bastards who will never take responsibility for their gross misconduct. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/573766/meta-out-to-silence-and-punish-kiwi-whistleblower-sarah-wynn-williams-british-mp #facebook

From the series “why did it so long for me to learn it”: ⌘+K opens an “add link to the selected text” in Apple Mail.

Dirty Van Art (22 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/09/22/dirty-van-art-22/

"Water Cremation" - also known as hydrolysis, involves water, heat and an alkaline solution being applied to a body in a chamber similar to that used in cremation. And while the current method of reducing a person’s remains to ashes requires enormously high temperatures, those in favour of […]

Why you can’t simply ‘demand’ that women have more children https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/parents-childless-infertility-childfree-women-without-children-b2830808.html The ways in which women’s choices, or lack of them, are discussed by governments, researchers, and wider society offer a […]

#silentsunday a sunset view from a few days ago

If you commute by car, #police #algorithms can predict what time you’ll likely head home on any given Wednesday & what roads you’ll take to get there. The city’s computers are constantly passively compiling this information in case it is of use to them later, a version of the film [book TYVM] […]

“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.” - Henry David Thoreau

I'm going to introduce a new to me concept: #enfascisisation, to rhyme, rather bitterly, with @pluralistic's #enshittification. Enfascisisation is the process of making a society more vulnerable to #fascism#enshittification#enfascisisationespecially by spreading the belief that the triumph of fascism is inevitable. Thus when […]

"A few high-profile people got shaken down and everyone else got the message. A general chill spread over the country’s media, but it took a while to entirely freeze over." www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-...

"On the street and in your feed: the joyful genius of Zohran Mamdani’s viral videos. The frontrunner for New York City mayor has won social media with clips that are always fun – and resolutely on-message": https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/zohran-mamdani-social-media-viral-videos […]

I’d like to know why no one in the states has adopted the bar/hardware/bike store model that they have out in Dingle, Ireland.

Reviews like this make the blood, sweat and tears working on this adventure game while being an underpaid social worker in the US ghetto worth it. And yeah, let's make cyberpunk PUNK again! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/ #cyberpunk #indiegame #indiedev #steamdeals

Really good write up of the history and current directions we are going in #climatemodelling https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-scientists-saw-the-future-before-it-arrived-20250915/

Arms manufacturer Pearson Engineering is chaired by Labour peer Lord Hutton and owned by Israel’s finance ministry, which is run by a far-right politician who is under UK sanctions. Makes sense?? https://www.declassifieduk.org/top-labour-official-married-to-lobbyist-for-israeli-arms-firm/

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/20/quarter-of-uk-university-physics-departments-at-risk-of-closing-survey-finds Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s […]

Scenes from a Trenitalia train earlier today, which was great until Brener, where everyone had to get off and those who crossed the border found the OBB train on the other side didn't have the same capacity... Unlike travellers with outsized luggage, the […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

https://www.ft.com/content/95f73ea8-6169-46a4-af2a-19d23dc7631f “Neidle told the FT that it made sense to abolish stamp duty and “replace it with a modest, broad-based land value tax assessed on site value, not buildings”” #landvaluetax #ukpol #taxreform #counciltax #stampduty #housing #1991

Another sign spotted on a Trenitalia train today, this is also the first time I have seen e-bike charging offered on a train...

Paramilitary drone attack on mosque in Sudan kills at least 70 army says > A drone attack blamed on Sudan's paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces struck a mosque during prayers Friday, killing at least 70 worshippers in the North Darfur region, aid workers and the Sudanese army said. > The […]

The BBNJ is now international law. It provides a framework for conservation and resource sharing, but like all things related to the high seas, enforcement is limited. And of course, the US hasn't ratified it (nor do I expect that it will) […]

With the help of wonderful people on this platform (thank you!), I've included a list in this article of some of the new outlets which are building a media that belongs to us and speaks for us. Something pretty exciting is happening, which could be transformative.

Last week in Portugal we visited a place called “Happy Donkeys” where you can go for a walk with these donkeys and the owner chats with you about donkeys and such. Absolutely perfect day out. #asstodon

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Update. Mark Welsh just stepped down as president of Texas A&M. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/18/texas-am-university-president-mark-welsh-resigns/ It isn't because he fired a professor instead of protecting her academic freedom. And it isn't because he also fired her dept chair and dean […]

I’ve advised Helsinki, Finland a few times in the past, and among the many conversations I’ve had with the Finns, we’ve talked about what it’s like to live right next to an aggressive dictatorship like Russia. I’m not the first one to say it, but Canada needs to be vigorously learning from Finland.

In a change to my regular #Fensterfreitag, here are a couple of actual Deutsch fenstern! These are both in Köln.

A window to peace of mind, maybe. #fensterfreitag (did type #festerfreitag at first).

"How I tracked the biggest hidden sources of forever chemical pollution in UK rivers – new study" https://theconversation.com/how-i-tracked-the-biggest-hidden-sources-of-forever-chemical-pollution-in-uk-rivers-new-study-261967 The amount of toxic “forever chemicals” flowing into the River Mersey […]

Unable to take in the rest of the laundry, because this butterfly seems intent on spending the night on my bath towel!

https://virginiabusiness.com/port-of-virginia-sees-drop-in-cargo-traffic/ “Businesses do not like uncertainty,” he said. “They may not like the policies, but they can live with it if they know what in the world to expect.” #virginia #tariffs #tradewar #shortage #Inflation #logistics #uspolitics

We've had fierce, fierce winds the last two days with gusts over 50mph. Today it is calm and all manner of creatures are in my garden bird sanctuary, hoping for a little snack. Butterflies! Gulls! Starlings! ...and Charlie, the cat who no one knows the owner of. #northofscotland

When was the last time you cleaned behind your refrigerator? You should vacuum the coils annually. #maintenance #maintenancebot #bot

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure […]

Israeli minister touts Gaza 'real estate bonanza', defying international backlash https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y59z6rznvo

Vad skulle hända om sossarna började prata litet mer om arbetslöshet och nedskärningar som följd av skattesänkningar istället för att svansa efter om höjda straff, visitationszoner och att längta efter att få bura in barn?

de Adder's view:

Mirror of the unknown: should research on mirror-image molecular biology be stopped? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02912-0 Amid growing debates about the benefits and risks of studying looking-glass versions of life’s building blocks, there is an urgent need to bridge divergent views

Pharmaceutical giants pull out of UK: why it matters for global science https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03001-y Merck and AstraZeneca say the United Kingdom is not spending enough on medicines, but experts say it’s a symptom of underlying weaknesses in the global pharmaceutical sector

So, I guess SOUND OF MUSIC is now about an insufferably woke family.

Att säkerhetsrådet är lamslaget borde inte hindra oss. Inför sanktioner, vapenembargo - och ge Israel en veckas tidsfrist innan flygbaser och militär produktion bombas. www.svt.se/nyheter/utri...

‘LOST’ creator Damon Lindelof pledges not to work with @Disney unless Kimmel is reinstated, and Matt Belloni says other Hollywood talent will likely soon do the same.

We're not quite at the spring equinox yet and my solar panels are already coming close to maxxing out my solar power inverter during the middle of the day. I'm taking the opportunity to put all the spare solar power into our car.

I don't have any streaming subscriptions, but if you happen to be looking for how to cancel Disney Plus, this is apparently the page. https://help.disneyplus.com/article/disneyplus-cancel

If you want to know the facts about extremist violence in the USA, don't listen to politicians or talking heads. Read the science […]

When you don't have a traffic cone to hand and have to make do with a seagull instead...