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Ouch

France, land of « ah mais non, monsieur, on n'peut pas faire ça » when in fact there is no problem doing so at all. 😣 So tired of this shit.

"When transport planners work on the assumption that the car is the default way of getting around, the physical environment is reshaped by traffic management systems and road designs that give cars priority in terms of speed, road space and parking" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This is horrifying and terrifying, if not a surprise or unexpected. What a disgrace. 😬

I just finished watching The Residence. WOW! Uzo Aduba’s performance as Cordelia Cupp, especially in the last episode, is spectacular! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Such a joy!

Geez, I gotta say, 52.6931 orbits around this star I’ve been on this lovely but wet planet and, wow, human beings sometimes blow my mind. Such creativity, intelligence, compassion and yet, in the same damn species, such stupidity, cruelty, and arrogance. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just to make the point, how guitarists judge with eyes more than ears, my current favorite pedal is the Soldano SLO pedal. Yes, it sounds amazing, but just look at it! It's bright fuschia purple anodized brushed aluminum and the retro/modern mix of Eurostile and Futura fonts just fuckin' melts me. 😍

we still haven't moved past the double meaning problem here---the people who want Zohran to be "tougher on antisemitism" really mean "silent on Israeli genocide."

Been thinking a lot recently of the times I’ve tried to explain how fucked up physicists are to folks in Black studies who definitely couldn’t conceive of how bad things really were until they tried to interact with the physics department on their campus and realized they were unhinged

The poison starts seeping into Ireland too...

Yep. sciencebasedmedicine.org/tbm/

Wow, RIP. My father played guitar for him for several years. Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

Oh no! One of the greats has gone. RIP Jimmy Cliff.

Azeen has this platform because women in astronomy helped her report major stories about alleged perpetrators of sexual misconduct in our field, like Lawrence Krauss. This is what she has done with the platform. It haunts me. 🔭

Deeply immoral. It’s not just “moving the goal posts”, it’s fucking with people’s lives, their livelihoods and stability. The Labour party’s descent into right-wing racist policy is noted around the world with dismay.

Use, and I cannot state this enough, libraries. UK/RoI authors get paid for library borrows. More than you'd think!

"(...) medicine is a complex and technical subject, beyond the grasp of anyone without medical training. So the idea that medical care should be treated like a commercial product to be consumed by medically sophisticated customers is not only silly – it’s dangerous."

I just find it bizarre that 1) DOGE has quietly dissolved without anyone noticing, and 2) that not enough people are sounding alarms about what damage those people are now doing to federal departments elsewhere.

'Australia has signed onto the Belem declaration to phase out fossil fuels - now is the time to for them to act' No it isn't. The gov't does not at when they sign on to things: they act when they are forced to through external pressure. Now is the time for *climate and environment groups* to act

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

"Real hope, as opposed to the performance of hope, requires confronting uncomfortable truths. It requires being willing to say that the emperor has no clothes, even when your career depends on tailoring his wardrobe" www.linkedin.com/posts/the-co...

Y’all know this is AI generated? Right? There’s an account somewhere that post images of these guys together in bansl situations where you wouldn’t expect them to be.

RIP Udo Kier, a true original 📽️ his one and only social media post:

Indeed.

I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.

I know Bills fans are rooting for the Bengals right now but if prayer is real I need the rest of y’all to talk to your preferred deities so the Patriots lose. #NFL #BillsMafia

There's a UBI post on FB being reposted by thousands of accounts that's pro-UBI disinfo. No, Sweden didn't do a big UBI pilot where 5,000 Swedes got $1800/mo in UBI for 3 years. That never happened. The "results" appear to be AI-generated. UBI works. It doesn't need false data. See my pinned thread.

As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.

In the US, Muslims are seen as antisemitic by default. I've experienced this my whole life.

Re: the "aliens contacting the US military in 1960s" story going around, remember, the most successful theories in physics (quantum theory and relativity, tested and verified to incredible precision, notwithstanding things we still don't understand) quite simply *rule out* interstellar travel. 1/

You will have to imagine my surprise, because I am not surprised. The dogshit rightwing Irish 'patriots' who fall for this psyop should cop on = it's just another anglo invasion, wake up, muppets.

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DOGE staff moved to editing government websites.

Thread! This is from an career professional in online trust & safety so parents listen up!

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Tyranny

The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.” Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵

Big moment! We need a lot more of this. 👇🏻

Woah. 😳

I will write more about this later, for now just to say our paper has been published today. 10 years after Paris Agreement we can conclusively say we have failed to limit warming to well below 2°C. What next? www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...

This motherfucker.

Nothing to add ... newrepublic.com/post/203517/...

Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic”. Teenagers’ loneliness was the same in the 1970s,1980s, and 1990s long before anyone heard of TikTok or smartphones.

Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.

So here we are, the oldest instrument I’ve personally ever worked on. This is a late 1962 Höfner model 182 E2 bass. It was in really bad shape when I got it I’ve made it playable and I’m really happy about that!

Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.