Amazingly, first time I have seen this.

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First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

And half the politicians pontificating about it do so on a far-right paedophile website, without the slightest self-awareness about how ridiculous they look.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I think that's a misunderstanding. MAGA has more of an ethos than people think (ie white supremacy) and fascism has less of one. It has never been a sophisticated intellectual project but a framework for power, violence and nationalism

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Repeatedly. bsky.app/profile/fact...

Have been busy last hour. Is Trump declaring war on Bjork?

Every day we all have to think about one of the most irredeemable cunts in the history of the world. What’s he doing? What’s he said now? How will it affect your life? What will be left once he’s finished smashing it all up? It’s unconscionable

Absolutely unreal.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Someone should get Donald to have a play with thetruesize website. (As if objective reality plays any part in that man's mind...) thetruesize.com#?borders=1~!... #greenland

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

I cannot express how it makes me feel to see my Minneapolis neighbors living every day in the line of fire, risking injury, imprisonment, and death at the hands of a tyrant, while these soft, empty suits prance around at Davos and hope that if they pretend hard enough he’ll go away.

Someone should get Donald to have a play with thetruesize website. (As if objective reality plays any part in that man's mind...) thetruesize.com#?borders=1~!... #greenland

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Congratulations everyone, Big Brother wasn’t imposed on you, you bought Big Brother on Prime Day and installed him yourselves.

The Obamas in Selma, Alabama, March 2015. More on the Obama Whitehouse archived page. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/03...

Another moment where I think "surely *now* is the moment they say enough is enough" to add to the hundreds of others over the past decade. The letter's written by a malignant 5 year old who shouldn't be left unattended with anything more dangerous than lego. But no, still they all carry on.

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

Don, slamming down an Uno card on the chessboard- “BINGO!”

Aww look at his happy little face though.

Time-traveling me, c2026: "And then the PRESIDENT--you know, the guy who likes to put his name on buildings and was in Home Alone 2? HE's declaring war on Denmark, b/c he wants Greenland!" Me, c1992: "Hello, police? There's an insane guy at my door who looks like my grandfather."

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

WM Police chief Craig Guildford has apologised for identifying a fictitious West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match in a police report. He’s written to the home affairs committee and blames Microsoft CoPilot for the error

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Putting #solarpanels on land used for biofuels would produce enough #electricity for all of the world’s cars & trucks to go electric. The world dedicates a Poland-sized area to liquid #biofuels, even though there is a more efficient way to generate energy: ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land... #landuse

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs

AI does math proofs. Very interesting thread from a top mathematician. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1158558...

"Lenders of last resort" the movie of this summer. Twelve middle aged bankers come to the rescue of their colleague, who is bullied by a rogue president

Going to start marking these as #elonazi so I can collate them later. Haven't thought very long about that tag, it's pretty awful. It'll do.

This map would look very different if crimes against creatures that live in hedgerows were treated with the seriousness they deserve.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?" Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."

The level of quixoticism at this point is like Kemi Badenoch spending all day trying to win over Your Party voters. What part of ‘no’ does Blue Labour not understand?

The actual front page of the actual US Homeland Security dept. www.dhs.gov

Both Reform & the Tories openly call for ICE-style immigration enforcement squads in the UK. While Labour tries to compete by boasting about its own number of raids & deportations that are barely any different. Immigration enforcement shot two more people in the US overnight.

A reminder: 2026 is the year that Confederate Republican traitors in Congress allocated $160 billion to expand ICE. The Republican traitors also authorized the money to be used to hire domestic mercenaries -- if ICE hiring goes too slow. Minneapolis is just the beginning of the beginning.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Not seen this in Gruaniad or NYT.

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.