live now 👇🏾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_L...

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

the first one of these where I felt Ros Atkins avoided wider issues, confused and muddied rather than genuinely informed 😔

Remembrance Day is tomorrow an apt time to dust off those tired 'Britain stood alone' Churchillian speeches against fascism, and spot the actual fascists not defending our BBC

my empire of dirt

100% crystalline cringe

plugging AI for government cutting costs on their podcast, and directly advertising it for Google I'm sure this is fine, they must be disinterested experts

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even more interesting than melatonin in squid ink

[scans Oates' list] so he's done a favourite book list now [tick], and next it'll be an image of his beloved pet dog but with the Grok watermark visible

No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC. A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.

Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least

'the ridiculous carnival of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, of all people, admonishing the BBC for its lack of integrity. And they can get away with it, because no-one expects anything from them and yet we expect everything from the people and places who actually give a damn.' asymmetric warfare

Remembrance Day is tomorrow an apt time to dust off those tired 'Britain stood alone' Churchillian speeches against fascism, and spot the actual fascists not defending our BBC

I think this level of radicalisation should frighten everybody who cares about living in a cohesive society

poppy prop propaganda

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, I believe?

WE WILL REMEM🐐BLEER THEM

I did my PhD in molecular and cell biology, with a specialization in genomics and computational biology. As a result, I met many women, postdocs and junior faculty, who had encountered James Watson in person at CSHL. Their accounts all unanimously mentioned having to deal with him hitting on them.

“Since the start of the year, at least 134 unhoused people have died. Only two lived long enough to reach the state’s average life expectancy. Two died before birth. One was a newborn. Another was 15 years old.” www.ctinsider.com/projects/new...

“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders. “At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”

A perfect dissection of Watson individually, but also Nobel Prize Syndrome generally: a pernicious disorder that the patient enjoys while everyone else suffers.

The Unwell Office

I had not heard about the sheer scale of this intimidation 😔

What a glorious sight and sound. Passing over the house yesterday afternoon, hundreds of gorgeous geese. #birds #UKwildlife

@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat: "Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight? I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over. So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.

The Danish Social Democrats whose immigration policy the Labour Party wants to copy are the red line that starts at 35% in 2019 and ends at 21% in 2025

Drives me mad that people talk about Danish immigration policy as a *political* success without bothering to look at the polls.

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this feels like the most balanced bit of coverage about 'Honest Jim' James Watson I can find today from the US, now facing eugenic movements again based on similarly misunderstanding DNA (no, he didn't steal Franklin's work; others have dug into those details, but less on her systemic exclusion)

see also 'winter ears'

The world would be immensely better if more religions and their believers had even a tenth of the dedication the Sikhs do to doing good for people with no gatekeeping or expectations of anything other than "you are a fellow human in need and we can help you"

From the Kenyan front pages. East Africans are allowed to work in each others countries without work permits and there are many Kenyans employed in Tanzania who are now stuck and facing significant backlash from the state that is framing “foreigners” as instigators of election unrest.

Opening up #MozFest, @ruha9.bsky.social asks us "who owns the future?" but also problematizing the notion of ownership. Need to shift the question, expanding the vision of how we imagine new futures.

The Kenya Human Rights Commission (an independent nonprofit, not the statutory body) now estimates that up to 3,000 people might have been killed by the police and armed forces in post election violence in Tanzania.

2.4K virtual likes to alienate everyone actually around her, including other parents at her children's school

interesting to start with the Madre de Deus on the River Dart, and link so many connections to The Circus of sandstone Georgian townhouses in Bath how malnutrition is written into bones on Barbados was chilling (an echo of later famine in Ireland) sensitive interviews enrich the historical facts

utterly irrelevant to actual urgent problems facing many different countries worldwide + consuming all the oxygen in the room, energy for creative new thinking and real solutions + puts a clear public target on often already vulnerable and isolated people in our society

Habibi, boycott hyperconsumption.

And here's a YouTube link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

the sociopath bystander effect

I once got a big bruise helping shear sheep so basically nothing is safe anymore which kinda tracks 😔