The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Today is my birthday. 48. Is that old? Well, it's the oldest I've ever been. Have I learnt anything worth sharing in that time? Let's see.

Reminds me of the time I told my flatmates that Irish elections are held on Friday. One asked, "Is that because of the thing in the North? You know, the Bloody Friday?" To which my other flatmate interjected "I think you mean the Black Friday Agreement". I couldn't breathe.

HAMburgers, peanut BUTTER and my new favourite SPARE ribs... it's a daft distraction. But the fact that it's gotten traction this time round is worrying. (It failed a few years ago when common sense prevailed.) Here's a way to channel your frustration: weplanet.yourmovement.org/p/noconfusio...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Känner du att du vill göra *nagot* för att stödja Ukraina men osäker på vad eller hur? Varsågod!

A word on burnout & feeling strung out because "I can't save all the things that need saving." Democracy is supposed to be a mosaic and a relay race. We never have to take care of the whole ourselves. In fact if we do, it kinda stops being democracy.

The UN is a bit like the foundation of an old house. Expensive to maintain and costly to repair but WOW you do not want to break it. So much of our modern world is held together by the invisible work of multilateral diplomacy. I shudder to think what the world would be like without it

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

didn't realize my antipathy toward RFK could intensify, but here we are! (beans rock)

Lyssna på Victoria! Ingen av de samhällstjänster som utgör grunden i ett gott, tryggt, jämlikt och omhändertagande samhälle, går att köpas för de pengar ni får genom sänkta skatter. #Val2026

One problem with being on Twitter is that Elon Musk constantly rejigs the site to push his views. He cannot be sidelined when he owns the underlying system. His manipulation of the Twitter AI to match his views illustrates this point. Via @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.

Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.

Ny forskningssammanställning: – De kostförändringar som behöver ske i den rika delen av världen kommer inte att ske av sig själva. Det krävs aktiva åtgärder från politiker och andra samhällsaktörer. www.natursidan.se/nyheter/sa-k...

They did not mince their words! Good for them. And the article does a good job explaining the process and how flimsy the excuse for discarding their work is. Any guidelines now risk being the opposite of transparent.

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism. Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

from his comments about touching women w/o consent, to his comments about fucking his own daughter, to his decades-long close relationship with jeff epstein, to him walking in on underage girls undressing in his pageants,

Bra text. Som jag har påpekat många gånger om så är den här utvecklingen relevant för Sverige med. Vi har precis samma typ av influensers här i Sverige. Vars plattformar växer och få bryr sig. kcklatt.substack.com/p/6-months-o...

6 Months of MAHA - A Reflection and Call to Action open.substack.com/pub/kcklatt/...

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

The head of the FDA tells us they're taking a look at the dietary guidelines and that the food pyramid is out. The food pyramid has not been in use since 2011 when MyPlate replaced it.

There is a difference between an ‘expert’ and ‘a vocal academic with a strong opinion’. Of course, much of the media completely unable to make this distinction.

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

They called her a mad cat woman and tried to destroy her reputation. Then they dragged her through the courts and tried to destroy her life. But @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is standing tall and continues telling the inconvenient truth. A must see. youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

So proud of Stockholm city's response to this overreach. The politicians didn't mince their words either! www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

The President’s entire budget proposal destroys the state as we know it, and not in any kind of liberatory way. Here are the proposed NIH & NSF cuts. There will be no coming back from this.

First the Diabetes Prevention Program. Now the Women's Health Initiative. Really struggling to see how ending nutrition/lifestyle trials with long term follow up is a) part of the MAHA agenda; b) changing the 'woke' culture at Universities; c) improving 'efficiency'. www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

När resultatet inte passar med vad RFKjr sagt på sociala medier så får inte forskare prata med tidningarna utan att alla svar granskas Top NIH scientist speaks out, says research was ‘censored’ under RFK Jr - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyoW...

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

If you're keeping track of the long list of things this admin's done that flies in the face of MAHA, censoring and ultimately losing the top intramural nutrition scientist studying food processing and health is definitely towards the top.

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man. Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…

When the head of ICE starts talking about how great it would be to have Amazon Prime for shipping human beings to a concentration camp in El Salvador that no one ever leaves, you’ve gone way past “it could never happen here.”

Toying this week with the idea the hidden complexity of modern life is a barrier to advocacy. Most people don’t understand (and haven’t needed to!) how much basic facets of their lives rely on complex and interwoven global systems

Had a client community (population ≈80) send me this just now: “[USDA Research] banned some key language from its vocabulary…as well as the phrase ‘safe drinking water.’ …water treatment, rural water, and clean water, among dozens of others.”

“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”

It’s already hard to judge whether products you buy online will be the right size or not, but what if the product doesn’t even exist? @koltai.bsky.social helps you to distinguish between real and AI-generated products online. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...