Omicron BA.1 and then BA.2 were winter 2021/spring 2022 and killed as many Americans as Delta. (That's well after vaccines rolled out btw.) It seems many people have forgotten that detail. Also, endemicity and low virulence are not the same thing. In many places, malaria is endemic.

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come the replies are taking my joke seriously?

You know, the Simpsons never gives us an answer to the question of whether Krusty and Princess Diana are "just friends"

Always should be someone you really love

Your face eating leopard, madame

✅Previously unpublished paper. Leaked here! ✅Quotes from the source (identity withheld). ✅On-record quotes from one of the authors of the study. ✅On-record quote from a former editor-in-chief of CDC’s MMWR. ✅Insights & analysis. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

What's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.

Lots of further reform needed to make the second chamber genuinely serve its purpose, rather than a dumping ground for political patronage. But good to see this absurdity finally come to an end. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Art imitating life, imitating art, imitating life

I have very conflicted feelings about this. It may give her a pragmatic solution to a real problem. But it seems like a misuse of trademark law and an unhealthy expansion of it. It only applies to source information for use in commerce, and that shoe doesn't fit nearly as well as it should here.

Feel like Farage failing to declare a £5 million donation from 'Bitcoin billionaire Christopher Harborne' before standing in the 2024 general election should be a bigger story

missed this little level-set for elon's self-awareness yesterday and now I'm dying

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Qatar gave the president a jet

Finally, a centrist Democrat willing to tell Democrats they need to speak out against the slogan "Defund the Police," as if any elected Democrat in the past five years has so much as uttered those words in any context other than a speech about how Democrats need to speak out against the slogan. 🙃

It always confuses the FUCK out of me when both extremely online campist types, and establishment liberals talk about Russia like it’s still a communist country. Russia is the end goal of what Donald Trump wants to do to America. A hyper-capitalist hellscape run by oligarchs and a tinpot dictator.

Weirdly this is the actual line. Anyway, happy Mussolini's death day to all who celebrate

Soniferous Aether xkcd.com/3238/

every year the Naruto run becomes a more pressing global security concern

Isn't it funny how British journalists can do this kind of analysis of what time of day Zack Polanski likes tweets, but totally missed Peter Mandelson defrauding the public for years until the Americans accidentally dropped him in it.

The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/

A prediction: Over the coming year the New York Times will also be amongst the publications that writes the *most* about neurodivergence in general, & autism + adhd in particular. It similarly will be amongst the *least* likely to quote humans diagnosed with autism &/or adhd. #epistemicinjustice

81 years ago, on the 28th of April 1945, Benito Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans. The next day, his body was hung upside down from the roof of a service station. Axis authorities had previously hung partisans in the same place. #otd #history 🗃️

I guess Graham's gigolo budget has remained intact then

So, I guess if you do think that the assassination attempt was staged, you could probably corroborate that by looking for insider trading. Like, if someone shorted Hilton stocks or something immediately before, then I'd be suspicious

me in 2015 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister vs me in 2026 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister

You fool, that issue that affects you and not me is obviously a distraction from the real issue, the one that affects me and not you

Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of 1960s girl group The Ronettes, has died at 80 https://cnn.it/4sYq9j8

The series finale of Dinosaurs was an emotionally brutal reflection on corporate greed and climate change, the entire family accepting the grim inevitability of death due to a handful of rich assholes making life for everyone else literally impossible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changin...

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If only all those schools had ballrooms, so many shootings could have been avoided

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

If I were in a room with Trump, and someone starts shooting, I would also be pretty certain I wasn't the target

Me and whomst

demeter when her daughter goes missing

"We need a ballroom for security reasons". This is the line they're running with? This?

The vast vast majority of the public thinks it's unacceptable to get drunk on subsidised booze during the work day when you've been elected to represent our views in the heart of our democracy. It is baffling to see people arguing otherwise. A surgeon wouldn't drink. A pilot wouldn't. Do your job.

And they said this site didn't have the juice

"We need a ballroom for security reasons". This is the line they're running with? This?

Reign of Fire

environmentalism + colonizing the British = fundamental rights

Since @milesklee.bsky.social has nobly left Twitter when I saw this I immediately felt the need to come on here and show him something I know he’d love

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

It's not enough to block spambots trying to get me to follow their scam channel of Telegram or Only fans. I need the option to damage their hardware

Just remember, Trump's entire hated of India is because he asked Modi to announce "Trump ended the war between India and Pakistan!", Modi said "Sorry dude, got some domestic political considerations over here that won't allow that" and Trump said "Then go to hell I hate you and your country forever"

🚨 It’s official!!! 🚨 The U.K’s National Energy System Operator has just confirmed that on 22 April 2026 Britain set a new record of 98.8% zero carbon electricity…🇬🇧♻️⚡️🔋💡💪🥳