Legends on Netflix is genuinely brilliant. Great writing, amazing performances. www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/legends_2...

No, it is not time to uncancel Enoch Powell The racism my dad, grandparents and entire black side of my family experienced in Birmingham in the 60s and 70s was in no small part driven by his nasty, rancid brand of division and racism Enoch Powell was a racist and a demagogue, period

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

"Yes, why do it if you're not going all the way?" is a theme for the whole story.

Don't make me tap @drdeanburnett.bsky.social 's flowchart, ABC News. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Same energy:

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

"Allen was stopped not by Secret Service gunfire, but by a box used to transport a metal detector, which he tripped over ... Allen was not hit by any of the five shots fired at him by a Secret Service agent." I assume the box will be getting a medal.

"It doesn't just swing back on its own; someone, somewhere, picks up a rock." - @criticalrole.bsky.social Campaign 4, Episode 21

"The department is looking into whether the flags were placed in the wrong box or mislabeled". Do flags need labels? Flags are the labels. 🇦🇺 ❌️ 🇬🇧 ✅️ www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4542720...

Angus Young is an immunologist now? Wait, I've read that wrong.

Amazing how Gina genuinely seems to believe she's the very essence of what it means to be Australian when she proudly presents the opposite of our self image. She's utterly devoid of humour, ungenerous, greedy, prissily prim & lacking any sense of family values www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Kash Patel has to be on firing watch — according to The Atlantic, he struggled to log into a computer with his credentials & started to “freak out” assuming he had been fired — he was really just too drunk to correctly input a password, oof 🤦🏻‍♂️

Happy to see @tomtaylormade.bsky.social not holding back (though when has he ever?) in Detective Comics this month. The company in question is called 'Klep Corp'. Chef's kiss. Drag them, Tom. 🦇

Coming soon: Jesus MD, a new historical drama from the makers of The Artful Dodger. A humble carpenter's son revolutionises medical care in 20AD Judaea – taking on cases of blindness, paralysis, and leprosy.

Every D&D party

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

I can’t believe there are really people like this

Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away

Grammatically, "Lee Cronin's The Mummy" sounds like a spoiler. But if they'd called it "Lee Cronin's Mummy", Brits would assume it's about Mrs Cronin.

I just got to this in The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K Le Guin, 1969): "He wanted his hearers to be frightened and angry. His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. He talked a great deal about Truth also..."

"The fog did not lift. It was given a probability score and called intelligence." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

FFS. OFC a simulation exercise to prepare for disease outbreaks a few months before a real disease outbreak is *not* a 'coincidence' or a conspiracy. It shows the NHS understands the risks. fullfact.org/health/exerc...

Remake of a mashup I did many years ago, before the prequel titles were announced.

The #MatildaEffect (systematic denial of recognition to women scientists) was named after suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage (d. #OTD in 1898). "The woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time" was a writer, activist, abolitionist & Native American rights advocate. #WomensHistoryMonth

EnKITTification Artist: bruised_blood https://b3ta.com/board/11426454 From the '80s Tech Today' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/80stechtoday/popular/ #80sTechToday

Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers

What in the absolute fuck is this.

"They combined a telescope, a periscope, and a high-speed UV camera and mounted the device on a 2013 Toyota Sienna. Then they spent the summer of 2024 chasing storms from Florida to Pennsylvania." 🌩 www.science.org/content/arti...

Religious loonies in charge of the US military “urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.” … Yikes.

Pretzel! ❤️ 🌈 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

"Dept of War, FAA, and CBP are working together in an unprecedented fashion..." The military is shooting down CBP's drones, CBP is shooting at party baloons, and both disrupt air traffic – so yes, cooperation between these federal agencies is unlike it's ever been before. apnews.com/article/mili...

Hannibal BA Face Murdock

If you’re at #BPS2026, go look at Poster B49. Caroline Cannistra has some very detailed all-atom simulations of HIV capsid protein, and SHE CROCHETED A MODEL OF IT to demonstrate the dynamics.

“In light of this apparent failure to grasp the basic requirements of the ambassadorial mission, the minister has requested that [Kushner] no longer be allowed direct access to members of the French government” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

With immunisation rates declining and outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles increasing, the consequences of vaccine hesitancy in Australia are becoming clearer.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

In line with the history of alpine navigation, cross-country skiers now have the motivation of being chased over the finish line by a wolf.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Unconscionably destructive behaviour, burning the safety of the country and people they're sworn to protect (and likely the world) for venal vanity.

“Maybe a better way to look at this is ‘people preparedness’. One way for people to be prepared (for the next pandemic) is to be healthier, eat better and exercise, so you’re less likely to get sick or have a poor outcome,” Powers added. Right. This will protect you from a novel pathogen.🤦‍♂️

Wetenschappers vinden Twitter niet langer professioneel nuttig en zijn overgestapt op Bluesky. academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

I didn’t realize being a pedophile was an actual job requirement. The entire Trump regime is staffed with partiers from Epstein Island.

They'd find more criminals by just screening the people who apply to be ICE agents. But, of course, catching criminals was never the point.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Scientists show a bonobo can play make-believe; sign him up for the lab #D&D night ;) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz0743 OK, the experiment was more like LARP, but still.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)