Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Life is so fun right now 🙃

I made a Yule Bog instead of a Yule Log

My orange cat just pees on stuff when he's anxious

It's 'freak out the sheep' time!

Indeed. Taxes are the dues we pay for living in civilised society.

Sigh.

"After the funding cuts, cases in South Sudan spiked. It’s the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history." By late Feb., DOGE was "on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work." "Publicly, the administration tried to temper international backlash by... 1/3 www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Me; I'm not in pain! Maybe this flare is subsiding! Maybe I've headed it off at the pass! Maybe I have defeated the Balrog! Me, 30 seconds later, remembering the 30mg codeine I took 40 mins ago; oh.

Christmas cheer!

Tree is finally done! Slight delay due to octopus being MIA but she has been found 🥳🥳🥳🐙

🧵#Syria one year on from #Assad - some thoughts in a thread. I'm just back from 9 days in Syria. I travelled to Aleppo, Manbij, Idlib, Homs & Damascus. These are random observations about the state of things, based on my reporting & also casual conversations with people. 1/

Real question is, if HC paid a member of staff off, why didn’t they drop him then? Ie continue to put other young female staff in danger FOR YEARS? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9197cdb...

The only men who ever flirt with me are the 18-year-old assistants in aquarium shops 😂😂😂

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... More or Less ought to be aired to everyone automatically, like the emergency alert. The last 6 minutes 😂🙃

How much Twitter do you have to snort to convince yourself that sexual violence is exclusively a foreign cultural import, or that education to combat it shouldn't begin until the people you're trying to reach are old enough to be perpetrators?

There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.

Again and again, the optimal position when legally threatened by Trump is to be resolute in defence and prepare for court. You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle. But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.

I wish I could have continued with my bat carer 'qualification.' Maybe one day I'll be able to manage it again, and get screamed at by their adorable little faces

Be kind to retail workers.

New post just out: "The Overshoot" Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration. What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Important thread on a dreadful ruling that will embolden law firms trying to silence public interest journalism.

I'll say it again for those at the back: HOUSING IS A NECESSITY. EXPENSIVE NECESSITIES ARE A BAD THING. HOUSE PRICES ARE ALREADY STUPIDLY HIGH AND THEM RISING FURTHER IS NOT GOOD NEWS.

I wrote about Russia's greatest disinformation campaign, and then had some thoughts about Putin's useful idiots on the far left. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

Putting a fence around the garden worked really well 🙄 Bloody deer

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

can't say what I think about this as it would get me banned from this website permanently

Bombs on train tracks. Arson attacks on malls. Poisoned water supplies. These are just some of the recently foiled plots in Russia’s growing campaign of aggression across Europe. What was once a mere nuisance has escalated into a serious threat. An #FTEdit 🧵 on the new era of Russian sabotage 👇

When your feet get too hot

Such a good thread

Don't try this at home. Researchers turned milk into traditional yogurts with help from ants. For science. https://www.snexplores.org/article/ants-bacteria-yogurt-ingredient?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=snesnsocial

It feels that Trump NSS declaring it wants to support, in essence, the overthrow of European Liberal Democracy and undercutting all of the assumptions we've based our last 70 years of foreign policy on should be a bigger news story. More than, you know, Eurovision

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.

*sad trombone*

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

100% wrong. Russia fought to annihilate Ukraine. Ukraine fought to survive as an independent nation. Territory is secondary in this war.

My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.

Really good thread. I despair. We are a failing country.

Not rude! He has cerebellar hypoplasia (wobbly cat syndrome). Basically when the mum has the panleukopenia virus (parvo in dogs) when pregnant, sometimes one kitten (usually only one) doesn't develop movement centre (cerebellum) properly & comes out wobbly. It's not painful & improves as they grow

"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.

Nearly missed #Nudivember! We found this amazing fabric box my Granny embroidered-Glaucus atlanticus and prey-while helping Grandad with his move into a care home

I've been fighting something for over 2 weeks now. Should really try to get some steroids from my GP. Again. If you're able to WFH please do so when you're ill, and if not, please wear a fucking mask.

It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.

Ethiopia has such amazing endemics

YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!

Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*

Gardasil is a MIRACLE and anyone who says otherwise is a scammer imo

(h/t @helenbranswell.bsky.social) PSA: Please do not buy Botox off the internet and try to perform your own treatment. Botulinum toxin literally has among the lowest lethal doses of anything on the planet Also, how are people just purchasing select agents on the internet