Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social get a load of this! (It ties into my deeper thoughts about how vampire trends match economic downturns but that’s too scary for a Sunday night.)

Woke up. Interrogated my sock. Story was full of holes. Darn it.

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar. Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet. Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

I have half an hour before my next interview so I'm going to sketch out what I find an important problem with the fashionable division of immigrants into "net contributors" and "net recipients" of government spending. 1/10

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. Read @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social's award-winning investigation:

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

I feel like Joseph Heller had their number back in the 60's in Catch-22 and I still think of this quote whenever I hear farm owners complaining about socialism or benefits or taxes. It was a short little aside but it stuck with me for like 25 years.

🚨 This is serious. Ex Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, 52, pleads guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament when serving as a UKIP MEP.

Good thread, still relevant today. Some tidbits in the comments as well

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

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This Day in Labor History: September 19, 1935. A Soviet coal miner named Alexey Stakhanov mines 227 tons of coal. Let's talk about Stakhanovites, the idealized Soviet worker who does unbelievable amounts of labor to promote the supposed workers paradise, which was actually just Fordism on steroids!

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were. But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

I recommend everyone watches this

Israel’s attack on Doha ‘sets a dangerous precedent for international mediation more broadly: if neutral negotiating venues are now legitimate targets, this fundamentally alters the calculus for future conflict resolution.’

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

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If you’ve wondered who the individuals marked in red are, let me explain. They’re former PMs of 🇷🇴: Adrian Năstase (served time in prison for bribery/blackmail/corruption) and Viorica Dăncilă. They don’t currently hold any public office and do not represent 🇷🇴. They’re there to sow division in 🇷🇴/🇪🇺.

More than 2 hours, but well worth it. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

As we all know, the American Revolution was fought to ensure the chief executive could impose taxes without representation.

Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

📈🧵La reciente ola de calor ha sido la más intensa desde que hay registros en España. → Con datos provisionales, tuvo una anomalía de 4.6 °C y supera a la de julio de 2022, la más intensa hasta ahora con 4.5 °C de anomalía.

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.

“I DON’T CARE [ABOUT] ANYONE ELSE" nicely summarizes MAGA wapo.st/3UEEym6

And then on to my last cat and a bonus portrait of my two dogs. Just as much care went into their art, I swear.

I have enough cats that I have to post all the little portraits I did of them as a thread. 🧵 oh no.

EU fire data was updated this morning. Here's the total area burnt across the bloc this year so far. A record for this time of year. forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.s...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

“Trump has adopted Russia’s position,” writes one Russian paper today. “He will present his peace ultimatum to Zelensky. And there’s no doubt it’s an ultimatum.” My review of today’s Russian papers. #ReadingRussia

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WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.

Trump’s Self-Own Summit with Putin My column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The EU makes life easier for millions of people across Europe – and beyond. 🎓 Erasmus+ 🛒 the single market 🚆 passenger rights 🗺️ travel without borders 💶 the euro These are just some of the ways the EU works for you every day. Learn more → europa.eu/!fc4bGR

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

This creates a paradigm where Hancock is simply on the outside of a *social circle*, not the outside of a *methodology.*