"the autism problem" "the migration problem" "the trans problem" Never the fucking "rich white guy problem"

Just got an email from a university based teacher trainer about “Why Don’t Things Fall Up? saying he has used it for “examples of good clear science communication, pitched to the right level for the right audience”. The audience is *you* and it is just 99p on Kindle for few more days (til end Sept)

I am such a sucker for a good 99p book and you should be too

Just got an email from a university based teacher trainer about “Why Don’t Things Fall Up? saying he has used it for “examples of good clear science communication, pitched to the right level for the right audience”. The audience is *you* and it is just 99p on Kindle for few more days (til end Sept)

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If Keir Starmer was able, through endless repetition, to communicate to the British public his father's profession, it ought to be an easy job to repeatedly remind people that, without exception, every far-right British politician craves the taste of this gibbering shit-trifle's boot leather.

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

Today I learned Mickey Mouse is based on blackface characters

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

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'Humanists UK was a lone voice sounding the alarm about far-right Christians looking to dissolve the boundaries between church and state... The idea was long dismissed as an Americanism that couldn’t happen here, but here it is.' @pollytoynbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads.... www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259... #UKKidlit #Edusky

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As a higher-rate tax payer, let me say: GOOD.

I hear endlessly (including right now on the radio) that “the new consensus” is that Covid was “almost certainly” caused by a lab leak. This might be a political “consensus”, led by the same White House that says tylenol caused autism. But it’s not the scientific one.

We don’t need shoddy American autism panic imports when we’ve got British-made conspiracies that we successfully exported all over the world

Why is misinformation about paracetamol on the front page of every news outlet, without a mention of the fact it's misinformation?

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Expertise matters. I strongly believe that one of the problems with the media has been the tendency to treat everything as just a branch of politics, and to (wrongly) assume that fundamentally politics-focused reporters can 'get across' any topic. It's not just wrong - it's enormously damaging.

"Fight the pain" Pay close attention to this kind of language because normalising and/or belittling women's pain is rank misogyny

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This really boils down to how much this administration hates women, doesn’t it? “Wimpy pregnant women cause autism,” say a bunch of men jacked up on adderall, steroids and Big Macs.

Makes you wonder how the pandemic would have panned out if it were just health journalists penning the headlines rather than political journalists.

Oi. BBC. Many experts are not skeptical. It is utter bullshit and you should call it out as such. This is the MMR bollocks x 1 million

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

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I met Dr. David Ho! He’s responsible for the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence and his work has saved tens of millions of lives. Why he doesn’t have a Nobel Prize is beyond me. AMA.

‘No reason, no, conscience, no understanding of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this man with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes. I realized that what was living behind that man's eyes was purely and simply . . . evil.’

My thoughts on the Saudi government financed comedy festival is that comics will be encouraged to be “outrageous” and then when they return they will say “they say there is censorship, but no one stopped me saying all my edgy misogyny and rape jokes”

Things are feeling bleak right now, so it's worth sharing how California, the world's 4th largest economy, is doubling down on offshore floating wind.

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You know why ethnic minorities in the UK always feel second-class as if they're never safe in this country and could be asked to leave at any time? This is why:

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

If the Democrats ever get back into power, they need to go full hellfire and brimstone against absolutely every single person involved in the current administration. They won’t, but they absolutely should.

It is of course better to light a candle than curse the darkness. But damn, there’s so much darkness, and I think I’m down to like my last three matches here.

Just look at the H1B visa panic over the weekend. Just because they don't have a clue or a plan doesn't mean they won't do it. They don't care.

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

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if they’re gonna treat this like a WWE event then someone really should’ve whacked him with a folding chair

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Trump at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service: “He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That’s where I disagreed with Charlie. I HATE my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry.” Again, this is a memorial service.

On the bright side, not long now

You know what didn’t happen? Pundits going on Gab, Parler, Gettr, or Truth Social to repeatedly say “no one cares about this site, you’re in a bubble, you forfeited your influence, things are awesome on the site you don’t use anymore, so awesome that I come here to tell you you’re dumb unlike me.”

Six Kirk stories on the NYT home page before you get to a silly little story about the President publicly demanding his political foes be charged with crimes.

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