This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station. 📷 Vyro Media

Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also studied the damage that cigarettes have on the heart & lungs. adalovelaceday.subst...

À qui le tour ? Le dessin de la semaine par @soulcie.fr ✏️

Stephen Fry: “I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Laura Kuenssberg: “You would use that word?” Stephen Fry: “Oh absolutely. It’s a cult of power; and power only speaks to power” #bbclaurak

#OnThisDay in 1938, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Margulis is most known for developing and popularising the endosymbiotic theory, which explains how eukaryotic cells evolved organelles from simpler prokaryotic organisms that resided within another and became incorporated.

I hate how every flipping thing has AI you can’t opt out of now. I just tried to order a stitch fix box and the note to stylist has been replaced by an AI assisted note to stylist. I AM FULLY CAPABLE OF TELLING THE STYLIST I WANT DRESSES FOR MY HONEYMOON. STOP KILLING THE PLANET FOR THIS SHIT

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

A new Becky Chambers book has been announced! It's too early even for the final cover art, but As You Wake, Break the Shell is due out in October and available for preorder 🚀 Any new Chambers novel is an insta-buy for me. She hasn't let me down yet 🪐📚💙

Hang it in the Louvre!!! Love how quickly ScrumV got this up.

Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them

✏️ Vu par Mougey #iran #macron

New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

The social media consultation is live www.gov.uk/government/n... Not read the whole thing yet, but I'm *very interested* in the fact that it is positioned as a public consultation, not just a policy one

Physicists aren't asking AI to look for data that supports their theories. They're asking AI to spot anomalies that could lead to theories no one has imagined yet.

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

This is non-fiction but lands as visceral (as per author's point) social horror. Only it's entirely real. And that some, even many, won't understand, intuit, or feel any sense of the horror at all, will only see cause to celebrate and wonder what the big deal is, is part of the horror itself.

“The researchers caught a twinkling surrounding the tips of leaves at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths. They hope the work will shed light on how thunderstorms electrify the landscape and produce lightning.” #scicomm www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

150 anciens diplomates, ministres et ambassadeurs accusent le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Jean-Noël Barrot d'avoir relayé « une version numériquement falsifiée » de propos attribués à la Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations unies, Mme Francesca Albanese.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

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Our updated infographic on airborne diseases is now available as a PDF at letsair.org#mediation

Happy year of the horse 🐴🐾🤍

BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.

Archaeological survey through ... #folklore: New study sheds light on #Ireland​'s #cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth without been baptised. 🏺 www.atu.ie/news/forgott... TW: stillbirth, miscarriage, child death.

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage. I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong. Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole. Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you... (Photos AP)

A very happy Larryversary to @number10cat.bsky.social - 15 years of tireless mousing on the mean streets of Westminster.

My first paper: “Song structure and dialects in a peninsula population of the endangered Eastern Bristlebird” Published in IBIS @bou.org.uk: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.70000 Research in collaboration with the University of Wollongong, @westsyduhie.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social #ornithology 🐦🪶

Ce pouvoir nous fait honte : alors qu’il ne prend aucune sanction contre Benyamin Nétanyahou et son gouvernement, auteurs avérés d’une guerre génocidaire à Gaza, il en demande contre l’onusienne Francesca Albanese pour des propos qu’elle n’a jamais tenus. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Après des élus macronistes, Jean-Noël Barrot, le chef de la diplomatie française, réclame le départ de Francesca Albanese sur la base d’une phrase qu’elle n’a pas prononcée.

L’ignominie est un métier.

🧵 This fantastic image shows NGC 3576, an emission nebula in the Sagittarius arm of our galaxy, dubbed 'The Statue of Liberty Nebula' because of the peculiar shape of the nebulous object in the center. ➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap16092... 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #astronomy #space #universe #galactic 1/4

Mind blown.

A new edition of The Compass Rose is now available in France from Le Livre de Poche! Les Quatre Vents du Désir is translated by Martine Laroche, Françoise Levie-Howe, Jean-Pierre Pugi, Philippe Rouille, and France-Marie Watkins. Cover design by Studio LGF.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

At the end of this clip, Jim and Kermit talk about how the puppeteer can just kinda vanish as the puppet draws all the attention, and that exact thing happens as he goes on. It’s magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHl...

The Prime Minister says he changed the Labour Party. He's right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war. Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government's legacy.

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There's no better way of communicating the insane trajectory of humanity in the 21st century than cartoons and no-one did it better than Jon Kudelka. Rest in power Jon. Here's his top ten. 1. Asteroid mitigation program

VC, founder, dumbass

The DHS has filed an expedited request to terminate the asylum claims of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy, and his family. If successful, the family — none of whom have broken any rules during their asylum — could be deported, though it’s unclear where they may be deported to.

🏴‍☠️🦑 Just a little drawing to finish the week :) #illustration #fantasyart #kidlitart #BRart

New! The first comparative, international, cross-disciplinary study of silver in late antique Europe. And includes full catalogues of major UK hacksilver hoards: Norrie’s Law (Fife), Gaulcross (Aberdeenshire), Tummel Bridge (Perthshire) and Patching (Sussex). www.sidestone.com/books/silver...

Upgraded to #MacOS #Tahoe and really don't like the glossy #UI. I might get used to it but are there any tools to revert to a general appearance that doesn't glow, shine and border everything it shouldn't?

Does anyone sell subatomic sized violins?

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

🧵 What is that tiny white dot, just above and to the right of the pic center? It's about the planet Venus, imaged by the wide-angle camera from the Cassini spacecraft on 10 Nov 2012. 🔭 🧪 ➡️ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA1... Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI #planetsci #histsci #science 1/4