Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

More than one million New Yorkers cast ballots for Zohran Mamdani — part of the highest turnout in a mayoral election in more than 60 years. Here are the demographic trends that contributed to his win.

But mostly this is awful, awful, clickbait slop passing as science writing.

It's also interesting that it is projected as 'new behaviour' when it is actually 'behaviour not witnessed by humans before'. As a rat mum, it doesn't surprise me at all. They are incredibly smart/adaptable - imo, given this and the sheer number of rats worldwide I highly doubt it's 'new' behaviour

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Holy shit Mamdani has been winning since he was a little kid

If you're just waking, it's been a good night for Democrats across the US, with voters rejecting Trump nationwide. 🎉 Mamdani's comfortable win in New York, on the highest turnout since 1969, provides further proof that you don't have to pander to the right to win. news.sky.com/story/zohran...

“The symbolism of the moment is hard to beat. At a time when Trump is not just demonising immigrants, but harassing them and sending masked goons to kidnap them from the street, America’s greatest city – and Trump’s hometown – has elected a Muslim immigrant to run it.”

"Give your dogs the primal ancestral diet they deserve!" Sir. Ma'am. My guy. Gentlefolk. Theydies. My dog would die in the wild within half a day and that's being generous.

Let's start the metal roofing second life as facade thread 🧵 Because I love this and it's so obviously cradle to cradle-cool. Lendager's Timber TRAE: lendager.com/project/trae/ 1/x

Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music. If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.

Yeah, OK it's an 80m tall timber TRÆ, but look at the facade, it's #circular reused metal roofing. lendager.com/project/trae/

Deeply unsettling to see the world rush headlong into yet another self-inflicted crisis—intensifying the climate emergency thru a massive energy surge, inflating an economic bubble, worsening mental health struggles, and spawning new, as-yet-unknown risks. Reminded of Goethe’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

The most popular candidate is a socialist in a time where fascism is sweeping the nation. He represents politics and policies that have felt completely impossible. And his wild popularity has inspired the country and created hope where none existed. That’s why.

The last time I was there, they were just about to break ground on this. I'm really excited to see pictures of this new museum. The dude at the old museum was awesome and definitely slaked my thirst for ancient Egyptian lore.

they should invent a dishwasher that is in my apartment

I met my spouse 14 years ago on it (twitter / when it was only 40% terrible)

I've made friends. I've discovered hundreds of artists and musicians and writers. It passifies my ADHD brain. I can find people I lost track of years ago and contact them.

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Twitter radicalized me. I am far more leftist and can articulate my positions well because of the people I followed there (and now here). I know how to stand up for the people around me, my students, my employees, because they taught me how to center harm and use my privilege. I’m a better person.

I met my sweetie on Twitter. Just mutuals for years. Long, long story short. Used to live in Hawaii. Divorce, heartbreak, traveled the world. Ended up visiting my sister in ABQ. Sent DM to "friend." Wanna do lunch? It became a 💝 thing. Yeah, something great.

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

There’s a kind of purity about the first season, before the show decided to wed itself to its overarching alien conspiracy story arc for good or ill. Maybe innocence is the word I’m looking for, not sure

I can’t think of a more appropriate beer to accompany an old episode of The X Files

Tbh before you use some sort of new tech,do a background check on the founder to understand their ethics.People say that work and personal life is different but it always leaks.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

you couldn’t pay me to have an opinion about t-swift’s new record. or i mean, you could, but you won’t, and no one has enough money anymore to make the opinion worth having, so here i stand, opinionless

In addition to a friendly reminder to water your meatsuit regularly, I would like to suggest that you do something nice for yourself. Today I will be enjoying the weather, taking pictures of the Fall foliage &joining my connection circle/meditation hour after enjoying a hot beverage w/a friend.

"You Will Survive This Night" is a reprint by Indrapramit Das, who writes about what it means to be a girl and a monster at the same time. Link to read below: tasavvurnama.com/you-will-sur... 🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction

The Mark Zuckerberg AI screw up video just warms the cockles of my heart.Schadenfreude sauce made just perfectly.

“This is going to make the Right violent” - they gunned down a Dem politician, her husband and her dog, they’re kidnapping people off the streets, they’re arresting their political opponents, guys I don’t know what to tell you but you are already there. The Rubicon was crossed long ago.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has also ordered a probe into the matter. The Solapur district commissioner has been asked to submit a report. scroll.in/latest/10864...

Sending out this wish out into the world: Wish Arundhati writes the screenplay for a Malayalam movie.😁

Love how Lokah turned a mythical creature from Kerala folklore on its head.Had wished for something like this on Twitter a long time ago and just filled me with glee when I saw something similar.😁

The #fosterkittens were very annoyed that I had the nerve to sit there and pet one of my own cats instead of them. (Gummitch was a bit upset that they had been running around loose, so I was reassuring him and giving him treats.)

Forbidden Dandelion season is here (one of the flannel moths, a very untouchable creature)

Jugnuma looks interesting.After a long time,a Hindi movie looks interesting tbh.

'Mother Mary comes to me' is peeling layers off the God of Small things like an onion imo.

There is just so much chemistry between Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch in the Roses .

@chembarathi.bsky.social hehe

By now we all know how much I love Porpita porpita, that's why I drew one to send for #InverteFest art book. Here's a video of me working on it! #TradArt #SciArt #ColourPencil 🦑 🌿🖌️ p.s. Print is available here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/luci...

The Indigenous Cinema Alliance (ICA) is stepping up to spotlight groundbreaking works from every corner of the world, from the Sámi homelands of Northern Europe to the Andes of South America, from the Arctic Circle to Aotearoa, and across Turtle Island. redpopnews.com/tiff-2025-to...

BREAKING NEWS: Federal judge in Miami orders Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, to be dismantled within 60 days and blocks any new detainees from being brought into the facility. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

You do not have to win at a crisis. You do not have to push yourself to learn a new language or write a book or take up an instrument. Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma. Take this time to look at the stars. - @nikitagill.bsky.social #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

I mean, “revenge movies“ are one of the most popular loose genres of the past few decades, from Kill Bill to John Wick to Sisu. I feel we all leaned pretty hard into revenge being sweet (if not destructive) as the world has fallen further into chaos and despair.

"When he was taken into custody Friday, immigration agents tied his dog to a tree and then unclipped his collar, allowing the animal to run loose on Sepulveda Boulevard"

Many ChatGPT users were upset when an older version of ChatGPT was replaced by a new model. The hosts of "Hard Fork" discuss the criticism and what it indicates about the deepening emotional relationships that people are forming with these AI chatbots. nyti.ms/4fDnfeF

Another day, another bird rescue from unnecessary fishing litter. This time an adult osprey, they lost lots of tail feathers. Off to the birds of prey center to get checked out.