The Holdovers. New Christmas movie favourite.

Danish politician needed some AI-assistance to write his 4-line Christmas greeting. Got caught before he deleted it.

Just saw a Danish TV ad for some kind of pill where they said "Ingen påvist afhængighed," roughly translating to "no evidence of addiction." That may be the least reassuring reassurance I've ever heard in an ad.

This is the most insane thing that has ever been cast in metal. I can't wait for daily updates about how all this crap is dismantled again once a real human being is back in charge.

Stepped down as associate dean my ass. He was the corresponding author on a paper where 24 of 61 references were AI-fabrications. Why wasn't he fired from his job entirely?

Every time I hear about what ICE is doing, I think of that scene from V for Vendetta where a fingerman shoots the little girl who wears the Guy Fawkes mask, and of what that leads to. Of what happens when people have finally had enough.

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔 For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.

Hey Siri, show me an on the nose example of "foreshadowing."

I'm rarely not on the side of stricter gun control, but the description in here of gun permits for hunting as "no real purpose except to entertain themselves" is very ignorant of hunting's role in human-nature history and ethics, wildlife conservation, and food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Swedish courts have blocked the planned January wolf hunt that was supposed to further reduce the Swedish wolf population. The courts argue it might affect the conservation status negatively. 🦊 www.domstol.se/nyheter/2025...

From a Facebook discussion about hunting in Africa. This is one of my big frustrations with a certain demographic of hunters. There are valid arguments for hunting, but religious delusions absolutely aren't among them. Let's in general keep sorcery and fantasy books out of wildlife conservation.

Fossil-fuel extraction massively outweighs critical mineral mining needs (quite literally) – We dig up tens of billions of tonnes of stuff every year to produce coal, oil & gas – Raw-material extraction for critical minerals would be a fraction of that, even under net-zero 1/2

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The budding Russo-American alliance aims to divide and dominate Europe and Canada. Start brainstorming how to resist. Best short-term strategy is to empower Ukraine to defeat Ru. apple.news/ANXb0ZCdSS3C...

Can't have people going around and reincarnating willy nilly and illegally.

I was so close just now to writing a response to a comment on Twitter with something I disagreed with about tennis. I actually wrote it, and then I saw the name I was about to reply to and deleted it... I got THAT close to being that nobody who tried to mansplain tennis to Martina Navratilova.

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends. scz.org/blog/the-rea...

close call..after a "non negative result" in the #Okanagan, British Columbia's Chronic Wasting Disease still only found in a cluster near Cranbrook, BC. Tests confirm no chronic wasti... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Indeed it is. History is useful here: Those defending bullfights in other countries have in the past tried to get that recognized, and been refused, by UNESCO. The case for bullfighting as "cultural heritage" is bad, but the case for fox hunting is even worse. So thankfully this will not succeed.

I don't understand why some designers of clothes make so many unnecessary seams. As far as I'm concerned, each seam drastically decreases the wearing comfort of the clothes, so the objective, if I designed clothes, would be as few seams as possible. Am I the weird one?

This is unfortunately not far from rhetoric that you might hear in some of the more fundamentalist hunting and sustainable use circles.

Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

honestly this is so fucking funny. fifa, an organization skilled in the arts of palm greasing can just make up some dumb award and this guy will dress up in a mayor mccheese sash and rush over to somenly accept it like it's real. he's got the brain of a (non corvid) bird

We cannot deal with Ecologic Breakdown if Fossil Fuel companies continue to have government influence and call the shots at COP. World leaders cannot continue to prioritize the desires of the rich over the survival of the poor. #ClimateChange www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Grady Judd was appointed by Trump to a federal council meant to help exploited kids. But in Judd’s own department back home, a child victim was made out to be a liar, leaving her abuser free to assault her again.

IFLScience reports that Ripple et al. “stand by their original assessment” and “have prepared a detailed reply explaining why [MacNulty et al.’s] criticisms are inaccurate.” Their reply “is set to be published as soon as possible.”🧪 www.iflscience.com/yellowstones...

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Så lige nogen foreslå, at problemerne på de danske svinefabrikker måske skyldes ufaglærte udlændinge, som ikke har det danske syn på dyr. Hold nu kæft... Denne her kan I sgu ikke gøre til et udlændingeproblem. Det her er et pæredansk Jens Hansen problem. Det er ikke et Piotr eller Muhammed problem.

New research documents the positive impacts that Afro-descendant populations have had on tropical ecosystems in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Suriname. The study found that deforestation rates are between 29% and 55% lower in Afro-descendant lands than in protected areas.

Can dentists remember their patients' teeth just from patient names or do they need reminders? Like how the rest of us remember and associate faces with names? I wonder if my dentist may forget my face but remembers my teeth. But maybe some teeth are also more memorable than others, same as faces...

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

Det koster en 50’er. Sig fra - støt dem, som kæmper mod nye svinefabrikker. Landmodsvin.dk

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

Imagine paying for an ad on X and then deciding that this is what you want your ad to say. All-in on Temu motivational speaker.

A disastrous residential fire in Hong Kong tonight. These concrete buildings are normally very fire resistant, but when they renovate here, they cover the buildings completely in bamboo scaffolding, turning them into literal smoke and fire traps from the outside. hongkongfp.com/2025/11/26/h...

Yes, look how very educated and interesting and messy in an adorable way we all are over here. Hooray for us. 🙄

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Colonialism in research coming up again. You'd have thought that Oxford would had learned by now to be really careful not to end up in this situation.

This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going

The Chess World Cup finals and 3rd place match are played tomorrow, but anticlimactically, the match for 3rd place is actually the exciting one of the two, as #1-3 of the World Cup qualify for the Candidates Tournament, the winner of which will challenge Gukesh for the world championship.

This is a genuine question: Outside of the UK, does anyone know of another National Park where it is an annual event to release thousands of non-native birds? Or even occasionally? I only ask because the more I think about it, the more barking mad it sounds. #birds #nationalparks

Scotland fans celebrating was measured as an earthquake 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To even remotely understand what Kennedy is talking about requires one’s brain to be thoroughly bathed in the corrosive acid of the right-wing internet.

I think it goes without saying that it got close enough for a student to feel its fur if it mauled 11 people.

COP30 stuck on whether fossil fuels should be mentioned in the agreement or not. COP30... We're on 30 of those fucking things and still stuck on whether fossil fuels should even be mentioned. I hate the world.