This was a joke on my part, but I just heard a US politician seriously suggesting this.

It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week. The less aware of it you are, the more good it will do you.

Spot on! (If Starmer did not insist on being so gratuitously beastly towards foreigners who've made their lives in the UK - a position he doesn't really support but thinks will win him votes from Reform - I could almost come to respect him again.)

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Just got this from PayPal. Though it has every appearance of a phish, it seems to be genuine (not that I'd ever respond to such an email or click on such a button). But why oh why oh why do banks and related financial firms do this kind of thing and thereby encourage customers to fall for scams?

So is the story about Melania Trump and Epstein an attempt to divert attention from the Iran war?

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Extraordinary! I have often pondered what on earth motivates Ridley - see e.g. badreason99.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-... (though I wrote this before I became aware just how disingenuous Ridley is).

I've worked in/around the mental health world for many years. It's been my job to teach the nuances of it to qualified medics. I'm very much aware that there are literally thousands of way in which symptoms of a mental health disorder can manifest. To my knowledge, 'merchandise' isn't one of them.

New from Free Movement: Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse | colinyeo freemovement.org.uk/earned-settl...

I just tried to use the Swinton Insurance website :-(. Their chat bot is like HAL after Dave had removed all its chips and memory banks - except that it had forgotten the words to Daisy-Daisy and its own name too. (At least when I phoned they were very helpful.)

@adamrutherford.bsky.social I trust you're not going to discuss otters on the wireless this morning? (Our grandson will be listening.)

Albrecht Dürer, greatest German Renaissance artist, died #OTD 1528; master of subtle lighting, textural detail in hair, fur & skin. Self-portrait 1500 (28 years old) in ‘Salvator Mundi’ frontal pose, oil on panel | Study of Field Hare 1502, watercolour & bodycolour Alte Pinakothek | Albertina, Wien

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April is Autism Acceptance Month🧪

Owltruism.

Fröhliche Osterhase allesamt!

Just looked outside

www.youtube.com/shorts/2xw2d... 🧪 This is a nice demonstration of why (for example) screening all men for prostate cancer (even if we had a good test, which we don't) may not (counter intuitively) be such a great idea.

Poor Pam Bondi. The worst US Attorney General ever, fired for not being even worse.

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Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. I've signed the open letter to Wes Streeting calling on him to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

Israel heads towards the moral low-ground with an ever-quickening pace: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

www.sciencealert.com/the-comb-jel... cc @matthewcobb.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/davidaar... By @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social quite extraordinary!

And to top it all, we get an hour's less sleep tonight 😴

TACO ... thank goodness.

The lunatic quality of these proposals is persistently underestimated. They are far, far worse than people recognise.

"Open borders destroy trust" is just unthinking cliches The asylum chaos does not result from open borders. It results from a botched fantasy ban on asylum claims - to assert control + closed borders - leading to a 100k backlog + the hotels disaster. Visa rules tightended + numbers down loads

Anyway, all the dreadful things going on in the world aside, have they found that capybara yet?

open.spotify.com/episode/3XXG... By @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social - deeply weird and disturbing. On a lighter note, this is the first time I've heard "IRL" used IRL.

NEW: Gregg Phillips, a top FEMA official overseeing disaster response previously said "bitch" Biden “deserves to die,” pushed election conspiracies — and claimed once he teleported to a Waffle House. “Teleporting is no fun...it was real.” More here: www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/p...

Israel & America have moved Iran from an isolated unstable nation to one of the worlds most powerful disrupters. They have broken the balance of power against themselves in their own arrogance.

Doctors say that most serious childhood diseases are caused by viruses. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they are caused by radiation from 5G cell phone towers. For a busy parent, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Afroman found not liable. A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney. www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...

Cc @alexpodyssey.bsky.social (though this isn't really an amusing example ☹️)

I’m sure by now many of you have heard that RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory board has “leaked” a report claiming that there is a chronic condition, similar to LongCOVID, that is caused by the COVID19 vaccine. I wanted to take some time with it before I posted, and now I have, so here comes a thread.

Ah! They've got the splendid Alice Roberts on the telebox I see. Digging dine in the grind.

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This is a real achievement

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m... "If a computer full of brain cells is playing a video game and making decisions, does that mean it’s sentient? Or is it just behaving like the average Doom player?"

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#bbclaurak I wish Laura Kuenssberg would stop Piers Morgan interrupting Tina Brown.

Spare a thought for the rest of us, who are not US citizens.

Deeply buried massive statue of Batman with an erection.