Dear Kier Starmer, This was your big mistake. The first thing you did in office was make grannies too scared to put their heating on, as I recall?

I normally like Carl's take, but in this one, he calls the blockadees "farmers." No farmer has four days to spend in O'Connell Street in April! The guys with tractors are agricultural contractors &/or their employees, not farmers!

Name four non-person things that make your life livable: 1. Animals. From the squirrel in Hyde park with whom I shared a handshake to the doggos I spot on the way to work. 2. Books: talisman & artifact 3. Trees. I don’t think I need to explain. 4. Sunlight, ditto.

Name four non-person things that make your life livable: 1. my cats climbing on me 2. the slanting sun making the sky pink, or rippling gold on the water 3. climbing over rocks in forests, with emerald green moss, and tall pines, and glittering lakes, or magical snow 4. food. Food is delicious.

Name four non-person things that make your life livable: 1. The feeling of my melanocytes warming as sunlight hits them 2. Bumblebees 3. Climbing roses 4. Companion animals

See also: Academics using it to review papers and grants. They are giving away *other people’s* ideas into the A.I. industrial spy machine.

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

Fun fact: I’ve bought a lovely set of Edwardian Hat Pins, so when the time comes for us to fight to get the Vote *back*, I’ll be suitably armed.

ICYMI: Women fought and died in a violent struggle to get the right to vote in Western Democracies. Here in the UK, they weren’t even given the status of political prisoners and hence were force fed. www.parliament.uk/about/living...

As someone who had to take two days off work to grieve for Global Public Health when RFK Jr got appointed, this has the ‘last rodeo’ feeling about it. I can’t celebrate when I know that a DOGE wrecking ball has been taken to US STEM funding (including the ‘blue chip’ NASA asset).

Pssst…. Time to change your bio text. Any white man professing to be ‘progressive’ should know this as an adult. Do you need a woman to fly around the moon so we can access reproductive health care in your country too? Ever heard of Roe vs Wade? Also a quaint ‘fun fact’ about women’s rights! 🤦‍♀️

I had a lovely time meeting my old BFF’s 18 yo daughter this week. I was please to show her the sites in York and Whitby (she’s a huge Gothic Horror fan). My Netflix Algo is now encouraging Last voyage of the Demeter and the shite twilight series (I may have said ‘Anne Rice’ out loud near my phone)

Microsoft just can’t match this attribute. LLMs will fail.

Breaking: Epstein survivors release statement slamming Melania for trying to absolve herself of involvement in Epstein’s crimes. “Melania Trump is now shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power.”

The truth coming from this prompt is so DEEP

The best way to make women-dominated jobs attractive to men is to pay more for them. Not stupid gimmicks like telling men that care work is actually macho Men join sectors where pay and status are increasing. And pay and status increase when men join those sectors www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

I have a theory that people hate disability accommodations so much they’ll make up absolutely absurd conspiracy theories so they can justify immoral behaviors to themselves.

It’s actually absurd how many times I’ve seen people say this bullshit and act like it’s an original thought. Your theory is neither interesting, unique, nor correct.

Oppositional sexism will rot your brain. One economist will demonstrate.

🚨 For nearly two years - and even now, depending on the day and model - AI models could tell you all about bixonimania, a totally made-up disease in a paper funded by “the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation". My @nature.com story on AI's fallibility in medicine www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is SO LOW…. 😔

It's time for some refreshing science! 🍹

He lost me at ‘crypto’. He’s made a motza from digital Amway. NOPE

Companies have been blaming AI for cutbacks which are really caused by economic conditions & weaknesses in their business model. Now we have an AI giant blaming wider economic & regulatory conditions for a cutback actually caused by weaknesses in its own business model www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel is a rogue state and is deliberately trying to break the ceasefire and use the opportunity to annex part of Lebanon.

Having a old white guy at a cloth mill museum telling me that power looms were responsible for feminism as enabled women to *checks notes* be tethered to a dangerous deafening machine for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week & had to ‘be nice’ to the male engineers to keep machines running for piece work

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

😬😖🤦‍♀️

Expanding the power of drugs used to treat liquid malignancies into solid tumours. We screened an epigenetic compound library against cell lines models of ovarian clear cell carcinoma. The BTK inhibitor ibrutinib shows promise #ovariancancer #ibrutinib 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

Remy the cat sees a duck for the first time 😂 TT: McKenna

The conservatorship system is a disgusting mess stripping people of agency, dignity, and authority and the people who should be caring for conservatees are not taking that responsibility seriously.

story by me!

BABY MONKEYS AREN’T CUTE, THEY ARE CREEPY SCROTUM CHILDREN

Probably due to the French invading England at that time. Which made a nice change from the English invading everywhere else later on…

I had a ‘Spider’ drink (ice cream on soda) in LA in 1983 as a 7yo. That’s the only protein soda the world has ever needed, ‘Merica

🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

I believe the frame that minoritized scholars are helped by unethical tech is a trap to avoid. We better fight the system of inequities ourselves & not buy into industry frames trying to sell their discriminatory, polluting, and exploitative tech as "inclusion". bsky.app/profile/iris...

Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange. 😂

Public health experts have been begging news outlets to stop using needle shots because a quarter of Americans have needlephobia and will avoid getting vaccinated because of it and these images feed into it... and yet we (as an industry) still keep using them

The irony that govt hid truth about damage Covid causes to health & ability to work in order to save the economy & it’s hurting the workforce & economy anyway. Subsidizing HEPA air filtration upgrades in workplaces, schools, indoor public spaces would have cost way less than 135 billion per year 🧵👇

New Asian drama thread starting! I made the last one last a whole year. You can find it here: bsky.app/profile/alis... You can find my master thread of all the threads here: bsky.app/profile/alis... Starting this one off with Love Untangled, a sweet teenage love story set in the late 90s.

You got earth day plans? Can I interest you in an evening of biodiversity AND cabaret? Where you can connect with the water department about rain barrels AND see some butts? Buy pesticide free native plants AND sing along to a drag routine? Get in here Biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

Jellyfish are Aliens.

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m so fucking mad. ICE has detained a family medicine resident who came here legally, had protected status, and had applied for a J1 visa and was awaiting its approval. Now he is detained. Family has no idea where he is. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

LMU Munich researchers report EBV may help trigger MS by awakening pre existing immune cells that attack myelin, setting off brain inflammation and myelin loss years after infection. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Since 2009, the UK water industry has been allowed to police its own pollution incidents. In that time, privatised water companies have made tens of billions of pounds in profit theconversation.com/englands-sew...

Perfect for your naan’s final journey.