Retired federal agent with expertise in use and non use of force goes through the incident in Minnesota. It was for CBS but they did not apparently broadcast it. It's online. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

You have to understand that they do not and will not ever play ‘fair’. They will distort reality in whatever way suits them. Their side are martyrs and anyone else killed by their thugs is just collateral.

Pretty much. Fatal toxic masculinity.

Rimy, heaval, everything...

The 1990s is a worse decade for music than is the 1970s. #TOTP

Thoughtful X discourse, part 37.

Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.

+ SCHOOLS IDENT CLOCK // RABIES SIGN + Made these in Dec as Xmas gifts for a couple of good friends. Both were very pleasing to make so I've popped a small batch in the shop, available to pre-order for shipping in Feb. Short run and only available for a limited period. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

In lighter news, new threads arrived.

Why do they hate their own citizens so much?

All very normal.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

Forest Conduct Dept. (Ursine Division) "Humans Persistently Devalue AI-Generated Creative Writing" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Reading this justification for sample size: "we determined sample sizes based on previous XXXX studies using similar paradigms...recent studies with similar objectives have employed comparable sample sizes." You will be SHOCKED at which field is offering this non-justification ;)

A tiny correction. There is no such thing as subclinical or clinical psychopathy (psychopathy isn't in DSM V, although perhaps it should be- there's evidence it's distinct from ASPD). It's also now the Dark Tetrad- it includes Sadism.

My Matters Arising concerning a paper on the legal determinants of terrorism is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com. The original paper is now retracted. To learn why, read on for a story of irregularities, imputations, and impossible values. 1/x doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02347-7

"Journalists aren't mind readers". Bless him. "News! Come to ME, come to MEE."

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

Congratulations to Professor Rhona Flin on being awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year Honours for services to research 🎉 Professor Flin's research examines human performance in high-risk work settings, focusing on non-technical skills, safety and emergency response. www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology/n...

i think standing too close to ICE is what has been getting people killed

Normally on Tipping Point, the final contestant aspires to take the family on holiday, or recarpet their first home. This fella wants to spend the money hiring the Prague Symphony Orchestra and I applaud that carpet-avoiding aspiration.

The exaggerated over-pronounciating in this Channel 4 documentary on pain is giving me a great deal of pain.

Writing a section on "boredom" and I've read so many papers on boredom that I'm feeling quite interested.

This is what we call "Facebook weather" because it's too scared to go to London, for zero logical reason.

The Vogts, pioneers with Korbian Brodmann in mapping the brain: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Batten up the Hatches.

OMG. The Rector of the University of Ghent used ChatGPT for her opening speech this academic year. Journalists pointed out the hallucinated quotes (including Einstein). Now she's doesn't dare to go and get an honorary PhD in Amsterdam. There's A LOT in there. But still some *shame*, which is great.

I bought a few old issues of Sight & Sound recently, on the cheap, and this para from a review of a selection of horror books, from @annodracula.bsky.social is right on the nose.

Punishing read.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Delighted to have received a grant from a submerging writers foundation, which supports mid-career authors while they age, procrastinate and feel their early promise ebb away. Grants like this are essential to the production of unmarketable work of limited appeal.

Well, this embarrassing press conference started well.

Another terrible SkyNews Herbert in Minnesota two-sidesing. "The authorities say she was driving like a banshee, eyewitnesses dispute that." FFS. You're a TV reporter but clearly unable to watch several video and draw your own conclusion.

Oxford Entry Exam Question. Peter Bleksley is mist. Discuss.

Not quite sure America voted to be shot in the head after dropping off their six year old at a day care-centre.

All that mobile phone coverage from Minneapolis is brilliant, and vital. Citizen witnessing. Your occasional reminder of what the police put out after the George Floyd murder, before Darnella Frazier's brave phone record was released...

Seren books is having a half price sale which includes this cracking, funny book by Euron Griffith which is, indeed, a life in six t shirts. www.serenbooks.com/books/non-fi... @serenbooks.bsky.social

Parking on Sesame Street is for Kermit holders only.

In which the Mail argues that disdain for a politician equates to an argument for being shot in the head.

Sage, Anthropic and emails: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The video shows that the driver of the vehicle turned her wheels to avoid the ICE agents who surrounded her, screamed profanity at her, and gave her conflicting orders. They escalated the situation, put the public in danger, killed her without justification, and kept firing at her.

Do you remember Former World Snooker Champion Dennis Taylor's famous catchphrase?

Oh God.

'Self-reflection at a red signal’ (2013) by Holly Brodie hollybrodie.com

Not just Sky, but also @lbc.co.uk this morning in one of its regularly impenetrable bulletins- not just both-sidesing but one-side-sing this as if it doesn't have access to the internet or eyes.

Sky News on Renee Nicole Good murder: "There are deeply conflicting accounts of what happened." REALLY? Gonna both-sides this? One "account" can be seen on video and is confirmed by a dozen eye-witnesses. The other is a social media post by history's most notorious pathological liar. Grow a spine.

It's a brave old title, I'll grant it that.

Who will be the first member of Congress to introduce legislation named after Renee Good that abolishes DHS?