Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Happy Monday from the @newyorker.com

Karel Martens ∘ Dutch graphic designer and educator known for innovative typography, minimalist aesthetic, and experimental printmaking techniques, '60s...'90s.

More Woman Bass Players is I think a concept we can and must all rally behind

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

This is brillaint, up the Choristers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More lives lost including 1 woman & 2 children. Government have just closed refugee family reunion (RFR) safe route. 56% of grants for RFR were children & 37% were women. So the number of women & children crossing, and dying, is going to soar. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

After anti-corruption Gen Z protests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Himal editor @romangtm.bsky.social writes from #Kathmandu #GenZprotestnepal buff.ly/5mxRifN

Heavy rains and floods have been wreaking havoc on communities across #Sudan. Climate change + war + already fragile infrastructure (further destroyed by war) = disastrous, deadly combination. #KeepEyesOnSudan

I can’t stop thinking about this article from @thecontinent.org ‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’

A great thread. So many mispronounced words because I read them first. Long live libraries.

Lap dogs are great, but have you tried a desk chicken?

The horrors of Volkswagen’s ranch were forgotten. Then a priest made a call. - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

The who, why, and means of the Sudan war.

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state. 2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Sudanese journalist Yousra El Bagir has managed to get some footage out of Al Fashir in Darfur, Sudan. The RSF siege of the city has cut it off from food supply and medical assistance for months. One reason you hear very little about Sudan is that the RSF kills anyone who tries to document the war.

Today’s quick update [Aug 4]: - Sudan Doctors Network: 5 civilians injured following SAF shelling on RSF positions in Abu Ga’ood, North Kordofan. - UNICEF: over 640,000 children at risk of cholera in North Darfur; in Tawila, 1,180 cases reported, 20 deaths. #KeepEyesOnSudan

More than 150 Ethiopian migrants were on board the boat when it sank in the Gulf of Aden off the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, the International Organization for Migration in Yemen said.

Today’s quick update [Aug 3]: - SPLM-N (Alhilu) shelling reported on Kadugli, South Kordofan; at least 2 civilians reported killed. - At least 15 people reported killed in yesterday’s RSF attack on civilians fleeing Elfashir. #KeepEyesOnSudan

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There’s a concept in transport planning called “induced traffic”, which is essentially the evil twin of “if you build it, they will come”. What cars did to your city, AI will do to your brain.

Exclusive: Ed Davey has met with BBC boss Tim Davie to complain about the broadcaster’s coverage, which the Liberal Democrats claim is weighted too heavily in Reform UK’s favour www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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It has suddenly struck me that when I leave the BBC on Thursday, this is going to be my last byline on the news website. As a monument to a career, I will take it.

Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.

“At [the hospital] they are supposed to give us some rice for each shift, but today they told us there was none. My colleague and I [treated] 60 neurosurgery patients and right now I can’t even stand.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

After my son was diagnosed with autism, I've been thinking about my own relationship to this strange, highly contentious condition. During a sabbatical this spring, I spoke to some experts about it. My essay based on all that has just gone online on FT.Com: on.ft.com/4kKdCfe

Happy Independence from the British Day to all who celebrate, today + every day.

At least 60 *people* are feared missing & drowned at sea after two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration has said. IOM says 743 people have died so far this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

The Beatles ~ I'll Follow The Sun (Beatles for Sale, 1965) #NowPlaying #PaulMcCartney #BOTD #MusicSky One of the first songs to make a serious impression on my very young self, and still one of my favorites. youtu.be/28d_A_NuJ7A via @YouTube

Man-Made Intelligence - AI and women’s voices. Some thoughts. ktgarner3.substack.com/p/man-made-i...

Man-Made Intelligence - AI and women’s voices. Some thoughts. ktgarner3.substack.com/p/man-made-i...

There are HUGE areas of history that aren’t on the internet and guess which ones are less likely to be so. For years projects exist solely for the purpose of remedying the dearth of articles on Africa, just as one example. Many of them have been researched though -

This was really fun to write, plus they give you a free book. Not much better in life than a free (good) book.

📚 Recent book reviews 🏖️ @hawksfordwhite.bsky.social on Elsa Devienne's Sandrush doi.org/10.1017/S096... 🇧🇮 Katie Garner on Michael Albertus's Land Power doi.org/10.1017/S096... 🌍 Danladi Abah on Jennifer Hart's Making an African City doi.org/10.1017/S096...

@thecontinent.org remembers Ngũgĩ.

Sebastiao Salgado, photographe franco-brésilien, est mort à l’âge de 81 ans

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

The situation has become impossible.

Managing to be both morally reprehensible and strategically foolish. ‘‘Tis the season, it would seem.

Island of strangers is grim, grim, language

It’s German Shepherd Day, apparently, so have a Stevie.

When you're picking a Pope And you're sending up smoke That's a conclave When the smoke isn't white You knock off for the night That's a conclave

Today's quick update [May 7]: - For the 4th consecutive day, RSF drone strikes and attempts on Port Sudan; per Sudan Doctors Network, 17 people were injured following the attacks of the last 2 days. - RSF shelling reported in Elfashir, North Darfur. #KeepEyesOnSudan

UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months. “I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.” With @sltrib.com

Being polite is so important these days. (Go check out @thecontinent.org :) )

I'm sure you're wondering about that 1892 result. It was in Cirencester and the Tories were initially given it by 3 votes. But after a petition they recounted and found the votes were equal. So they had to hold it again and the Liberals won.