Consider that studies that parse the types of UPFs being eaten, like this one, tend to conclude that UPFs are bad when they contain bad things and not bad, or even good, when they contain good things. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39608567/

Jake's made a great synopsis of DHH. I first met DHH almost 25 years ago, spoke at his office, helped promote his products, hosted him at events. DHH thinks you can tell by *looking* whether someone is a "native". Because he thinks people who look like me can never belong to our countries. Fuck him.

Very sad news. Bloody grouse shooting needs banning.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

These World Cup ticket prices may look high, but don't forget the US ones include a month-long stay in an ICE facility.

My "controversial" opinion in the UK is that all humans have human rights. I mean, it's not controversial at all, but our government and media would have you believe it is. Most people believe that all humans have human rights.

The idea that being a refugee is somehow a “golden ticket” is genuinely awful. These are people who the government have recognised are in need of protection. Do they think people chose that? That that’s what people wanted? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We still have Birutė Galdikas with us, orangutan research pioneer and the third of the “Trimates” / “Leakey’s Angels”. She’s a lot less well known than Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.

I hope some of these disaffected #Ruby folks will give #ElixirLang a fresh look So many Elixir developers come from Rails including Elixir's creator José Valim The ecosystem is growing, it's inclusive (me <- 🏳️‍⚧️), and we could 100% use your energy and your devotion to developer happiness

At a time when new cyberattacks debilitate British businesses seemingly daily, the UK government is demanding that security is made worse for UK users.

There's so much to learn by comparing these two Dockerfiles from a Medium article. Mostly about how "AI" is a cultural plague

I'm very irritated by people uploading packages to Hex.pm that they appear to have started five minutes ago and which don't contain any real code at all. "Release early" doesn't mean publishing code that does absolutely nothing. Publish when it does *something* #ElixirLang

Amazing nuggets in the PPE Medpro High Court ruling The company was incorporated on 12 May 2020 and referred to the Covid "VIP lane" by Michelle Mone *the same day*, despite having no track record in manufacturing PPE Who could have predicted that anything would go wrong?

There is a...magnificence...to this

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. I decided this was unacceptable. Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

I was laughing at the idea of the US becoming self-sufficient in meat at current levels but then the word "biblical" stood out. Wasn't there widespread international trade in grains and oil during biblical times? Definitely in the New Testament. Egypt was feeding Rome.

Greater Manchester ditching its Clean Air Zone is looking more short-sighted by the day www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This looks like a nice, new and rather comprehensive library for writing AT Protocol/Bluesky clients and servers in Elixir: gitea.fullstack.ing/FullStack.in... #ElixirLang

Zurich has restricted when leaf blowers can be used, and banned petrol leaf blowers completely.

The USA can't simply eat all the unwanted soy beans because they aren't food grade soy beans - they are animal feed and, as a by-product of that, cheap cooking oil. However, maybe MAGA patriots could fry everything multiple times, that might work.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.” Cities need smart strategies to manage vehicle size. NOT bigger parking space requirements.

If anyone has people in their network who work in charities which deal specifically with issues of rural poverty I’d be grateful for any connections. Not rural homelessness, although I appreciate there’s a crossover. Scoping out a possible follow on to Outsiders focused on this subject.

via @urlyman on mastodon TMI: Too Much Information TBI: Tony Blair Institute TMTBI: Too Much Tony Blair Institute

Oh mancs just a reminder that, inexfuckingplicably, once again the tories start their party conference tomorrow in manchester

"Cutting the half-time orange" is a euphemism for a sex position and you can't convince me otherwise

Andy Burnham’s failure to clean Manchester’s air was likely a contributing factor to my recent heart attack so I’m taking it personally. Well done London.

For the avoidance of doubt, clean air is a Good Thing. It’s not some “woke nonsense”, cleaner air is possible. Well done, London. 👏

“Cutting the half time orange” sounds like something from Viz

Everyone should have the right to go to University. Not because it's superior. Not because a degree should be required for every job. But because everyone should have the opportunity to spend a few years learning how to think critically about a subject they are really interested in.

The cynical gesture of Keir Starmer recognising a Palestinian state. The room applaud but when are we going to stop arming Israel who are murdering those same Palestinians?

I'm glad Keir Starmer is finally stepping up the fight against Nigel Farage, and I hope this will mark the end of his government parroting Farage and copying his divisive politics.

If you’re living in this country as a migrant, you are contributing. You do so every time you buy something, including VAT, you pay for your NHS and substantial visa fees, and if you are on a spousal or family visa, you are helping your family. To suggest we don’t contribute is complete bullshit.

Reform voters have a *completely different* set of values to Labour and *everyone else*. You don’t defeat Reform by trying to find common ground between them and Labour voters because *there is no common ground* there! You defeat them by finding the common ground with *everyone else*.

A modest proposal: dangerously gullible people should be on some sort of public list that marks them as a social risk, like the sex offenders register.

The absolute craven capitulation to racism by Labour. "It doesn't matter how much you pay in visa fees, it doesn't matter what kind of valuable work you were recruited to do, you're still just a Foreigner, & you have to grovel to be allowed to stay here. If you don't grovel, we'll throw you out."

....i didn't realize this sort of thing was going on..... i recommend *not* wearing a titanium ring with a lithium battery in it ?? and if it starts to swell while you're wearing it to absolutely not get on a plane ???

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

I think Labour have the concept of an acceptable moderate sensible level of racism which is better than the crass crude excessive racism of Reform, or not actually being racist.

This story isn‘t about ‘the world‘s taste for soya‘, it‘s about the world‘s taste for meat. The vast majority of soya is grown for animal feed. Less than 10% is for direct human consumption. A shame it‘s not mentioned in the story. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

Carl Benz has an idea

The people who uncritically accept the lies about migrants being more likely to commit crimes, or being here on false pretences, or being here in much greater numbers than they are, do so because they are prejudiced. But people *really* don‘t like being told they are racist without realising it.

Don't ever mistake veganism for being anti-farmer. Plant-based farming creates more food with less land while removing countless injustices against animals (including humans) from the equation. For that we are immensely grateful! #AnimalRights

Every person i see defending the id cards plan has been of the particular category of person, yknow the ones, that least has to fear the government harming them specifically. Interesting that