A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

It's planted here because it does well in poor quality soil and is useful. The rest is just ideological nonsense

never forget

If one of my party's recent prime ministers had redecorated the Number 10 flat in a way that ended up involving TWO separate inquiries and a Wikipedia page, I would simply not have put out a press release confirming that the current prime minister had spent less than the allowance he was given.

Regulators could keep capital in the banking system, ensuring that it supports lending and strengthens the economy. Instead, they're letting banks go on a stock buyback spending spree, diverting capital from where it's actually needed. www.ft.com/content/67d4...

Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider, because of course it is ft.trib.al/P8lAbzP

the bubble is so ready to burst

I do think people are unfair to cyclists, but not really because of vehicle costs. It's more about the false idea that bikes are a more leisurely way to travel or are an additional vehicle on top of a car (neither is true in big cities but aren't uncommon situations otherwise).

So true - my 6 year old jap import cost 17k plus interest on the loan, whereas the bike I mainly use now cost about €900, & my folding e-bike cost about €850 after the bike2work tax rebate. And overnight charge on either of these doesn't cost any more than 60c. Congestion makes similar trip times 2

I will always find it confusing that some people think a person riding a $2000 bike to commute is a privileged elitist but the guy in the $80k truck that costs $150 to fill is the working class average joe.

I just envy the people that have a commute short enough to bike to.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

This reminds me of the early episode in "Слуга Народу" (Servant of the People) where newly elected Holoborodko is shown around his grand new territory

Its a good piece, except for the 3rd part, that does the tired old trope of airbrushing the constitutional nationalist tradition out of history - John Hume, Austin Currie etc did every bit as much AND more to capture and legitimise hundreds of years of grievance as the republican movement did

There is nothing you will read today that is more important than this. Maith thú @louthforever.bsky.social. #spéirghorm #ireland

A very important article on a horrific case. Thanks for this @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social - I can’t say I liked it given what it was about, but it made a lot of sense.

“Victoria’s free public transport may have helped at the margins, but it did not produce a markedly different outcome from states that did not intervene.” #Deutschlandticket

Hence: bsky.app/profile/fint...

Cian O Callaghan describing Jim O Callaghan as "Rambo" though.....🤣 There will only every be one Rambo

What ever you think of him, Hannan is sticking with his criticisms of Trump, and the reply folk on X don't like it. He deserves some credit for that.

What's "unfortunate" though is how willing these protests were to accommodate the far right. Nobody made them do that, but they did it willingly in many areas. Also - self appointed "leadership" based on who set the ads on social media - that's not a democratic movement & its values are unclear

Politico as every election approaches: “Here’s why the far-right might win!” Politico after each election: “here’s why the far-right’s crushing defeat is good news for the far-right!”

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

The last of our Mikava Coffee is on site. When we began roasting a goal was to bring coffees like this to Ireland as they weren't readily available. Mikava's coffee has been used to win The World Brewer's Cup. They've also placed 1st in Colombian Cup of Excellence. imbibe.ie/collections/...

التفكير في اليوم التالي open.substack.com/pub/gershonb...

well now

what the fuck is even going on

incredible

to be fair (and i'm calling it now), they're just going to become sedevacantists or Eastern Orthodox

except he's neither FF nor FG so its none of his business

but she's a fascist so who cares? As is McGrath, and neither of them are "in" the govt, just voted to back it over a leftist alternative

Since 1998, the Foyle constituency has had a co-option in every mandate, except the brief 2016-2017 Assembly. It has never gone a full term without a co-option.

There's a new documentary out about Bob Lazar, who claims to be a physicist who reverse-engineered flying saucers for the US government. Let's take a look at his fascinating history of FBI raids, felonious wives, and illegal fireworks sales skepchick.org/2026/04/ufo-...

I was told voting did not matter.

But I don't understand... why isn't Orban just declaring victory anyway and saying the election was rigged and sending the military into the streets? I've been assured by the most intelligent and learned political analysts on this site that that's what happens when fascist lose elections...

"the vibes have been Bad since May 2020" I think it's more useful to think of "vibes" as the difference between "expected sentiment given conditions" and "actual sentiment". In May 2020, the *actual* economy was bad, not the vibes.

What's interesting is that as the economy recovered (in both the unemployment and inflation dimension) frim mid-2022 onwards, sentiment didn't, such that there was an ever-expanding gap between expected and actual sentiment.

The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)

clapping like a seal for my brave brilliant commander in chief

Literally the first comment. Also, the fact that authoritarians *can* lose elections in some systems does not mean democracy is unaffected. Would Cowen prefer to live in an illiberal democracy or competitive authoritarian state? Are they really the same as, say, Canada?

🚨 Explosive: Péter Magyar says Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and his most direct colleagues "have been shredding documents related to the sanctions materials". Szijjártó hasn't been seen since the election.

New Gist: A Denial Of Service Attack "The state is happy to assert it can achieve incredible and unprecedented feats of change, later, while always arguing that it can't so much as buy a new pair of shoes right now." www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-d...

It would have fully paid solar panels for about 700,000 homes

Half a billion of god's euros could have been used to improve EV charging infrastructure across the country to make it viable for more hauliers to switch to electric trucks and never worry about fuel again

I’ll never get tired of watching people in Budapest celebrating getting rid of Viktor Orbán. I’m dancing along with the people of Hungary! 💃

Seai estimates a saving of €300 per year for cavity insulation. If your car does 8.5l per 100km and you do the average distance of around 16000km per year this measure will save you €136 a year. Congratulations.

They could have paid for cavity insulation for three hundred thousand homes. Three. Hundred. Thousand. To reduce the energy costs for those homes for DECADES. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

For this amount of money the state could have provided half a million people with a 5k grant to buy an EV

For context - this is costing us approximately a quarter of the cost of the children's hospital. A building which will serve every child in Ireland and last decades. We're spending a quarter of that cost on making sure private businesses make money. Fuck sake.