I used to be terrible for forgetting present occasions but for years now I am GREAT at gifts because it is an area where I allow my impulsivity full rein. If ever I see something and think “x would really like that” and I have the funds, I GET IT.

Taking an anti-vaccination stances against a treatment that saves the life of ONE IN FIVE HUNDRED KIDS and has no verified deaths involving healthy recipients is not just anti-science and anti-logic, it's evil. I have studied this disease too extensively to soften that word. It's just evil.

It's easy to be concerned about vaccines when you stop being concerned about viruses. You can only stop being concerned about viruses in a world with vaccines.

One. In. Five. Hundred. Kids. Those seem like good odds, but are they really? Especially when you add in making the surviving kids suddenly vulnerable to every other opportunistic germ coming down the road?

In real life, one in 500 kids who catches measles will die. And because measles is an asshole, some of them will die six to eight years later, of untreatable, incurable neurological conditions left as a parting gift by the virus.

Did other people know this is fiction? It's an incredibly bizarre choice and something I haven't seen magazines do before.

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One of the funniest things about Hideo Kojima is he’s the most famous auteur in video games, heavily influenced by films in his approach, and when he posts about going to the cinema, it’s always like “Just finished watching a screening of the latest Minions film. What a gift to the culture!”

A prominent journalist at The Sun, John Kay, drowned his first wife in the bath in 1977. They paid for his defence. He continued working for them for decades, was promoted continually, and twice won reporter of the year. When he died in 2021, guess what the papers didn’t mention in his obituaries?

Desperately looking for anyone in Scotland to foster a 2 year old female cat named Bambi. Incredibly affectionate and friendly. Indoor-only. Whether temporary (a few weeks) or longer term. She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months

Thread of cool/cute things I got from indie shops & creators 2k26:

Also, boys like getting flowers too! And in fact may be extra touched that you thought they would.

God they really have nothing when they’re going with “Live in fear: Green Party understands how much you love your pets”

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Just started watching The Beauty and he can rest easy, it is incredible, stupid trash

Really proud to be the LGBT+ Trailblazer of the year. And so proud of the real trailblazers - like my boyfriend - who works in palliative care. Our NHS workers, our teachers, our cleaners. The people who keep our country running. And LGBT+ History month matters. Representation matters. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This headline made me want to do a The Office style look-to-camera at nothing

Made the fatal mistake of looking up my MP's expenses and am now very personally aggrieved that I paid for Danny bloody Kruger to get a new office TV and a £1500 sub to Monday.com

so funny that his publisher felt this way about In the Hills, The Cities, one of the best horror short stories ever written

Called Bad Bunny “Big Bunny” in casual conversation, someone please execute me immediately. This is the oldest anyone has ever been

They could build a wall around Vought’s home out of the bones of all the children killed from cutting USAID

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful ft.trib.al/TKbvf6A

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Book 8 this year was One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad. A difficult read but vital and compelling. An essential non-fiction that everyone should pick up. #booksky 📚💙

Thank you for reminding me about one of the greatest twee threads to come out of the pandemic.

i love these so much, next time I am buying minis I will be getting these, TRUST

gromit's birthday should not only be a national holiday, but a sort of global day of unity

hate this government with every fibre of my being

I have played Pugmire and certify it GOOD

Pictured: going for a walk in the UK right now

40% OFF my prints… #ArtPrints #SciFi

Re. nuclear war media: we read Children of the Dust when I was like 10 and our English teacher told us when she was growing up in the 80s they were glad they lived in London because they'd die quickly. Put the fear of God into us. We need to go back to that.

Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

Bad Bunny again. I want to see some of the worst people in the world explode

I have a rotten cold so I loaded up on cough medicine, but my cough is alternately tickly AND chesty. Do I shotgun both??

I'm getting rid of almost all my streaming subs, except nebula. It's basically all your favourite YouTube essayists with a bunch of extra and exclusive stuff. Here is a guest pass for the first person to nab it to try it out: code 66100cae-bc9b-414f-80d8-91f5901da8d5 at nebula.tv/settings/red...

The book club scam has taken an exciting new leap forward. I got one today from a "curated literary platform and newsletter" that, unusually, offered a link to its website. I'm in edits, so obviously I took the opportunity to procrastinate. /1

Turned on the skating doubles on a whim there, only for a couple of Canadians to casually do the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen

if your money was on "oh my god you unbelievable dipshit why did you embarrass me on international television we are obviously not getting back together" congratulations please come collect your winnings

The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised | A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture | Marie Shrewsbury

Remember that google engineer who asked an AI chatbot 'do you have feelings?' and freaked out when it replied 'lol yeah totes'. The last time I checked in on that guy he was tweeting at porn bots.

Just did this. The Amnesty advice is very useful as naturally the official document is stodgy and many of the questions are leading (eg one that basically asks "What other barriers can we put up?" and you can choose not to answer it but you can't say "None")

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Sorry to keep posting this but things are desperate. My partner hasn’t been paid at all (after a low pay in December) and likely won’t be paid anymore from her job. Explanation in post

Yeah your pop-culture absolutely steamrolled us. Although when I went to an Olive Garden and a Cheesecake Factory in real life I was, I cannot overstate this enough, *so* disappointed

People’s mistake is treating Adobe like a company when what it actually is, is a machine where you feed it infinite RAM and it produces memory leaks

I swear to god if any of you dorks help rehabilitate Wes fucking Streeting because he’s set himself up to look like a smol bean sensitive boi