Found this little beauty in an old diary. I didn't make it up. Don't know who did. Remember there's nothing to stop you living your dreams, apart from thousands of far more talented people working much harder than you.

Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.

I guess we now live in a world where striking hospitals and healthcare has ceased to be surprising. Well it remains shocking. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

A remarkably EVIL coalition.

And here is that article... archive.today/2023.09.05-0...

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

Consider a programmer looking at code they themselves wrote a year ago, now having to identify and fix a bug. They have to rebuild the mental model of what is going on, which is easier if they have already had a mental model of what is going on.

It's so bad for the Greens if they win elections, it'll spell their defeat - all those on the right wing must do their duty and vote for the Green party in order to ensure their downfall

"we attacked them because we knew that if we / Israel attacked them they'd defend themselves" the logic isn't logic-ing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Um, you know the whole war, oil price, violent absurdity and waste thing. Explainify this. Venezuela, world's biggest oil and gas reserves. Iran, world's second biggest oil and gas reserves. Surely it's simplistic to suggest there's a link? Would it be a sensible option to reduce our dependency?

So presumably this Daily Mail campaign against "foreign-born" voters will quickly be applied to their foreign-born star columnist, Boris Johnson, and their own France-based for tax purposes non-dom owner?

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh! Here’s the actual research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Where do I start?! 1/4

Transgender adults in Kansas have received letters ordering them to surrender their drivers licenses until they obtain a new one with a marker reflecting their sex assigned at birth. Their current licenses are now invalid. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Every single detail of this story is heartbreaking. Every single aspect of this system seems designed to inflict suffering on the vulnerable. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

The @washingtonpost.com now has a reliably antiscience editorial page. publichealth.gmu.edu/news/2025-06... #ScienceUnderSiege

Just such a complete extremist mentalist. Who loses out if a dead person chooses to donate to someone who couldn't have been a mother otherwise her womb?!? Nobody!

Prominent surgeon accused of performing unnecessary endometriosis surgeries In addition to being unethical & frankly, criminal, this story illustrates the dangers of privatized medical care. These patients had unnecessary surgeries because it was profitable for the surgeon.

All right, the dogs want walks but it's raining so I'm procrastinating. Gonna do a thread that's been on my mind for a long while, about exactly what "never again" means. "Never again" got famous after the Holocaust & it's frequently deployed since--in response to, say, the US Japanese internment.

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

We're disappointed that NatWest’s has watered down its climate commitments. The bank no longer has policies restricting finance to companies expanding oil & gas This seriously undermines our confidence in the NatWest’s long-term strategy. Read more🔽 shareaction.org/news/natwest...

Sounds like a solid plan...

And just like that, Gilead was no longer dystopian fiction. “Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.” www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...

"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."-- Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Possibly 7th richest person in the UK but I think the point still stands

" @drjamesehansen.bsky.social said he'd been told by NOAA colleagues that their conditions are much worse than those in NASA. A NOAA scientist cannot speak with a reporter unless there is a 'listener' on the line with him or her. It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the US." 2006

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons commissioned PR firm to investigate journalists and their sources Why? Because they were digging into the dark money behind Labour Together, and Keir Starmer's rise Me on D4S, on why our revelations matter so much: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-tog...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

It’s good to see that not all men are shitty. Two academics, Norman Finkelstein and Joseph Chaney, are in the Epstein files calling out who he is. 💪

Why isn't this a major news story?

Let's pause and think about what an absolutely wild sentence this is. "The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been reopened *by Israel*" How can we quantify the suffering that's come from trapping people in Gaza? And trapping supplies outside. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world… And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say. We see you.

Whose more dangerous to girls again? Violent pedophiles with a long, storied, and abhorrent history that they're trying desperately to hide. or Trans people in bathrooms without a single documented case of a trans person assaulting someone in a bathroom. I think we all know the answer here.

I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.

Amazing video about the lies the Tech CEOs tell us daily about AI, in particular in relation to climate change and energy needs by @climateadam.bsky.social Really love this one! youtu.be/py0XpKxAnNU?...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free