It should be bigger news that the world’s first soon to be trillionaire has created a chatbot that is undressing women without consent. Grok is even undressing children. Musk created it. He’s aware it’s happening and he’s doing nothing to stop it. Every media outlet needs to scream about this.

uh holy SHIT?

“I hope the new year brings more stability and better days for all of us.” From Jabal Al-Hussien Camp in #Jordan, Layla shares her wishes for the New Year and reflects on the importance of UNRWA. #UNRWAworks continuously to support #Palestine Refugees registered in Jordan.

🔭 An Artificial Comet Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Chao apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25123...

"Mumble, mumble, secret plans." Aha. That means #TheNightManager is back! 😆

I was #OneOfTheTwo (well, actually the only one) when I wore the mask on the left to a hospital appointment recently. 😳😷

Well that's 2025 nearly up. How far we've come in nearly 3 years... 😳 (this cartoon from early 2023) marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-w...

People continue to be displaced. They're cold wet & hungry. Several storms in Dec & at least 65K families impacted by floodwater. 1 in 4 families live on 1 meal/day. Bombardment but still tremendous needs. Nearly everyone reliant on humanitarian assistance. Shaima Low #c4news

Nobel Peace Prize laureate MSF's statement on Israel banning it from continuing its services helping mothers and babies in Gaza. With this ban, the State of Israel makes history.

Not sure whether to take part in #NewYearPlantHunt? Worrying that your #WildFlowerID skills won't be up to scratch? No problem: just use one of our spotter sheets for your area: bsbi.org/take-part/ac... Download & print it, or find all the spotter sheet plants on a ticklist on the #BSBIRecordingApp!

“The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything is fantasy and we do need to expose that.” Good job no one’s ever actually said that - including me. So why is Labour again repeatedly lying to avoid taxing the super-rich? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Calls to strip pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship pile torment on top of torture. New piece by me on a dangerous and manufactured storm: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I really don't handle silences well. After having 2 silent sessions in psychotherapy inflicted on me, I really don't cope well with it. Problem is, I know I also go mute at times. Maybe that's why I try to break the silence when it happens, and get quite anxious about it?

Paco on Pause helps sum up how messed up Jon Stewart is now. x.com/i/status/200...

According to both Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu) and Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas.bsky.social) the "European Union stands in solidarity with #Israel". But clearly not with the United Nations, its #UNRWA refugee agency, or occupied Palestinians. english.palinfo.com/news/2025/12...

🇺🇳 Israel has passed legislation stripping UNRWA of diplomatic and legal immunity under Israeli law, exposing the agency and its staff to Israeli civil and criminal jurisdiction as part of a broader effort to curtail its operations in areas Israel controls. The UN and UNRWA say the move violates...

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Quibbling over 0.01° seems a bit off while ignoring the much bigger elephant in the room - that we don't actually seem to be doing ANYTHING about reducing emissions! www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Kennedy is now upset that tortillas have added folate, calling this a war on poor families. (1) Added folate has been present in starch products for ages (2) It's a water-soluble B vitamin (3) It's the low-cost form of the thing he was swearing treats autism (leucovorin is folinic acid).

This is a very difficult read. Mohammed Ibrahim’s account is also an account of all of the other Palestinian children locked up in the entity’s network of torture camps… This torture will continue until the entity is completely dismantled. www.infinitejaz.com/p/mohammed-i...

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas. 🌟🎄

Four Palestine Action hunger strikers vow to continue as two pause protest https://aje.io/cfew6x

Well I was today years old when I found out about this. I guess this is why I became an editor. Because it should say "Only honk if you like pizza! /s" fwiw - I don't think this is an ND/NT thing. It's a context thing. It's about cliques and in-jokes.

The Gaza genocide has almost disappeared from the news, even though it's still ongoing. If you live in Europe or the US (and many other places), your govt is complicit. Write about it, post about it, speak about it. Demonstrate, donate, organise. Doing something is better than doing nothing

Science Direct: 'A patient perspective on enduring symptoms – the unmet need' 'The sheer magnitude of the unmet needs is devastating: this population live with disabling and life-limiting symptoms, yet they feel alone and abandoned...' By Katharine Cheston www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wow, would you take a look at these shoes! 😍 www.facebook.com/NPhistorical...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Channel 4 News has obtained a document that shows how, despite decades of denial, the Post Office and Fujitsu were able to centrally alter subpostmaster accounts, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson. 📩 Read our latest newsletter: channel4news.substack.com/p/post-offic...

Today I'm on the hunt for middle eastern carols, as an antidote to the western european fare that's piped through the airwaves in blizzard quantities at this time of year. Please post your other suggestions below. First up, Talj Talj (Snow, Snow) by Fairuz ❄️❄️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWmN...

The father of "evidence-based medicine", Gordon Guyatt, who coined the term in 1991, explains why the evidence heirachy pyramid is wrong and so commonly misunderstood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQd...

It may be the winter solstice today, but it's not the earliest sunset. That was on the 12 December. Or the latest sunrise. That will be on the 30 December. www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/oxford (times may vary, depending on where you are in each time zone).

In #Gaza, the elderly and people with disabilities are exposed to disproportionate risk, due to forced displacement and the collapse of the healthcare system. Supplies like adult diapers are critically depleted, severely compromising hygiene and dignity. Aid must be allowed in at full scale.

⚠️ The foundation for internet time services has been disrupted due to a power outage:

We have previously raised concerns about its chair, Simon Wessley in this article.

Please, this should go without saying 😭

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

One of the side-effects of the demonstrations at Bronzefield in support of Qesser Zuhrah, was that four Filton defendants in the current trial were moved to Peterborough after their day in court on Wednesday, meaning even earlier starts and longer journeys to court.

Well it wouldn't be Christmas without someone on Radio 3 mispronouncing the name of the place I spent my early years growing up. #BethlehemDown

At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.

Filton trial - week 5 (15 Dec - 19 Dec 2025): realmedia.press/the-filton-t...

Catching up with Strictly It Takes Two... Nice to end with La Voix's wonderful Christmas (nearly) number (one) 😄 ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9yP...

The linear extrapolation of the past 15 years and the nonlinear 30-year extrapolation now both put global warming at +1.54°C above 1850-1900. Reaching +2°C in 2037 or 2034. Using the @ecmwf.int ERA5 dataset. H/t @tugberksamur.bsky.social

"If HCWs wear N95 respirators and surgical masks throughout, the total infection risk can be reduced by 94.7 % and 53.9 %, respectively Increasing the ventilation rate from 1 ACH to 6 ACH reduced the infection risk. ." FYI NSW Health & @racgp.bsky.social et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lord Timpson has said that the Government will not be meeting with any of the representatives of the Filton activists on hunger strike www.itv.com/news/2025-12...

NEW from Hansen et al "At least a moderate El Nino beginning in 2026 leads us to the projection in Fig. 5, with global temperature reaching a minimum at or above +1.4°C within several months and then rising to a record global temperature of about +1.7°C in 2027." Source: www.columbia.edu/~je...

Your periodic reminder that the Paris Agreement didn't specify how to quantify reaching global temperature thresholds (by design, otherwise there wouldn't have been a 195-country unanimous agreement). So anyone saying that we need to wait for the 30-year average to reach +1.5°C is full of sh*t:

Wear a f*cking mask!

There's something missing from this Winter Wellbeing bingo game... 🤔 #WinterVirusesAreAirborne