Reminder that it was Young's father who coined the term 'meritocracy’, if you were beginning to doubt that the universe has a sick sense of humour

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95. “Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation.” [thezebra.org]

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

If it ever seems like GenX and elder Millennials are obnoxiously loud about queerphobia and, specifically, trans rights, you have to remember we grew up in a society saturated by homophobia and decided "never again". This shame and hatred must not simply be redirected. It must end with us.

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What a headline, an amazing summary

Has anyone else with a Microsoft personal email account noticed a sudden uptick in phishing spam landing in their inbox? It's always been there, but for some reason, their filters have stopped sending it straight to junk, and it's getting into the hundreds per week?

Really important piece this. We urgently need to wake up to the scale of the risks faced by the water system. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Can confirm: Tidal is basically everything you need from a music service. Good quality sound and very good recommendation algorithms and radios. I sometimes find the search feature a bit odd, but the overall variety of music is basically just like Spotify, and usually better since artists prefer it

Just remembered getting peroxide in my eye last night while I was dyeing my hair and am v relieved that I didn't lose sight in that eye over night because I was convinced for several minutes that that would happen. Do not recommend 😅

Gutted to hear Joanie have gone broke. Another size-inclusive, independent brand bites the dust 🙁

‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’

Another way of looking at this is: the Libs couldn’t believe their luck when the right went apeshit - their moment to take over sole management! Except the business was broke, in huge debt, had no customers and the right correctly concluded it was time to burn the joint out, under mafia rules.

It looks like the working age people of Britain need to stop the silly student politics of protest

I get the reaction here, but are we ever going to acknowledge that, if followed through, it leads to poor and ineffective political strategy?

We endured several years of all-channels screeching from these people about how the left did nothing but talk Britain down, and how our best days were ahead of us, and now that they've got exactly what they wanted, they're blaming everyone else and fucking off like Lyle Lanley the Monorail salesman.

Historically, suggesting the US and its allies engage in this sort of behaviour and that it might offer partial explanation for why conditions are often so grim in countries whose regimes they wish to topple was the kind of thing that got you labelled a crank and an apologist for authoritarianism

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

I said this just a couple of weeks ago but now I think it isn’t true: it looks more like the lads really do need MPs and party insiders to assemble a dumb dossier of bad Facebook messages for them, then place it into their hands and give them a fiery anonymous quote, or very little happens.

Twins

"The British state doesn't harass dissidents like America does."

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

Even worse, it *had* been somewhat prepared for as a hypothetical, via multiple planning exercises, but the recommendations from these were mostly ignored: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

TODAY: Israeli authorities demolish the UNRWA headquarters in Jerusalem.

I'm old enough to remember a pandemic happening that hadn't been prepared for as a hypothetical and I also remember the outcomes of that.

A lot of these political editors see Starmer/Trump and Mamdani/Trump as unexpected bromances, rather than what the rest of us see, which is someone trying to gamely manage a lunatic.

YouGov poll out today: Reform 24 (-) Labour 19 (-) Tories 18 (-2) Greens 17 (+3) Lib Dems 14 (-2) Changes on last week. 17% for Greens is the joint highest YouGov ever polled Greens.

that tech bubble can’t burst soon enough

Props to Brooklyn Beckham, I was starting to forget what a good old-fashioned celebrity scandal looked like. Anyway, I think I speak for every millennial when I say 'release the dance footage'.

You’re gonna see so many columns in the UK press deducing Starmer’s master strategy but the truth is Europe let Gaza, Iran, Venezuela etc. happen because they wanted it, now the beast is coming for them, the EU has just enough clout to respond as a bloc but the UK is out in the cold and fucked.

We won’t go page for page but it’s worth introducing key characters. Morgan McSweeney is basically Labour’s Dominic Cummings now, and worse in many ways: a barking crackpot with a ludicrous amount of power and control. But he wasn’t always that: in 2017, he was Labour’s billionaire bungs-wrangler.

Brooklyn Beckham: it's time to address the shadowy shape that's difficult to photograph in the room

What professional politicos rarely seem to understand is those moments where your opponent has become widely despised and their politics toxic, that's the moment where you should define a new consensus that benefits you. "The ideas are fine but we'd execute it better" is such a missed opportunity!

Feels to me like when a thing that played well for your opponent electorally is revealed to be an absolute disaster in practice, it probably does you more favours politically, even with the people who voted for that thing, to really hammer home that the thing was bad in conception not just execution

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

NEW – Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @sylviahayes.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/eAPkvkx

That money could’ve ended homelessness in the US, or established UBI for every American, student loan erasure, or supercharged every creative industry in existence to pay artists better, instead of, yknow, blowing it on dead malls full of Elegy of Emptiness statues for rich people I hate it here

A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say? Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.

Hi it's me, author of "Fuck Unions: Why Dems Need To Destroy Those Dirty Sweaty Hogpeople" back with my latest book, "Gone Woke: How Democrats Lost Their Connection To The Working Class"

Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.

Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

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Just pushed a loaded wheelbarrow for the mile between my house and the allotment and now my arms and shoulders are so fatigued I'm worried I'll have to ask my partner to cut my dinner up and fork it into my mouth.

Ceding all forms of autonomy to Trump is now a well-established position within Britain's media and among British media owners.

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

Does this tell us anything about the wisdom and good intentions of people who not only swore up and down this government would be great, but fought tooth and nail for about six years to inflict it upon every man, woman and child in the country with as few internal restraints as possible

Laptop Bez, Josh Widdicombe and David Baddiel on Sunday Brunch. I love stupid, passive weekend telly but this is too basic even for me.

Just pick the fucking bins up on time you deranged freak.