Production on Spaceballs 2 has now officially begun. And they released a photo from the table read, just like Lucasfilm did for The Force Awakens (2015). 😁

I would love to know at what point the right wingers will finally accept that fossil fuels are dying, but never underestimate the power of obstinance I guess lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

So, now I think we all need to know what these passages are that the Trump family, and Murdoch, want to hide. With a major UK publishing house, a book like this would not have got to print without lawyers having been all over it and wanting to see the evidence behind any such claims.

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air. That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

We seem to have reached the ‘portraying the KKK in a negative light is controversial’ stage already.

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%” Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Had my COVID jab yesterday. Pleased that it was for LP.8.1, the variant that was popular in the spring. Had got the impression that it might be targeting KP.2, an older variant.

Call me a centrist, but I think there is a sensible middle road here. Legal clarity that scraping the internet to train models is acceptable IF certain conditions are met.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

thank you brett kavanaugh!

A bubble so large you can see it from space and it's going to fuck all of us.

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic). But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

I'm increasingly convinced this is a huge driver of dissatisfaction with govt Council tax is one of the most visible taxes that people pay, it goes directly out of their bank account and they get a letter about it going up every year Yet bin collection frequency falls and libraries close

The Hampstead ponds have REPEATEDLY voted to include trans women. But the officious pricks at Sex Matters don’t care what other women think and are forcing a public consultation anyway. Throw the ponds some support.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

If you are offered pieces of gold Bronze Age jewellery by a bloke down the pub, police in St Fagan’s would appreciate a call following a burglary at the National Museum Of History. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

This is a party with virtually the same number of MPs as Reform (4 v. 5). The way the BBC is treating Reform, compared to the Lib Dems and the Greens, is a dereliction of their duty as a public broadcaster.

Another tragic accident.

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

*gasp*

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy." But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

Eligibility for an NHS Covid booster has been HUGELY restricted this Autumn. Studies show that both acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... So why are the government offering so much LESS protection for Covid?

You might think Kemi Badenoch has already had enough of a bashing over not knowing how Northern Ireland voted in 2016. But I feel we need the extra context that HER HUSBAND STOOD FOR ELECTION IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN 2015. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Ba...

The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory! Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Meanwhile, if you see a clip of me saying the ID card contract has gone to Tony Blair’s son: it hasn’t. That was something I was given to ask about on HIGNFY last night, but turns out to be a false report from the internet. Which is bad news for the fact checkers but good news for social mobility.

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

Fuck apps - build websites.

The Israeli invitation to Tommy Robinson has initially been reported with headlines that largely reflect the glowing terms of the invitation by the extreme Israeli minister involved - even by the Daily Mirror - rather than reflecting how contentious, controversial this will be

Your regular reminder that exams on computers are a pandemic era phenomenon that can be rolled back trivially, solving the college exam "chatgpt cheating problem" All chatgpt is doing is countering the plagiarism detectors (that universities put too much faith in to begin with anyway)

The blue pill/red pill choice from THE MATRIX presented in two headlines.

If this is true it’s disgraceful. Effectively decriminalising theft, empowering criminals and discouraging use of public transport.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means that in the first half of this year, its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time [..] As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the European Union average" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Remarkable to see the Speaker of the House literally do the, "so what if the guy we nominated for President and venerate as our Infallible God-Emperor is unhinged, have you heard what catboy socialists with no formal connection to the Democratic Party are saying about wealth creators on Bluesky?"

The Mail says that they can run a false front-page headline by the smallprint attributing the false claim to Mr Farage

COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy conferred benefits for mother and baby without increased risk, according to an umbrella review of meta-analyses comprising more than 1.2 million women. www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

Get off X, support Wikipedia

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Nigeria’s solar moment: 1.7 GW of Chinese panels imported in the past year, leapfrogging Egypt to become Africa’s #2. Part of a 60% YoY surge across the continent per @ember-energy.org data.

This thread is so good. In the US, the UK, and Australia the centre-left parties find their actual multiracial wine mom laptop class college educated voters cringe, while yearning for the votes of unionised blue collar factory workers who make up 3% of the electorate and mostly hate them.

Best city in the United States, baby

It's not that the US can't find some way to tax its own citizens for consuming foreign movies. They can. It's that the US probably doesn't want to fire the starting gun on the "let's tariff services" conversation for the same reason Saudi Arabia didn't bankroll Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

Based on the body of evidence, what happens if pregnant women do not receive Covid booster vaccination? Thousands of hospitalizations of infants and expectant mothers @nathanlo.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

You can't joke about anything anymore. Because you signed a multi figure contract with the Saudi government that said they wouldn't pay you if you did.