your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (this one tracks)

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

cf: Make it foolproof, but never underestimate the ingenuity of a fool.

Dear parents - Yes you can give your sick child paracetamol if they’re >3 months old. It’s an excellent painkiller. It brings down a high temperature. It’s one of the safest drugs available. You are right to want to soothe your child’s distress. Evidence supports your good parenting. Be confident.

arry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy and paste commands, dies at 7

Excellent/thought-provoking by @polphilpod.bsky.social on the "What did you say to make him hit you" approach on the part of many so-called "centrists"/moderates in UK media/politics to the resurgence of bigotry/racism (Marr in NS today a great example!) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

As the man says 👇👇

One of the ironies is that the charitable sector and politicians never come out and say things just like this. When we developed "People Move" @satbirsingh.bsky.social @chaipatel.net @zoejardiniere.bsky.social the tagline somewhere behind the sentiment was "and what?".

I’ve just verified my age by dialling in my date of birth on my phone

⬇️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏⬇️

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

👇and more 👇 As in “I could go really go a brew/pint. I’m spitting feathers” As distinct from “I were so cross,I were spitting ***TACKS***”

I’ve just seen another T**la with a “I bought this before Musk went crazy” bumper sticker. Does anybody know where I can source some stick on additions that say “but after he started gobbling state subsidies, avoiding tax, oppressing his workers, trashing the environment etc”

A question that I haven't heard a good answer to: if cutting migration by a third in a year hasn't changed the narrative on it at all - what would make you think cutting it by another third (or half] would?

It's 20 yrs today that I was in a cafe on the shores of Loch Ness and my mate ordered a toasted teacake. The waitress asked my exasperated southern friend to clarify. "A teacake cut in half, grilled and buttered? Are you sure?' The Tunnocks that came out was like a horror from Doctor Who.

WeBuyAnyCar.Com filing for a slight change to its name.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Could I recommend this for use in the discussion on “externalities” in all Economics 101 courses

"That centuries-old Hegelian dialectic of thesis > antithesis > synthesis is what moves us forward." Me getting philosophical about the need for, well, data conversations. (@briandrian.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/neilpett...?

Imagining a parallel universe where Apprentice presenter Alan Sugar runs Britain with the shadow of tech bro Clive Sinclair looming over him.

This is beautiful open.substack.com/pub/hefting/...

yes, small language models are a thing, and they I think are the future, for precisely this kind of reason. Trained on domain-specific data, they will produce useful outputs.

It isn't the harms of AI that worries me most: it is that we are using AI to distract from the huge gaps in basic analysis and insight that the NHS has due to perpetual failure to invest in the basics.

The trouble with the Highlands is these dark winter mornings

I’ve tried this at home and apparently it’s 100% accurate 🤷‍♂️ #cyclingbluesky

We need a different, values based approach to this. The uniting value is fairness. So 1. An unwavering commitment to UN convention of refugees. 2. A set of agreed rules about who can and who can’t immigrate based on balancing economic and social impacts 3. Clear enforcement of these rules

Today is the day. Only six months until the nights start drawing in. #InternationalCurmudgeonCampion2024

Can I put this out there. Last week the ONS published devastating UK life expectancy stats. The media is full of US nonsense about polio vaccines.

Oh please tell me he will read it as Jackson Lamb. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

A reasonable summary of my day so far

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... Is it me or hasn’t Wes Streeting realised that he the SoS and is no longer in opposition. His whole modus operandi seems to be to create opponents. His job now is to lead and build not attack and destroy