That anyone would support Nigel Farage and Reform with these policies must surely be a damning indictment of UK media in failing to explain the implications of them to the public

Little by little it looks as if Bsky is getting more like 'X' by the day, the language, the aggression -- or perhaps it's just Britain now.

All the right now has to offer is conflict. Some of its key figures have moved on from culture wars towards what seems to be a deliberate effort to foment civil war. If you're a conflict entrepreneur, the worse it gets, the better it is for you. Where they break, we must mend, building community.

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The difference between seeing something, and seeing something "as" ... We don't merely passively perceive the world, we actively interpret it according to the way we are. The way we are at different times, responding perhaps more to inner dispositions than external things. =>2

Another look at ... archive.ph/UjOUS New York Times

Two years of lying about bombing Gaza's hospitals – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off. Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6 Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, Trump unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power THIS is what an insurrection looks like

Is "X" conducive to the public good? Is Elon? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We're turning ourselves into *things*, man-things, woman-things, human "things". The thing about us humans of flesh & blood is we *feel* our guts, muscles, we don't merely intellectually think stuff. AI doesn't feel what it parrots out, indeed parrots understand more=>2

When mortality salience is especially prominent in a society, as it is currently, it's a good idea to consider the predictions and findings of Terror Management Theory. See e.g. as well writings, videos etc of Prof Sheldon Solomon. =>2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

How many of us feel in a cold rage today? Mine is directed at Farage & this comment on yesterday's Guardian piece by John Crace is spot on. The writer uses a pseudonym or I would credit them but, to whomever he or she is, I say bravo.

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It is not Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra...

The impact of the climate crisis is ever more alarming. But much of the press reports record heatwaves as a good news story. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73684/...

BMJ JOHN LAUNER: ELEGY FOR THE TAVISTOCK

‘Tony Blair Is Offering a Victorian Answer to a 21st Century Crisis’ Britain is living through five interlocking technological revolutions and the former Prime Minister has only noticed one of them, argues Nafeez Ahmed

Israel has been gradually expanding its "kill zone" in Gaza. Its army has now officially seized 70% of the territory. In a few months, 2 million Palestinians will be crushed into 20% of Gaza. Then 10%. The "ceasefire" is a cover for genocide, not an end to it.

On this day in 2024, the Israeli military burned Palestinians alive in a displacement camp in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah, during the weekend of Lag B’Omer — a holiday when Jews traditionally gather around bonfires.

Vicissitudes of autogynephilia =>2

Once illustrious names - Maudsley, Tavistock ... Captured. =>2 archive.ph/rh9kF

This is not only so dishonest, it's also illogical. Suppose it's a very tight race which it could easily be, with the Greens there at all there are going to be some ppl who'll vote for them, those votes might swing it for Reform. If u'r not going to do it with conviction don't do it at all Drop out!

@drdavidnicholl.bsky.social & I argue that Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk is entirely within his rights to block the Met Police Palantir deal in our letter in The Times. Not obvious that his critics have read the legislation or understood the highly questionable process used here.

"The only thing we genuinely cannot afford is politicians who are in thrall to the bond markets."

We know that, under Trump, cowardice is contagious. But, with this week’s outlandish corruption, is the worm about to turn ? app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73640/...

🚨 Times Journalist Reveals Westminster Fake News Scam Stories quoting three sources can be nothing of the sort, according to the Times parliamentary sketch writer: they are all from the same person – a single Labour spin doctor

Labour used fake polling numbers in the Gorton and Denton by election saying that the two main parties were Reform and Labour besides quoting a non existent polling organisation. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

BMJ Hantavirus: people are betting on a pandemic breaking out

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

This is very dishonest, either stand to win or stand off. Pusillanimous pussyfooting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Thanks for posting that!

A news show genuinely driven by the public interest, not state and corporate interests. This week Double Down News probes the rigging of the Palestine Action trial, ties between Tommy Robinson and the Met, and Israel's reheated disinformation about rape on Oct 7. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl9L...

As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide. I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud. Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!

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At times like these ...

Do we really need "a meaning"? Personally I've long thought the whole thing, life, the universe and everything is totally meaningless (OK we have to find our own meanings) but -- this: '...The belief that life is incomplete without goal fulfillment is not so much a tragic existential fact as =>2

Here's one for the boss