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Leo leaning into hating on Vance could make him the most popular pope ever.

You cannot develop technology without understanding obsolescence and the fact is that this whole generation of silicon valley "leaders" are obsolete. They have literally nothing to offer except each other's recycled dumbfuck ideas

proud psychopath here. Stovetop rice is the only pure rice.

This is what happens when you turn students into customers & Universities into pseudo-businesses. And by forcing debt on to students (to pay the fees), they have in effect been turned into customers.

People broke this story? The magazine that regularly features Miss Piggy on the cover? GET READY TO ACCEPT YOUR PULITZER, PEOPLE MAGAZINE!!! people.com/jeffrey-epst...

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Un Guinéen. Qui se bat en 1940, s'évade, refuse de quitter la France car il ne peut accepter la défaite et crée le maquis Délivrance. Pour l'ennemi, il est le "terroriste noir". Pour la France, un héros trop longtemps oublié, fusillé le 18 décembre 1943 sans avoir parlé. Addi Bâ.

were we expecting the Living Marxism brigade to not come to the defence of Prince Andrew at this point

I've spent a lot of time over the years in Liverpool and have found it similar to my home city of Glasgow. You can hardly pass a day in Glasgow without some random person making a friendly comment or striking up a conversation. I love it.

Definitely, I would say Manchester too.

Why did ICE shackle a British tourist, a grandmother with no criminal record, who had all the correct papers, and lock her in a cell for SIX WEEKS?? Because ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. Eliminate this agency now.

“One scheme involves the criminal syndicate setting up a Facebook group for a university subject, then ‘siphoning’ students who are struggling or have questions to a private chat where a sales pitch begins. ‘They effectively pose as fellow students,‘ the source said.“ www.smh.com.au/national/syd...

The Procuress, by Dirck van Baburen, who died (alas!) OTD in 1624. When you wonder who in Dutch Golden Age looked at such works, know that this one was owned by Vermeer's mother-in-law. A nice Catholic lady!

The extraordinary biochemist & pharmacologist Gertrude Elion died #OTD in 1999. Elion won the 1988 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (w/2 others) for her pioneering "rational drug design." Her work saved countless lives...(👇 1/2) #WomenInSTEM

China will take on what the rest of the (political) world is simply too stupid to do. The mass rollout of physics (heat pumps). www.t-online.de/heim-garten/...

Racist graffiti was sprayed on my temple last night I am deeply, deeply enraged

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Not half as “left behind” as countries that don’t embrace renewable energy.

While russia's all-out and genocidal war against Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, it should be remembered that the war actually began on February 20, 2014, with the invasion of Crimea, followed by that of Donbass. Western leaders looked the other way and did nothing to stop Moscow. Their guilt.

1/ A huge cache of messages from the phone of Russian Major General Roman Demurchiev provides a unique insight into the inner workings of the Russian army. It reveals a force riven by feuds between generals, plagued by corruption, and full of contempt for superiors and peers. ⬇️

Somebody has to put forward an amendment to abolish the monarchy

Polish artist Slawa Duldig patented a design for an improved umbrella in 1929. The innovation: a foldable umbrella with a telescoping mechanism. It was compact in design, enabling it to fit into handbags, a revolutionary feature at the time. #inventor 🗃️

⚡️ A massive smuggling ring using a single email server has been exposed for moving $90 billion in Russian oil to fund the Kremlin’s war efforts.

Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian American, officials and witnesses say

Yes, but a critical case and a massive loss. Opens the floodgates for other lawsuits, sets the precedent and a major ding to Tesla publicly. Celebrate victories, there's no value in being like "Oh that's irrelevant."

Too bad, so sad. #TeslaTakedown electrek.co/2026/02/20/t...

They always were. Other than the initial invention of mass production & one or two design exceptions, Europe has always led the way regarding automotive design & production

Bible doesn't mention that Martha & Mary had such a fab home. No wonder Christ & the gang wanted to visit them! As rendered in 1566 by Hans Vredeman de Vries, whose day is today.

this @holliemcnish.bsky.social piece is perfect. he's still Prince Andrew, and he always will be.

I wanted to abolish the monarchy before it became fashionable.

Let’s not pretend that Andrew’s activities are separate from his royal status. The whole concept of royalty is based on undeserved privilege, lack of accountability, luxury and hedonism, and the idea that others are beneath you, and can be used.

It's right at the bottom of the story, but important to note as Simons's entire claim rests upon allegation of material being hacked, not leaked: "Holden recently showed the Guardian his source materials, which indicate the story was based on files leaked from the Labour party by whistleblowers."

I mean yeah, ok, sure. But y’all let him get away with the child raping. He didn’t face justice until he did some email fraud. Maybe not exactly something to brag about.

If Fuentes does his poasting over a wifi network, have I got some news for him..

Will the penny ever drop for Starmer?

It’s definitely eroded here. I can look at my post doc pay slips from 2009 & see that the pay for Grade 6 Academic has now been ‘aligned’ with non academic roles - those extra 5 years training on top of the 5 spent getting a BSc(Hons) then an MRes were not at all worth it. My empty pension shows it

France is attempting to limit climate damage by setting increasingly stringent limits for construction every 3 years. The jump from 2025 to 2028 does not even appear to be more expensive (negligible). Example building from the great treasure trove: www.ifpeb.fr/wp-content/u... <-Read Translated:

bookstore chains are hibernating in february, you must seize advantage of their weakness and raid their caves before they grow strong again in the summer months and begin hunting livestock near the mountain villages www.waterstones.com/book/isabell...

They basically decided to apply only the first half on IBM's old advice but not the second; "A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision"

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

I’m no legal expert but the documents leaked to Epstein by Mandelson seem even more market sensitive to me than the Prince Andrew ones (Mandelson leaked information about imminent $500bn eurozone bailout, £20bn of UK gov asset sales, tax changes etc)

Princes in the tower

Since when did a pavement become a footway - seems relatively recent use in UJK by utilities when a pavement is dug up. Both are old words, but why did utilities dig up (no pun intended) footway?

Just checked the BBC website. Couldn’t find a mention. Laughable for those of us who can remember the Corbyn years. Staggering lack of balance

I tend them often 'I know you're okay but I have a boss breathing down my neck' and then they send a lovely reply. But feedback says they know I will fight the uni on their behalf and I am very pleased about that 🥰

Mary Anderson invented the first operational windshield wiper. It was a lever-operated arm with a rubber blade that could be moved across the outside of the windshield from inside the vehicle, keeping the driver protected from the weather. Patented, 1903. #Inventor She was born #OTD in 1866.

Been chasing up the stragglers in work with silly emails (left), and enjoying some success with it (right). I am at 94% student engagement so far this academic year. The average is 54%. Quite pleased with that.

At this point everyone in the media with access to officials not directly asking representatives of this govt why they protect pedophiles more stringently than any other country in the world should simply be considered a collaborator

"authoritarians have co-opted #technology... The Filipino #journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, has spent years raising the alarm about the dangerous ways the online landscape is being weaponized to silence and intimidate #women, particularly #journalists...