Interesting.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Alabama, from mineral deposits through agriculture and slavery to modern voting. Understanding how this sort of thing happens and why it matters is a basic test a lot of people are failing while they argue teaching history is unimportant

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

"I think what's becoming clear here is we got real problems with not understanding what NATO is AT ALL. When the dust settles on what's going on in the Middle East, I think we're going to have to have a real honest conversation about just how fucking stupid we are and maybe apologize to our allies."

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

Oh just found out the original poster is on here at @katherineargent.com

good tweet

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The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

Income in Poland is on track to overtake income in the UK within the next decade. I can see the tabloid headlines in Poland already: “Invasion from the Isles: British Workers Swarm Polish Cities for Real Jobs” 😉

This is actually a superb example where correlation hides a common cause. That is: he wasn’t punished for driving through the bus lane because he support Reform. Rather, BOTH his politics and his driving derive from a prior cause: being a massive arsehole.

Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

“…only 7 percent of time spent on Instagram and 17 percent on Facebook involved consuming content from friends or followed accounts”. Mind blowing numbers. osf.io/preprints/so...

Hey Google. If your processing power is so amazing, why do you keep showing me Mous ads on YouTube even though I have always click 'block ad' on EVERY SINGLE MOUS AD I've seen in the last four years? Do you not think that maybe I will never ever buy anything from Mous?

This chart might look political, but it’s really about data science. The UK can rank great or poorly depending on the KPIs you choose. Our choice of data decides how we view reality.

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Just remember, a military can practice maximum lethality by all being dead.

For most of my medical career, pancreatic cancer had a 5 year survival of 5-10%. For the current US administration to cut funding for mRNA vaccine research is staggeringly stupid.

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I like the way the Trump cat is the correct shade of orange.

Lt Gen Susan Coyle to be the first female Chief of the Australian Army. What's significant about this is, yes she's the first woman, but the experience she brings that makes her so relevant for the job in today's geopolitics of info warfare, cyber, space, & ... www.forcesnews.com/women/lt-gen...

I have seen a lot of NIMBY selfishness in my time, but "my convenience matters more than cancer care" is a new low. Quite seriously tempted to email them and tell them as much.

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

I’m begging BBC News to actually display some actual and justified cynicism to Trump’s declarations. ‘There may still be a chance of a deal. Trump has said he’s taken a call from the Iranians…’ Trump has said this dozens of times and is constantly lying. This isn’t hard to report!

Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

A classic Mail headline with more dog whistles than a sheepdog trial. Playing Far Right Media Myth Whack-a-Mole is a job which makes the labours of Sisyphus look easy and @monkemma.bsky.social must be congratulated (and followed), for persisting with it.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

We are the ones who insisted that NATO defense obligations be geographically limited to the defense of Europe and North America, because we did not want to be dragged into defending European empires around the world.

My debunk of Sarah Vine's opinion piece 👇 open.substack.com/pub/monkdeb... 6/6

We used to joke in Europe that the American OODA loop is Observe, Overreact, Destroy, Apologise but I think it might now be Overcompensate, Obfuscate, Denigrate, Annihilate

One of the top headlines of the day.

I just want to emphasize, if indeed war crimes are committed by the United States military then everyone from the decision makers to those who pull the trigger for each individual crime must face justice. Those in power must refuse such illegal orders even if it costs them their jobs.

So glad that congress isn’t alive to see this.

Playing at war? Trump's a shoe-in.

I try to stick to yay-science on here, but seriously, remove this man from office for the sake of all of humanity.

Don’t worry, I believe the White House Press Corps is going to give him some serious shade with their choice of neck cravats

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

I have now changed my mind on this and my main criteria is now "do I have to come back?".

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

<reads history notes> Didn't the last attempt to bomb an adversary 'back to the stone age' end in a chaotic helicopter retreat from an embassy roof? Or did those air strikes take out the hubris first?