Trump to reporters: “Maybe we will have a friendly takeover of Cuba.”

'Alongside less satisfaction with life, the proportion of adults reporting good or very good health had also fallen significantly, from 76% at the end of 2020 to 70.9% in ... 2025.' Dissatisfaction with life in UK unchanged since Covid, official data shows www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#2 on my list of fave animals in the ocean, Bathyphysa. This is a siphonophore & it caught a fish! I wish I could touch it (don't touch it). @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 743 part 2 #chilemargin #MarineLife

media consolidation: protecting consumers from needing to make choices and rich people from needing to manage as many influential contacts

Our huge Nintendo sale starts today! Massive discounts on all of our Switch titles are available from now until March 20th, with up to 75% off individual games and 60% off our multi-game bundle. www.draknek.org/nintendo

We are the ones who trained AI. Our data was fed to it. Our public dollars also funded the R&D. Universal basic income NOW, not only to create a floor that the displaced can't fall below, but also to universally share what we all made possible. UBI is a dividend. It's just. It's rightful. It's ours.

The Sansui RA-700 Reverberation Amplifier (1975).

🚨 NEW POLL! Another new poll has the Scottish Greens overtaking both Labour and the Tories in May's Scottish Parliament election. This May there's hope. We can build a fairer, greener, independent Scotland. 💚 Be the change you want to see 👇 www.greens.scot/join

1) We need universal basic income now or millions will be on the street 2) AI is not ready and the companies making these moves are going to suffer for it.

The government’s approach to COVID is the same one they have for climate change: Let’s worry about that later.

Somebody a couple of years ago said COVID is the climate change of the body, complete with denialism and acceleration of existing issues and I have not stopped thinking about it. (And both are of course connected). I cannot find the tweet for the life of me.

Pokémon's 10th generation Winds and Waves will not release until 2027 and is exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2 www.eurogamer.net/pokemons-10t...

'"General prevention is also important, but what do you do with that if bird flu has jumped to humans in Asia, and an infected person lands at Schiphol? What good are yoga classes for the population then?"' '[New Dutch government] scraps pandemic preparedness plans'

New preprint with Léo Pio-Lopez: www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... "Multi-Scale Longevity: Defeating Aging from Cells to Embodied Human Minds, and the Future of the Species" a broader view of longevity research.

Me too

Historical danger, existential crisis

Pokemon Game Music Collection announced https://nintendoeverything.com/pokemon-game-music-collection-announced/

The US State Department has now ordered the evacuation of non-essential employees and their families from the US Embassy in Baghdad. (Amichai Stein, i24 News)

The Far Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has triggered security fears in Berlin after officially requesting information on vulnerabilities in NATO defences — insight that would prove useful to the Kremlin. Quislings. Ban them.

Greens beat Reform! 💚 Congratulations to Hannah Spencer and our friends @greenparty.org.uk on their historic by-election victory in Gorton and Denton. We will never let the politics of hate divide us. The Greens will always put people and planet before profit.

Europe’s energy transition is well underway but it is far from uniform. In 25 European countries, non-fossil fuel sources now generate the majority of electricity, a clear sign of how deeply clean power has penetrated the system.

Sky News don't seem as excited as the rest of us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Npvw...

The world has failed the people of #Gaza. We have watched Israel commit genocide in real time.

Seeing how Nigel Farage reacts to defeat in a by-election is a good indicator of how he’ll treat democracy when he becomes PM. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/stop-looking-back-anger-nige-36789256

This is where change starts. It's up to us. 👉 www.greens.scot/join

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer

⚠️ With Possible Iran Strike Looming, U.S. Says Staff Can Leave Israel, Urging Speed In an email to embassy workers Friday morning, Ambassador Mike Huckabee warned them that if they wanted to leave Israel, they “should do so TODAY.”

European girls aged 13-15 have world’s highest rate of tobacco use for age group

Russia and Ukraine agree local ceasefire to allow repairs at Europe’s largest nuclear plant – Europe live

‘Our patience has now run out’: Pakistan declares ‘open war’ against Afghanistan after cross-border attack – live news

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out." Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

You can become disabled or homeless at any time. They aren’t moral failings. You can’t “just try harder”. All it takes is one accident, one illness, one catastrophic event and your life changes forever. It’s a minority group you can join at any time.

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has OFFICIALLY started clinical trials. GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

'"For the first time, you have a treatment that targets accelerated ageing," which can manifest as frailty' 'Despite its promise, the therapy does not have a clear-cut path to the clinic, researchers say, because the US and European regulatory authorities do not consider frailty to be a disease.'

Poland's per capita income calculated in purchasing power parity (PPP) has overtaken Spain as it edges closer to UK levels.

🚨 NEW: The Green Party has reported Labour to the police over alleged electoral law breaches after a van allegedly near a polling station claimed the Greens want "our daughters used for legal prostitution" Rules ban "heavily branded" campaign vehicles near polling stations

But the proposed CO₂ thresholds are too high. 800ppm should be the upper limit - not 1500ppm. By 1500ppm, air is already significantly rebreathed. That’s not a precautionary standard for children, let alone those at higher risk. 2/ www.gov.uk/government/p...

🚨 NEW DfE GUIDANCE - VENTILATION & AIR QUALITY - Clean air matters - especially for #ClinicallyVulnerable children, staff and families. This is an important recognition that airborne transmission is preventable. 1/

Gibraltar deal: It would mean the disappearance of "the last wall in continental Europe," said Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares. Apart from the wall created between the UK and Europe by Brexit of course… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 New DfE Guidance on #CleanAir in schools! 🙂 This is an important recognition that airborne disease transmission is preventable! 😭 The recommended upper limit for CO2 in classrooms is woefully inadequate to protect our kids.

Scotland considering criminalising creation of deepfake images in bid to protect women and girls

If tiny Iceland can do it, So can Scotland if, you know, we were a normal independent nation. #European #Scotland

The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street gets the green light.

Number of young people in UK not in work or education rises closer to 1m

Autocracy is rising in the west. But the global south proves it’s not inevitable | Kenneth Roth

Belgium to arm Antwerp port with anti-aircraft guns