A drone swarm over Schleswig-Holstein surveyed critical infrastructure, German authorities claim. The drones were sighted at Thyssenkrupp's naval shipyard, the university hospital, the coastal power plant and Kiel Canal, and the Heide refinery which supplies Hamburg Airport with kerosene.

Scientists find ancient life-size animal rock carvings in the Saudi Arabian desert https://apnews.com/article/rock-art-saudi-arabia-desert-ab914512f46e80d722537f3d5506a616?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I come from a long line of military service. The rules of engagement are all that separate us from being barbarians and savages. This effectively turns our military into a pseudo-Christian version of Islamic State, Khmer Rouge or the Tonton Macoute. This is utter evil. #DemVoice1 #DV1

Any sales track for an author should factor in what the publisher did/didn't do to market the book and what luck factors were involved eg awards/book of the month. Historical sales aren't useful info without context of other factors.

Idiot. Aside from the obvious issues, anyone who has studied history knows Hegseth is sowing the sees of the next US defeat here. 1. The US public is EXTREMELY reluctant to see its own soldiers in bodybags. (Hence US reliance on high-altitude bombing/shock & awe in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, etc.)

This passage nearly broke me.

This is a sentence that only feels shocking in the way that accepting the long-obvious truth after being gaslit out of acknowledging it for years by an abusive partner feels shocking.

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Absolutely this. It’s a very weird phenomenon that you also sometimes see in corporate world especially after a CEO change - ‘we’ don’t like the people who work for us.

I mean… maybe? Could potentially be, if you like. Or not. Who’s to say?

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

Yikes.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

“New paradigm” just dropped 😬

Today's orange dawn sky over the silhouetted spires, chimneys and rooftops of Edinburgh's old town. No filter needed.

NEW blog post! The evolution and fossil record of narwhals and belugas - the white whales! Emphasis on the surprising fossil record of belugas and the evolution of the bizarre tusk in the weirdest modern cetacean. 🐬🧪🦖 #whaleontology Read it here: coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-...

"We're all trying to find out who did this." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Danish police are now labeling the drone incident at Copenhagen Airport as “an attack.” The UAVs were guided by a “capable operator” showcasing specific capabilities, approached from multiple directions, lights intermittently switching on and off before ultimately vanishing after several hours.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Not many of us can say we will die in the midst of doing what we love most in the world. www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

Humans have traveled and mixed more than previously believed, DNA shows. “People’s stories about their history are almost always wrong,” Reich said. “I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think that’s a good thing and a humbling thing to be made aware of.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

It would just feel dirty continuing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Silent Courier is accessible from Friday and enables a secure avenue to submit sensitive information to the UK relating to terrorism or hostile intelligence activity". news.sky.com/story/mi6-la...

NEW: Trump health officials plan to link COVID vaccines to the deaths of 25 children, despite extensive studies showing that COVID vaccines are safe and effective. This comes less than a week before the committee that CDC uses to make vaccine recommendations is scheduled to meet.

Last night in Poland we saw the most serious European airspace violation by Russia since the war began, and indications suggest it was intentional, not accidental. I am in contact with NATO Secretary General Rutte and Poland FM Sikorski. The EU stands in full solidarity with Poland. (1/2)

Russia’s war is escalating, not ending. We must raise the cost on Moscow, strengthen support for Ukraine, and invest in Europe’s defence. The EU plays a major role and we will support initiatives like the Eastern Border Shield defence line. (2/2)

A source tells Reuters NATO is not treating the incident as an attack but as an intentional incursion. Testing NATO’s defences in other words.

I see the doctrine of governments and aid organisations driving 'best value' by outsourcing to middlemen who then subcontract to private service provision on the open market is working just brilliantly for everyone yet again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Everyone knows that each of the 50 people who listens to a single podcast on pollen will definitely listen to 499 more pollen podcasts, so this scalability is completely believable.

What does this even mean

A thread of Inuit art that you didn't know you needed, starting with one of my favourites 🧵

Labour should be aggressively attacking this kind of dangerous anti-science conspiracism

Meta used 36 of my published papers in their training data #science #neuroscience #neuroskyence #psychology #PsychSciSky You can check for your papers, too

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

I can foresee no problems whatsoever with this. fortune.com/2025/09/07/s...

Does anyone else remember the Saudi girls who died one night, trapped in a burning school; because morality police wouldn't unlock the door and let them escape or let emergency responders in because the girls weren't modestly dressed? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Me...

I'm only surprised that anyone is surprised. Men aren't allowed to touch women, women are not allowed to raise their voice, & there are no women doctors or emergency workers because they all got fired (or worse) - so of course the female victims of the earthquake were going to be left to die.

YES. Read the statement by the former FM of Lithuania 🎯

The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.

What a grotesque loss of touch with the whole idea of ‘right’. The Taliban’s strict command about ‘no skin contact between women and unrelated men’ means rescuers leave injured but surviving women under earthquake rubble, even as they retrieve the dead first. www.indiatoday.in/world/story/...

Great guide for autistics too, including things like interpreting body language and incorporating following ups. But be careful with the first two questions, especially if you're white and speaking with a racialized person. It can come off as racist, i.e. "Where are you *really* from?"

Pretty sure that 99% of the world’s current problems come from us overestimating how smart algorithms actually are. Today, Google’s top prediction as I began to type, “Do insects and arachnids share a common ancestor” is: “Do insects and arachnids share a Coke.”

If they're going to go after her this aggressively for 40k but not... I don't know... BILLIONAIRES... then it almost seems like they're not actually arsed about the tax, but just want to make it a story. A distraction almost.

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This Teen Vogue article is SO WHOLESOME & USEFUL, for adults & kids alike. And at the start of the new school/university year, too. If anyone you know could use this list to help them make friends, or feel less awkward starting conversations, here it is. www.teenvogue.com/story/questi...

We’ve seen this play out repeatedly across Europe. Each time, mainstream parties hoped to undercut the far right by echoing its language. Each time, the effect was to legitimise and empower the very forces they wanted to contain.

Rookie numbers y’all.

Message now appearing across all Bandcamp pages. "Global tariff policies are evolving quickly" is up there as one of the most avoidantly euphemistic sentences I've come across. (1st place goes to the in-hotel mag that referred to Warsaw's urban centre as "reshaped by a turbulent mid-century")