SNP-run Falkirk council has only now succeeded in paying off Labour's PFI bill after 25 years, as its c£65m initial cost was bloated by pfi loan payments to more than 300m. Don't let Labour do it again. weownit.org.uk/act-now/new-...

23rd September 1978 Blondie release "Parallel Lines". The album peaked at No 1 in the UK album charts, album artwork cover photography by 📸 Edo Bertoglio. #Blondie #DebbieHarry #AlbumOfTheDay #ClassicRock

Once again, I sit here and ask… do you have any idea how lethal fever was before effective antipyretic meds were developed?

Yeah, today is a great example of that thing where you see a newspaper article about something you're an expert in and tut about how it's riddled with inaccuracies, then go on reading the rest of the paper, trusting everything else it says.

I fear much of this is drive by the old 'natural childbirth amd maximum agony as punishment for eating that damned apple' Christian thing. That and selling trump endorsed snake oil to replace effective analgesics

Tylenol waged a massive PR war after someone tampered with like one bottle. It was so successful that it’s studied in media and PR classes decades later. Did anyone think they would let RFK lie about them?

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

this is life-changing advice and it also applies to how people FEEL about you. e.g. if somebody treated you badly, or worse, you absolutely should not feel obligated to be warm or sympathetic towards them. or honestly care about them at all. they chose that.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Well, we're 25 minutes into Tuesday now and this Rapture shit doesn't seem to be happeni

would anyone like my recommendations of gay romance books i really liked. i have a bunch up my sleeve now, they are pretty much all fairly raunchy historical fiction

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

The train grandpas married collectible grandmas and here we are...

CALL THE FUCKING LIAR A LIAR

This. Vaccines and paracetamol do not cause autism, but also autism is not something that should be eliminated, any more than queerness or lefthandedness or any other harmless minority characteristic.

After reading @swordsjew.bsky.social 's 'Wild Faith' I am wondering if making pregnancy unpleasant is the policy goal on itself, given how much of Trump's coalition believe pain in childbirth is divine punishment.

It's not just these chuckleheads. I am sick and tired of autism speaks types thinking their children are defective. Kindly fuck off. Seriously.

Unidentified drones reported over military facilities in Oslo.

Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.

Sweden is prepared to confront and neutralise Russian fighter jets that violate its airspace, Defense Minister Pal Jonson told Aftonbladet. “Sweden has the right to defend its airspace, with force if necessary.” (Reposted with the correct defence minister)

Poland has had enough of Russia's intrusions: "If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on Nato territory, please don’t come here to whine about it. You've been warned."

While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.

hahahahaha called it

i found the cure for autism it's called minding your fucking business

This is why, despite Labour’s fumbling attempts in the last couple of days to persuade people that they can be relied upon as allies in the fight against fascism, they very obviously can’t

woo boy those cancellation numbers got ugly in a hurry, huh

Do you know what? It doesn’t matter what causes autism because it is not in fact a bad thing in itself and some of your posts to say X or Y doesn’t cause autism are pretty fucking ableist

NHS guidelines stand In the UK, paracetamol (acetaminophen in USA) is the first choice of painkiller if you're pregnant. It's commonly taken during pregnancy and does not harm your baby www.nhs.uk/medicines/pa...

The alien abductors have the opportunity to do the FUNNIEST SHIT on Wednesday.

Someone sent me this today. 😅

I feel seen.

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

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It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

not loving how fast the r-slur came back from the grave where it belonged

I’m doing one of my periodic checks of art opportunities. It’s so depressing even looking because there’s never anything worth applying for. I have to force myself to do it. And I miss curating: I used to spin my own opportunities from hustle and wisps of nothing. And the damn illness took that.

Dentist successfully managed, now much resting to recover.

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

Evergreen

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Good morning I don't know why, but I love pylons. I found these in the East Bay somewhere in Northern California. I call the shot The Hum, which is as term you'll know if you follow @hookland.bsky.social 's account (which you absolutely should).

“How can artists make great theatre when they can no longer practise?” Lyn Gardner asks about the conditions under which artists are expected to create, and what happens to theatre when opportunities to practise all but disappear. -Via @TheStage www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/how-...

we owe an apology to all the Just Read Theory bros

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.