Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate fell to 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-1058. That’s an all-time low since I started this analysis 3 years ago. That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia 🧵

The manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory, a US citizen, is arrested outside of the studio by Trump's secret police. The offense? Telling jokes about ICE that they don't like. This is what fascism looks like. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."

The U.S. has conducted 10 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing 43 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

This is the most corrupt Presidential administration we've ever seen and it's treated as a mere break from norms instead of the absolute disaster that it is.

It's the single most unconstitutional thing!!

> @dkthomp.bsky.social

Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.

Over the course of 10 years, he lowered our standards to the point where he can completely destroy the East wing of the White House and the Republican Party is like, "well, he is the president."

David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus: “Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”

I've reached the point where AI-generated images, sounds, videos, and summaries are provoking physical revulsion in me. I inevitably run up against the lack of anything human at the core, and it deeply creeps me. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Nice to know that Zuckerberg is exactly the same guy that he was back in college when he created a platform to rate women's looks

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Holy shit this list. All the ghouls are here.

I am still waiting for a detailed, pedagogically-backed argument for how AI improves learning. I have only been told it’s a helpful tool that will help students learn and teachers prep faster, but still waiting for what it’s supposed to do that human educators with more funding can’t do.

"Speed limit laws aren’t actually the best way to get residents to slow down [...] Narrow, enclosed streets with high building density tended to slow traffic, whereas wide, open roads with long sightlines encouraged faster driving. This suggests that design, more than legislation, sets the pace."

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

the days when these guys worried about hiding their "power level" are far behind us

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out futurism.com/artificial-i...

I think that when media outlets report on "threats to ICE" they should remember and cite Mike Johnson saying that a naked bike ride is the most threatening thing he's seen so far

And you're thinking "How much more could Ticketmaster suck?" and well there ya go.

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

With receipts! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Thanks to MASSIVE public demand, the Torment Nexus zine is now available in packs of 10. So you can leave them on co-workers’ desks, and on your boss’ windshield. www.mulebooks.com/store/pack-o...

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate fell slightly to 0.2% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-659. That implies a 4% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia 🧵

Australian Influenza cases update: Reported Influenza cases for Australia have finally started to fall sharply, down to about half the peak level. This wave has run much longer than in previous years. #Influenza #Australia 🧵

The Saudis didn’t pay big money for famous American comedians because they were super eager for comedy, they paid for PR like this.

GUY WHO JUST CAME BACK FROM DOING THE JABBA'S PALACE COMEDY FESTIVAL: You know, I gotta say they're really great in there, they're just like us. I thought it was only gonna be women in chains and a trapdoor monster they feed slaves to but like, they also have a band that plays cool music.

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

The Lancet: “Long COVID is here to stay—even in children” By Danilo Buonsenso www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Oh I guess he deserved it then, according to this headline. You can’t ride through a red, but you also can’t ride through a green at an intersection and be totally confident a car is not coming.

The upgraded Amsterdamsestraatweg in Utrecht. This could be any high street in the UK. Your street isn’t too narrow - it’s your town planners imagination that is.

We worked late tonight coming up with this handy pocket guide to send to NPR. It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

lots to be concerned about, but strong authoritarian regimes with durable secret police forces don’t have to put uwu smol bean press releases out asking people to be nice to them

They've lost the 9yos

This is a great short piece worth thinking about when it comes to transportation & urbanism. “We cannot optimise both proximity and mobility. Proximity and Mobility cannot be friends. We settle into one of two worlds: (a) high proximity, low mobility or (b) high mobility, low proximity.”

Man shut the fuck up Saruman, you fuckin narc

This image illustrates the Swiss Cheese Respiratory Pandemic Defense model, which shows that no single measure is perfect at stopping the spread of COVID-19, but multiple layers together reduce risk.

By @pot8um.bsky.social Having gotten my vax today, let me reiterate that it DOES NOT prevent catching or spreading covid on its own. The vax is one piece of Swiss cheese. Risk assessment isn’t a “one and done”. Mitigation works best in layers. Vax AND mask AND stay the fuck home when sick.

I can’t post this without being absolutely 100% clear that there are DECADES of studies that have proven Tylenol to be safe during pregnancy and this entire thing is totally misinformation pseudoscience bullshit. m.youtube.com/watch?v=VeN4...

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

this exists it is called thinking

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate increased slightly to 0.3% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-389. That implies a 7% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia 🧵

2 years of default urban/village 20mph in Wales has resulted in over 1,000 fewer killed or injured. The data shows a 25% reduction in casualties on the 20/30mph roads. Drivers gain with damage risk, crashes and premiums down. Well done Wales. bit.ly/4ppl030