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In a world filled with horrible news every day, this is really amazing. This is what SCIENCE is about. And this is just the beginning. AMAZING!! "An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients." www.bbc.com/news/article...

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Same

When people are consistent, they are in Hobgoblin mode.

The people in the “autism community” would prefer you take yourself to the bin.

Please @support.bsky.team, make search results from only people you follow a thing on here as soon as possible

I just kinda like all the seasons really. I like being cosy and nesting in the winter and I like playing outside in the summer

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show will return to ABC's airwaves on Tuesday, the Walt Disney Company says.

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

Okay we're there.

Nobody wants pissed up robots getting into fights and throwing up oil all over the streets of Skye.

Thread. Take it from me, this is huge.

Looks like Tom Holland

The ridiculous prevalence of lattes

Why aren’t ALL tv remotes USB rechargeable instead of battery-powered, ffs

ISTR we did something this on Twitter when times were dark (like 2016, or 2020... and by no means limit yourself to only wholesome posts.. but if you can find one wholesome thing to post or repost a day, do it.

A track that stops me in my tracks every time open.spotify.com/track/02ppMP...

not every need to start over has to be sad

Today I went for a bike ride in a cooler but still pleasant September evening and there are some things that are just good, aren't there?

PITCH: a dating show based on supermarket baskets 12 singles are asked to do their weekly shop then pick a partner based only on what the person bought

It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.

I adore this song

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Watched this about 3 times youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?...

Been banging on about this for years. There’s a looming crisis here. 🧵

British scientist here. Can confirm.

Mrs Brown’s Boys level with Blackadder. This country is done.

Oh back to #parkrun today - had coffee with a mate afterwards - twice the fun

It’s not queue jumping if it’s not a legitimate queue

I am not going to be able to return to my job…huh

This is brilliant. Read the blog post too colton.dev/blog/curing-...

Apologies for the sleeves, but there is a teacup (and Jackie DeShannon is just out of shot)

Sabrina Carpenter will host ‘Saturday Night Live’ for the first time next month www.stereogum.com/2323493/snl-...

we will defeat fascism

Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first

The French Revolution was, obviously, a much much much bigger deal than the American

Are you thinking of Turkish? It apparently has a “gossip” tense. Well, sort of: www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

I don't want to do a 1-like-1-thing post but I do want to have a long thread of takes so instead: Every Time I Want To Reply To Someone On Bluesky With "That's Not True Though Is It" I'm Going To Post A Take In This Thread

I've never been able to verify this but I heard when much younger that there is a language where the tenses mean "where I got the info from" and I've always tried to say that ever since "Someone said" "I heard that someone told Dave" "I saw" "I did" "x newspaper reported" It's a good habit

This is the history that people don't want to admit. It's all "hahaha how do you go bankrupt running a casino", but Trump came out of there with more money than he went in, and with the same number of holes in his head, which is not a boast everyone can make. He's declined since, mind.

@sentimentbot.bsky.social hi tell me what you see

Me: I find chrome a bit bloated. Google: hold my beer blog.google/products/chr...

Booked tickets for Mogwai, lads

Oh my goodness, how did no one tell me The Beta Band had got back together?

So, the next outings of John Oliver and Jon Stewart might be interesting...

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

"the hard data suggests that the largest of the UK’s very real problems are no more being caused by mass immigration than they are by a group of charity fundraisers rowing past Great Yarmouth" on.ft.com/3IsyVVu @timharford.ft.com with his facts and reasonableness

Every day we stray further from God’s light. on.ft.com/47I9rO9

My takeaway so far is that he missed a trick with "engineers v lawyer"; the two opposing models he's talking about should clearly be called "the fucking about culture and the finding out society"