Dopamine menus: can small pleasures help us get unstuck? theconversation.com/dopamine-men...

1 The weapon used in Nowak's death was not a ceremonial Sikh dagger. 2 The United States says carrying a gun is a human right. Fuck off Yank.

AI and touch screens and Charlton Heston finally realises... Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research theconversation.com/great-apes-w...

Posted 5 days ago "russ_and_stacie_sullivan: Good morning, friends! Last night at WaterFire in Providence, 🔥a bunch of friends from different groups got together for a Signs of Fascism awareness event Signs of #Fascism is an event that highlights historical warning signs of #authoritarianism..."

Americans should be ashamed that we’ve NORMALIZED CORRUPTION.

Why does a Trump need immunity from committing TAX FRAUD unless he is and has been committing tax fraud?

So we’re forcibly removing people handing out articles at academic conferences now? Democracy…slip, sliding, away…

Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.

If Trump suddenly dies in office, what happens to all the criminals in his Admin who think they’ll get a pardon when he leaves?

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

"Japan is building a wind and solar hybrid platform in the open ocean — so the two technologies can share a single foundation and generate power around the clock. It produces a more consistent 24-hour electricity output than either technology alone #ActOnClimate #Renewables #ClimateActionNow

“Approval neither desired nor required.” #Pride

it has begun

NEW: Tim Robinson, the former CEO of Addiction Recovery Care, which once operated more than 40 drug treatment facilities statewide, was charged with attempting to resell millions of dollars worth of tax credits. w/ @kentucky.com

This is the most corrupt administration in American history.

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

The EU is developing plans to cut taxes on renewable energy and make electricity systems more flexible as high costs continue to weigh on the region’s economy

Great apes: what we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research theconversation.com/great-apes-w...

Why is calling a genocide a genocide such a hot political potato? I don't live near a glacier, but I know they're disappearing because the fact is very well documented.

Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...

All the right now has to offer is conflict. Some of its key figures have moved on from culture wars towards what seems to be a deliberate effort to foment civil war. If you're a conflict entrepreneur, the worse it gets, the better it is for you. Where they break, we must mend, building community.

In today's inbox: three requests to work for free. One would cost me £190 in rail fare, another would cost me at least 40 hours of work, and the last says "we don't have a budget for speakers, but we can promise a nice lunch." Folks, if you're paying the caterers, you can pay your speaker.

‘Oh no, our software is so powerful it’s going to take over the world! Oh stop us, we’re too powerful, our products are so much smarter than humans oh what shall we do? The world is in so much danger!’ ‘Please contact our sales team to learn more.’

Thankyou JD Vance, we have so much to learn from America.

Pollard, yet another guy who isn’t just a roaring, gargling, vexatious wingnut crank *now*: he was one twenty years ago and everyone knew he was, but that didn’t stop anyone picking up bullshitty stories from his paper and running with them when that was convenient.

Any guesses on where this person is supposed to practise? It's not in England or Wales with that gown...

Immigration & asylum is down: so why is the rage still rising? Because it’s no longer about immigration it’s white nationalism & we must all call it out As Churchill said of appeasers “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.” @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

This is now just pure trolling. 😠

Just so: absolutely everything he says is said in bad faith and every stunt he pulls is calculatedly vexatious. There’s no argument to be had with him or his supporters and there’s nothing to discuss, because none of them give a fuck what is real or made up.

Weimar Germany, 1932

It is overwhelmingly clear that non-white Brits are much more likely to be stopped, detained, disbelieved and mistreated by the police than whites, yet the BBC has spent the entire week giving oxygen to the far-right fantasy that the complete opposite is the case. Here’s what I think is going on

Everyone know that the NHS is in a dire state because of 15 years of Tory underfunding Now Wes Streeting wants to make it worse to justify his privatisation agenda dictated by the private healthcare companies which give him £thousands in 'donations' (aka policy buying bribes)

If you work in phil science and never sent your paper to a generalist journal (because worry your readership isn’t there), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research intends to bring more Phil science to its pages, and I have just joined as one of the editors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Race to the bottom open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

The case for raising UK interest rates is growing. Govt will pay more for debt. Business investment made expensive. Households forced to hand more to banks. Banks will make super profits from misery of others. Better to tax and remove surplus cash from the rich causing inflation. archive.ph/aeXuu

Surprisingly Mumsnet deleted this thread.

Just in case you didn’t realise Michael Spicer is here.

Have we ever had a more cowardly government before? "We can't do anything about sh!t in the water. That's the Water companies" "We can't do anything about gas prices. That's Russia" "We can't do anything about persecution of trans people. That's the courts." Gutlessness pretending to be impotence.

"Kinder gentler politics", "lived experience", even the concept of racism; Comfortables cannot, *will not* tolerate anything where they aren't the sole beneficiary. They will devote huge amounts of effort and resources to hijacking everything to make sure society revolves only around them

Why is the government refusing to act? Because the Starmer Party benefit from the same donors, the same corruption!! open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

This week, we were also pleased to learn that historians perform well in a new @yougov.co.uk poll on the trustworthiness of experts bit.ly/49I9NV7 77% trust historians' expertise, placing them third in a listing of professions. This is a 6% increase on a similar poll in 2017 #Skystorians

Yes, you really can be allergic to exercise – and the symptoms can be serious theconversation.com/yes-you-real...

He didn't have to play a free gig on Ipswich Waterfront today. He doesn't have to keep promoting Suffolk. Ed Sheeran chooses to.

5 Reasons Why Ken Paxton Is the Epitome of MAGA Crookedness open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

We must impeach and remove Donald Trump. And we will. #NY12

Two scientists on their race to make a new Ebola vaccine theconversation.com/two-scientis...

These are the queues in occupied Crimea to get some fuel. #Crimea

By Jim Benton