Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

A series of unfortunate decisions.

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

Chicago made it so every public school student can use their school ID as a #LibraryCard 📚. No forms, no extra steps. It gives over 300k students instant access to #books, #tutoring, and online resources 🙌

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

I need to set up a vpn just so I won’t get local ads on streaming apps. There’s a CT Chevy dealer who uses a Trump impersonator in their ads, and it is revolting.

"We call the next prosecution witness, Jesus Christ" "Mr. Christ, were you walking beside Mr. Comey on the beach that day?" "I was" "What did you see?" "I saw that he had murder in his heart"

I'm blocked, as well. But I'd already blocked that schmuck.

NERD INFERNO is out on April 28th from @darkhorse.com. Every day until then I'm posting something from the 648-pg magilla. TODAY: Pg 1 of "Mighty Carl Jung" a retelling of the movie Mighty Joe Young with Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung standing in for the giant ape. A personal fave.

Watchdogs say the previous CEO model suspiciously started slowing down immediately after the announcement chaser.com.au/business/app...

Thought that maybe, just maybe, @seattletimes.com would do the right thing and slip a bare-minimum credit into their piece on the story I broke, including my screenshot of the IG story, shortly before it vanished. Nah. They don't care. Still pretending they got the story on their own.

Anyone hiring *rusty* mac/iOS devs? Preferably in CT or remote, but relocation is certainly an option. I've been taking care of my elderly parents for quite a while, but that's over and now I need to find a job before the house sells and I have to live out of my car. Please repost.

In public, Wes Streeting is furiously back-pedaling from his earlier Palantir cheerleading. But in private he is refusing to let us see what civil servants told him about Palantir So, with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social, we are taking him to court to try and force him to hand over the briefings.

Charlie gets cranky if I don't go to bed early enough. And he doesn't like it when I listen to podcasts or old radio detective shows while I fall asleep. After a while he pulls the phone off the nightstand. Or my glasses. Whatever he can reach.

Obviously waiting for the syrup.

when you've siezed the means of production and aren't sure what comes next

Love that this is coming back around again! From the golden internet era! 😂, but also 💔

Now this is how you do an April Fools joke. Imagine an episode BBC Radio 4's In Our Time that gradually gets increasingly deranged. The episode is a discussion of the reinterpretation of art over time. The April 1, 2002 episode of Odyssey from NPR and Chicago's WBEZ. archive.org/details/Odys...

This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...

I have seen a lot of NIMBY selfishness in my time, but "my convenience matters more than cancer care" is a new low. Quite seriously tempted to email them and tell them as much.

PSA Back in the days of Brexit there was this joke reply to the boast that we held all the cards: "EU lays down a royal flush. UK looks at own cards: Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool" Often (mis)attributed to me, it was by @johnnypixels.bsky.social

I really don't want to learn massage.

Could also be the Mayor McCheese flag

There was a 1940s radio detective named “Dyke Easter”

Someone please photoshop Tiger and Prince Andrew in the back of a var together.

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

The spring peepers sound like the Martian ships from Pal’s War of the Worlds

Britain shouldn’t send King Charles to meet Trump. They should send Count Binface

I hope that, if Trump shows up at oral arguments, some reporter watches Trump's face like a hawk.

Sometimes private equity is unfairly demonised, but most of the time we're not harsh enough.

I heard Belly, "Feed The Tree" at Walmart this morning.

@actualnames.bsky.social Professional photographer Charles Shotwell shotwellart.com

We can probably assume Trump also received videos about ICE activities.

Shit. Now what.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy." Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

More new results, this time from the amazing Lily Kramer! 🎉 “Sequential experience reshapes population representations in visual cortex” doi.org/10.64898/202... Visual experience unfolds in time. We asked how temporal structure reshapes population activity in visual cortex. 🧪🧵1/

To be devoutly wished for

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

Thunder storm!

(Another) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest @nytimes.com #reinstitutionalization www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

If you're out tonight don't forget that there is a one hour purge at 2am.

At the vet with Charlie. Bad feeling he has lymphoma like Stubby had.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Like many of you my reaction to all the 'distraction' talk was instinctive scepticism. But I can't deny facts. He played us. It worked. It's only been a few days of war and already no one is talking about Cavicular getting frame mogged by that ASU frat leader.

MAGA dogwalker Sara Daither doesn't seem to exist online. Must make it hard to get clients.

Billy goes hard on Ash Wednesday