No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.

this man has blood on his hands and everyone who supported him and excused him has blood on their hands and I do not want to hear a single fucking Democrat with any position other than "impeach and remove him immediately" he and his MAHA movement are child killers

New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like: “The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” “I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”

Trump gets a pass on violent rhetoric, and he shouldn't. Calling the police is the correct response. Journalists should also take this seriously, demanding explanations and accountability from the White House, instead of pretending this is just a Thursday.

Shittification and shareholder return A rehash of an old thread Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets He had zero faith in merchants And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline 1/n

I knew this reminded me of something. Someone must have seen this Feynman video and completely missed the point. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.

Right. Here's my big pitch: Muppet James Bond James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye Dominic Cooper as Bond Kermit M Frog Mrs Moneypiggy Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.

"China has a monopoly on magnets"

Trump: "Nobody knows what a magnet is"

this man is an embarrassment to our Republic and its scientific and engineering history

John 11:35

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Isn't this the plot of Tomorrow Never Dies

A bold take on podcasting from my (temporary) replacement Martin Wolf…

"The world of adults was full of invisible walls she could not see and no one would explain. She had been dropped like a mouse into what looked like an empty field but was an endless maze."

Look on my woks, (yeah, my tea), and this pear!

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Genius: combines an illustration of English phonology with an important step in the development of writing systems

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Nice to know that @royalsociety.org approves of this message from one of its Fellows

What a great question 🤔

British.

Me: someone who reads mostly sff Steerswoman books by @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social Me: holy shit

This is what Harold Wilson said in reply to Enoch Powell's 'River of Blood' speech. Oh to have politicians of this calibre again. Imagine Starmer saying this?

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

"You should never overestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices." – George Monbiot

I am just so fucking proud of her.

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease. There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done." 1/🧵

"This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them" Except that you haven't rejected them. By failing to act, you are explicitly endorsing Musk and his views. He must be very proud of your continued support.

If the President of the Royal Society is so concerned, then he should actually do something about it. Start with expelling Elon Musk. What exactly is stopping you other than fear?

i listed all the ones I’d heard here: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve...

So exhausting..

“Put that phone down!”

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

Old Soviet joke: Every day a man buys the newspaper, looks at the front page, swears under his breath and immediately dumps the paper in the bin. One day, the seller asks: What are you looking for? Man: An obituary. Seller: The obituaries aren't on the front page. Man: this one will be.

I wrote about the most interesting man you’ve probably never heard of, who discovered the real Noah’s Ark, and gives us a window into a fascinating world of the first humans who invented writing. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-mirthf...

The media can stop taking this person seriously whenever they choose. www.businessinsider.com/nigel-farage...

Pregnant women want to protect their babies. But the trump regime falsely claims Tylenol causes harm—without science to back it. There’s no link to autism! Such fear may push women to riskier meds. Always talk to your OB-GYN about safe options during pregnancy.

He told Starmer we should use the military to stop small boats crossing the channel and ‘invading Britain’ Now he’s loving on the guy who brought his people across the channel in small boats & actually invaded Britain 🙄🤦‍♀️

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Alexander von Humboldt taught us to try to understand the world both by looking at the data, and by going out, looking carefully and trusting our own senses. With this in mind, I wonder what he'd have made of our debate about immigration? on.ft.com/4pkDIJ8

Dear @ukri.org, I think JJ Thomson nailed the perils of having Government agencies use “clear eyes” to decide where to focus research funding to maximise benefit to society. 🧪 (www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...)

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D 🎁Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

The Crossing

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.