Princess Anne continues to merge with the Christopher Walken meme

Not actually an April Fool. Just thinking of a future where we have Big Brother eyes on all our chippy wrappings. Not sure if it would be that helpful from a mental health perspective.

CCTV video shows the moment American journalist Shelly Kittleson was taken in Baghdad, Iraq.

I've been reading "My Favourite Thing Is Monsters". I bought it last year and am kicking myself I didn't start immediately. It's a book of empathy. Extraordinary. I went to find some interviews with Emil Ferris and found this one, which ends abruptly but well! www.theguardian.com/books/2017/f...

These Facebook (etc) no senses are so unbelievably stupid that you have to wonder what it reveals about the people who are making them, and their attitude toward the people eho they think will consume them.

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Supporters say #Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi may have suffered a heart attack.

If you catch yourself saying "Israelis" instead of "the Israeli govt", remember these kids, and remember that there is opposition in Israel.

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

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1/🧵 I’m currently looking to hire a UK-based Junior Software Engineer. This is a unique opportunity as the project is a hybrid: an indie game with real-world industrial applications. I will train the right candidate from the ground up in advanced high-performance computing and graphics.

Uhoh. Unfortunately, in the "Don't eat anything your great(+8)Grandmother would not recognise as food, I present: "Meat in jello" : modernmedievalcuisine.com/2021/08/04/j...

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

I don't know what to say

i did not make this up. this is an actual screenshot, from right now.

The more things go badly for him (a war he started but can’t control, surging oil prices, the Epstein files etc.) the more Trump dumps on trans people. IT’S NOT ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE!

Why does "I bought myself a Liarbird" by XTC go through my head on average about 3 times a day? It's definitely not their best song. It's a bit silly. I don't understand. If you were to ask me what their best song is, I'd have some trouble, and a potentially very long conversation might ensue.

Every so often I have a 1.5 kg bag of spearmint (in other words: garden mint) delivered so I can blend it with gunpowder tea. When it's fresh and bursting put of the bag, the smell is amazing. Spearmint helps balance hormones, if you've got PCOS. (Peer reviewed skience, I promise).

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

Matt is much better at his job than any ai and requires substantially less cooling.

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The phrase "What the hell?!" comes up quite a bit, reading (and listening) to this thread.

A confluence of two different loony lefty media channels that you will be needing to subscribe to if you don't already.

"Medics, Lebanese officials, hospital directors and aid agency staff say they see a consistent pattern of Israeli military violations of the rules of war, in which medical workers are no longer protected" @sallyhayd.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Love it when stuff like this happens. I wonder if that lass ends up going to law school.

What a delightful bunch of people the right wing press are.

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Grim. Please bring back Milli Vanilli.

Why is a children's book writer someone a government would have to offer "assurances" to on anything.

Buy some comics. Because you haven't got enough of them.

Please go to a UK march if you can! I will be looking after people out of hospital which is a right pisser but someone has to.

I have learned something interesting from an otherwise exceedingly dry history of the bible. When the single god was being called an approximation of 'yahway', there's some evidence that it was also known as 'yahoo'. Oh mighty Yahoo, who... hold on. This is a bit too 'Trump' for my liking.

Well, at least he can spell potato. That's an important VEEP skill.

Here is the thing, and I don't like saying it because I sound like a right git, but, what happens is: you just don't get things done. That's how it goes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government www.gov.uk/government/s...

In London and looking for something to do this evening? The V&A Late has been taken over by games folks showing off a collection of ludicrous ludic ideas, physical and digital. I'll mostly be hanging out with the Car Boot Casino card-game prototypers in the cafe www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

My now 20yr old 6'2" muscle mountain engineering student son spends his off hours either being best orange belt in his region at jiu jitsu (the martial art of the sufragettes, let's not forget :) and also cooking. He just sent me photos of banana bread just out of the oven. ?!

This bunch of messages will make public transport advocates very happy.

Letting people who wish to learn in the UK because they can't in their own countries, who may then become refugees because they will be discriminated against or killed at home, and keep their skills in our country, where it will contribute to our economy, has to stop. Not just shameful. Disgusting

What? Why do they (and by that I mean all govts) do this? What is the pitiful, tiny amount of money they will save going to prove to anyone, other than they are happy to discriminate against the people with least power in society because it's easier than raising mo;ey from the *most* powerful?

Ah this is a very good, clear move.

man, fuck you absolutely repugnant racist shit to say & also wholly inaccurate minnesota’s north star shines brighter because of our somali neighbors, community members, friends, coworkers & electeds who are largely some of the kindest, funniest, generous & incredibly smart people

The thing with Carl Sagan is, his mode of communication was too clear and straightforward for him to be taken up as a great philosopher of our age*. Aristotle did just this: pose straightforward questions. *well, apart from by good-hearted nerds

Puberty blockers killed no-one and the UK rushed through emergency legislation because of the 'danger'. Yet, somehow, neither the AI nor the misogyny here constitutes an 'emergency'

I suppose all of this depends on how humiliated Hedseth feels by the public, backing down by Trump and the worldwide recognition that that's what happened. So the question is, do we believe this or is it another hopeful fart* in the wind? *Messed his trousers again

I didn't realize the TotalEnergies deal doesn't include new investment in LNG infrastructure. It reimburses _already committed_ capital. This is shady AF

Bombing in Iran is causing terrible damage to important and beautiful historic buildings. This is not a precedent that the US or Israelis should be setting, given what the Iranians could bomb. The whole situation feels far too close to Hegseth's fucked up religious mania.

A woman in Georgia has been arrested for *murder* after allegedly taking abortion pills. Here's everything you need to know—including police lies to watch out for, media missteps, and how you can help jessica.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

Again in things you could not waterboard out of me:

Where the fuck are the front page condemnations? What the Israeli govt (and right-wing 'settlers') are doing to the Palestinian and Lebanses people defies belief.