Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

My immediate hunch is that Rwanda doesn’t the fuck need nuclear. These nuclear deals with Putin are about looting public funds through a huge state investment to cover it up. Kagame is a ruthless, imperialist piece of shit.

I feel a bit foolish for only discovering Otis Rush at 50. I still love Peter Green’s playing and song writing but I’m finally realising how he simply synthesised the incredible original styles of BB King and Otis Rush - blending the best of both. Still so much to learn from them #blues #guitar

In his live show, @robwords.com talks about words that have been skunked, i.e., words definitions have become ambiguous or have multiple interpretations because of their usage. An interesting and relatively recent one is the use of "POV" in short-form videos. It's often used on videos that aren't …

The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The amazing York Helmet is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain, and the best preserved! A Latin inscription bears the name ‘OSHERE’. The nosepiece is decorated with fantastic beasts! Found in 1982 by a digger operator in York. AD 770-775. 📷 me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

This is obviously terrible for American scientists but it would also be a gut-shot to American economic power. The Trump administration has already hobbled the US’s advantage in research that’s fuelled its economy since ww2. Their enemies could not have sabotaged them more effectively.

Israel has killed or injured 11 children in Lebanon every day, as it expanded strikes across the country despite a ceasefire.

Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff

Well, AI might eliminate a few C-suite jobs here.

Told @BBCWorld that a key sign that the US and Iran are close to a deal is that the Trump admin has spent the last 48h defending a potential deal. They wouldn't be spending any political capital defending a yet-to-be-secured deal if they didn't believe they were close.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Neoliberal biased version of reality leads the NYT into publishing this horror. Israel, the front end of the US people’s aggression, continues to breach the ceasefire, murder civilians & pump out amateur propaganda. This is the US destroying life. America & it’s myth of supporting liberal democracy*

"Enrich dismissed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's claim that "no one has died" from the shuttering of USAID as "flatly untrue", estimating that "at least 750,000 people have already died unnecessarily due to those cuts"."

It was Marcia who cut together the trench run sequence in STAR WARS, using every last second of FX footage, reducing the number of Luke's attempts on the port from three to one, and adding a "ticking clock" of the approaching Death Star. It's her savvy storytelling that makes the sequence coherent.

Photo of photographer Lee Miller, a member of the London War Correspondents Corps, joined the Allied forces during the liberation of Western Europe in 1944. Image by D.Sherman, 1945 #WomensArt

Marilou & I are deeply saddened by the loss of our lifelong friend, Marcia. Not just a gifted, innovative artist, she also happened to be a genuinely nice person. Smart, funny, & just plain fun to be around. Thankfully, her memory lives on and we will never stop missing her. shorturl.at/wx6BV

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Even with an AI generated Churchill on Question Time, it's still a more left wing panel than they've had in years.

Did a big painting of my favourite pedestrian bridge in the world.

Burberry boss could collect up to £12.2m under new bonus scheme as company rolls back climate goals. The same repeated across major corporations. Workers produce wealth, execs get mega rewards. Govts preach wage restraint to workers, silence on exec pay, dividends and share buyback.

The lead-crime hypothesis remains controversial but statistically consistent. In South Africa “The total number of murders has declined every quarter for the past three years.” We stopped leaded petrol in 2003. That matches the 20 year lag recorded elsewhere. May it continue.

This review details the stunning collapse in credibility of liberal news - confidently condemning lesser war crimes but suddenly equivocating hard over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It calls out the culture of “savvy” journalism more concerned with being aligned with power than with being correct.

Magic Land Of Mescaline… tumblr.pulpcovers.com/post/8178652...

Examples from Canada & Australia show sheep grow better wool and more of it under #solar panels. theconversation.com/solar-shephe...

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed! All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I'm in South Africa - Cape Town more specifically - asking "what went so right?"

Her orange dress burned and melted onto her body, Mohammed Haniya notes.

Children burned alive, their bodies torn apart by U.S.-funded Israeli strikes. Video: Gaza Notifications via X (@gazanotice)

Israel needs to be dismantled. The child killers must all be jailed or worse. And the current adult citizens must declare this Israeli state to have committed crimes against humanity in writing to be granted citizenship of a free Palestine.

🚨 Israel Burns More Palestinians Alive Under U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Palestinians carried burned and wounded children through the streets after an Israeli airstrike hit a residential home in central Gaza City, killing at least 7 people, including two young girls, and wounding more than 20 others...

💢 Israeli strikes set Tyre ablaze overnight, targeting power generators in residential neighborhoods Israeli strikes resumed in Tyre after midnight, setting residential neighborhoods ablaze as civilians attempted to shelter, according to journalist Hala Jaber. Strikes reportedly targeted power...

Trump administration has sought to pressure international officials who scrutinise reported abuses by Israeli forces.

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Oh I like this question! My immediate thought (because of the prompt) is "blandish" and "blemish," but also, "askance" is an adverb that looks like a noun and "contumely" is a noun that looks like an adverb. The biggest category here is -ly adjectives: scholarly, cowardly, etc. This needs a name.

hell freezes over, the FT opens the door to nationalization

All that money that is now spent on Data Centers - imagine if it was spent building hospitals, training nurses, and buying medical equipment. How many lives would be saved? Anxiety reduced knowing healthcare is more available. We need a better economic system than we have now.

Well that same place in the Czech Republic also makes an orthochromatic film, also in beautiful retro packaging. Found someone in Cornwall who was selling a couple rolls on Etsy. He said he got it from someone in Italy. Now here in the US, well-traveled film. I’m interested in trying out ortho

This is so spot on

Depressing and shameful to see. The people really being systematically victimised in South Africa are equally unwelcome in the USA.

going on a shadowrun to hardwire a breach into the local data center to siphon nvidia matrix units so me and the boys can play final fantasy v

Tech oligarchs have spent 3 years screaming that their plan is to win the race to AGI, which they define as the point when machines replace the vast majority of human economic activity. They just figured out that we could hear them. Bit late, Jensen Huang. www.channelnewsasia.com/business/ceo...

It would be helpful if prominent Arsenal supporting politicians like Jeremy Corbyn and Zohran Mamdani could throw their weight behind questioning the club's sponsorship partnerships with genocide-enabling companies like Deel, Emirates, and Coca-Cola.

#AUSPOL THIS IS HOW YOU DO INDEPENDENCE: Energy independence Energy sovereignty Economic independence Fiscal Sovereignty No more subservience to oil empire Political sovereignty. Real nationalism, not the racist cooker flag-waving coal billionaire sellout version.

Oooooookay "Real-world stakes are already piling up around this. Simulated worlds are one thing, but we’ve seen agents harassing people online and deleting people’s emails. And those agents were supposed to be helpful. What happens when people release malicious autonomous AI bots on purpose?"

'Ceasefire' Watch...

Oz must end US colonisation of our intelligence services. "How many people is Pine Gap involved in killing in Palestine Lebanon Syria Yemen Iran?” Oz expert, Dr Richard Tanter, attests Pine Gap’s direct role in providing intel to the IDF via US NSA. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/05...

Just a reminder: a set of studies indicating that being rich makes you act evil was described relatively recently in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It’s nice to see Cory posting this stuff here. There are not enough people doing very personal and emotional stuff about tech, and I’m glad it’s happening on BlueSky

Secretly, bosses are haunted by the fear that they're not driving the car, they're strapped into the back seat, amusing themselves with a toy steering-wheel: pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/f... 26/