I think its time I do thread w main causes of death by age. Log of death risk/100k on y axes so each line is 10* higher risk

Do you think she even stays in Labour in the next few years?

Moving to a profoundly different culture makes you realise how much food culture is tacit knowledge. Someone brings you a bowl of something, do you dunk bread in it, drink it like miso soup or wash your fingers in it? No way of knowing.

I mean the Starmer supporters do have some reasonable points to make about some of the policy mix.
Runs. Hides. Etc.

(Sorry)

Click Grifter to the tune of the B52s' Rock Lobster.

Trump Orders Fast-Track for Psychedelic Therapies—Who Stands to Win the Most? Over the weekend, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Food and Drug Administration to drastically shorten review timelines for certain psychedelic drugs aimed at treating…

Ach. Don't worry. It'll all be fine.
nai500.com/blog/2026/04...

This, I think, is it.

The more I pay attention to the Government (& on the one hand I don't think I pay *that* much attention, but on the other hand I've just watched over 2 hrs of Olly Robbins giving testimony to a Commons committee) the more I think the big issue is Morgan McSweeney being *hopelessly* out of his depth.

Over 18 months as PM. Has collapsed Labour's polling share from low 40s in early 2024 to high teens now. Policy agenda remains unclear. Has fired 2 chiefs of staff, 2 cabinet secs, 4 comms directors, head of FO. Poor relationship with Cabinet and MPs. But somehow this is social media... 🤔

This is true. No one wants to admit COVID still exists or ever existed. Quite incredible. Where are the huge conferences dedicated to COVID, like there still is for HIV?

An appalling speech written for tabloid headlines also had some dubious deniability in it. Knock me down with a, er, utilitarian feather.

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

NEW | On an odd choice…

WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

Hi, graph expert here, this isn’t funny, graphs only do this when they’re very distressed by their misleading y axis

WOW.

Tim Cook stepping down. $AAPL

LOL

Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows

Newsletter: As the president’s family’s shady dealings continue to mount, SEC enforcement actions have collapsed to twenty-year lows. The CFTC says it doesn’t need staff when it has AI.

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Worth watching Ed Miliband's speech tomorrow to see if any more detail on this

This photo is so beautifully lit that it looks like a still from a movie. This is the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited awaiting departure from LA bound for New Orleans. The train was all Pullman train (ie a hotel on wheels) which was good because it took 41 hours to complete.

The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction.

I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.

short $nvda

Angry Starmers is a weird follow up to Angry Birds.

Standard website transfers to Independent with more than 30 staff leaving The Independent has completed a "long-term" deal to run the digital operations and print advertising of The Standard.

The Evening Standard employed 364 journalists and staff when Lebedev bought it for £1 in 2009.

It now has 16

pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...

This is, quite obviously, rubbish.
But more generally - what sort of person thinks this is a good way to sell their increasingly politically contentious new technology to the public and politicians?

I feel like the next 24 hours in parliament are going to be really trying for those of us who dislike the passive voice

Not, ahem, Good Behaviour.

Gosh.

I agree. I am deeply Green sceptic too though.
Based on unscientific posters in windows, they are going to take Stoke Newington and Hackney at various levels.
If Diane steps down etc maybe the seat.
Fascinating to see their mayor candidate as lead story on the local Turkish language freesheet too.

I sometimes suspect that the Labour Party is the least optimal of any viable anti-Conservative political vehicle.
Any worse, and it would not be viable at all.
There's been no version where I thought - oh I might join that.

Yes. I mean the person I spoke to would constitute a source if I was writing about, but clearly wouldn't be the only one.
And I am not writing about it.
But are they not keen on the tech or on the people behind it?
Ah. I am not writing about it!