"The new OECD report is a rare attempt to quantify the impact of long COVID on both individuals and countries.

The researchers note that it’s no small feat because few countries actually track sufferers," writes @picardonhealth.bsky.social.

#GiftLink 🎁

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90e3098...

This, and you never stop mourning the future you now don't have & the memories you've been unable to make.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DW6AF4pDRBo/ novaramedia ... PRESS Israel Kills Three Journalists Within 24 Hours of Ceasefire 'A systematic policy of targeting.' Photo: Ghada Al-Dayekh/Press TV/X | Mohammed Wishah/Al Jazeera | Suzanne Khalil/instagram

There’s no confusion if you report the facts.

— AssalRad

The two days that JD Vance spent in Hungary desperately trying to shore up support for Putin’s lapdog Viktor Orbán reminded me of what a pathetic, loathsome, lying, traitorous scumbag he is.

Yup.

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

“Ministers justified reducing support for people too disabled or ill to work by arguing it would remove the “perverse incentives” that discourage employment… as if a twentysomething bedbound with ME just needs “incentivising” to get back to the building site”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“I am forced to know things about what could happen in the coming week, and the effects it will have on the economy and our daily lives, that no longer allow me to sleep.”

(Italian Defence Minister, Guido Crosetto)

#collapse

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two:

#war #climate

It's past time.

When an illegal war, likely to cause mass murder, is launched, we have a choice of 2 positions:
1. It's wrong and has to stop.
2. Hurray! Let's join in.

Much of the UK Establishment - Conservatives, Reform, the billionaire media - went straight for Option 2.
Which tells you all you need to know.

Trump doesn’t have the ability to dictate when the war is over.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Gonna set fire to my neighbour's house because he is gonna set fire to my house. I have no evidence that he is gonna set fire to my house, but I'm doing a pre-emptive strike. BRB. If my neighbour retaliates, you must kill him for me. This is how self-defence works ♥️

Cartoon by
John Deering

Art and love.

What s beautiful world this could be.

We need to get serious about tackling corruption through political donations The government's reforms are welcome but they won't end political corruption

Political donations ensure that interests of the super-rich are writ large in govt policies.

Capital gains & dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. No NIC is levied.

Income of private equity bosses taxed as capital gains.

Bribery pays but normal people can't play the game.

Another El Nino Already? What Can We Learn from It? James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Dylan Morgan and Jasen Vest

James Hansen’s latest update is a wake-up call. Since 2010, warming has accelerated by 50%. Hansen: "The 1.5°C limit is deader than a doornail." We’re on a fast track to 2°C; even natural cooling cycles can't offset the trapped heat.

jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

We are the laughing stock of the world.

Thinking about lying Climate denial taught our leaders shamelessness

The GOP learned to lie--shamelessly and obviously--from three decades of climate denial.
billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

(LAPD) brutally beat a non-resisting, unarmed protester with their hands raised at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Concentration Camp in Downtown Los Angeles on 1/31/26

What I call climate 'appeasement' - the idea that climate breakdown isn't actually going to be that bad - is growing fast, and presents as great a threat as climate denial

Climate appeasers denigrate reality as alarmism, so fostering inertia and inaction

We are in deep, deep, sh*t - fact

Cartoon showing a yellow road warning sign with a car, a person with a gun, and three red dots on the car window representing gun shots on it. A text sign blow reads "Caution. ICE ahead'

Road hazards. Today's cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

#ICE #ReneeNicoleGood #USA

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER ASIA AND AFRICA
Every single country from Indonesia to Morocco is smashing records. Some more last hours:

37.8C Chabhar IRAN coast
32.0 Safawi ,30.5 Maan JORDAN highlands

HISTORIC
35.2 Praia ties
CAPE VERDE HOTTEST NOVEMBER DAY IN HISTORY

And The Crowd Cheered For
Jasmine Crockett,Knowing That
She's Correct ! 👏🏻👏🏻