Trump threatens to wipe out an entire civilisation, as US bombers take off from UK airbases.

Has anyone seen 'Sir' Keir? 👀 #askingforafriend

El narcisismo patológico se está volviendo cada vez más aceptable en la sociedad occidental, hasta el punto de que incluso nos agrada en nuestros líderes.

How is the article a reason to cancel?

This guy looks like Isaac Asimov!

Police arrest 15 Take Back Power supporters at a nonviolence training event - Take Back Power 15 Take Back Power supporters were arrested during a nonviolence training this evening being held in the Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Take Back Power is a nonviolent campaign demanding a tax on e...

More police overreach, enabled by the current and recent governments:
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This article ignores the elephant in the room: the first past the poll system in British elections. The electorate don't bother to vote for a party that they like, except as a protest vote, unless they perceive it as standing a chance, an inverse bandwagon effect that only applies in some countries.

The U.S. Killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. What Comes Next? “This tells any potential adversaries of the U.S.: Get nuclear weapons. Hedging is not a strategy.”

“This tells any potential adversaries of the U.S.: Get nuclear weapons. Hedging is not a strategy.”

Blood tech: UK's use of Israeli spyware that helps underpin a genocide Despite its public objections to Israel's actions, the UK is buying spyware developed and tested on Palestinians.

Despite its public objections to Israel's actions, the UK is buying spyware developed and tested on Palestinians.

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’ * Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 prize. Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury and director of Tate Britain, said the win by the British-Nigerian represented a watershed moment for the international art world. Continue reading...

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

It's not really the case that patronymics are used in Greece and Cyprus. It's not like in Russia where it's usual to refer to someone by their name along with their father's name. It's only used occasionally in certain official documents.

Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action? Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.

Did Trump pressure Starmer to ban Palestine Action?

Lawyers for Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, have questioned if the US president influenced the crackdown on the group.

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"Independence" means very different things here in each case; whether the separation of former Yugoslavia into separate nations, the first phase of Greek independence from the then Ottoman Empire, or Turkey becoming a republic; these are completely different and it's misleading to compare them.

At the low end there's likely to be significant under-reporting. At the high end there's a reverse bias: people with major mental health problems may not be able to mantain a demanding high income job. This graph means less than it appears to.

It's because he was within Mordor. It's "explained" shortly after Shelob's lair, when Sam had been wearing the ring to hide from orcs but takes it off just before coming out of the tunnel and entering Mordor, because instinctively he realises that he'll become visible to Sauron in his domain.

Me sorprende que te hayan dicho que trabajar con pantallas provoca la presbicia. Yo he sido un ratón de biblioteca desde siempre, así que tengo miopía, que ya reduce el efecto de la presbicia que tengo debido a mi edad.

“History shows it clearly, austerity creates the conditions in which fascism thrives. When Gov'ts strip away public services, weaken safety nets and deepen inequality, people lose hope in democracy and turn to authoritarian strongmen.’” . - Richard Murphy

Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.

Por desgracia, como persona solitaria, no tengo más opción que discutir con mí mismo.

We should all have freedom of movement, to seek a better life for ourselves and our loved ones, and especially to get out of an unbearable situation. Some people vote like they're billionaires-in-waiting, but we're actually all asylum-seekers-in-waiting.

Black Iris, oil on canvas, 1926 Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things"
Georgia O'Keeffe

Tech has successfully gamified everyone's brains to the point that they think they're living in a simulation/video game even if they don't actually think that. Literally 'reading' books like a player in a game to gain imaginary xp.

An incisive article.

Some of those men will be gay.

Some of this is just imploring people once again not to farm out their storytelling to AI. Craft and process can sometimes be the only things you'll ever get out of a story that you've written, so why would you ever give those joys away to a machine?

"We also reported that the chatbot was bullshitting, in the technical sense."
We're living in the age of bullshit. Trump is the iconoclastic paragon of our times. No wonder people are desperate to embrace the automation of bullshit.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Yo lo empecé hace poco y me encanta.

Por cierto, no fue el único: Marie Curie recibió premios Nobel en física y química.

UK Labour doing its best to replicate the US Democrats' success in moving the country to the right and consigning themselves to irrelevance.

La mejor frase que he escuchado hoy: «No son genios, solo son millonarios».

Imaginad lo que lograría un verdadero genio con los recursos de esos tecnolerdos egotistas.

Is it right to assume that bluesky are prejidiced? An alternative explanation that occurs to me for the simple reason that I've seen this kind of thing before is an organised bombardment of complaints, alleging antisemitism or whatever, from a large number of individual accounts.