"Greetings friendo..."

Looking forward to joining this panel and discussing information integrity and how you can tackle health #misinformation on a budget... 🤔

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

I’ve written, with my colleague @davehillonlondon.bsky.social , what is basically a short book about the London borough elections. Want to know the recent history, the key wards, the local parties? It’s here londondecides.lowickhedry.com

An oil painting of a moonlit path through grassy Cornish fields down to the sea. Yes please.

Tonight's goodnight image is 'Gate to The Moonlit Valley, West Penwith', Sarah Vivian, oil on canvas. Sweet dreams.

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

From anti-transgender narratives about Olympic swimmers to fabricated comments from right-wing politicians, a slew of Facebook pages managed from Vietnam are capitalizing on Australia's inflamed politics to promote AI-generated articles
u.afp.com/SEmj

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations." @davidingram.bsky.social keeping tabs:

nocturnal seascape, soft, minimal, soothing greens in varying shades, pale, luminous light of a lighthouse in the distance - oil on canvas

Georgia O'Keeffe

Wave, Night (1928)

Mayor of London behind a lectern, speaking to an audience, with a large tapestry covering the wall behind him.

Mayor of London in conversation - seated on stage looking out to the audience.

Mayor of London in a group shot at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit - everyone is smiling.

A wide view of the Cambridge Disinformation Summit set in a large historic hall with long tables and a stage at the front.

We cannot ignore the link between online disinformation and offline harm.

The outrage economy is eating away at the basic bonds of trust that hold our societies together. I spoke at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit to address how social media spreads hate and fuels violence.

Sounds like you've already got the title for a sequel!

Integrity matters + News/analysis The Spectrum of Misinformation returns for 2026 with more news, analysis & practical advice for communicators. In News digest: ADHD claims denied, humans not LLMs to blame for bombings, sayonara Sora...

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LSHTM: where your 'what ifs' become your reason why...

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Behold your god

CC @oispooky.bsky.social

Behold your god

CC @oispooky.bsky.social

Wouldn't you like to know...

Don't hide your light from the world.
Use it to draw lost travelers deeper into the forest and towards your cozy den made of twigs and wildflowers, where you can devour them at your leisure.

I noticed the UK government's estimate of CO2 from future AI data centres was implausibly low.

I asked for the methodology underpinning the analysis, but got nowhere.

When I wrote an article about it they just... deleted the analysis.

Now, @adamvaughan.bsky.social has covered this for the Times.

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a close up of a man with a beard wearing a helmet and saying aye ALT: a close up of a man with a beard wearing a helmet and saying aye

The fellowship of the ring already featured an elf, so they had to include a dwarf for diversity.

It was pure Tolkienism...

Keep going HISTORIKERIN COX!

a close up of a man with a beard wearing a helmet and saying aye ALT: a close up of a man with a beard wearing a helmet and saying aye

The fellowship of the ring already featured an elf, so they had to include a dwarf for diversity.

It was pure Tolkienism...

Graphic titled 'meningitis' showing top down view of human brain in grey with outside border of righthand inflamed side in pink against a yellow background with orange blobs representing bacteria and neutrophils.

BREAKING NEWS: UK #meningitis B vaccination expanded to 15 & 16-year-olds at affected schools

LSHTM experts answer common questions about #MenB #vaccine, stressing risk to rest of UK remains low and you should take antibiotics if offered.

Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Some fascinating findings in this @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report on how young people get their news.

Was particularly struck by how popular reading (still) is.

One for @oispooky.bsky.social

The godless eldritch horror screeches his ululating call to the rain slicked gun metal sky. A million windows shatter. His batting eyes down helicopters. The uhf hum of his bow tie empties stomachs for a mile.

Quatermass weeps, then, throat hoarse, issues the command.

‘Blobby blobby blobby’

Actually made me LOL 😂

I found this extract interesting. The relationship between happiness and feeling safe. (And by implication how you could undermine institutions by making people feel unsafe.)

BBC News - How Finnish supermarkets are central to the country's defence
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Light blue graphic with black text reading: "Meningitis is now very rare in the UK in the era of vaccination but there are still cases every year." Eliza Gil, Clinical Lecturer, LSHTM

BREAKING NEWS: Deadly outbreak of #meningitis B in UK

LSHTM experts discuss latest situation, including access to #MenB #vaccines

More: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

#PublicHealth

A tube of glow-in-the-dark plastic planets that lists the contents as “8 glowing planets” and “1 glowing Pluto”

I salute the pedantry of the child’s new toy.