WELL NOW, would you look at that?
A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
I want you all to listen to this with headphones on at the loudest volume that your cranium can stand:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH6I...
Here me out here, what happens if it's the fascism, xenophobia, genocide, and annihilation of the planet?
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.
Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.
(🎥 Al Jazeera)
The Nuremberg Defence didn't work the first time. Trump might get away with it by taking the easy way out, but his enablers won't.
No.
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”
Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!
Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.
Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.
I dreamt of the beach (1/4)
Surely the Mail should be in favour of countries cracking down on immigrants who break the law?
That seems, how to say it? Unhealthy?
They do realise that once you've bought a solar panel, you're reliant on sunlight, not China?
The evergreen classic;
Looks like the Americans want to experience the delights of the Battle of Spioen Kop. Fighting as the British, of course.
Vote aux nations unies
l'Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies a adopté un texte disant que la traite des esclaves avait été le plus grave crime contre l'humanité.
Israël, les États-Unis et l'Argentine ont voté contre.
Les pays occidentaux, dont la France, se sont abstenus.
Il suffit d’un jeune avec quelques faits pour décapiter toute la propagande du RN ! Bravo Marius !
Par @marius_lit_lactu
This is about as abject as you can get, even by these people's standards
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
The future is petty, dull, & cruel. For many, that won't be too different from now, but the hope - even if we can't see it now - in a better life for all is fading.
The lamps are going out all over the planet. I fear we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
In the latter, we are hemmed in by violence & arbitrary fraud.
You may think, well the bullies get a lot out of this. Only up to a point
There power ends where the next bully's begins. They have to keep projecting strength through endless war. Their lives are caged, nasty, brutish & small.
A bully's world is small. If you want to imagine a future of where ethno-fascists are trying to take us, imagine a world of gangs & bullies. A world not of cooperative & interoperabile law, but of power & authority. In the former, we can move relatively freely (with a birth-lottery caveat).
The oil embargo of the 70s was also a great time for carmakers to focus on massive, fuel guzzling monstrosities. Oh, wait, no. No it wasn't. Some country, previously treated as good only for cheap copies suddenly dominated with cheap, small, fuel efficient cars. I'm sure that couldn't happen again.
Intellectual loneliness isn’t about wanting ‘deep talks.’ It’s about realising how few people can tolerate complexity. It’s noticing how quickly people rush to have an answer not to understand, but to feel right. It’s watching people form entire worldviews off headlines, vibes, and whatever reels told them last. It’s the silence that follows when you say something that doesn’t fit neatly into someone’s script. It’s not arrogance. It’s exhaustion, from always having to code-switch between what you actually think and what’s safe to say around people who shut down at nuance. And no one warns you: Once your brain learns to stretch, small talk doesn’t just bore you, it alienates you. You’re not looking for smart people. You’re looking for people who are still thinking.
I don't know the ins and outs of the Shy Girl thing, but I can tell you that finishing a novel is an endurance sport.
You have to read the thing so many times that you're tired of it, and the sentences swim into each other like a soup by the 77th read-through.
That's why so many of us have - 1/
Ah, thanks for the link. It's a tricky one to search for given the general borkness of search. I teach something adjacent in my research data science courses where I invite students to consider that data collection intersects with the real world, is inherently imperfect & can only ever be "truthy".
Never heard of it, but will definitely be reading up. Thanks :)
used to establish democracy, or sustain it. Yet telephones, factories & farms which it relied on were used to bring it down. It's hard to build a parallel system in order to bring down the master's house, but, once it's down, it's critical to cast away the tools one used which might rebuild it.
Oddly, I've been thinking on a similar line for a few months. I think there's a difference between "tools" as tech/kit & "tools" as systems/rules. And, intersecting, what happens if the tools were never the master's but stolen from us? The political system that enforced Apartheid can never be
I'm more passive-aggressive. I sign-off with "Thanks".
Just checked ... I have over 4,000 FOI requests to my name. Would be nice if they asked _my_ opinion some time. And I really would like proactive publication instead of dragging the whole process out.
