Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.

My debunk of Sarah Vine's opinion piece 👇

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War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world’s rarest big cat Before the war began in February 2026, there was some rare good news for Iran’s imperiled Asiatic cheetahs. Rangers spotted and filmed a female in the North Khorasan province accompanied by five cubs…

Fewer than 30 Asiatic cheetahs remain in the wild, all in Iran.

While the subspecies has been protected since 1959, war and sanctions are now disrupting vital conservation efforts, leaving the world’s rarest big cat on the brink of extinction.

@ayleighk.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

It's like that time Ladybird Johnson held a press conference to inform everyone she had no idea who the Zodiac Killer was

I'm supporting the University of Minnesota Foundation! Help support academics and scholarships at the University of Minnesota.

I would greatly appreciate anyone amplifying this or contributing.

The Alex Pretti nursing scholarship is being created. An endowed scholarship awarded to a student with financial need. Preference will be given to students with an interest in supporting America's veterans. Link below. Thank you.

World TB Day 2026 - Yes! We can End TB! Led by countries. Powered by people. World TB Day 2026: Yes! We can end TB: Led by countries, powered by people.

March 24, 1882 Koch identified the #TB bacterium, launching the breakthroughs that eventually made #tuberculosis treatable. Today TB remains a leading infectious killer, driven by #AMR, gaps in diagnosis and care +social factors: poverty, undernutrition, diabetes, and HIV
www.who.int/campaigns/wo...

Reform have misspelt 2 out of the 3 Welsh words on their manifesto for Wales.

Nigel Farage and Wales leader Dan Thomas proudly held up the manifesto at the launch yesterday.

On the front cover it reads "Family, community, country," which has been translated to "Teulu, gymnued, wlad."
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Looking forward to the crown-line of duty mashup

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.

He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

I'll see you baby when the clans rise again, women and men united in the struggle in this free world. Kirsty Maccoll. Musician and humanist.

Musician Kirsty MacColl died #onthisday in 2000. It's difficult to believe it's been 25 years. We were proud to conduct her humanist funeral, in accordance with her wishes. This Christmas marks the third year without Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, but still, their voices live on❤️

Be like Rob Reiner. A must read.

It's just fantastic.

christ almighty what is this guy doing

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Congratulations to Archbishop Woman on her appointment.

I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt.

Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

People wearing life jackets are sitting in an open boat looking at samples taken from the sea. The sea is calm and teh sky is blue behind them.

SOS 3rd year marine biology students enjoyed their fieldwork at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science earlier this month. The weather was almost as good as in North Wales at the time...

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

TB is the #1 killer among infectious diseases. A new study says its toll could mount New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.

New research estimates that U.S. cuts to TB programs could cost as many as 2.2 million additional lives by the end of the decade. Even short-term disruptions could cost tens of thousands.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

I was holding out hope Aiden was an elaborate parody after it offered to 'reframe' my prompt 'to invite more emergence, ambiguity, and shared sensing'. Apparently this would 'hold entanglement' and 'compost the idea of a single neat answer'. So it's drunker than most authors at a lit festival?

that summit could've been an email

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley, technology pioneer, dies aged 91 She founded the software company Freelance Programmers in 1962, which almost exclusively hired women, and in later life donated almost £70m of her fortune.

Stephanie Shirley is perhaps one of the lesser known tech pioneers, but she shouldn't be. Back in the 60s she saw the potential for women in tech, setting up a company for them to code from home, going by the name Steve because it was a man's world. RIP Dame Shirley

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

She's actually sold this documentary, hasn't she? Someone is waiting for it finally to be finished (for years).