Well they found a way to get the birth rate up

Day 28 of daily video to raise funds for displaced people in Lebanon. In which I share my favourite novel. Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-ali-e...

On Karp and that awful Palantir manifesto: Karp is such a fan of Oswald Mosley, the 1930s British Fascist leader, that he has memorised his speeches.

When it talks, walks, and salutes like a duck, it’s a duck.

#Palantir #NHS

This. Every time you see a "successful" trans person, know we are just one transphobe away from losing everything. This is one reason why it is important for allies to actually ally when we're not around -- transphobes should know their views aren't acceptable to anyone.

hot damn!

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly.

We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.

Concerned about footing the bill for NDIS changes, states are pushing back In address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, Mark Butler said states would have "greater funding responsibility" for the scheme.

Concerned about footing the bill for NDIS changes, states are pushing back

If you want to listen to me talk about The Night Guest and how I have managed to monetise my anxiety by writing horror, you can do so here!

Photos not showing on the skyline. Bluesky is going through it. But maybe now people will get a little taste of what is like not to see photos and miss a lot of the context. Don't forget to alt text!

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

Why @why.bsky.team Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast Feb 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM 343 29 Reply View on Bluesky

everyone i’m sorry it was 99%. i said 100% and i know i let you all down.

Reminder: this is one of Bsky's main tech guys

'Frightening': Butler's move to cut 160,000 people from NDIS sparks concern Disability advocates flag concerns that an overhaul of the NDIS scheme could disproportionately impact parts of the community.

'Frightening': Butler's move to cut 160,000 people from NDIS sparks concern

University of Queensland directs UQP to cancel & pulp an Aboriginal writer's environmental-focused book for children. Jazz Money has done nothing wrong and doesn't deserve to be treated this way. Her book is important for young readers. Shameful

honestly, Labor needs the boot. that bunch doesn’t care about marginalised people, it doesn’t care about stabilising people’s lives, it only cares about strapping Australia to a flailing, failing, increasingly fascist US that is hellbent on destroying the globe at this rate

time for disabled people ro vote @markbutlermp.bsky.social out

he’s messed w/ access to both standard & vital medications, he’s belittled his own disabled constituents, he’s failed to bring updated Covid vaccines into Aus, he’s done nothing to increase mental health initiatives that’d save lives

Book rights were tied up for a while in the Unbound bankruptcy (eatf.art/unbound for context). Now that they're fully untangled, I have four new Effin' Birds projects and three calendar formats coming out in the next 18 months. Details in the replies, publication dates subject to change —

Hong Kong health authorities investigate third measles case among airport staff Centre for Health Protection says 37-year-old man likely to have caught measles at workplace.

Hong Kong health authorities investigate third measles case among airport staff
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The SAVE Act Will End Voting Rights for Women in America The SAVE Act has passed the House—we cannot let it pass the Senate

BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.

I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...

"LAND BACK"
Seen on Wundjeri Woi Wurrung / Bunurong land, so called Ravenhall, home to 4 of Victoria's prisions.

now those are PIES! mmmmmm 🤤🤤🤤

Nordic Seas Overturning Circulation strengthens as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakens, new study 20/04/2026 –A new modelling study identifies a feedback mechanism suggesting that a strengthening of the Nordic Seas Overturning Circulation (NOC) could be a direct consequence of the Atlantic Meridio...

Does a stable or increasing water exchange between the Atlantic and the Nordic Seas mean the #AMOC is stable, as some have argued? 🌊
Nope. The opposite is the case.
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Cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine. What can organizers do? Toronto police showed up at a comedy fundraiser and at a film screening on the same night in April. Organizers describe how this fits into a broader pattern and what can be done to protect community…

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sh...

Hey artists, if you see this, post a dog

Key messages:
📌 Exercise triggers microclot fragmentation in people with Long COVID. 

📌 Microclot fragmentation correlates with inflammation and vascular injury markers.

📌 Physiological performance worsens after repeated exertion.

Image of a person walking up the stairs showing microclots in the muscles.

Mark Faghy shares an update on Submaximal exercise-induced changes in microclot and cytokine profiles - shaping what we know about Long COVID rehabilitation.

#COVIDrehab

sending pain & inflammation soothing to help you get through it ☁️❤️‍🩹

What it’s like to be a family caught in the crosshairs of Israel’s ‘de-Palestinization’ of Jerusalem A Palestinian family’s dream home is demolished by Israeli forces as part of settlement expansion and the forced displacement of communities near Jerusalem.

A Palestinian family’s dream home is demolished by Israeli forces as part of settlement expansion and the forced displacement of communities near Jerusalem.
Available in EN, ES, PT-BR and AR.

Linguists collecting regional swear words to map UK dialects Dr Chris Montgomery says the team is

Experts at the University of Sheffield want to build a UK Swear Map to show how English is spoken, before the words and phrases used locally in 2026 "disappear".
#language #research #HigherEd #edchat
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