Never forget The Sun or the people who did this.

I have a spare ticket for Origin Story Live tomorrow night to see @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social at the Bloomsbury Theatre if anybody fancies it.

Also good but not outrageously expensive pre-show dinner recommendations gratefully received! (I failed to do my usual pre-trip research having spent the weekend on playing Railroads!

Yes, me too! Drawing the circles on the map of Scotland with Faslane at the centre to check.

Sea otters have lungs 2.5 times larger than similar-sized land mammals, making them masters of buoyancy in the ocean.

@digitalfutures.bsky.social so much my every day.

Tom Morello opening speech in Minneapolis 🔥

Turns out we would have got Tim Tams after all in the EU.

Indeed.

Honest Government Ad | How to be 'Merica's B!tch YouTube video by thejuicemedia

The Australien Government has made an ad about Alcoa, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

In the Loop (2009) - The mountain of conflict YouTube video by Alexei Djalagonia

youtu.be/L24Wol8yLwo?...

“You're right to be upset… OK. That was wrong - it directly broke the rule you'd set. I'm sorry. It won't happen again.”

Will be engraved in humanity’s gravestone.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

I think that when the days are shorter we should have shorter workdays, for our mental health but, get this -

when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing

That cover art is lush 😁

Straight over to a former Bank of England person who calls anything which isn't their economic theory "la la land" economics. We will never get out of this neoliberal/financial capital hell hole as long as no political journalist is willing to even go back to Keynes.

This chat has made me want to scream since Thatcher started this narrative rot. Fast forward to 2025 and when Zack Polanski wants to discuss another way of approaching a national budget the BBC's political editor says no, the viewers aren't interested in that geeky stuff.

It's that magical time of year, when the more unapologetically rage-baiting parts of our press dust off the "they're cancelling christmas!" stories. Thank you Telegraph, Express and Mail - it wouldn't be winterval without you! 😍

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'

@digitalfutures.bsky.social Have you seen this paper?

Celtic generally - it's also always been "big" in Scotland. The trick or treating and pumpkins being the Americanised versions of guising and tumshies (Turnip/swede lanterns).

100% - every, single year.

and the initial roll out in Scotland was targeted at cervical cancer, but now to the other HPV related cancers too. It's a great one.

It's now offered to all S1 pupils in Scotland, not just girls.

I come back to this study every time:
"no cervical cancer cases have been detected in fully vaccinated women following the human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation at age 12-13 since the programme started in Scotland in 2008."

publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/ja...

It was always "a big thing" when I grew up in lowland Scotland in the 1970s. Slightly different emphasis - you had to do a party piece to get a treat and we carved turnips for lanterns - but definitely observed widely and enthusiastically.

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese getting off a plane while wearing slim black pants, black boots, and a black Joy Division t-shirt.

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people