You could be $14k a year richer if these reforms never happened Your wallet could have a lot more cash in it if these reforms never happened, writes Verity Johnson.

www.stuff.co.nz/money/360966...

Like, medieval cuisine of Western Europe is essentially unrecognizable to modern tastes. You will trip over something you recognize but most of what we eat was altered by empire and industrialization and a shocking decline in saffron and verjuice, not to mention the Magna Carta and the Reformation

Fascism - what Hannah Arendt called 'organized loneliness' - can only take root when people stop believing that their society will reward their lawfulness with an orderly and humane existence.

The crisis is coming, but whether we do austerity when it gets here is our choice.

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By choosing a scapegoat, fascists can create support from people who are justifiably furious that the services they rely on have collapsed.

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They start to suspect that elites are lining their pockets rather than managing the system, and they "withdraw their support" for the system.

Fascists thrive in these conditions. Fascists come to power by mobilizing grievances.

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When public services go wrong, people don't always know who to blame, but they *definitely* notice that something is going wrong, so when public services fail, people stop trusting the state, and that social contract starts to fray.

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Good public services are the basis for "the social contract between rulers and the ruled" - pay your taxes and obey the laws, and in return, you will be well served.

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Here's how they break it down. Political scientists have assembled a large, reproducible body of evidence to show that "public service provision is crucial to people’s perceptions of their quality of life and living standards."

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In "Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right" four economists from the LSE and Bocconi provide an excellent look at the linkage between austerity and support for fascists:

catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf

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Scientists Revived a 24,000-Year-Old Animal Frozen in Siberia, It Woke Up and Started Reproducing A creature frozen since the Ice Age has been revived, revealing how life can endure tens of thousands of years in suspended animation.

YOU PUT THAT BACK *RIGHT NOW*, WE AINT GOT TIME FOR THIS!

OMG - you didn’t say they had an adopted child and had just bought a house - even more heartbreaking!

The pareidolic placement of the ‘eyes’ off to the right with indecision about which is the more painful course to take and the ‘mouth’ turned down, with the anticipation of hurt either to themselves or to the other, depending on their choice together create a heartbreakingly poignant vignette

Looks like a crucial relationship moment for Ms & Mx bin - will the SO on the right turn towards or turn away?
Cliffhanger moment in the long-running drama ‘Skipworthy’
(filmed exclusively in and around Skipworh with scriptwriting by the incomparable Sally Wainright

Home - Not in our name Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

Transphobes do not represent the overwhelming majority of women. The @nionwomen.bsky.social petition is to show this. They now need only just over 4,000 more signatures to make it to 100,000.

If you don’t want to be used as an excuse to take away trans people’s human rights, please sign & share

My 91 year old dad's latest drawing of the garden. I'm so proud.

Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing something so full of joy!

Love it - every one of her recipes that I’ve tried has been fabulous!
I particularly like her poke bowl ginger dressing recipe

*Maehashi

Chinese eggplant and minced pork - spicy Sichuan food! Chinese eggplant and minced pork (Fish Fragrant Eggplant (Yu Xiang Qie Zi) - an incredible recipe that delivers as promised, from Sichuan chef Hannah Huang!

This is a fantastic eggplant recipe from Nagi Marhashi www.recipetineats.com/chinese-eggp...

"It takes around 17 years for health findings to become mainstream practice" is an indictment of medicine's calcified and outdated management class.

Medical training based on antiquated seniority-driven systems that care more about power than quality of care can't keep up with a changing world.

Excellent thread on elections, politics and the governance pivotal to properly functioning democracy

Sports bans aren't the destination, they're the foundation. Once you have a law that codifies trans girls as "male" for purposes of athletic competition, you have a precedent. And that precedent gets cited in the next case. And the one after that. Bathrooms. Passports. Employment.

White graphic with black and pink text. Top left: “whn.global”. Top right: “Long COVID Awareness Month”. Main text: “Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection.” The word “risk” is in bright pink; the rest is in black. Below in bright pink: “Each infection increases the risk of Long COVID.” Bottom text: “World Health Network - Science for a safer, healthier world.”

Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection. The more times someone is infected, the higher their risk of developing Long COVID.

Reducing infections is one of the most important ways to protect long-term health. The Five Pillars of Protection help lower risk by layering prevention strategies:

this seems like something we should be funding

Somebody a couple of years ago said COVID is the climate change of the body, complete with denialism and acceleration of existing issues and I have not stopped thinking about it. (And both are of course connected). I cannot find the tweet for the life of me.

Yes, used rigorously, but the vast swath of non-rigorous use is polluting the whole information ecosystem. We will pay dearly for decades to come for letting it run without governance or regulation.

‘slop ouroboros’ brilliant encapsulation of the AI enshittification of journalism and research