It never gets old

These fools have marinated so long in Content mentality, they have forgotten (or coveniently decided to ignore) that science and journalism ARE the processes. But process can't be monetized directly, so focus on the end product. 😬

If I were a Machiavellian strategy genius, I would simply avoid a position where *everything written about me ever* supports the “demanding bribes for factional allies” rumour

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

A weedy little stream of people completely unable to grasp that there might be a principled objection to doing this because SMOKIN IS BAD INNIT.

Blockitty block.

Absolutely no connection between attitudes like this and a political class that's queued up to introduce permanent restrictions on some people and not on others...

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

"Despite our rhetorical commitment to 'critical thinking,' we typically present one side of an issue — the left-wing side, almost always — and call it a day."

let me stop you right there; who's "we"

Students are deeply concerned about the state of the world today and why wouldn't they be?

Is it possible to teach global health without dissecting current realities? And how do we offer them any hope?

Some reflections in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social essay:

sciencepolitics.org/2026/04/17/w...

And thus does liberalism, the very thing that makes freedom of speech and assembly possible, the underpinning of our democratic model, become a swear-word on both sides of the Atlantic.

Down, and down, and down...

Remember how we won the War on Drugs, and narcotics are no longer a menace to society? Only cost a trillion dollars, but by gum, there are no drug-dealers now...

While I understand the health motivation for this, and I really do, I remain deeply uncomfortable about the idea that we can create a subsidiary group of adults who don’t have all the same freedoms as other adults (yes, even to chose to do stupid dangerous shit). 1/2

image of Palantir stock price increasing after Trump elected

Karp once studied and opposed fascism. How did he become someone a Trump defender? Palantir's value is fused to MAGA.

In the Times, @michellegoldberg.bsky.social says: "the best explanation for Karp’s journey — as for most of his right-wing billionaire compatriots — is the vulgar materialist one.”

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

The EU’s Court of Justice has just ruled anti-LGBTQ+, including anti-trans, laws are ‘contrary to the very identity of the Union as a common legal order in a society in which pluralism prevails’.

Brian Cant and Floella Benjamin smile out from the cover of an album: Songs from BBC TV's Play School and Play Away

At 11am on 21 April 1964, Play School made its debut, and became the first programme ever broadcast on BBC2

“Nigel Farage just isn’t racist enough any more…”

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

OF COURSE IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING.

But you are making it illegal for some people to ever do a thing it is still entirely legal for other people to do. That is WRONG.

"voters who just want prices to come down" and were tragically lured into voting for men who openly announced their plans to trash the country...

“Oh they needed an operator!” They literally had someone already there who the White House asked to keep in post and they put their mate in there instead.

#Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Andrii Melnyk:

Thirty-five million Russians have no toilet at home.

On the one hand, Russia demands recognition as a "great superpower," claiming the right to redraw state borders by force and impose a new sphere of influence⤵️

There was this truly venomous right wing guy that I otherwise hate that said one right thing: the Labour party is an institution that radicalises middle class teachers and uni students into thinking no corruption and harassment practice is too far to win a NEC seat. Imagine what they'll do in power

It literally is passing into law.

This is the kind of casual authoritarianism that gives public health a bad name.

Senior Labour figures charged after criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging Exclusive: Four people charged after criminal investigation into irregularities surrounding Labour candidate selection process for Croydon East

Hahahaahhaha
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed The

Raging insanity.

If you were born in 2009, there will now be things it's illegal for you to do that it remains perfectly legal for someone born in 2008 to do. Forever, apparently.

Textbook second-class citizenship.

EVEN IF it's "in a good cause".

VENICE: “An alarming acceleration in sea level rise – an estimated extra metre by the end of the century – represents a “death knell for the city”

WORLDWIDE: A billion people will be displaced from coastal cities while salt water ingress will destroy farmland.

#TellTheTruth

The greatest threat women face is the online spread of misogyny by predator-influencers and via algorithms - even onto blank accounts set up as those of 24yo men, as in the article below.

Boys and men are being radicalized into misogyny by white men. Trans people & immigrants are not the problem.

Very good: “This confederacy of goons think that their wealth and whiteness and maleness conveys automatic competence, so they never bothered to learn anything about anything, and they fired everyone who knew anything about anything, and dismantled all the programs that helped make anything work ….”