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N is for NEVILLE who died of ennui
A great thing about capitalism is that creating something a lot of children like, Minecraft, Harry Potter or in this case Roblox enables you to massively boost (far) right politics.
Ken Vogel@kenvogel.bsky.social · 8mo agoSCOOP-1: The @nytimes.com has confirmed the following previously unreported donations/pledges to the WH ballroom: ▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m ▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m ▶️Palantir: $10m ▶️Ripple: $5m ▶️Parsons: $2.5m ▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5 Here's a gift link. There's more in the story 🧵…
Changed my pfp to reflect what xmas is like living with Gremlin Hughes
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10mo ago'More degree subjects are likely to face extinction unless changes are made to competition laws to allow universities to work together to maintain certain courses, experts have said.' 1/3
BBC managing to find the one shot of Gaza that still has buildings for its footage this morning. 5% spent on that, 95% spent on Israeli’s waving victory flags
This is just it. They’re privileged enough to know that if it doesn’t work out they won’t be disadvantaged by the consequences of their right wing political turn, but they will have made themselves desirable to a string of corporates who will offer rather lovely consulting positions.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10mo agoTheir strategy here is “Win over elderly reactionaries or bust”, and it’s helpful to understand that for them, “bust” means “very well-remunerated post-politics job with corporate donor” or at worst, “period in opposition, then try again with exactly the same shit”.
It really, really sucks that so many people were right about this from day one but everyone called them cranks and now it’s too late
Chantzy@chantzy.bsky.social · 10mo agoRelative risk of long Covid symptoms in kids & adolescents after a 2nd vs. 1st infection This is really bad
“This is all the fault of Brexit” is the liberal equivalent of “stop the boats”
okay you don't have to be so literal about the last few years
I’m a Your Party Membership Portal and so is my wife
I haven't been around here much since I was warned by @moderation.bsky.app that my account was "violating (Bluesky's) violent and threatening speech guidelines" because I asked the CEO of Bluesky if she would give the same importance to the murder of Palestinian kids as to the murdered podcast guy.
Not Dion Dublin filming stairs leading up to the bedrooms next door 😲
We've been getting ten times as much coverage of Charlie Kirk getting airholed as this news out of Nepal, and I think that says a great deal about how craven, terminally twitter brained and America-pilled our media is, more than the relative importance of the stories. share.google/OzKpsg7gUAbn...
Nepal gets first female PM after deadly unrest - BBC News
Former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki is sworn in after a deal with protest leaders.
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The impulse was already there and had been for a while, white nationalism isn’t new. GG caused the creation/expansion of online infrastructure for networking, community building (mainly among young online people) and spreading/testing of tactics and propaganda. But it didn’t invent the fasc wheel.
Alex Fernie@ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 11mo agoYou cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
The UK government is signing contracts with AI companies and championing its widespread use, if they want to worry about water usage.
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 12mo agoThe UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'. http://jrnl.ie/6788643
Liam Byrne doesn’t get enough credit for the absolute shit show we’re living through tbh
It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.
Dr. med. Hank Schiffers@leanhealth.bsky.social · 12mo agoUK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer: "Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!
Climate change is likely intensifying the heat wave scorching the UK, increasing temperatures by as much as 4C (7.2F), according to new research
Climate Change Increases Intensity of Heat Wave Scorching UK
Climate change is likely intensifying the heat wave scorching the UK, increasing temperatures by as much as 4C (7.2F), according to new research.
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Roughly this time last year, at the end of June, we had a short heat spike of a few days. My mum always struggled when temps got above 25c. On 30th June she had a heart attack and died.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.Current heatwave ‘likely to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales’