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More people who find reading hard should be told that yes, reading is hard!! There's a reason why we ask parents and carers to read to children from their first day on earth until they get too old to dance on our feet

people have been saying this for 20+ years? I remember in 2003 during my undergrad a lecturer predicted we would have to conscript people into social care, the way demographics and labour are shifting. useless people kmt. they have had decades. they've done fuck all www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Andy Burnham tells BBC NHS 'will collapse' without social care reform

The prime minister says he would not want to leave office without bringing in "substantial change" to the social care system.

bbc.co.uk

'GPT says **she**...' We wouldn't expect these people to assign any other gender to something doing unpaid and uncredited labour for them, but it always feels like a lot when someone will gender and anthropomorphise the plagiarism machine while disrespecting the humans that it plagiarises.

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world. Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Batteries based on sodium promise to be cheaper, safer and much more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion cells. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world

Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.

nature.com

The more I learn about it the more I think "the fossil fuel industry has an enormous, massively funded propaganda apparatus" is one of the most under covered and under appreciated stories of our era

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2w ago

A new report exposes what's behind the "clean" gas lie

Andy Burnham is planning to grant licenses for new fossil fuel extraction in the North Sea

Eva Helada@evaspinola70.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tremendo vídeo. No hay dinero que pueda pagar a esta gente. Gracias.

"I have no idea how to get around this" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Er, how about write your own book yourself??!

Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w ago

Nope. No, you haven’t.

Nope. No, you haven’t.

Warning: Australian politicians are importing the British right’s visions of doom | Jack Jacobs

Warning: Australian politicians are importing the British right’s visions of doom | Jack Jacobs

Having met Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson, Pauline Hanson is deploying their rhetoric in a country with a very different history of immigration, says doctoral researcher in history Jack Jacobs

theguardian.com

Rot is spreading.

“I may have committed a little light genocide, for sport” said world’s richest man while feigning remorse.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

"Dodgy Reform takes £200k off JCB and then promises to hand them council work without even opening up a fair tender? Just handing taxpayers' money straight back to the people who fund them" via Next Deals ps JCB happily supply equipment for demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza & West Bank

Wrote my first Substack post for Diary of an Apocaloptimist open.substack.com/pub/diaryofa... Phew! That was a hard one. Hopefully I can muster a bit more optimism in next month's!

The fear is the point: 15 years on from far-right terror in Norway

Diary of an Apocaloptimist is about learning to find hope while living within climate and technofascist apocalypses. This is my first monthly post. Thanks for reading.

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Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.

Concept of violent radicalization of a white man in a country like Norway was alien to much of intl. media & spoke to chronic naivete about depths of European racism. When announced suspect was white, CNN refused to believe it. Said it could be “Norwegian Al-Qaeda” or killer was wearing a balaclava.

Christian Christensen@chrchristensen.bsky.social · 2w ago

15 years ago today a white supremacist — opposed to “multiculturalism” and feminism — killed 77 in Norway. When the language of racism and misogyny are normalised as “just words” and “free speech” we wallow in historical ignorance. The line between language and violence is straight and unbroken.

It feels like a quiet rebellion. Ultimately, people that like to think, and read, and write, are not falling for this nonsense. GOOD.

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 2w ago

The publishing industry has reported the lowest uptake of AI usage at only 6%, reflecting ongoing concerns around copyright and authorship, the Creative Access 2026 Thrive report has revealed. 👇

I've been trying to figure this out for 10 years. I now know: It's called Apocalyptic Populism

M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social · 2w ago

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

If someone tells you that it’s “too early” to be talking about autumn, they’re failing to understand a simple truth: Autumn is not a time of year, but rather a state of mind 🎃🍁🍂

Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

theguardian.com

This is fucking terrifying

Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 2w ago

"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses

The government should immediately ban the sale and promotion of glasses that contain recording capability. The government should explore using existing laws, such as RIPA, GDPR, DPA to take immediate ...

petition.parliament.uk

it’s not the “age of AI” just because tech CEOs and their stenographers keep saying it. we can just ban the perv glasses.

We ban the pervert glasses. This isn't complicated.

Unchecked capitalism is quite literally killing us all, will lead to the destruction of the only habitat we evolved to live in, along with all the life we coevolved with, and the end of organized global civilization if not human extinction. But go on, keep telling us how socialism is the threat.

No one made him support genocide and criminalise grannies, the media aren't to blame for his poor decision making. The man was a fucking disaster

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

The view across Europe: Keir Starmer was a solid British PM, like a majority of the 7 PMs over the last ten years. His problem was having to cope with England's completely lunatic media, which understands its function to be toppling governments as a form of popular entertainment.

I see Labour MPs still announcing stuff on X, a platform specifically designed to make people hate them, 100% shaped to push them out of public life and which would ideally see many of them in prison. Funny old world.