I didn’t have “We should have more teenage pregnancies” on my 2026 Bingo Card, but I cannot honestly say it is a surprise.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 10h ago

Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”

#OtD 1 Sep 1937 the USSR began their first deportation of an entire ethnic group moving 175,000 Koreans, including partisan vets, and 8000 Chinese to unpopulated areas of Uzbekistan and elsewhere. Their homes were mostly given to European immigrants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7716...

Ten Years of Popularizing Palaeontology happens this week, with a special event 'Deep Time Cultures, Current Crises' on Thurs Sept 3rd at King's College, London. I'll be there. More info... www.poppalaeo.com/deep-time-cu...

Sign-ups for this event closing at 13:00 tomorrow (1 September), so just under 24 hours to register if you would like to come along

Chris Manias@chrismanias.bsky.social · 3w ago

On Thursday 3 September, at King's College London, we'll have a panel discussion entitled "Deep Time Cultures, Current Crises," thinking about how art & culture around deep time can (and can’t) help us engage with the current world Full info: shorturl.at/ufxe2 & sign-up link: shorturl.at/CklAN

British family plead with French authorities to release body of relative who died in the Channel

British family plead with French authorities to release body of relative who died in the Channel

Jasmeet Wadhwa, who fled Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, lost his life in April A British family is pleading with French authorities to release the body of a relative that officials have held for five months after he died in the Channel in April. Jasmeet Wadhwa, 32, died while attempting to reach the UK on a dinghy on 1 April with his mother, Harbans Kaur Wadhwa, after they fled Taliban persecution in Afghanistan in January of this year. Continue reading...

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A bit late, but thank you for this! I'm new to this app, so I think it is appropriate to start sharing my latest article (co-authored with Cecilia Ibarra) about the political role of material objects in electrification, specifically the first state-owned hydroelectric plants in Chile.

King's CHoSTM@kingschostm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Constructing the State: Materiality, Imaginaries and the Politics of Chilean Electrification, 1939–43" by PhD student José Soto Vejar and co-author Cecilia Ibarra has been published in Technology and Culture's latest issue. Congrats, José! #histtech #histstm @kingshistory.bsky.social

…while getting rid of their humanities departments.🙄

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

Exeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers and officials

Santiago, c. 1860 Calle Agustinas: El Teatro Municipal y al fondo el cerro Santa Lucía chiledel1900.blogspot.com/2013/07/sant...

🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...

NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect

Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place

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London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership

London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership

Campaigners say ‘seismic shift’ follows years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm The London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what has been described as a “seismic shift” for the museum. The Science Museum Group academy, which was established in 2018 to provide training and resources, announced on Friday that it would be ending its partnership with BP. In a statement, the director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, Sir Ian Blatchford, said the partnership had “drawn to a close at the end of the current contract term”. Continue reading...

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New research position: bringing arts and culture to the centre of the economy. Research Fellow at UCL IIPP, working with me and the team, and partners in the UK and Brazil on how cultural value is measured, governed and funded. Closes 11 September ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

From the current issue: "The Making and Unmaking of Religious Toleration in Spanish Manila, 1571-1755" by Adrian Masters (University of Trier) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

El Pacífico registra ‘El Niño’ más intenso en el último milenio debido al cambio climático: “Estamos contra el reloj” dozz.es/7jwi4e

El Pacífico registra ‘El Niño’ más intenso en el último milenio debido al cambio climático: “Estamos contra el reloj”

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El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds

El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds

‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year A series of strong El Niño climatic patterns in recent decades, such as the “Godzilla” event currently brewing that is set to warp weather around the world, have been supercharged by the broader overheating of the planet caused by the burning of fossil fuels, a major new study has found. El Niño is a naturally occurring phenomenon, taking place every two to seven years, when the waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean heat up, causing a cascade of impacts around the world. The latest developing El Niño, set to peak later this year, is set to be the strongest in living memory and has been informally dubbed a “Godzilla” event. Continue reading...

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Mother of Alex Pretti: "I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered and no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been seven months." shorturl.at/cZVEb

Family of Alex Pretti speaks out in exclusive interview: 'They murdered our child'

Pretti was shot and killed by federal officers on Jan. 24.

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I grew up in a council home, so I know just how important they are. With £6 billion in funding for more affordable homes, we can transform the lives of thousands of Londoners all over this city.

Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers

Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers

Exclusive: Arturo Béjar, an ex-Facebook employee and whistleblower, said outcome ‘is not an all clear to say the product is safe’ * Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram in settlement The star witness in the US government’s landmark trial against Meta believes that a multibillion-dollar settlement reached on Wednesday does not go far enough to stop the social media giant’s harms to young users. “The limitations that are in the agreement are the equivalent of saying: ‘Well you can smoke as many cigarettes as you can in two hours a day,’” said whistleblower and ex-Facebook employee Arturo Béjar. “It doesn’t make the cigarettes any safer.” Continue reading...

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This is an amazing passage…

Lo más grave de decir a tu hijo que es un vago (por no hacer los deberes), un burro (por sacar malas notas) o un inútil (por repetir curso) no es que acabe odiándote (algo más que probable). Es que acabe creyendo que es un burro, un vago y un inútil.

"Solo la escoria del mundo dispara misiles contra niños hospitalizados y ancianos en sus camas enfermos", afirma en X el ministro de Cultura de Israel, tras misil iraní caído en un hospital. *Según informe ONU, Israel hizo 137 ataques a hospitales y centros médicos en Gaza en tan solo un año*

Antes q se acabe esta jornada, un pequeño homenaje a la gran Gabriela Medina q ha emprendido viaje a la eternidad. Acá registros de la época que formó parte del elenco del Teatro Teknos de la Universidad Técnica del Estado, en 1969, junto a Gladys del Río, Maite Fernández y César Arredondo y otros

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No money for people with disabilities. No money for the elderly. No money for children in poverty. Always money for war.

🚨 We are gravely concerned about reports of two boat tragedies off the coast of Myanmar earlier this month, with estimates that 427 Rohingya perished at sea.

I’m horrified by the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers at an event in DC last night. The fact that the gunman said he did it to “free Palestine” makes me nauseous. Murdering people for their nationality is never acceptable and this violence hurts Jews, Israelis, *and* Palestinians.