13 is the magic number… 😀 (But also - give GOTN your Patreon cash, it’s well worth it!)
Girl on the Net@girlonthenet.bsky.social · last wk.And if you don't want to give me money (fair enough), share your opinion instead. I'd love to know which part of this story you'd like to read: before or after. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/confess... (there's a reason I'm asking - I'll write a meta thing about it after it's published I hope)
Mamdani on people who don't want him at 9/11 memorial services: "I will proudly honor the families, the survivors, the first responders forever impacted by that horrific terror attack by standing alongside them ... reaffirming that we will never forget."
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
Read @brookmyre.bsky.social's "Quite Ugly One Evening". Has fond memories of discovering this author and binging his wonderfully enjoyable novels about 12 years ago, then reading the new ones as they came out. The return of Jack Parlabane was long awaited, and I loved the occasional passing 1/5
It didn't take more than a few hours for the 'betrayal' narrative to start. The demand for purism, from both the left and right, isn't new, but has maybe become increasingly prevelant in recent British politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Healey as chancellor? Streeting as defence secretary? This isn’t a cabinet to change the UK like Burnham promised | Owen Jones
Putting Ed Miliband in charge of the Treasury would have signalled a genuine new era. Instead, the new PM has played it safe, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
theguardian.com
A federal judge has approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about US$3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot.
Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot
A federal judge approved a US$1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay authors about US$3,000 per book.
ctvnews.ca
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Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 2w agoJudge rules Trump must hand over financial records sought by BBC in discovery, in defamation case Trump brought against BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... There's a basic leverage issue here: Trump's cronies run the FCC & FTC, so he can threaten broadcast licenses and mergers in the US, but not UK
By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”
I wish I could trace the curves of your hipbones with my fingertips. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/wish-yo... Old draft because I don't have time to write something proper before the World Cup final. It's cute though, and full of longing. Snuggle up with it, if that's your bag.
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King Charles III is about to welcome the fourth Prime Minister of his reign, which is not yet four years old.
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Leandro Paredes should be banned from international football for life viciously assaulting Spanish players after the final whistle. Indefensible thuggery and criminality.
See this is why they have their own sports. This kind of razzmatazz is US only. If you got a guy in a gold suit on at a UK match he'd get bottled
In truly incredible timing for CPAC GB and for Liz Truss herself, the Tate brothers have just been arrested.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 3w ago"No normal political conference features the spectacle of a former UK prime minister proudly introducing a former spokeswoman for Andrew and Tristan Tate – brothers accused of orchestrating a global sex trafficking and grooming operation – onto its main stage, to polite applause."
Or another way, if Argentina fail to progress, an England senior team would have made every major tournament final for six successive years as the men lost to Italy in 2021 and the women bested Germany in 2022. Boring.
Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is
