Pretending that the Navy taking back migrants would be a humanitarian mission and therefore legal, is a bit like pretending that a £5 million bribe is nothing to do with politics and therefore doesn't need to be declared.
It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
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Where is Oswald Muesli when you need him? This is just fly tipping in space
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 13h agoWe're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
Oops. www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...
NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data
The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ...
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Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
On Wednesday, the upper stage (section) of one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets will "impact" the Moon, according to Nasa's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) This drifting SpaceX space junk has been travelling at around 2.43 kilometres per second (5400mph), and will make a 50km impact plume
What will happen when a SpaceX rocket collides with the Moon?
Our satellite has endured countless blows over millions of years - and astronomers think this one could be a useful accident.
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And this is the whole crux of the problem. Money, money, money. The world can burn, apparently God doesn't give a fuck if it devalues his coin.
Simon Cox@simonfrcox.bsky.social · yesterdayChurch of England rejects proposal to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 claiming that will reduce capital value. Ugh. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Anyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
It has come to my attention that my og meme comic got AI slopified as a Castlevania meme, so I made one with much more heart put into it.
Gym Workout: Going to the Gym
ALT: Gym Workout: Going to the Gym
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The Halfway Post@halfwaypost.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: A brand new “Christian men’s gym” in Georgia that bans women so pious men can have “lust-free workouts” lasted just 6 days before three men were caught “violating Leviticus in the locker room.”
Remember, kids: you can join a renters and housing union to fight slumlords
For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity https://theonion.com/technological-advancements-allow-data-centers-to-run-on-even-more-electricity/
