Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

🙏🇺🇦Dear fellas,🇺🇦🙏 The Odesa air defense unit urgently needs our help! My friend Julia Gorodetskaya previously helped them purchase a trailer used to launch P1-SUNs. They need one more to intercept more Russian drones threatening Ukrainian cities. Goal: ₴110,000 (~$2.5K)

Libraries could be community centers that offer more than just books.

Not just books - how renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy

Finland's libraries are increasingly being valued not by how many books they lend, but how they help societies function.

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You can help to keep Ukrainians safe. By contributing, you are allowing people to survive and helping people to persevere. You are also letting them know that they are not alone, and that you can see a better future, and want to part of it. Please help if you can. snyder.substack.com/p/sky-defens...

Sky Defense: Bringing it Home

We are saving lives and neighborhoods in Ukraine

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⚠️Google director resigns, citing the company's military deals: "management has lost its moral compass" Including a concern that Google's Pentagon deal could mean mass surveillance of EU citizens. Google's own staff don't trust them anymore... we shouldn't either.

A Google director resigned, citing the company's military deals: 'management has lost its moral compass'

"Proactively harming people is not something that I can or will be involved with," a Google director wrote in his resignation letter.

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Great news! 🌼 The new Natural History GSCE will get young people outside, learning how our actions shape the natural world and how simple steps like wildlife‑friendly gardening can boost biodiversity. 🦋

Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens

Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity

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Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

Man who stabbed student to death in Cambridge is jailed for life

Chas Corrigan, 22, will serve a minimum of 22 years for the murder of Mohammed Algasim last August.

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View from Auchengibbert hill

Tonights swim and dog walk at Bamburgh beach in Northumberland. Lots more poppies have come out since our last trip a few days ago. #landscapephotography #Northumberland #Bamburgh #Photography #UK #spring

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Spring is doing a good impression of Summer here atm.

It's been a while since I've written. But it's time. It's time to explore why integrating Russia into world structures is absolutely unacceptable! irenekenyon.substack.com/p/reintegrat...

Reintegrating Russia

Immoral and Dangerous

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Yesterday Netanyahu –– "EU has become morally weak. They are losing their identity" Today, 26 countries have expressed their will to suspend partial defense agreements with Israel

Please let Vance come over and support Reform's campaign 🙏

"Voting doesn't work" motherfuckers! Watch as enough people vote to literally rewrite a constitution! Watch and fucking seethe!!!!

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Today's big walk took in Helton Fell, The Knott, Loadpot Hill and Bonscale Fell above Ullswater. A chilly but super sunny day in the Lake District. By late afternoon the clouds had come in. Dogs asleep and so will I shortly ;-) #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #spring #labradors

"Every step we take towards deGoogling, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction." New from me: The first step toward getting off Google, feat. @cyberlyra.bsky.social buttondown.com/creativegood...

The first step toward getting off Google

Switching to non-surveilling alternatives is fast and easy.

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@consettlad.bsky.social Some seriously impressive tipping this week Keith, fair play 👏🏽

“The evidence is overwhelming: Brexit has been a disaster for London and the UK. Rejoining the EU is now clearly in our national interest. The option to rejoin should be on the ballot at the next General Election” Sir Sadiq Khan

There goes the UK and other allies taking advantage of the US again, just like the orange felon said.

Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) | Phoebe Bridgers & Arlo Parks youtu.be/JKPaA3p3bJU?...

Phoebe Bridgers x Arlo Parks - Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) - Radio 1 Piano Session

YouTube video by BBC Radio 1

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There’s a lot of things that need to be said today. But there’s one main one: Thank you Ukraine. We see you. We know what you’ve done for us. We know what we owe you. We know you will win and take your place as a central defender of the free world.

This was the best negotiation with the Russians during the entire war. It was conducted by Ukrainian border guard Roman Hrybov on February 24, 2022.

Brits would decisively support rejoining the European Union if a new referendum were held, according to the latest polling from YouGov, with clear majorities emerging across all age groups – especially among younger voters www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bri...

Brits would overwhelmingly back Rejoin in new referendum

Brits would decisively support rejoining the European Union if a new referendum were held, YouGov polling has found.

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This Brazilian woman hates AI

Too many people amassing astronomic wealth fundamentally do not believe in the idea that all people are equal and deserve equal rights, and they are spending their money on those ideas. This is the story.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

POTUS can only succeed in his reordering of the nation if we decide to participate in the lie And I say — don’t

Molly McKew@mollymckew.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A year ago, two dams were opened as propaganda, spilling vital water resources into a void. Now, it seems America is also spilling out into a void, evaporating away for absolutely no reason and nothing at all. But we have a choice: say no to the lie. I say no. www.greatpower.us/p/2026-nonse...

CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER IT IS WORKING CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns