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what drivers see when you're wearing hi-viz vs when you're not

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

NEW: NHS England know the harm they are doing to trans patients. Their internal assessment reportedly warns of corridor care, treatment delays, outing, discrimination and healthcare avoidance being among the risks identified from their new policy www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

So many people buried their heads in the sand this week saying that NHS segregation of trans people was "for their safety". But even internal NHS assessments say it will cause direct harm. Sex is not binary and trans people need respectful care based on actual physiology, not anti-trans slogans.

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

I wrote something very personal and vulnerable about World Suicide Prevention Day on my Substack, and my experience with suicidal thoughts I decided that, however scary it feels writing it, if it helps one person it's worth it a million times over nadinebh.substack.com/p/its-world-...

Four years out, how are countries getting on with 2030 nature targets? See for yourself: interactive.carbonbrief.org/nature-targe...

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

Remember every pearl-clutching journalist and commentator who insisted it was in the public interest to know every single detail of a Cambridge academic's life, even after he resigned his position, because he did some sloppy copy-and-pasting as a post-grad student?

8. Accepting ADHD means admitting the level playing field was never level, that success wasn’t pure merit, that the game was rigged toward a narrow frame of cognition. That’s threatening to people who believe they succeeded “on merit”

7. Here's what makes certain people uneasy: To accept reality of ADHD is to accept the system itself is disabling, which means the structures must change, & that threatens those who benefit most from them. Easier to deny ADHD than to accept structural change

open weights model? no I said open Waits model. it just makes vague growling noises and talks a lot about New Orleans.

A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/her-ai-gener...

Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

thinking about this again and smiling

Remember, team, it's transfem Jimmy McGill Friday at the office this week! Make sure to come to work with your best transfem Jimmy McGill metas and headcanons. :)

I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

i guess the idea of genius is appealing because it suggests there's a shortcut to the tedious experience of becoming good at something. and if there's no shortcut the time spent looking for a domain you're naturally gifted at is just more time wasted. ok happy monday everyone let's get this bread

Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

Have you seen the original artist Russ Heath's comic strip reply to Lichtenstein:

No system is perfect, yes some people might "cheat", but would you rather people who desperately need these things go on suffering so you can be SURE you're not being duped? Why is you not being duped so important that other people have to die for it?

mmygod

more men should do this

Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.

BOB DYLAN writing in The New York Times on being 80. We’re so used to Dylan being an enigmatic & elusive trickster that it’s always a delightful surprise when he writes something so personal, heartfelt and wise.

good thread

British lads hit each other with chair dot mp4

Absolutely incredible that all of this is being done under the narrative of "independent review of studies." The studies find significant benefits and no harms! Children are not being rushed into irreversible procedures! An entire government and media apparatus buying in an urban legend

I found this screenshot I took from somewhere last year in my Downloads and I think it sums up why I get angsty about "AI" - in my head it defaults to meaning LLMs/GenAI and not all the things I think are probably useful 😅

Been watching a lot of the newer comedians recently, and based on their hard work I’ve been able to update my list of contemporary references to write jokes around. Thanks all. x

The 5 Simpsons lines I’ve uttered most off the top of my head 1. Put it in H! 2. Hi, everybody! Hi, Dr. Nick! 3. Stupid, sexy Flanders. 4. I hope you’re ready for an unforgettable luncheon. 5. Everything’s coming up Milhouse!

got called racist in Ghent University earlier lads tell us what happened lad I got called racist in Ghent University ye but why I was being racist in Ghent University? yeah it was in Ghent University

among the most tedious things that irish people unfortunately share with british people is mocking americans for not drink large enough volumes of alcohol.

I tried on my friend's glasses, and it just made my eyesight *worse*.

i am writing a book! i’ve been talking to the creators of doom, marine doom, & america’s army, plus academics, drone experts, former military… it’s been so fascinating and i am excited to share it with you all. all that time i spent playing CS as a teen is finally paying off lol

less attention on this please. i got a whatsapp plug for tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Early Tom Waits song: All the ladies in this bar Are like rhinestone-shaped goodbyes I miss my baby Late Tom Waits somg: Crank up the hog alarm and swig that gasoline We're gonna set fire to Panama with a goose fat machine