i have no oats

Flawless.

AP investigation: Documents support claim ICE has detained a mentally ill US citizen since January apnews.com/article/ice-...

The entire world’s survival, I would say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Despite the death of a worker at a Russian plague lab, there are important reasons why we'll probably never see an event like the Black Death again. sciam.com/article/why-...

Today's "yikes" scenario for Iran courtesy of @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7b3c...

"The report found Israeli authorities and forces had continued to 'commit genocidal acts' even after the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, 'with the intent to destroy the Palestinian people'." No surprise that this got hardly any mainstream coverage. #GazaGenocide www.nine.com.au/world-news/m...

Duncan the Dunnock #BirdOfTheDay #Branched #birds #ECK #wildlife

27 October 1913 | A Pole, Eugeniusz Kondas, was born in Bodziejowice. A blacksmith. In #Auschwitz from 14 September 1941. No. 20844 He perished in the camp on 7 February 1942. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

And here's what corporations should be doing.

Here's what you should be doing.

There’s no need to begin prepping for doomsday over cybersecurity fears, EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @sfstandard.com. “I have water [stored] because I live in an earthquake zone, not because I think PHP is going to be a problem.”

Solar is booming.

While the far right incite destructive rioting ... "A group of asylum seekers in our area are redecorating the community centre which has welcomed them over the last few months. They also cook food for anyone who visits the centre, and are very welcoming and polite." via Sarah Ha & Linda MacDonald

Lord Jackson: "We all know that the same old people will be mounting their hobby horses in this campaign: Unlock Democracy, the Electoral Reform Society, the Fawcett Society & of course the Guardian." Lords reform "is way down the list of voter salience & voter concern." I wonder why he'd say that?

Lord Jackson told the chamber the House of Lords "should not be slowly killed off by a consultation portal peopled by angry misfits and anarchists in their parents’ bedroom."

Conservative peer Lord Jackson told a debate on Lords reform on Friday: "An elected House...will result in a House of compliant placemen from party lists, donors, careerists, cranks and the unemployable." Which to most members of the public sums up their view of the Lords as it is *now*

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

I would like to be arguing about tax/spending priorities rather than how many innocent people being shot in the back is too much.

You could make a case that NYC-DSA got Mamdani elected as a direct result of their strategic decision to marginalize these cranks.

“If suburban moms become convinced of the righteousness of socialist politics, we might win. But what’s much more important to us is being self righteous online.”

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

So 5 minutes of my allotted 15 minutes will be spent probing my vaccine history? Awesome!

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Brazilian man cries as he describes how Flavio Bolsonaro's acceptance of bribery led to a delay in rolling out vaccines in Brazil. His grandmother and great-aunt he says, died as a result of Bolsonaro paydayreport.com/a-brazilian-...

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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Huh. My check must be held up in customs.

Trump says protesters at his rallies are paid $250 by Soros

"arabs have contributed nothing to the arts and sciences" is such a funny fucking thing for a bog ape wearing a little suit to say

Japanese researchers announce they have developed a new method for getting cancer cells to kill themselves. Sources say they simply have to ask the cancer cells for a "quick chat" on Microsoft Teams.

Suicidal libertarian guy is safe, no one was hurt www.wral.com/news/local/s...

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All of the doctors who support this should lose their license

The second point to note is that we are talking about pretty small numbers. Between 2010 and 2014, there were 106,000 cautions and convictions for sex offences. (ranging from rape to consensual sex in public) 80% of these were committed by British people. 11/

And then you add in the fact that, following the fall of Kabul in 2021, around 35,000 Afghans were resettled here. We don't know how many have left and how many remain. So, what value do you use as your baseline Afghan population? 10/

So when someone says they're Afghan when they are arrested, what does that mean? Born in Afghanistan, holds an Afghan passport, or sees themselves as ethnically Afghan? It may well mean different things to different people. 9/

According to the Census 2021 data: ⏺️ 14,275 held Afghan passports ⏺️ 31,132 gave Afghan as their national identity ⏺️ 20,649 gave Afghan as their ethnicity ⏺️ 95,518 gave "Asian, Asian British, Asian Welsh: Afghan" as their ethnicity ⏺️ 85,696 were born in Afghanistan 8/

If you divide by a smaller number, you get a much bigger rate! So how big is the Afghan population in the UK? 7/