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If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

The fact that the U.S.’s Middle East policy has largely been shaped by the religious right trying to bring about their literal doomsday prophecies is one of those weird facts of life we don’t talk about nearly enough.

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated. inspired by 'Tolerance is not a moral precept" by Yonatan Zunger ZonenteZ commasameleon Follow Sorry as someone who teaches rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the Paradox of Tolerance. I cannot tell you how many times my students have had debates about this. This is the response. This does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classes now. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the Paradox of Tolerance and I am floored by its simplicity and angry I never saw it before.

I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

@nichsmith.bsky.social I got sent some subclavicular lymph nodes at work and frankly I wanted to share the psychic damage that word now causes me.

"FPTP prevents extremism" I insist after over a decade of national policy being dragged by a party that has barely a handful of MPs

my ideal living space is the Sunnydale High library i fear

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

My husband bought a “hedgehog house” a few weeks ago. I had my doubts, but … 🦔

me and my buddies would've killed tuvix with a hammer i'll tell you that much

It's the quote that makes it.

#ValentinesDay 💖

Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.

❤️

Zack and his boyfriend on the red carpet

Really proud to be the LGBT+ Trailblazer of the year.

And so proud of the real trailblazers - like my boyfriend - who works in palliative care.

Our NHS workers, our teachers, our cleaners.

The people who keep our country running.

And LGBT+ History month matters. Representation matters.

🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Still amazed that it makes perfect sense in context

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

we have basically automated the infinite monkeys eventually typing out shakespeare and we think they have a hive mind

I've been supporting ABE my entire life

Reminds me of my favourite six nations advert

Finally, a politician prepared to fight against the huge roll in public life being handed over to Palantir by our corrupt govts.

Why is Palantir being given NHS contracts? They are reportedly involved with rounding up migrants in the US and targeting mainly civilians in Gaza.

Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.

They've stopped people from using drugs safely.

It's time to legalise *and* regulate.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla

Hey did you remember that thing yesterday where the government announced 'free AI training' to everyone? Do you recall that? Does that ring a bell?

This thread is incredible

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

Could we send water companies on a "not dumping shit in the rivers" course?

If elected; I will ensure that whenever there are 2 escalators together, one is obviously faster than the other.

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.