Hampstead and Highgate Express front page, Friday February 27, 1970: masthead and top story headline: Does a wampyr walk in Highgate?
Today we celebrate the fruits of one of the finest headlines ever to follow Betteridge’s Law, because it’s the 56th anniversary of “London’s most extended satanism flap”, when about 100 people broke into Highgate Cemetery to stake a vampire 🧵
If you think the NHS has problems, wait until you see the chaos across the pond.
It’s a complex system in US - Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance, TRICARE - too often the sick fall through the cracks and either stay sick or lose a lot of money – or both.
A text-only tweet that reads: another day working at the angostura bitters bottling plant. no fucking way will i trim the labels the right size to fit the bottles, man. you’ll have to come down here and fight me, asshole
Time to price them off the roads everywhere, by all means possible.
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Every day for literal years at this point, I've come on the internet and seen two type of content: content telling me young men are lonely and angry and need to be listened to, and content of those men saying and doing the most fucked up things imaginable.
I'm over it.
A quick reminder that lower speeds don't just save lives, they cut fuel use and therefore emissions - nearly a quarter less fuel consumption by dropping from 110kph to 90kph. Similar with dropping from 50kph to 30kph in urban areas too.
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This falls in line with @kenlowery.bsky.social's rubric, cats are punks, dogs are dorks.
The tool, called HODIO (Spanish for Footprint of Hatred and Polarisation), will track the presence, spread, and impact of online hate speech as part of a broader oversight of SM platforms.
Results will be made public to show how platforms respond to harmful content.
Nor will I.
I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
The only thing worse than an administration run by people with video game logic is that they're BAD at video games.
Iran announces "the start of targeting the enemy's technological infrastructure in the region," by which they mean targeting assets of American companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc, across the region.
Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.
you wanna learn VFX?
The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything
grab it while you can
thevfxschool.com
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
I want every word of this in massive letters of fire in the sky. Thank you, @moryan.bsky.social.
This is just fucking appalling on every level. Like, what a violation.
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
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If development necessitates disturbing a graveyard (in the uk) what is the most ethical answer? Bulldozing the graves? Disturbing the dead without looking at the skeletons?
I beleive telling their stories is the least we can do if we are going to disturb them. Archives are part of that
for fuck’s sake
A fabulous paper - fur, feathers and fibres from the Mesolithic. A reminder of why good sampling, excavation records and archives of more that just artefacts really matter.
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“If you want to look at the economics, then look at all of it. For example, I've never seen a calculation of how much capacity, how much GDP, a poorly-paid immigrant working in a care home frees up for the family and relatives of all the people there, by taking on their caring responsibilities.”
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
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!
they double bombed an elementary school for girls
That needs reporting to the police via the Nextbase portal (it will take still images as well as photos). They can ticket the driver for obstruction / dangerous position.
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This is why I write so much about pavement parking
