09.03.2026 21:24
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That's a quote for the ages
I dunno. They've been funding and preparing an entire right wing ecosphere for the last two decades at least. A legion of useful idiots nipping back and forth to oligarch villa parties, dishing out positions in power and control of the local media or cultural apparatus like football teams.
This godforsaken idiot piece of shit.
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No call for them.
Strange. You'd think that the British people would be persuaded by such compelling arguments as 'we don't have a plan for regime change but a friend of a friend does' or 'Keir Starmer smells!'
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 𧡠(carried over from the old place)
Increasingly hard to argue that fossil fuels are anything but a millstone round a nations neck
They arenβt unexpected. Theyβre the most obvious things you cover in the first 10 minutes of your Iran wargame. This is what makes it worse.
To paraphrase Pratchett "I consulted the election guide about "What to do when there are been a 20% oil price shock during the parliament. It says "Edevour to be the oposition"."
Kind of weird when you can watch the global market collectively go "oh shit he is that crazy".
I have similar thoughts about renaming "foreign aid" to "foreign influence".
oh cool, we're at the "I have this knot of anxiety in my chest which I can't do anything about because it's entirely due to the overall geopolitical situation" stage again, nice, happy Monday everyone
Tsk. I think you'll find Asimov solved this last century with sky cables. π
holy shit
My feed is full of political and economic doom this morning, but this brought a short smile to my face:
First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka VavruΕ‘ovΓ‘. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio π§ͺ
There were many flaws with the old US as a global hedgemon, but at least there was a lip service, and a broad commitment, to international norms and law. A attempt to enforce it, if flawed.
The US losing that commitment, and celebrating atrocity, is a very bad development
Toy Story 3 has the toys heading towards an incinerator and stopping the fight to survive to instead go out with dignity as a family
Most unforced error in an interview I've seen since Prince Andrew
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.
I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.
If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.
It's ok it was only red hot shrapnel and probably the warhead. Being killed by the intact drone is passe. I'm hoping for being obliterated by the debris only. Much more bougie.
βIf 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.β
Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.
The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer -- But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP
History lesson.
Our once great ally didn't come to our aid until 1917.
Our once great ally didn't come to our aid again until 1941.
We all know that human consciousness begins once a billion words and phrases have been tokenized by the brain to map their relationships so I can pick the most likely response to a given input.
As Descartes said "I autocomplete, therefore I am."
Challenge for those who are very confident that a rock isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.
(Point being, a) unless you think language use -> consciousness then these questions are as good as one another, b) they are both surprisingly good.)
Several years from now, a thoughtful scholar will write a book called βTrumpβs Willing Executionersβ about how a nation of 340 million descended into abject depravity.
