@thelogicman
Ocean, climate, and ecological modeller, Exeter Uni. Fake captain, actual PhD. I give public talks and blog about science and sci-fi. Views my own (obvs). He/him. Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind. https://haggishashbrowns.wordpress.com/
tuesday was one of the year's biggest election days. i made a thread that day about the 10 most interesting (local, non-federal) elections i was watching so they get more attention.
but that means i should do a thread to bring you their results!
so my follow-up 🧵:
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept.com
Hello this dropped very late last night but it's definitely worth reading
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Trump's campaign in 2016 foreshadowed what both his admins did. His supposed criticism of the Iraq War came in the form of "we should have committed more war crimes and stolen everything."
His foreign policy is colonialism + fascist grievance culture
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I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.
I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
This spells out what we've always known about institutional and community contempt for trans people in death, and elaborates on how that is intensified by anti-Blackness and transmisogyny.
Transmisogynoir means Black trans women's deaths are dismissed, lied about, and not investigated.
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.
Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran
Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...
Photo of a plushie white baby seal, positioned to appear like it's taking a selfie of itself in front of the entrance to the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting. Behind the seal are large 3D cutouts if the letters O S M, and behind those is a banner with the official tartan of the conference.
Breadroll also likes to take selfies.
#OSM26
Large block letters "OSM" in front of a banner with the tartan design for the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow. Sitting on the S in the middle of the display are a plushy highland cow and a white plushie baby seal
Breadroll the seal and Clyde the Highland Coo are enjoying #OSM26 in Glasgow. It's Breadroll's seconds Ocean Sciences Meeting, after 2018, and Clyde's first.
Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
They're going to lie about birth control just as they did with trans people.
If you're at #OSM26, this town hall is today. Come hear Brandon Jones (President of @agu.org), Margaret Leinen (Director Emeritus of @scrippsocean.bsky.social), Mike Sieracki (Director of Horn Point Lab), Sabrina Speich (Professor at ENS), and Steve Rocliffe (Senior Technical Advisor of ORCA).
Mad that it’s one billionaire scumbag who’s behind these massive-scale evictions in London AND the mass closure of London pubs AND beloved institution the Prince Charles Cinema being in dire straits AND the high street being clogged with cruddy candy shops. A one-man enshittification engine.
Tron 4 should be made with Blender and be about the characters going inside Blender and actually it's just a Blender tutorial with Jeff Bridges and Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.
It's not even the closest to the worst or most offensive movie I've seen in the theatre, not even close. It was just the sheer scale of disappointment, and the hurdles I had gone through as a poor agoraphobe to get there, to be so insulted with such a bad script.
Jurassic World. I almost yelled at strangers as I left the cinema to not see it. I did see some of my fellow students on the train back to campus and told them about it. I didn't know them well at all I just knew they were also from the uni.
Yaya.
Though I suspect BlueSky is going to speedrun Twitter's collapse trajectory and we'll need to find something new in a couple years' time.
This is such an innocuous (and very funny and rather poignant) post that follows such a clear structure with obviously signposted irony... and apparently people are still misinterpreting it in all the worst ways in the replies?
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
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If you see this post a Star Trek