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Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

A fun stylized illustration of Christmas bell ornaments in wild designs of red, silver, white and green.

Stylized Christmas tree designs in a repeated pattern, with red and gold stripes going in a diagonal direction.

Red and white and black pattern in triangles and stars with sparkly bits.

Fun stylized illustration of lots of ornaments in blues and gold.

✨ Vintage Christmas wrapping paper ✨ - here's a nice thread featuring some beautiful designs from the midcentury era (1940s-60s). Hope this gets you in the mood for Christmas-y stuff. #wardsmorguefile

Near the end of the hearing, Lord Razzall, who sat with his Daunt Books tote bag hanging on the railing, said: “I’m just glad there is no press in the courtroom, unlike last time.”

Fantastic detail from the PA court coverage of Lib Dem peer Lord Razzall getting his second driving ban of the year.

The Washington Post headline reads: "Try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big Thanksgiving meal Whatever you do, resist the urge to lie down. November 24, 2025" Accompanying the article if a black ad white photo of someone walking on what appears to be a cold fall day. The camera is capturing their back as they're walking in a park with leaves on the ground. They are wearing a black coat and black leggings. The Washington Post has added radiating yellow lines from their butt to suggest they're farting. The photo credit says the image is from iStock.

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

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We've been down on the beach today picking up firework debris. It's odd, isn't it, that you can be fined £250 for dropping litter but somehow it's OK to launch rockets containing plastic casings into the sky.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"I understand it is normally the role of opposition leaders to jump up and down and call for resignations – as we’ve seen plenty of from the Conservatives already. Obviously if the ethics advisor says Angela Rayner has broken the rules, her position may well become untenable. But as a parent of a disabled child, I know the thing my wife and I worry most about is our son’s care after we have gone, so I can completely understand and trust that the deputy prime minister was thinking about the same thing here. Perhaps now is a good time to talk about how we look after disabled people and how we can build a more caring country."

Credit to Ed Davey for this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds AI is not benign.

Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds https://gizmodo.com/doctors-were-worse-at-spotting-cancer-after-leaning-on-ai-study-finds-2000642527

Deeply shocked and saddened by the passing of our dear friend, colleague and @who.int Envoy David Nabarro.

David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals. His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world. (1/2)

David Nabarro, British physician who led UN response to Ebola and COVID-19, dies Dr. David Nabarro, a British physician who led the U.N. response to some of the biggest health crises in recent years, including bird flu, Ebola and the coronavirus pandemic, has died.

Dr. David Nabarro, a British physician who led the U.N. response to some of the biggest health crises in recent years, including bird flu, Ebola and the coronavirus pandemic, has died.

Part of the problem is the conflation between generative AI (completely bollocks “spicy autocomplete” that’s killing the planet) and machine learning (the scientific uses to expose patterns in enormous data sets which can then be explored by humans)

One political dilemma of COVID is it provided a very powerful demonstration of the state’s ability to do big things quickly but did so through a massive surge in public debt. So voters now think the state can do more because of COVID right at the moment the state can do less because of COVID.

July 25, 1925: Children from London’s working-class Tower Hamlets neighborhood in London wait for a train that will take them on a weekend outing in the country.

What’s the point of a licence fee or anything like it if not to provide coverage of the boring but important stuff? Stopping Politics Live just the latest in the slow killing of any proper coverage of the party conferences.

To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show

Bjork hunched intently over a laptop at a mixing desk a small audience watching from a few feet away.

Told the kids we were going to Iceland this summer and when elder teen joked we might see Bjork, I laughed.
Landed this am. Few hours later we visited a small local record shop. Someone was playing a kicking DJ set. Guess who. 😲
Here's a photo of elder teen's ear, six feet from stardom. Incredible.

Emergency Alert day has been confirmed as 7th September. If you have a secret phone for safety go to settings and turn off all government notifications. Setting it to silent or airplane is not enough 🚨 (guidance on each step is on the internet). Spread the word

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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June 16, 1925: After a construction project of several months, London’s new Waterloo Bridge nears completion side-by-side with the old one.

"I've got a brand new content harvester"

Why is it spelled "camouflage" and not

Well, this has made my day

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Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

This seagull will be the first living creature to know there's a new Pope outside of the Conclave.

🧪Hello! are you a scientist who started your PhD in 2020 and are now wrapping up? I want to know how your life is and how you're feeling about your prospects in 2025 for a story in @nature.com. DM me or find me on Signal at aheidt.16. Tell yo friends!

(Also seeking international sources.)

In Oxford, as ever, vast crowds of people turned out at 6 am this May Day morning to hear the choir of Magdalen College sing songs of spring and listen to the ringing of the bells. If you don’t mind getting up early, it’s a magical experience.

Just going through the transcript of my interview with Bill Gates. First question seems pretty to the point I think.

(The answer is, yes he could).

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Thinking about why public services should
not be designed in the same way as private-sector ones. I've 5 points so far:
(1) CHOICE: with v few exceptions, we get to choose the private-sector digital services we use but most public services need to be universal at the point of access
(1/n)