swimbird #FBPE

It’s really just that they hate accommodating people with any disability and there are no signs for some of the fucking gibberish that come out of his mouth

Cat in her element

Air passengers exposed to extremely high levels of ultrafine particle pollution, study finds Levels during boarding and taxiing were far above those defined as high by the World Health Organization

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A large group of young Republicans and Texas GOP leaders at the Texas Governors Mansion.

Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.

Liam Neeson has a very particular set of skills. Molecular biology, virology, epidemiology and basic health awareness are not among them. Ffs.

The US government is now a mafia organization.

Please remember this next time you hear Nigel Farage and Reform say we must leave the ECHR to control our borders

A significant aspect of the Reform voter mindset neatly encapsulated here. Have seen this a lot in local Fb groups in particular.

I consumed brain surgery when I was 20. My mom’s insurance company hit us with rescission (a practice finally outlawed decades later with the ACA) and for the next few years credit agencies hounded me.

Poor consumer choice?

China Has The Whip-Hand In The War We better hope it does not use it.

A new free piece. China actually has the great whip-hand in the Russo-Ukrainian war. It supplies the parts which make UAVs for both sides. China could cripple Ukrainian drone production if it wanted. That is real power and we better hope China does not use it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

❗️The United States is considering the creation of a new "Core 5" group consisting of the US, China, Russia, India, and Japan, as an alternative to the G7, according to Politico.

Spot the point at which UK governments decided austerity was a good idea

Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...

“It is the Brexit playbook:…
It did not work then and it will not work now. Because once you agree that rights are the real obstacle, you have already handed victory to those who want rid of them altogether.”

Important read on blaming the ECHR for govt failure.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Plus chancers, responsible for tenders, major planning applications etc.

I think this is less an issue than these defections mostly being driven by the ambitions of the sub-capable.

US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.

Not that I was thinking about going to the US anytime soon but now it may not be possible anyway 🤣😂🤣
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yeah, right, because we can really trust the Trump administration to uphold its side of the bargain 😡😡😡

Nerd's Eye View: 11 things you need to know about immigration Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

"Incidentally, in the 1960s and 1970s, when net migration was running at minus 50,000 a year, more than 85% of Britons still thought immigration was too high."

Last week's New World column ocncerned immigration to the UK.

The mystery scaffolding was finally removed from my garden today, several months after its arrival. Having no opportunity to talk to the two men who removed it, all I know is that they wore orange safety jackets with the letters 'JJ' on the back in blue. Does anyone know what company that is?

The Spectator misses the point. Most schoolboys won't routinely go in for racist humiliations, as Farage did. Farage is just nastier than most.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I think this is actually a threat….dont you?

Honduras Issues Warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.

Breaking News: Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president who was recently pardoned by President Trump.

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

Saw elsewhere that this is an AI fake.

Is building more roads the solution to our congestion hell? | Newstalk “Continuing to build more roads to alleviate congestion, is precisely the kind of failed thinki...

I joined @newstalkfm.bsky.social breakfast to discuss the article too: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Prof Brian Caulfield: Can anything be done to end M50 gridlock? Motorway is daily inescapable reminder of Dublin’s status as world’s 10th most-congested city

"Continuing to build more roads to alleviate congestion, especially in a geographically constrained city such as Dublin, is precisely the kind of failed thinking that has resulted in our capital becoming the 10th most congested city in the world."

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

People should note that Voloshyn tried to disguise Gill’s bribes as ‘media payments’

Do we know how much Farage received for his regular appearance on RT/Russia Today around the time of Brexit?

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase

Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495