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a man with a beard and a hat has the words i have no memory of this place on his face Alt: Gandalf looking confused and saying, "I have no memory of this place.”

Spotify Wrapped: “This is one of your most-played songs!”
Me:

The Crazy Adventures Of Cordrazine Nudity, Spanish elections, and chart hits for the band that’s again calling it quits.

Farewell Cordrazine! Thank you for the music

themusic.com.au/features/the...

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

Illustration in turquoise and brown of a snow filled city in winter. The spectral form of a woman sails through the sky sprinkling ice as she goes.

Picked up ‘The Christmas Book’ a graphic celebration edited by David Larkin, at the weekend. Here’s an illustration by Edmund Dulac.

‘Many a winter’s night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers.’

So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

It's pretty damning that the Adelphi was well-known as a place for people to sleep rough from at least a century ago.

Join us for a festival signing session on Satuday in Crystal Palace! Preorders now closed but you can buy Lokis on the day too!

December is here! That means you have two-and-a-bit weeks to send us your novella or short story collection for consideration.

We're looking for speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England.

Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions/

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

'I am less inclined to call on the Government for a solution to the British Library’s ongoing issues since, despite repeated calls for action, the UK Government has largely ignored the similar crisis within UK Higher Education.' 1/3

Job Vacancy: Girl Guides WA are now recruiting for a new CEO The position of CEO for the Girl Guides of WA is "under recruitment" today after the details of Karyn Lisignoli were removed from the group's website.

What a backwards place the UK has become.

Girl Guides in Australia not only accepts trans girls they also sacked the former CEO because she was a transphobe.

www.outinperth.com/job-vacancy-...

“Under this Government, water executives will no longer line their own pockets whilst pumping out this filth. If they refuse to comply, they could end up in the dock and face prison time.”

— The Right Honourable Steve Reed OBE MP

If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…

HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!

My favourite genres of AI-generated ads are currently:

- buff guy doing shirtless interviews with fully-clothed guests
&
- woman dancing while an increasingly messed-up romance narrative unfolds weirdly over the top.

Chairman of vaccine committee leaves for new HHS job The head of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee is leaving to take a leadership role within the Department of Health and Human Services.

Appalling. Martin Kulldorff, who was a lead author of the Great Barrington declaration which promoted mass infection with COVID and spread disinformation about vaccines, has been appointed HHS Chief science officer.

This is the epitome of a walk in #Melbourne suburban streets right now. Rainbow lorikeets feasting on the festive, blooming callistemon.
#birds

At any moment now I'm going to get into trouble for using these songs without permission. 😬 #OrangeNSW #PeregrineFalcons

What would Russia's inability to launch crewed missions mean for ISS? Russia's only launch site capable of sending humans to orbit has suffered serious damage that may take two years to fix. Will NASA keep supporting the ISS without Russian involvement, or is this the e...

The ISS may soon become slightly less international. Russia’s only launch pad capable of sending humans to orbit is damaged and may be out of commission for two years. That would pose a dilemma for NASA: take on more costs and responsibility or let the ISS die. www.newscientist.com/article/2506...

An ancient mosaic of astonishing complexity and beauty. The design is 10 rows of 5 squares in a grid formation. Each is separated by a coloured twisted rope border. Each square shows a different design - either animals, plants, buildings or people. Wowser.

Look at this! For the first time since it was found, partially excavated and dispersed in the 1950s, someone has digitally reconstructed the 6th century mosaic from Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenacia, Libya. 😮🤯

#MosaicMonday

Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987.

Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 58 now.
HIV treatment works.
Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex.
Ensure HIV treatment for all.
End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay

a couple sitting on a bench looking at the earth ALT: a couple sitting on a bench looking at the earth

A quiet message that Ab Terra is open for submissions. We're looking for thoughtful SF short stories that reflect on our earth. brainmillpress.submittable.com/submit

We'll be shouting about it loudly next week alongside another exciting announcement. 😘

#sfshorts #abterra #fromEarth

Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

Rainforests, rivers and sacred sites are being ‘ripped to shreds’ by feral pigs, Queensland traditional owners warn Destruction wrought by swine-borne disease is thinning the canopy of bunya pine forests and the problem is getting worse, experts say

Feral pigs are a massive issue across Australia. They can cause tremendous damage to environments, wildlife and cultural sites. And, like many invasive species, government funding of their control and eradication is grossly insufficient.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... By @donnadlu.bsky.social

The numbers in here are hilarious.

Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%

Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B

Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have spotted the first hints that they are real

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have spotted the first hints that they are real

They use Lincoln because they love to hang their hat on LINCOLN WAS REPUBLICAN

It was a new political party. The party no longer even remotely resembles the one Lincoln was a part of.

Black people used to be OVERWHELMINGLY Republican because that was the party that fought for abolition.

'Cloud study, sunset.' (1821) John Constable’s interest in the changing appearance of the sky dates to hus early as a student. At twenty-two, newly enrolled at the Royal Academy, he described the London sky as being how ‘a pearl must look through a burnt glass.'

Tommy Robinson, actual fascist, said this of Labour’s immigration policies:
“The Overton window has been obliterated, well done patriots!”

Stripping the rights of one group is merely a test case. If the working class will tolerate the degradation of their neighbours, then they’re too disorganised to prevent it coming for them next.

Labour intends to breach the European Convention on Human Rights: see below

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

“The researchers showed that raising body temperature to fever levels is effective at stopping human-origin flu viruses from replicating, but it is unlikely to stop avian flu viruses.”

Israeli forces kill Palestinian men who appeared to be surrendering in West Bank raid Footage appeared to show Israeli security forces shoot and kill two unarmed Palestinian men who were attempting to surrender during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

"The Israeli military and Israeli police issued a joint statement…[which] did not give any reason for why the forces opened fire, nor say that the two [surrendering] men had lain on the ground before they were directed back inside the building and shot."

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...