Dave Lee

Just finished this yesterday and madly in love with it (especially Jacket, who is a very good boy). Popped a glowing review up on Amazon, and not just because I know the author. This really is one of the best modern urban sci-fi fantasy books I've read in a while. Definitely worth your time.

I agree about Brexit. The antisemitism thing was a fake news-assisted demolition by the UK media though, who hammered away at the lie that anti-Zionism = antisemitism. One of the most rotten bits of propaganda I've ever seen.

For clarity, how would you say Corbyn fucked up?

Ok, thanks. So who is your hope for the Left?

Wow, interesting. I see ZP as a leader the Left has been waiting for since the 80s, principled but charismatic enough to stand up to the far right bias of UK media. What puts you off him?

'Reform Lite', thanks for that!

Successive interviews by Nick Robinson this morning perfectly sum up the BBC:

with Zack Polanski: sneering, aggressive, constantly interrupting.

with David Bull, Reform's Chairman: polite, nodding along, barely any interruptions.

Amazing. Will share the link when it's up so you can listen too.

Apparently even adult dogs can happily do 17 hours a day. I sometimes say to our doggo, 'working on your 17, eh?'

Well, that was 50 years ago... :-~

Best pub in Pompey!

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

If you are interested in humanity’s relationship with AI, this is a must read.

Just like Bliar saying he'd prefer the Tories to Corbyn. New Labour has always been Fake Labour.

Harken to what Gavin says!

Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.

First writing may be 40,000 years earlier than thought www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cockney Gothic Few who drift along the ever changing streets of the East End guess just how high the graves are piled beneath their feet. London is a city built upon the remains of those who trod those well worn …

OK, so seeing as there is no official #FolkloreThursday this week I'm going to share an example of how personal mythology and spirit of place can impact someone as they grow instead, especially in a storied city such as London. This one saw print in an Anathema Publishing hardcover back in 2021.

So Reform plan to deport up to 288,000 people a year if they are elected.

Conveniently, that’s almost exactly the number of registered Reform members.

Let’s deport them instead.

They are mostly couch potato OAPs and they really wouldn’t be missed.

Job done — peace restored.

Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

The findings that come from an DNA studies fascinate me. The fact that DNA can even be extracted from ancient bones (and sometimes teeth) is amazing.

Ancient DNA Reveals Europe’s Last Hunter-Gatherers Survived Thousands of Years Longer Than Expected share.google/WJYszOE4b4PE...

Just sometimes I think I'm doing Hookland right.

This is so horrible, Darwin Award by proxy playing out. Christian moron destroying her son's life and putting responsibility onto the Sky Fairy.

Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting COVID-19.

Microclots and neutrophil extracellular traps merge to form structures that may contribute to thrombosis and atherosclerosis in patients with long Covid. While this research is in its early days, it may pinpoint not only a diagnosis of long Covid but potentially a therapeutic target.
#Science 🧪

Only to 1400, I am sure some of my scholar friends can do better.

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Labour under Blair and Starmer have become just an alternative Tory party. Time for them to go.

They sacked Nutt, and said his telling the truth about the actual levels of harm from different drugs was 'sending the wrong message'.

Playgrounds would become crack dens if greens were in power policing minister says.

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years.

That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”.

Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives.

This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

Get Palantir OUT of our NHS! Our NHS was built on care, not corporate contracts. I’ve signed to stop the Palantir deal and keep control of NHS data in public hands. Join me 👇

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Fauxrage as PooTin's sock puppet, and lyrics: He's a traitor / He's a grifter He's a fraud / He's a con Never cared for England / He's Vladdy PooTin's lapdog Nigel's wrong / Nigel's Gone

Sing! Sing! It raises your mood and improves immune function. As does damaging the reputation of fascists amongst their supporters. Farrago is vulnerable, keep the pressure up! Sing a little every day, every bit helps.
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UK people, you know what to do...