John Peters

That was a very good edition of #c4news @krishgm.bsky.social and team

Spaghett - Wikipedia

Happy birthday Baltimore! 296 years.

I feel bad that we gave the world the "Spaghett." That was before my time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghett

#MEcfs #LongCovid #SevereME

Thanks, Simon. Powerfully put.

This powerful poem, Art Therapy, might resonate on #SevereMEDAy. It's by my friend and published poet Veronica Ashenhurst, who grows ever more severe. #Gaslighting

Read the whole poem at acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

@tomkindlon.bsky.social @strangerandstranger.net

Excellent interview with @krishgm.bsky.social talking to Damon Albarn and James Hewlett. Lots of good stuff in it and good fun as well. #c4news

It's when you see how young Krish looked 25 years ago that you realize just how old you must look now. #c4news

I think as well as being very talented Damon Albarn is also very interesting. #c4news

150,000 estimated dead, 12 million displaced and around 25 million facing hunger and famine' @emilywither.bsky.social on the continuing horror in Sudan. #c4news

'Hatred is just being fuelled. But why?' asks daughter of Bhim Kholi, who was killed while out walking his dog last year, in good report by @darshna.bsky.social #c4news

It's not just the physical pain that he had to endure in the last moments of his life, but imagine the emotional pain, the horrifying bewilderment at being the victim of children who set up on him for no reason, your last thoughts why these children are being so cruel. #c4news

Oh that's brilliant about Lowe. Fantastic. #c4news

Powerful from Yehuda Cohen, father of hostage Nimrod, both the personal horror and the understanding of what is happening and what needs to be done. #c4news

'But, instead of ending this war, Israel is expanding it, intensifying a strategy which has already killed many tens of thousands of people. And now endangers the lives of many more.' @jonathanrugman.bsky.social #c4news

'War on Hamas' like 'war on terror' and 'war on drugs'. #c4news Except much more brutal and destructive.

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

It has been noticeably cooler here also, though not that bad. Due to warm up from tomorrow onwards as well.

A secret DWP report on disabled claimant suicides has finally been released Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report. It exemplifies rigorous journalism.

A secret DWP report on disabled claimant suicides has finally been released

Thank God for Disability News Service and its perseverance in uncovering this suppressed DWP report - otherwise the public would be none the wiser.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

What makes a legal person? If invisible corporations and inanimate objects can be legal persons, so can rivers and animals

NEW

What makes a legal person?

If invisible corporations and inanimate objects can be legal persons, so can rivers and animals

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

The Problem with the ‘Now What’ Problem - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice It has long been assumed that the moral error theory faces a ‘Now What’ problem. The error theory says that all moral judgments are false, and the ‘Now What’ problem asks what we should do with our mo...

Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Meta is just awful, polluted with scams & fakes. I’ve been almost caught twice by ‘clever’ scams or hackers. Told the hacking victim about it, turns out he’s been a recurrent victim (same hacker) & been reporting, trying to get something about it. Reporting is itself an impersonal bore.

#MEcfs #LongCovid #DecodeME

Excellent thread #MEcfs #LongCovid #DecodeME

70% of scams start online, with a fake ad or web page, so tech companies should be first line of defence. Some, eg Amazon, are putting effort into fraud prevention. Others, such as Meta, on whose sites more than half of online frauds originate, are not.
(£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Would you pay $4,000 for a picnic? Wealthy Americans are blowing big bucks on little lunchtime luxuries in the Hamptons. Here’s why

Tough one, but, on balance, probably not.
(£) www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

George Morrison obituary: long-neglected Irish film-maker Documentary maker described as ‘the forgotten man of Irish cinema’ who used archival footage to chronicle his country’s history, dies aged 102

Obituary of Irish film-maker George Morrison, who was older than the Republic, born before the Free State.
(£) www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

These airdrops are little more than PR. Feeding very few, killing too many & fuelling chaos on the ground.

Meanwhile, the Gaza “Humanitarian” Foundation is offering food by firing squad. And 1000s of tons sit rotting on the border.

This airdrop landed on a tent killing 3 children on July 30.

The view from India: our Test rivalry with England is finally alive Rahul Bhattacharya explains how Shubman Gill’s team restored pride to Indian Test cricket with players from all over the country in drawn series with England

If this series had ended after three Tests, it might still have rated as the finest between the sides. But we had at our disposal the phenomenal, philosophic expanse of five Tests.
(£) www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...
Includes fascinating portraits of Indian team

Text: Abstract Camera-type eyes are complex sensory organs susceptible to irreversible damage. Their repair is difficult to study due to the paucity of camera-type eye regeneration models. Identifying a genetically tractable organism with the ability to fully regenerate complete camera-type eyes would help overcome this difficulty. Here, we introduce the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata, capable of full regeneration of camera-type eyes even after complete resection. We defined anatomical components of P. canaliculata eyes and genes expressed during crucial steps of their regeneration. By exploiting the unique features of this organism, we successfully established stable mutant lines in apple snails. Our studies reveal that, akin to humans, pax6 is indispensable for eye development in apple snails, establishing this as a research organism to unravel the mechanisms of camera-type eye regeneration. This work expands our understanding of complex sensory organ regeneration and offers a way to explore this process.

A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration
www.nature.com/articles/s41...