Tony Šedivý 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE

Denmark has taught empathy in schools since 1993, helping children aged 6–16 develop compassion and social awareness. This early focus on emotional education has reduced bullying and fostered one of the world’s kindest societies.

In the US we just give you a bullet proof vest, and hope for the best

Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.

First-Of-Its-Kind Cell Transplant Brings a Cure For Diabetes Closer A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs.
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...

Everything Trump touches dies is a truth that applies directly in this case.
#ETTD

Who did this

Kharkiv right now. Moscovia bombs sleeping families. 4 victims including kids.

Don’t tell me about peace that Putin wants. Do not dare.

Me to a T. I've never really understood fans of sports teams, the lure of patriotism, and have no discernible desire to belong to anything. I'm perfectly delighted, though, with my relationships with individual people.

("uninterest" not "disinterest", though...)

+1

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:

the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*

what this country is really good at is producing culture

YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg What the Russian papers are saying about the Alaska summit

Russian media are hailing the Alaska summit as a big win for Moscow:
• “a tactical victory for Russian diplomacy”
• “huge diplomatic victory for Vladimir Putin”
• “Trump perceived Russia’s interests as legitimate.”

YouTube video by MSNBC Timothy Snyder: Trump has made Ukraine war 'longer and worse'

Snyder's view on Trump is clear:

"He has made huge concessions to Russia; he tries to take NATO off the table, he doesn't talk about reparations, so the Russians believe they have his number."

Snyder is right: by ignoring the political reality, Trump has made the war on Ukraine longer and worse.

🧵 Jan Steen (c1626-79) was one of the great Dutch Golden Age painters. His art has even given rise to to a Dutch expression - a Steen Household - which is a chaotic one. He was a great Old Master whose work celebrates & mocks Dutch life & his is a merry world! Let’s take a look! [1]

London Has Officially Been Named Europe’s Favourite City For Cycling – Overtaking The Likes Of Amsterdam And Paris Helmets at the ready, folks; London has just topped the charts as the internet's favourite European cycling city - and we're feeling wheely proud.

🚴‍♀️ London has done it.

We’ve just been crowned Europe’s favourite city for cycling, a fantastic recognition of the progress we’ve made to make our city greener and more accessible for all. Our cycling boom is good for Londoners and is putting us on the map for cycle tourism.

Some new AI related humorous slang:

AI WASHING
Exaggerating the role of AI in product or service.

CLANKER
AI chatbot or robot.

SLOP
Low quality high volume content from AI tools. Now a YouTube plague.

SLOPPERS
Over reliance on chatGPT

Why the Vance visit was so much more than just a holiday..
V good by @freddiehayward.bsky.social

Article on BBC news. Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪

The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.

That is *pure fantasy*.

Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Would love the King to tell us today in his speech why he gets £132m a year for charging rent to Wind Turbines for worthless seabed.

The money comes straight from your energy bills, £3.30 each.

Nigel Farage is borderline delusional The EU’s new travel rules look suspiciously like the ones he’d approve for Britain - so naturally, he’s against them

Farage is enjoying himself - whipping up hate, division & outrage, but without any taking responsibility. Just as he'll do if he ever gets any real power.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/steve-angles...

Petition: Require candidates for MP to be registered to vote and residents of the UK Currently, a candidate for MP is not required to be registered to vote or be resident in the UK. We ask the Government to require candidates for MP be registered to vote and residents of the UK.

Imagine a situation where a billionaire gained British residency, threw money at a vulnerable constituency, didn’t live there & had no intention of serving voters & was voted in.

Imagine being a person who could stop it…

Please read, sign & share ✍🏽
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

The Great British fear factory: manufacturing a lawless London Reform UK’s “Britain is Lawless” campaign isn’t about making us safer – it’s about manufacturing fear for political gain

Crime is roughly half what it was in the 90s. Britain is still one of the safest countries in the developed world.

So why does Reform want you to think London’s a hellscape? The Bear provides the answer ⤵️

Trying out chatGPT, asking for five things to do in Verona in preparation for a visit. Then a follow up question.
I’ve not checked the accuracy of the plausible answers.
Probably not much more informative than the local tourist office though.

Another busy day down the immigrant-bashing mines... How does Starmer find the time to do any actual governing?

@neeratanden.bsky.social

A ramen shop in #Taipei is now offering "traffic median mushrooms ramen" after the spectacle of Kaohsiung police collecting poisonous fungi from public roads in the wake of heavy rain. The soup noodles are dusted with bright green seaweed powder to mimic grass, and the shrooms served are farm-grown.

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

Brown bread would be a step forward for the country.

EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS POWDER KEG UK ABOUT TO BLOW UP AS BRITAIN STANDS ON THE BRINK OF THE WHOLE NATION DESCENDING INTO CIVIL WAR by Our Apocalypse Staff HELENA HANDCART THE entire country has turned into a tinderbox, one spark and the whole thing could turn into a raging inferno of hatred and violence. All it needs is one little push - preferably from us - and this once peaceful island will explode. It may not take much, maybe an article with some badly researched facts, maybe some exaggerated and provocative hyperbole, and before we know it there'll be blood on the streets, and flames too, as millions of furious citizens attack each other, the police, and the emergency services, not to mention the armed forces should they tragically be called in to deal with the hate-filled mob rampaging through our cities, towns and villages, armed with burning torches and pitchforks, calling for justice, free speech and the immediate death of everyone they don't like. (Top journalism, Ed). Make no mistake, if Britain even exists by next week, we will run this piece again until someone sparks the tinderbox on the brink of the powderkeg that... (cont. for entire summer).

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

Is it just me or does that look like gilt cocks stuck on the top of tables now inhabiting the car park replacing the ex-Rose Garden ?