At least in a city with access to green space (such as London) I agree it's not something I would do

Fat mass, body fat percentage, visceral fat rating and total body water mass were significantly lower at 8 weeks from baseline on the MPF but not UPF diet. Muscle mass, bone mass, fat-free mass and total body water percentage did not significantly differ at 8 weeks from baseline on either diet. Reductions in fat mass (−0.98 kg (s.e., 0.32); P = 0.004), body fat percentage (−0.76% (s.e., 0.28); P = 0.010), visceral fat rating (−0.41 (s.e., 0.15); P = 0.008) and total body water mass (−0.51 kg (s.e., 0.15); P = 0.002) were significantly greater on the MPF compared with UPF diet. Other body composition outcomes did not differ significantly between diets. Heart rate and blood pressure Systolic blood pressure (BP) (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were significantly lower at 8 weeks compared with baseline on the MPF but not UPF diet, whereas heart rate (HR) was significantly lower on the UPF but not MPF diet. Changes in BP and HR did not differ significantly between diets.

This seems pretty significant to me

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

This is breathtakingly beautiful

I would love it if you could interview him for a long time exclusively on housing

But it's so cute 🥰! I don't get tired of watching

Dunno, maybe give asylum seekers the right to work? Maybe we could start by reducing the UK's one-year work ban on applicants to 60 days (as it is in Italy) or three months (as it is in Germany), or even six months (as it is in US, Canada, France, Spain, and Japan)? Maybe that's the thing to fix?

ChatGPT talks to adults like it’s grooming them. Ohhhh wowwwww you’re so mature for your age. Nobody understands you.

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Crazy thought. If the government wants these homes to exist... the government should build them?

This is some soulless shit

The experience of the Norwegian -Congolese women seems horrific

Yay for trains!

With salsa socials under the arches

I am so annoyed at this being my only plausible choice

Poem The Thing Is, by Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

My very dear uncle died today

What? Thank *you*

British government asks people to delete old emails to reduce data centres' water use The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

This is tragicomical - instead of reigning in data centers and corporations, mandating renewable energy sources and mitigating climate change, they’re asking people to delete old photos. Akin to digging a tunnel with a teaspoon. www.thejournal.ie/uk-governmen...

Just pre-ordered it

Straight to the wishlist! I may not be able to wait for the audio version and just get it for Kindle

A Christmas crime novel sounds exactly like what I need right now. Is it available as an audiobook?

"A lot of people think evidence-based policy is centrist."

"I think one of the key things out of the essay is that actually evidence-based policy is quite radical."

The new Vantage Point essay by Executive Director Richard Denniss is out now! 📖
#auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

no YOU’RE weird for not defending my emotional support billionaire 🫵

New job! We're looking for a qualitative researcher to work with us on two projects, a participatory project on urban greening and a mixed-methods study on impacts of cycle infrastructure. 0.9 FTE for 8 months (combined maternity cover role). More info: vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...

Very powerful stuff from the President of Ireland on stopping the starvation in #gaza

Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’

“In a report released this year, the Watson School of International and Public Affairs’ costs of war project said more journalists had been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I am sad cherry season seems to be over

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

Data centre operator successfully challenges decision to refuse it planning permission for two new centres | BreakingNews.ie EdgeConneX Ireland said that it was not within the remit of South Dublin County Council to determine whether there was sufficient capacity on the national grid.

New data centre secures planning permission in Dublin, absurdly arguing that being powered mainly by on-site gas turbines means it will “play a part in Ireland’s decarbonisation strategy” - it’s the most deceitful yet common argument thrown out there.

www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/data...

It will also have many on-site diesel generators. Claiming that it can be powered by biomethane, hydrogen or HVO, or that it can sign renewable PPAs, is an absolute distraction from the fact that it will be powered by fossil fuels.