Bruno Nicoletti

@gwenynen Smells of some management consultant looking at line items on a spreadsheet looking for “efficiencies”. I despair.

"Flu surge a challenge for NHS 'unlike any' since pandemic, Streeting says"

WHY DID YOU RESTRICT THE FLU JAB MORE THIS YEAR YOU UTTER NUMPTIES?!?

This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC.
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com

All corruption, all the time in Trump world. Trump's sons (including/especially the youngest) helped get one of most vile people on the planet out of legal trouble. Fine NYT reporting here:

https://archive.md/uAYtL

What if they constantly want culture war because policy war is complicated and hard and culture war is stupid and easy

Now that it is official US policy to promote regime change in Europe and to dismantle the EU I wonder if we will take sovereignty over tech more seriously

Ed Davey: "Quite apart from the irony of President Trump accusing others of trampling on basic principles of democracy, it repeats far right tropes of civilisational erasure, and threatens that the US Government will cultivate resistance in Europe."

Either this is satire that has gone totally over my head, or fonts are woke now.
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115692881477036716

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 WATCH — @mrjamesob.bsky.social: “I’m going to say this slowly… The President of The United States of America has sided with Putin against the United Kingdom. He has put the whole of Europe in the crosshairs.”

If you think Paramount is just trying to buy Warner Brothers so Ellison can stop CNN from criticizing Trump… you’re right!

www.wsj.com/business/med...

@mawhrin Quoi? Nothing shows up on my news search.

Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's £9m crypto-bro donation?~AA

11. It’s not just that people are wasting their time. "Population concern” also distracts people from things we *can* change. And, in many cases, transfers blame for the huge consumption impacts of wealthy people to Black and Brown people in poorer nations. At worst it’s straight-up racism. 11/12

no story about elon musk or his companies is complete without reference to both his overt white nationalist agitation, or his willingness to put that rhetoric into action by gleefully consigning countless thousands of people of color to death while running DOGE

Kilauea is putting on a spectacular show right now. Huge gouts of lava spewing high into the air. The USGS has several live cameras watching it and camera 3 was taken out by the lava fall. If you scrub back in time you can watch as the rain of molten rock creeps forward and “Pompeiis” the camera […]

Title: The Final Boss of Dad Jokes Knock knock!! Who's there? Hike Hike who? Unsuspecting son, Dad waiting with baited breath, Sets the perfect trap.

I don't remember where I found this, but it still makes me laugh every time.

#DadJokes

@dpiponi To be honest, you aren’t missing much.

So Reform just took a £9 million donation from a cryptocurrency backer based in Thailand. Which of course will have no influence of the party’s priorities.

Why are donations of that size to political parties even legal? […]

Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce

Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6...

@mawhrin What a horribly condescending reply which is basically a personal attack.

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.

The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...

People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.

Riding the Elizabeth Line to travel 25km from the west side of London to the east. 30 minutes as opposed to over a hour by car, and no hassle with parking. Public transport is ace. #urbanism

The main reason our of many why the UK is in the hole it is in right now.
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115626990135691434

jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide. Ghouls gonna ghoul: Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen's suicide and... https://jwz.org/b/ykxy

This is such a profoundly shitty move by OpenAI, it shows what an ethical cesspit of a company they are. I don’t care if their chat bot works as advertised or not, damned if I’d use it after this.
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115617653609362687

Petition - Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

"We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere.

We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaigns in the […]

This is how you do it people. I feel like I could have written this article, as it is extremely detailed as to all of the valid reasons why they would want to ban such content from being associated with Nature.

Every journalistic & creative outlet you follow should be publishing something like […]

🚨 BREXIT BUDGET🚨

"And Finally, Madam Deputy speaker, we are ramping up sanctions on Russia and we are freezing known Russian assets."

"But let me be clear. I don't actually mean the Honourable Member for Clacton."

The three financial ghosts haunting Rachel Reeves’ crucial Budget Three issues have fundamentally shaped the UK’s money woes, writes Renaud Foucart of The Conversation

🏦Bank of England business surveys estimates that Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6%-8%.

📊For reference, a GDP that was 7 per cent higher would give £77 billion extra a year to the chancellor. More than half of the 2024-25 budget deficit of £137 billion.

https://bit.ly/3MpIdmA