Will Bradshaw

"If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy."

@susiedent.com I just found out that the French translation of "mates rates" is "prix d'amis". The OED says that the former was first used in the New Zealand parliament in 1973. Can you comment on the latter? Was one translated from the other or were they coined separately?

"Across all animals and plants... well, all vertebrates... well, all mammals... well, just humans... sex is binary... well, apart from hermaphrodites. So, in conclusion, sex is binary."

I have to commend the Tories for this. They could have been a bit lax in opposition, but no. They've made sure everyone remains aware that they're still complete arseholes.

The term "woke" may not have been a thing then, but trying to be a decent human being definitely was. As was bigotry. Section 28 was one of the major long-term consequences of the Thatcher government. While I don't know much about him, I think "anti-woke" is probably an accurate description.

Rupert Murdoch "careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!" cartoon.

Mel Stride is telling @bbclaurak.bsky.social that the government spend £12b a year on benefits where at least one person in the household is an immigrant. Ignoring the generalisation and the demonisation of immigrants, the budget is £1.3t. That's less than 1%.

My mistake, it isn't you that's blocked me. It's the person you originally replied to.

Whoever it is, they've blocked me too. No idea what I did 🤷‍♂️

What about Guerrilla Radio?

Huckabee suggests Muslim countries should give up land for Palestinian state President Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel also told the BBC a two-state solution was "an aspirational goal".

Just a US government official calling for ethnic cleansing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

They'd give good insight too. I don't know the details of how the system works. At what point does palliative care take over? Days? Weeks? GPs would be able to observe the process over years and it would be interesting to see how their opinions differ.

Nominative determinism at its finest from @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

No, but they are probably the best gauge we have of what patients need in a kind of pastoral sense.

"More than 1000 GPs" took the BBC's survey on #AssistedDying and "over 500 were against it". This is useless, unscientific reporting. Was it 1001/1001, or was it 501/10,000? It was later somewhat clarified with other approximations, but why not just report the actual numbers?

A great example of nominative determinism on BBC Breakfast.

MP in talks about 'dangerous' A34 slip roads Olivia Bailey MP is campaigning for safety measures at the A34 slip roads at East Ilsley and Beedon.

@laylamoran.bsky.social South Hinksey and a few others near Oxford are terrible, too.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Its mission end date was 2019. They extended it, but it has run out of fuel now. There isn't much you can do with a telescope that just drifts randomly.

Roger Johnson on BBC Breakfast just reported that inflation is going up. No, it has fallen from 3.3% to 2.8%. Why can't the BBC report fundamental economics accurately?

Iftar at the @cmd.ox.ac.uk 😋

Either poor wording or abysmal unscientific reporting on #Panorama #LockdownKids claiming that covid lockdowns didn't save lives.

At what point does "Chicken and sweetcorn soup" stop being chicken and sweetcorn soup?

This is 21% sweetcorn and 5% chicken. Potato and onion are higher on the list of ingredients than chicken. The tiny bits of chicken don't make much difference. It's clearly just a sales tactic.

Disgraceful that #UniversityChallenge had bonus questions on chief mousers and @number10cat.bsky.social didn't get a mention!

Well now I don't know who to believe, the guardian or spacelord88 🤔

Typhoid Mary Elizabeth Truss

I worked on a protein that always formed large crescent shaped crystals around the edge of the drop. P31

I've often wondered if there's a correlation between how much someone reads and their ability to imagine what they're reading.

I don't read very much at all and I'd say I'm about a 4. Most books just don't do much for me 🤷‍♂️

"Migrant rape gangs" has two possible meanings.

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

I heard Amanda Holden a few days ago demanding that Matt Lucas and David Walliams promise that their future material won't be "woke". Does she know what that means? She's asking them to say that it will be sexist, racist, homophobic or something else. I wonder if there's a specific one she wants. 🤔

I feel like the BBC have forgotten about something here that caused an economic crash around September/October 2022, but i can't quite put my finger on it. Lettuce think about it for a bit. I Truss that we'll be able to work it out...