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The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

It's Monday. You might hate your job but at least you're not a Russian general about to explain to me how 1/3 of my strategic aviation got blown up in a morning by some cheap Alibaba drones.

Oh Poland 🥲. So much hate in the world, we could really do with a little bit less.

Breaking: 🇯🇵 Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba asserts that the country will not negotiate on U.S. tariffs.

Failed pandemic-era PPE contracts cost the British taxpayer £1.4billion. The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the figure in the first phase of his probe into wasteful Tory spending during the pandemic www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis. Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

First, they claimed science cuts were about "getting priorities around DEI in order." But now? Nothing. It's cuts just because. Nothing to argue with, just an exercise of power.

Tough day for Putin lovers.

fuck

We are starting the march for abducted children from Marble Arch. If you’ve been affected by the tube cancellations, join us for the rally at the parliament square at the end of the march!

If you aren't raising a glass to the Ukrainians for destroying a huge chunk of Russia's strategic nuclear bomber force, then we know what side you're on.

Another Putin lover having a bad day.

I understand Zelenskyy has given more detailed information about this operation, including that the ops centre was next to a regional FSB headquarters. Not only did Ukraine knock out a good part of the air leg of Russia’s nuclear triad but also conducted a massive physical trolling operation

Today's ethical question: which is worse - dodging a fare or claiming public money for the same journey twice?

Exit polls give Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw, 50.3% in the Polish presidential election. Now they start counting the votes He just spoke to supporters

There's a massive land war going on in Europe.

"If what you're doing is legitimate and lawful, why do you need to cover your face?”

In a healthy information environment, this would be front-page news.

My radical position is that congress should remove a president if he pronounces that his predecessor was assassinated and replaced by a clone

Narrator: He would continue to confuse “transgenic” and “transgender” for the rest of his days, which many hoped would be few.

If only there was some way of knowing what caused all this…

Liz Truss is in Hungary. And she tweeted this without a shred of apparent irony. It's her friends and family I feel sorry for.

Truss believes a government that banned pride marches and LGBT materials and in effect expelled a university is an epitome of freedom

Beginning to think one more gotcha post on social media isn’t going to bring down a corrupt government.

Trying to figure out whether, when all is said and done, Musk will be responsible for more deaths than COVID.

Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Compared to other high income countries, the US is experiencing higher excess deaths, and this was true even before the pandemic jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

So just like in America felon 47 is expecting expensive gifts for favorable treatment.

Dear Rest of the World, the USA has signaled it no longer wishes to be the leader in health research and biotechnology. Time for others to invest in infrastructure, research, and people. US universities and innovation industries will die. Let the wealth flow elsewhere.

Experts reviewing RFKJr's magnum opus MAHA health report conclude that the whole document was faked by someone using Chatbot AI, and was probably never even proof read. They're not just fraudsters, they're very lazy, too. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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"Since 1974, vaccination has averted 154 million deaths, including 146 million among children younger than 5 years... For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average, translating to 10·2 billion years of full health gained." #vaccines www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

Canucks stare down the gangster and the "Canada is broken" MAGA MAPLE trolls. Fuckin' eh.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Says the man who gave us the biggest tax burden since the War, highest ever national debt, largest fall in living standards on record and committed the biggest act of self-harm in our history with Brexit. Time to shut the fuck up you shambling oaf.

Stephen Miller on CNN saying that revoking student visas to China will prevent espionage of scientific and technological research from universities. Except they have also halted that research by pulling funding from our universities. God these people are dumb

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

This is already so bad and just getting worse.

I’ve had so many people commenting and saying “RFK Jr didn’t ban them so it’s no big deal” It is a big deal A study recently came out showing 60% of Americans can’t afford a minimal quality of life More than half of the US is struggling just to survive If insurance won’t pay, people can’t access

Just so we’re clear, a Sieg Heil is not a side effect of ketamine.

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

Lest we forget Metascience 2025 panel member John Ioannidis.

The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?