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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 11 days ago • 155 comments

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

submitted 16 days ago • 622 comments

I'm looking forward to Metroid Prime 4, but because I'm an old nerd, it's M2 making Salamander III that has me grinning. Shoot-'em-ups for the win! Or something.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Now THIS is a Star Wars trailer. 👏🏻 I love the intense feeling of desperation radiating from all of the characters. Very hyped. youtu.be/duN-KQgOjYs?...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in the Milky Way that does not orbit a star.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

This has tickled my funny bone immensely this morning.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Why does Simon Calder always look like the man MOST in need of a holiday?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

AOC: Alina Habba said, “What intellectual thought.. you were in a bar AOC. Not to have a drink but to serve one.” I don’t care what this woman says about me but I want you to understand that she isn’t just talking about me, she’s talking about all of us.

submitted 28 days ago • 850 comments

Spoke to the thoroughly charming author Alan Dean Foster about his novelisations and brushes with the movie business. filmstories.co.uk/news/alan-de...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

submitted 38 days ago • 88 comments

heavyweight champ, arcade cabinet (1976) 'considered a lost video game, there is little footage of the game in action online, with the only known footage sourced from a news report from 1977.' lostmediawiki.com/Heavyweight_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavywe... flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/s...

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Very much like this picture of @ipazia76.bsky.social with Hannah Arendt looking on - from her brilliant talk today at The Royal Society of Medicine cc. @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social @samantharhill.bsky.social

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Central London Taxi blockade yet to have significant impact.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment