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TIL that the inventor of the Stevenson screen was the father of the bloke who wrote Treasure Island

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Also the collective GDP of the EU + UK + Norway is around $24 trillion compared to $2 trillion for Russia. We have vastly more resources if we choose to use them.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

What an incredibly unsettling slogan.

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Seeing a lot of left-leaning people express shock at this, but it's entirely what I'd expect from the MoS, and their readers - not doing so is a classic example of not understanding your political opponents.

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It's taken less than a month for the self-serving prognostications of ‘heterodox’ intellectuals to collapse under the weight of their own contradictions. On the 'western civilisation' grifters www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/destroying...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Dear Mr President, I hope you are as concerned as I am about the overfishing of the patagonian toothfish, the principal foodsource for the endangered albatross....

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to Starmer meeting Trump today

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(I think we should maybe wait to know why Gene Hackman's considerably younger wife is also dead before getting started on the eulogising)

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

It's also a luxury belief because antivaxers rely on those of us with actual brain cells to vaccinate ourselves and our kids, thus making it unlikely they or their kids will get measles or whatever. But that breaks down if too many utter fuckwits don't vaccinate. FAFO, but sadly kids are the victims

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

As I may have said on here before, I've never met a clever person who talks about their IQ or values it as a measure of anything but the limitations of the person talking about it.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

British Antarctic Survey From the new Private Eye, out now.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 12 days ago • 289 comments

A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 15 days ago • 231 comments

Worth it just to see the crim being frogmarched away by a capybara with a cute backpack www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Finished adding translatable versions of all of the IAU constellation diagrams to the @astro4edu.bsky.social website. These along with all of our images, diagrams, videos and classroom activities can be searched here astro4edu.org/resources/se...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

submitted 20 days ago • 194 comments

Our new report: the world's most convincing fake company - and how it tried to seize a gold mine in Ukraine That leads to 60 fake companies, £300bn of fake gold & even a fake country. With backing from the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, Nadhim Zahawi and Baroness Mone. All fake.

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

Well played @westdorsetmag.bsky.social

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Superb size comparison. But the article is silent on how many Lorraine Kellys the asteroid's diameter measures www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...

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"The gunman who killed 10 people in an attack on a school in Sweden shouted “you should go away from Europe” in between firing shots at his victims, video analysis shows" "...the school offers Swedish classes for immigrants and programmes for people with learning disabilities."

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is wearing his Blue Peter badge today

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Every time I see someone claim that EVs will never work for the majority of people, I just assume they're part of a "Norway doesn't exist" conspiracy movement

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I seem to pay as more attention to the colour of an app icon as I do to the icon itself or the app name. I'll frequently find myself looking for a podcast and realise in in my audiobook app because they are both orange. Or going on a banking app instead of Bluesky because both are blue

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Again, seeing some people are unable to process this information, Bellingcat isn't, & has never been, funded by USAID. NED funded Bellingcat, but hasn't for a few years, after we made our fundraising policy more restricted. Our fundraising policy can be found here www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/...

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

Wow 😮 Sounds like a fascinating paper - on the reading list for this week 🔭

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“I never thought that a self-styled Tariff Man’ would impose tariffs,’ sobs analyst who said that Tariff Man would be good for markets. on.ft.com/4aFOR0l

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

Can't spell tariffs without FFS

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Stafford McDowall joins the ranks of "Scottish rugby player or firm of solicitors"

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Norway’s governing coalition has broken down over energy policy - in particular, over the issue of building more electricity inter-connectors to other countries (including Britain). I think this is quite an important political issue… (Thread) www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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I need it. I need the forbidden drink.

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

Kumbh Mela: Belongings strewn aside after festival crush

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I think we should take this story from the Times today (and picked up by many other outlets) with an enormous pinch of salt for two reason (mini thread): www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

submitted 35 days ago • 41 comments

Pharma will hate this. They need to show their drugs work in as many populations as possible to maximise sales.

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