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Rather too close to the bone.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Prosecutions under this change in the law might amount to two or three per year. Which I'm fine with, BTW. But now do the same for drivers. Anyone recall the last time a driver got life for any of the 1600 deaths involving motor vehicles? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

We also need to have a conversation about cyclists being set up to fail. I cycle on a narrow shared-use path that is almost guaranteed to have children running across it because it sits between a beach and a playground. If I drive an antisocial SUV I'm given a road where such issues are controlled

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

Yesterday was the 93rd anniversary of the Mass Trespass of Kinder Scout. Without this act of civil disobedience it's unlikely we'd have access to the Peak District, the Lake District, Snowdonia or any of our national parks in the way we do today.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"I am stuck with the prediction that the Trump historical episode will end in costly, probably violent, conflict." From @adamprz.bsky.social, the US's leading scholar on democracy/elections, and far from an alarmist. adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-10

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

“Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.”

submitted 9 days ago • 106 comments

New washer-dryer delivered at 6:30am, installed and delivery guys left by 7am. Heck of a shift job for them 🥱 Already finished my second double shot coffee of the day…

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Studied history here, as well as worked professionally on international rare disease registries. Everything about how they’re planning this is awful - from the spurious hypotheses and derogatory ableism espoused by RFK about autistic people, to the linking of health tracker datasets without consent.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Amateur hour.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

submitted 13 days ago • 991 comments

I am going to be generous and assume the runner properly didn’t see what I was doing kneeling on the pavement with a stick and some elderflower cordial in lieu of sugar water … … but a massive f*** you to the guy whose foot just directly crushed the bumble bee I was trying to revive 🖕

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Needless, deliberate, foreseeable, and unforgivable.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... This week’s episode of Movers and Shakers is all about travelling with #Parkinsons and it’s jam packed with useful information

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

This really has been an awful week on both sides of the Atlantic for anyone interested in truth or justice.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

submitted 13 days ago • 74 comments

“Even now, I don’t think businesses, investors and the public in general fully appreciate what it means that we’re all subject to the whims of a mad king. But they’ll learn.” Paul Krugman paulkrugman.substack.com/p/law-firms-...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections". Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x) #CivMilSky

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

submitted 14 days ago • 148 comments

Just heard from the VP research that my grant with @dgrand.bsky.social, "Promoting Accurate Information on Social Media" was terminated as well

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

Long but worthwhile. Seems like a tragedy of the commons problem. Interesting that the traditional answer to that - regulation - isn't very prominent in the general chat about this. Clearly a hard regulatory problem, but it seems more plausible than expecting the market to sort this out.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

The FT asked me to write about how you can avoid your writing being mistaken for AI-generated copy. I have thoughts! They’re a bit spicy: on.ft.com/42EwQfd Are you AI, or simply a grammar pedant?

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

submitted 14 days ago • 657 comments

Jeeeeez this is not good. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

something that really is going to set realistic security thinkers apart from people stuck in the past is how cognizant one is that the US after this is going to be massively compromised. foreign and domestic security policies are going to start in equivalent of windows safe mode

submitted 71 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: DOGE is knitting DHS immigration records together with IRS, Social Security, and voting records into a master database, sources tell WIRED. Experts say it could be used for a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

The illegal dismantling of our government, and elimination of agencies mandated by our Congress, is being carried out by people explicitly aware of its illegality. Congress has the power and duty to stop this now. Today.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 14 days ago • 1753 comments

House Speaker Micro Johnson says Congress will move to dismantle federal courts that rule against the Trump regime.

submitted 14 days ago • 250 comments

This should lead to criminal charges against Leland Dudek and the people at DOGE who did this. I’m deadly serious about it. They committed fraud by deliberately marking people dead who were alive.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

submitted 14 days ago • 67 comments

Ah - Trump said that their letter allowing them to take over Harvard was sent in error. That is some pretty furious backpeddling. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

Meanwhile, DOJ lawyers are threatening medical journals for not providing adequate "viewpoint diversity" and for misinforming their readership, which I suppose means not publishing enough of the stupid shit that RFK Jr., JB, etc. keep saying. This is an outrageous First Amendment violation.

submitted 14 days ago • 197 comments

1. The DOJ has sent threatening letters to several medical journals, focused around whether these journals are spreading misinformation that harms the American people and suppressing alternative viewpoints. I study how the norms and institutions of science facilitate discovery and self-correction.

submitted 13 days ago • 53 comments

"He went to the bathroom, this is our chance" is extremely normal Government

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

submitted 14 days ago • 99 comments

The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

The A level economist in the house complaining bitterly that the free trade module he's been taught - about how the US successfully uses trade to make friends/ bestride the global economy like a colossus etc - is going to look pretty stupid when rehashed for an exam in June 2025

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments