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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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One day left to have your donation doubled and say YES to bringing beavers back 🦫
With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
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With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
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December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
One day left to have your donation doubled and say YES to bringing beavers back 🦫
With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TKRJYA4
With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
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This is super important in general.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is super important in general.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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Those radicalised to the right take mild criticism with the same affront as a thorough fucking drubbing, so you might as well say what you think. And if ‘mild criticism’ is the best you have of these people, do better.
As with Emma Watson and Rowling, the "smear" Linehan gets here is actually a bunch of compliments with only a *very* mild push back on not agreeing with him. TERFs demand complete acquiescence, anything less is an affront.
Graham Linehan in the papers again crying someone else he used to be friends with hates him [Telegraph]
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Those radicalised to the right take mild criticism with the same affront as a thorough fucking drubbing, so you might as well say what you think. And if ‘mild criticism’ is the best you have of these people, do better.
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What you are witnessing here is an educated professor of political science refusing to countenance the notion that a political party dominated by right-wingers who use right-wing rhetoric and pursue right-wing policies might be doing so because they are right-wing and desire right-wing ends.
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What you are witnessing here is an educated professor of political science refusing to countenance the notion that a political party dominated by right-wingers who use right-wing rhetoric and pursue right-wing policies might be doing so because they are right-wing and desire right-wing ends.
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I love it when people tell us the Greens can’t go from where they are to winning the election while in the same breath telling us it’s a dead cert Reform will from the same starting point.
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I love it when people tell us the Greens can’t go from where they are to winning the election while in the same breath telling us it’s a dead cert Reform will from the same starting point.
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It is so notable how the language of asylum has changed in the post-Farage/small boats world. “Illegal migrants” was once reserved for right wing papers, Now government spokespeople call basic sustenance and shelter for refugees banned from working “handouts”.
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It is so notable how the language of asylum has changed in the post-Farage/small boats world. “Illegal migrants” was once reserved for right wing papers, Now government spokespeople call basic sustenance and shelter for refugees banned from working “handouts”.
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Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
This Is How The World Works
Epstein, and the violence we all live with
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
Just saw an ad on YouTube for Waymo, in partnership with @rnib.bsky.social 😬
So we can't have infrastructure like Bus Stop Bypasses, but self-driving cars are fine?!
So we can't have infrastructure like Bus Stop Bypasses, but self-driving cars are fine?!
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Just saw an ad on YouTube for Waymo, in partnership with @rnib.bsky.social 😬
So we can't have infrastructure like Bus Stop Bypasses, but self-driving cars are fine?!
So we can't have infrastructure like Bus Stop Bypasses, but self-driving cars are fine?!
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labour haven't found a fascist yet that they won't gleefully bend over for.
remember stuff like this whenever you see @darrenpjones.bsky.social and co trashing the greens and claiming that labour are the party to fight fascism.
they haven't fought against *any* far right bullshit. they cave.
remember stuff like this whenever you see @darrenpjones.bsky.social and co trashing the greens and claiming that labour are the party to fight fascism.
they haven't fought against *any* far right bullshit. they cave.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
labour haven't found a fascist yet that they won't gleefully bend over for.
remember stuff like this whenever you see @darrenpjones.bsky.social and co trashing the greens and claiming that labour are the party to fight fascism.
they haven't fought against *any* far right bullshit. they cave.
remember stuff like this whenever you see @darrenpjones.bsky.social and co trashing the greens and claiming that labour are the party to fight fascism.
they haven't fought against *any* far right bullshit. they cave.
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For the last 33 years, all climate policy, has been about one thing, and that is preserving the lifestyles of the richest people in the world. Not just billionaires, but those on very high salaries who control every organization in the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
For the last 33 years, all climate policy, has been about one thing, and that is preserving the lifestyles of the richest people in the world. Not just billionaires, but those on very high salaries who control every organization in the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
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One thing about the media that pisses me off is the framing of photos on news stories.
These both seem to be from the same event. The press use a photo from below to make him look powerful.
But he’s sitting, the only one sitting because he can’t stand too long. And dozing off cos he’s decrepit.
These both seem to be from the same event. The press use a photo from below to make him look powerful.
But he’s sitting, the only one sitting because he can’t stand too long. And dozing off cos he’s decrepit.
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
One thing about the media that pisses me off is the framing of photos on news stories.
These both seem to be from the same event. The press use a photo from below to make him look powerful.
But he’s sitting, the only one sitting because he can’t stand too long. And dozing off cos he’s decrepit.
These both seem to be from the same event. The press use a photo from below to make him look powerful.
But he’s sitting, the only one sitting because he can’t stand too long. And dozing off cos he’s decrepit.
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You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.
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"Centrists" need to call Mamdani a "radical leftist" so they can say Trump/Farage fascism is just the opposing side of an equally matched "both sides" conflict
But Mamdani is just a middle of the road, European social democrat
And "centrists" - ie centre-right and right - are simply pro-fascism.
But Mamdani is just a middle of the road, European social democrat
And "centrists" - ie centre-right and right - are simply pro-fascism.
BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Centrists" need to call Mamdani a "radical leftist" so they can say Trump/Farage fascism is just the opposing side of an equally matched "both sides" conflict
But Mamdani is just a middle of the road, European social democrat
And "centrists" - ie centre-right and right - are simply pro-fascism.
But Mamdani is just a middle of the road, European social democrat
And "centrists" - ie centre-right and right - are simply pro-fascism.
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No free covid booster this year for NHS staff either.
NHS staff are sick twice as often, and die 30% more since the pandemic. The public broadly believes that the virus isn't circulating and doesnt have dangerous long term effects. The disconnect between the medical evidence and public perception is staggering.
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
No free covid booster this year for NHS staff either.
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don't recall all this fire and fury when israel bombed all those palestinian christians + churches
November 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
don't recall all this fire and fury when israel bombed all those palestinian christians + churches
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?
It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
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You won't get a much better illustration of how many people in the Westminster bubble treat politics as a game without consequences than Peston barking about the growing climate of aggression toward millions of Britons like Kilroy introducing the final round of Share or Shaft.
Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺
#Peston
Join LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM 📺
#Peston
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
You won't get a much better illustration of how many people in the Westminster bubble treat politics as a game without consequences than Peston barking about the growing climate of aggression toward millions of Britons like Kilroy introducing the final round of Share or Shaft.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Lovely photos - only yesterday finished reading Roy Dennis' "Restoring the Wild", a good chunk of which was about the reintroduction of White Tailed Eagles to the UK (established now in Scotland, not yet in England I think?), including at Poole
Excellent Autumn safari with Birds of Poole Harbour this afternoon - our thanks to Paul and Mya. A few shots of the resident female White tailed Eagle G466, who put on an excellent display, including catching a fish. @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Lovely photos - only yesterday finished reading Roy Dennis' "Restoring the Wild", a good chunk of which was about the reintroduction of White Tailed Eagles to the UK (established now in Scotland, not yet in England I think?), including at Poole