world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.
I keep coming back to this
Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
A circle of eleven ABC logo bees in the colours of the progress pride flag surrounding a text saying happy pride month, we at ABC support and celebrate all LGBTQIA+ students & scientists
We believe that diversity & inclusion are a must for good science. This is why we support students from historically excluded groups, including LGBTQIA+ students. With this year's anti-LGBTQIA+ and specifically anti-trans measures, we feel it's more important than ever to state this.
βI just want breadβ
This elderly Palestinian man, Sameer, broke down in tears from extreme hunger caused by Israelβs blockade in Gaza. At least 1 in 5 Palestinians faces starvation in Gaza as Israel continues attacks.
One thing that is irksome about the βactually the island of strangers is about social isolationβ line is okay, how does doubling the permanent residency requirement *help* with this?
The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
sometimes people say "___ is a bubble" and mean that ___ is an environment that exceptionally distorts and disfigures people's perceptions of what the world is like, and sometimes people say "___ is a bubble" and mean that ___ doesn't contain statistically representative samples of every Type of Guy
75 people at the New York Times arguing over whether to call the plan to build Trump hotels in Gaza βaudacious,β βbold,β or βvisionaryβ
the gall to say this after electing a fascist (twice), what a fucking buffoon
what the actual fuck jfc
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a wood frog stands on a pink background. The text says: "Feeling unlucky in love? Did you know that male Wood Frogs have difficulty perceiving members of their species? Here are some things theyβve been documented trying to mate with." "Spotted Salamander." The wood frog looks at a large yellow-spotted salamander, with a heart over the frog's head. "Cattail." The frog looks amorously at a large cattail flower or "sausage." "Green frog." The wood frog looks at a large confused-looking green frog. "Dead fish." The wood frog stares at a large dead fish. "Live fish." The wood frog looks amorously at a large trout. "Pine cone." The wood frog looks at a large pine cone. The final text says: "Sorry, there's no moral here. I just thought you'd enjoy this fact about frogs."
While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.
Some More News is great :
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
A cicada: βWhat cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallised memoryβ | Helen Sullivan
Lucy Grossmith, Mumurations over Fields
Fumi Yanagimoto
Highly stylized print of a young girl and cat face to face in profile. The girl's girl is composed of bold black lines in a geometrical bob cut and a dark red leaf-like shape surrounds her eye, pointing up. The space behind her is filled with the same red as the leaf. The cat is black with a huge, round white eye crossed. over with a slim black pupil and a slash of the same red of the leaf and the space behind the girl. Everything about it bold, strong, striking.
Girl with Cat. Ca. 1940 - 1952. portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb...
Do you know what rating youβll give after reading the intro? Are your confidence scores 4 or higher? Do you not respond in rebuttal phases? Are you worried how it will look if your rating is the only 8 among 3βs? This thread is for you.
A 6-panel comic. In panel 1, two people talk against a snowy backdrop. In panel 1, the first person says "Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in SANTA, you get something sinister?" and the other says, "Yes: A ANTS." In panel 2, the first person says "Wait, no, that's-" The second says, "How do you think Santa finds his way to all those homes at night? Pheromone trails!" In panel 3, we're down in an ant nest. "Once the night is over, Santa returns to the North Pole, mates with the Queen Claus, and dies." There's a festive ant nest with an ant-bodied Mr and Ms Claus looking at each other lovingly. Panel 4, "The Queen begins laying eggs that will hatch into next yearβs workers." The Queen lays eggs, and the workers are ant larvae with elf heads. Panel 5, "Next December, she will produce fertile Queens and Santas and the cycle will begin anew." The Queen lays eggs with both Santa and Ms Claus heads. In panel 6, we return to the two people talking, and the second person says "Of course, one queen must best the rest in combat, and the workers can't interfe-" "Stop." "But I haven't told you about the Santa-mimic spiders!"
Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!
New from me, in the New Yorker: In 2015, I co-discovered a population of non-native Italian wall lizards dwelling in my hometown. Their origins, though, remained a mysteryβuntil this spring, when I learned of a rogue biologist with a shocking secret... #longreads
www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...
In case you missed it, our mini grants application opens up on January 6th, 2025.
This program is designed for our members to apply for funding for research, travel, personal expenses, etc.
Once more on Crick and the Central Dogma! press.asimov.com/articles/crick
A photo of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, taken in 1993. Five men, dressed in white are the surviving members of the original choir. 115 other men, dressed in black, stand in for the original members who died of AIDS. A caption reads, "How are so many young people LGBGQ all of a sudden? Where are all the older queer people?"
Today (Dec. 1) is World AIDS Day. Spare a thought for all those who perished. ππ³οΈβπ
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Is it p-hacking if I ate only the biggest fruit flies
