El pablo!

Something the Government want you to forget...

Chart showing recent confirmed measles cases per year in England ranging from 1,414 in 2013 to 2,911 in 2024 and 91 in 2015

🧵What is going on with Measles in England?

UKHSA has reported 96 confirmed measles cases since 1 Jan 2026, concentrated in London (64% of cases) and the West Midlands (26% of cases).

But what does this all mean? Is 96 a lot? Why is it happening? And what can we do about it? 1/8

I should have added that the “brilliant physicist“ stuff is directly related to Thiel’s post-democracy agenda. Basically these people are trying to convince each other (& us) that they’re the cognitive elite who obviously should be in charge of everything because they’re way smarter than us plebs.

As a Green party member, I do find all of this thread disappointing. That graph is abysmal, as is just quoting experts without asking them first.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenpartyhan.bsky.social do better.

If Starmer is serious (he's not, ofc) he'd introduce strict new anti-lobbying laws, bring in firewalls against revolving doors, and undertake a deep, unflinching investigation into financial and influence ties in politics, with criminal sanctions.

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters.

#archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen Almost 3,000 species ranging from glorious birds to tiny lichen are in peril in Wales because they are clinging on in a handful of locations or even fewer, a groundbreaking report has revealed. The report from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) highlights that since the millennium, 11 species have already been lost to Cymru, including the turtle dove and belted beauty moth. It warns that 2,955 other terrestrial or freshwater species are at serious risk because they are confined to five locations or fewer. Continue reading...

‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds

You're more likely to win a lottery prize than catch a London bike thief Plus: Prince Charles Cinema building to be redeveloped but cinema safe for now, King's Cross canine protester, and Preposterous Property of the week.

“While 6,721 stolen bicycles were reported to the Metropolitan police between January and July, just 39 of the incidents have so far resulted in a “positive outcome” — such as someone being charged, prosecuted, or cautioned.”

Amazing that the 39 figure includes *cautions*. Good GRIEF.

Letter of the day (in the Times)

AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told Exclusive: Study claims sites previously ranked first can lose 79% of traffic if results appear below Google Overview

So not only do the AI overviews often misrepresent the data or provide invalid summaries, but they kill the sources of the data too

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Headline from the Daily Mail, 11 April 1927: "Stop the Flapper-Vote Folly!"

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...)

Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.

Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

3-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR to Person 2: Shining laser pointers at planes is a federal crime. It’s incredibly dangerous. PERSON 2: Oh, because it can blind the pilot? SHORT HAIR: That’s one reason… (2) [Laser pointed at flying airplane] (3) [Cat close to the size of the plane pouncing on airplane and taking it down]

Laser Danger

xkcd.com/3108/

The Met Office are letting us submit our own storm name suggestions:

www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

There's space for five names in the submission boxes.

Let's go with:

Exxon Mobil
BP
Shell
Equinor
Chevron

At last, those companies will get the recognition they deserve.

Pls retweet!

So,as a little thought-experiment, tell me something about the United Kingdom that works well and is actually quite impressive. I am not trying to sound like some boosterish politician. I just genuinely believe that making people believe that all is lost is a convenient pretext for shady characters.

Farage wants your rage, not your future Owen Williams Nigel Farage stood in Port Talbot yesterday and told one of the most cynical lies of his political career. He told steelworkers he’d bring back the blast furnaces. He told Wales he’d rei...

“He’s a Trumpist. A Putin apologist. A man who’s never served a single day in government, never delivered a policy, never had to make anything work. He is, fundamentally, a fraud.”

I wrote this while angry:
nation.cymru/opinion/fara...

Please read this thread if you're thinking of letting your bank account be used by "Gaza" fundraisers. In short, don't do it.

Now, more than ever, it’s vital to stand together against transphobia and anti-LGBTQ+ hate.

So ahead of Pride month, Stop Funding Hate is joining forces with Good Law Project to urge advertisers to do the right thing: goodlaw.social/sfh

Inaccurate to say "Reform voters are our people". Many people who have never voted Labour. Many say never would.

"Some Reform voters are engageable"

Lab should be interested in sixth of its vote [5% of voters] were Labour 2024 & would consider Reform. Few Reform 2024 voters gettable, maybe 1/6 are

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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How Temu uses casino tactics to make us spend YouTube video by It's Complicated

Temu. Environmental disaster

#Temu #Environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g9L...

Toxic tobacco companies can’t advertise in schools, so why are fossil fuel companies allowed to sponsor school materials?

Sign the petition below to help us ban toxic fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship.

buff.ly/RflzlJq

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

Just 10 days left to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships – please sign and share govpetition.uk/700024

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Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today

It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town

However it’s a bit odd

By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵

Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live ‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

#maddow
Science break.
This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊

“Can’t begin to explain how surreal it is to be sitting on the floor in the safest place of my apartment hearing an extremely loud Russian missile+drone attack – after having spent entire day discussing and editing coverage of the US effectively demanding Ukraine’s surrender.”
Olga Rudenko quoted…

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax

Them: What band are you in

Me: Erm, The Charlatans

Them: Your council tax band?

😬

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.