🔎 From the archive: 'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' — by Iain Overton and Max Colbert
🔁 Relevant again: Worth re-reading in light of new revelations that Mandelson had not divested his Global Counsel shares
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
Gorton and Denton by-election result:
GRN: 40.7% (+27.5)
REF: 28.7% (+14.7)
LAB: 25.4% (-25.3)
CON: 1.9% (-6.0)
LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1)
Green GAIN from Labour.
#r4today
Chart of states with VERY HIGH and HIGH levels of COVID in wastewater as of 2/7/26 per the CDC.
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📈COVID and Flu trends for the US
💊Immunocompromised need 2-3 antivirals
🧠New insights into Long COVID and the Brain
💉Dr. Oz recs vaccine as Measles spreads
⚡Vagus nerve stim & immune system
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One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
Laz to Sébastien - 'Do you want to cross the creek one more time ?'
Sébastien - 'No, it's enough thank you'
Laz - 'But you'll get your feet clean.'
#BM100
26 hours into the #BM100 4 runners are on loop 3, 3 runners are on loop 2, and 5 runners are in loop 1. Runners currently on loop 2 must begin loop 3 by 26:40 in order to continue. #BM100
READY THE MEEPLES #BM100
The first loop 2 finishers: Sébastien Raichon in 22:35:40; Mathieu Blanchard :42; Damian Hall :44. At the same time, another loop 2 runner has quit and is tapped out. #BM100
An A4 piece of paper labelled #BM100 2026. At the bottom are two circles with arrows around them indicating a counterclockwise direction, one labelled Loop 1 and one labelled Loop 2. Above them is a large area labelled 'Tapped'. There are 7 dragon meeples in the Loop 1 circle, with a collection of 21 dragon and egg meeples in the tapped area above it. There are a further 11 dragon meeples in the Loop 2 circle, with one in the tapped area above it.
IN SUMMARY:
#BM100
#BM100
The first five runners have finished loop one in 9:47:08+ #BM100
Old French Guy does a 9:22 turnaround and is the first to begin loop 2, followed quickly by three more runners. #BM100
#BM100
The Saint Valentines Day Masochist 🫶🏽
#BM100
After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100
Death cult update
Remembrance is not a violation
#RemembranceIsNotAViolation
it is also true that horny old men are the dumbest fuckers on the planet
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Grocery store sign of bagel that reads: pick your own. Part of the sign is obscured to look like it reads: fuck your own
Relax, bread department
Got a @greatdismal.bsky.social vibe
“The combined tuition fees of the entire Question Time panel would not cover my cost for 1 year of uni. Is that fair?”
Oli Dugmore
It’s absolutely NOT fair. This outrageous scandal must end
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.
"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
