“…she believes up to 10% of civil servants are so bad they should be in prison” I really don’t get who this is supposed to appeal to. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Paraphrasing John Green, the two most touching words in Wikipedia is "Smallpox was", because it showed what we as a species could do if we worked together. We're so close with Guinea Worm disease and also getting pretty close with polio.

I am deeply sad that he'll likely die without reaching his stated goal of seeing a year in which there are no human cases of guinea worm disease -- the tentative number for 2024 right now is 4 -- but considering that when his foundation started there were 3.5 million annually, it's still damn close.

How old are you in Internet years without telling your age? *SCREECHING ROBOTIC TELEPHONE NOISES*

"It’s obvious that the Tories did even worse in 2024 than they did in 1997, when Labour under Tony Blair won a landslide victory. But what matters is who they did worse with — youngish, successful economically liberal graduates" - on.ft.com/3XQ3kAV via @stephenkb.bsky.social

Conservative fringe meeting on immigration discussing how to persuade women to "breed for Britain" in order to "grow more" social care workers, one day after Kemi Badenoch's comments about "excessive" maternity pay.

God why couldn't she have kept all this stuff quiet for like a month more I mean COME ON this is golden (if you're a non Tory who likes winning, I mean)

Badenoch's brilliant answer to falling fertility rates....“We need to have more personal responsibility. There was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having more babies.” Where does the Tory party find these people?

so you remember the trailer for the BBC thriller about the unstoppable train, which everyone pointed and laughed at? I'm an episode and a half in and it is objectively awful and I'm loving every second of it