it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth
An important reminder that progress is not linear, it needs constant attention and fight.
“In a conflict like Sudan where women’s bodies are the battleground (GBV, lack of SRHR, acute malnutrition), how are we supposed to work when ‘gender’ has been erased from our vocabulary.” Powerful remarks by MSF at @humconberlin.bsky.social SRHR session.
How to stymie biomedical research in the United States
gift link nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
This is obviously very bad, but I am amused that it is a French academic who has used AI to give himself a spot of existential anxiety and a dose of intellectual impotence
Marie Le Conte
Stay safe! That is horrible. There must be a lot of traumatised people in Kyiv 😔
I keep forgetting Your Party exist, but every few months they remind me by having the stupidest possible argument very publicly. But it always takes me a minute to realise who we're talking about because 'Your Party'is a stupid name for a party.
Maybe I'll just blockade the Strait too, may as well get in on the action if I'm going to have to pay more for my heating anyway
Started reading this after people started posting it on 7 April... addictive mystery, mad premise, perfect worldbuilding, not sure if it would actually help if I knew anything about American football.
Honestly why is the US cutting back on its scientists, where would it be without its biologists to solve complex fraud cases like this
