Just a reminder that Starmer's accommodation of the radical right has not paid any electoral dividends to date. It's difficult to imagine circumstances in which it would...

All my life
Watching America
All my life
There's panic in America
Oh Oh Oh, Oh
youtu.be/V9NhncU5_CE?...

-> how scrolling through Bluesky feels for me as an European.

Social media undercuts public health and institutional trust

A new study finds causal evidence that morally charged attacks generate anger and social media engagement which exacerbates the political polarization of public health
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Call on Big Tech to run its data centers on around the clock renewable energy:

Critizing the radical right actually works to create a distance between voters and these parties. If all other parties do it together.

A comprehensive review of research on the topic shows that “educating students in responsible phone use is a more sustainable and wholistic attempt to address problematic usage rather than enacting whole-of-school banning policies.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything

This economist ran the numbers and concluded that dating men ... doesn't really pencil out.

Look at how parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers!

"[Parenthood] creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% ([in] Austria) and 64.8% ([in] Denmark)."

AI PROPONENTS: “Ugh, stop complaining! This is a fun tool that’s great for organizing ideas. Heck, it’ll make you more efficient if you’d just get over yourself! Stop acting like it’s so bad!”

AI COMPANIES: “We paid a celebrity so we could put their face on a chatbot that teaches kids to fuck”

Over the past 16 months, @thenation.com has published regular dispatches from Lujayn, a teenager in the Gaza Strip. Lujayn has endured huge loss and trauma. Now she, along with the rest of Gaza, is starving. But she is still writing.

This is her latest. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

“I don’t know how to find the words to describe what we seem to have seen hundreds of times, but every time it hurts like never before. Thirty-one killed: five children, the youngest just two.” ❤️🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load

📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

Many other tech journalists are busy pushing moral panic bullshit in order to manufacture consent for this type of mass surveillance and the complete dismantling of free expression (LGBTQ content, repro justice content etc) online. And the left more broadly has also dropped the ball. It’s bad!

Fascinating observations on EVs from @davidfickling.bsky.social:

- High adoption rates in developing countries
- EVs pencil out unsubsidized
- Oil & gas are ~1/3 of all imports to India & Pakistan
- EVs could eliminate India's current account deficit
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... 🎁 🔗

NEW -

Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL

"exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population"

- @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

The Economist says that Israel is practising ethnic cleansing in Gaza www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Irish residential electricity prices also rose 46%, from 23.8 to 34.8 euro-cents per kWh, over the last five years as annual data center electricity demand grew from ~0 to ~4.5 TWh.

www.seai.ie/data-and-ins...

since the start of the Israel-Gaza war on October 7, 2023, 186 journalists have been killed—the Committee to Protect Journalists

We have plastic in our brains. And our livers, kidneys, heart, bloodstream and more. In just 8 years, scientists have observed an increase in the amount of bodily plastic.

The outcomes of becoming part-plastic are not good.

🎁 via @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Among those arrested was Sir Jonathon Porritt, 75, a former government adviser who said he had long been concerned about the erosion of civil liberties under successive governments. He was arrested under Section 13and bailed until 23 October

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“UK civil liberties are trapped in a manufactured crisis. Peaceful citizens of conscience – including pensioners – have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian who now lunges at opinions that expose the moral vacuum of his unrecognisable government.”

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...