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My favourite article so far this week..

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol
“THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY TYLENOL” Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group retweeted.
arstechnica.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Still time left today for The Rapture
September 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Every fucking time the North gets screwed by successive governments. All we end up with is the Souths cast-offs..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Northern Powerhouse Rail plans delayed again
The BBC understands the prime minister will now not announce plans for a rail link between Manchester and Liverpool at the Labour Party conference.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
www.ft.com/content/4291...

“When it comes to science I wouldn’t side with anybody.”
Nigel Farage declines to rule out link between autism and paracetamol use
Reform UK leader’s comments come after Trump warns women to avoid painkiller during pregnancy
www.ft.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Richard Tice is an utterly wank uncharismatic speaker
September 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Regardless of the outcome, I can’t imagine people coming together to do something like Live Aid today. It would just descend into culture war arguments
July 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Doechii just did an absolute masterclass at #glastonbury 🤯
June 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Pulp just took #glastonbury
June 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
82% of Tory MPs voted against assisted dying.
June 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I know this is really niche, but if you try and force me to buy a full album rather than the one track I want on Bandcamp, I’m just going to go to Beatport, Junodownload etc. to get it instead.
May 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Pleased to have accidentally stumbled across the first Katamari Damacy game in 8 years on Apple Arcade!
April 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Contrary to what I probably thought at the time, from watching #totp repeats a lot of mid-late 90s music was totally shite
February 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Big congrats on a great 6 year stint from Lauren. Nick Grimshaw has surprisingly grown on me covering the slot so happy he’s taking it on

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Lauren Laverne to leave BBC 6 Music breakfast show
The radio host is stepping down after six years to return to mid-morning broadcasting
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Metas new stance makes it incredibly easy to make Bluesky my default now. Threads deleted.
January 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM