We are going to need a restoration task force to reverse all of the old man’s vandalism.

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@georgetakei
Back when #DOGE starting firing thousands for no reason, I explained to a friend:

"They're trying to prove we don't need government, and for the few things we DO need government for, those things can be #Privatized."

When they #Shutdown the government, I made the point again.

Defunding medical research is just the latest extension of this extreme RW push to #privatize everything. 🤬

Seen thru that lens, it all starts to make sense.

I definitely had a pair of those antlers in 1998 #totp

Bring out Alex Kingston! #totp #strictly

Oh gods, the backing 'singers' can't keep a beat #totp

The camera operators are going to have to be very careful with their angles #totp

Toto didn't deserve that #totp

We're not in Kansas anymore #totp

Not the fanglesnaps! #totp

Watching Stipe it's clear who Tim Booth has been channeling since shaving his hair off #totp

There’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.

Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.

But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly systems buckle,
how two decades of coronavirus warnings accumulated without adequate preparedness,
and how the very mechanisms we rely on for safety can become the scaffolding of a next disaster.

This matters now as another threat is taking shape:
highly pathogenic avian influenza, known as bird flu.

Bird flu still poses a low‑probability threat of sustained human transmission.
But that doesn’t make the virus harmless.
The H5 viruses are brutally lethal to birds
– 9 million have died outright, and hundreds of millions have been culled to contain the spread.
Alarming is the virus’s expanding reach into mammals.
So far, at least 74 mammal species, from elephant seals to polar bears, have suffered die‑offs.
The individual cases are situated within a broader shift.
Dense poultry farms create opportunities for the virus to hop species.
Over a thousand US dairy herds have tested positive in the past two years,
and viral fragments have even been detected in milk
– a worrying route of spillover.
Every jump is a probe for new footholds.
Europe is seeing a surge too.
From early September to
mid-November 2025,
1,444 infected wild birds were found across 26 countries:
a quadrupling compared with the year before.
https://theconversation.com/bird-flu-warnings-are-being-ignored-ive-seen-this-pattern-before-271765

C'mon Bad Wolf #totp

This is a significant departure for Ace of Base. Trying to get that sweet sweet Xmas money with some sleigh bells #totp

Denver Post: Boulder artist makes stickers to cover Trump’s face on National Parks passes — and the orders are flying in

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/12/19/national-parks-pass-stickers-cover-trumps-face/?share=tefwoicfr1woett112ar

#NationalParks

I’ve been reading a book about the “Bristol International Exhibition” that took place in 1914 (in Bristol, UK) and it looks like an astounding show was put on! The site had two train stations, concert and dance halls, multiple pavilions, a rollercoaster, a pageant ground, a machinery exhibit, replica of Bristol Castle etc etc

The book contains a map of the site, also held by Bristol Museum: https://museums.bristol.gov.uk/narratives.php?irn=12103

The map appears to show my house…

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

Excellent work from Isaac Ashe: Lynne Sewell said she initially thought a loud bang was someone trying to kick the door in - before she went to have a gander and found the bird wedged in the door at her home in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, on Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3wpwg4e0qo

@regordane I mean I'm glad that they are finally taking action, but it sucks that you have to wait for the CEO to be a women, for it to happen to their own staff, before they care.

David Walliams being dropped by his publisher only after he harassed some of their own staff is such bullshit - his well documented over years was never a problem for them before.