Bowen Yang is hilarious. He’s also leaving “Saturday Night Live,” the show that put the comedian on the map, after more than six seasons. Tonight’s episode of the NBC sketch series will be Yang’s last. "I loved working at SNL, and most of all I loved the people," said Yang, who first joined the show as a writer in 2018. "I was there at a time when many things in the world started to seem futile, but working at 30 Rock taught me the value in showing up anyway when people make it worthwhile." Read more from @ew:

https://flip.it/S-Oh4M

#Culture #TV #Entertainment #SNL #Comedy

@okwithmydecay good luck and have fun!

I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..

But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.

I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable

I'm recruiting a PhD student for autumn 2026 on a project on accessibility in musical instrument design, in partnership with disability arts charities OHMI and Drake Music.

Application deadline 15 February 2026. More info and contact details: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/instrument-design-by-and-for-disabled-musicians-the-roles-of-technical-discourse-and-vernacular-creativity/

i unironically do want “transgender for everybody”

name changes that don’t mess up your credit. hormones and abortion pills over the counter. standards of “looking professional“ that aren’t patriarchal and white-supremacist. hell yeah

you don’t need to *use* transgender but you should be allowed to *have* it

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

Belgian commutes pay off: Empl...

A while ago I posted about the legendary #Duralex glasses from France, and how the workers, facing possible bankruptcy, decided to turn it into a cooperative rather than accept being sold to investors that wanted to fire a third of the people. Well. They grew their revenue by 22% and plan to break even in 2027. They crowdfunded emergency funding, planned to be €5M which they had to stop when €20M was pledged within 48 hours. YES!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/22/french-people-want-to-save-us-help-pours-glassmaker-duralex

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@samueljohnson

Brexit is probably the best case study in how billions of Russian black cash combined with novel algorithmic disinformation (Cambridge Analytica) can actually convince people to vote for an outcome that evidently disadvantageous to them both before and after.

Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."

My toilet blew a fuse #boatlife

Short-haul flights in the EU stay artificially cheap because the system is rigged.

Greenpeace and allies urge the EU to defend Article 20 and limit flights where trains should come first.

Cheap flights are a political failure. Rail must win.

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/12/10/te-greenpeace-and-10-organisations-call-on-the-eu-to-maintain-the-law-promoting-alternatives-to-short-haul-flights/

@okwithmydecay It’s not going bust though - I’m on their mailing list and we got a letter from the cofounder saying he bought back the company and employees at closed branches are being moved internally and/or hired at Pret.

It honestly sounds like the changes are really positive - venture capital fucked it over as per usual, now it’s going back into good hands. 🤞

Years later, an older relative spouted some bullshit at me about how 'X% of kids in London don't speak English as a first language!' and I told her this story.

Gently informing her that 'English as a second language', when you LIVE in the UK and are being educated in the school system, doesn't mean you can't speak English - it means you're bilingual.

I am in awe of kids who grow up bi- or multi-lingual, and I wish I'd had the same opportunity. It's a valuable skill and should be celebrated.

If you are wondering
how it could be
that the surge of hospitalizations
(due to flu in England)
is leading the NHS to warn
of the “worst-case scenario”
this winter, just remember:
that far too many people
cannot imagine a worse scenario
than being asked
to wear a mask again.

My spreadsheet of studies warning of the longer-term health impacts of #COVID19 infections has reached 2,900 studies. New studies find COVID:

- Damages your immunity for 20 months or longer
- Raises risks of thrombotic outcomes by 75%.
- Causes more severe and frequent neurological impairment in children
- Raises pro-inflammatory cytokines know to drive tumor cell proliferation, contributing to metastatic progression.

COVID is now rising in the US. Take care.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit?usp=sharing

If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r30787e76o

I hear
there’s a lot of flu
out there.

I hear
there’s a lot of Covid
out there.

I hear
there’s a lot of measles
out there.

I hear
there’s a lot of RSV
out there.

I hear
there’s a lot of “something”
out there.

So here
there’s a lot to be said
for not going out.

The UK Online Safety Act is already producing harmful unintended consequences.

ORG urges MPs to support a more balanced, evidence-based and rights-respecting approach that protects children without harming freedom of expression, privacy or the existence of small sites.

Read our briefing ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-online-safety-act-parliamentary-petition-debate/

#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #censorship #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #ageverification