Adam Palmer

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Brain scans are revealing early dementia-like changes in kids and teens from heavy screen use.

60 Minutes Australia reported toddlers spending just 2–3 hours daily on devices already show abnormal white matter development. Teens averaging 6–8 hours display widened brain ridges and thinning in key areas — patterns that mirror early Alzheimer’s.

Excessive screens appear to weaken neural pathways that normally strengthen through real-world movement, play, and face-to-face interaction.

We’re also seeing the first IQ drops in recorded history, plus a nearly 400% rise in early-onset dementia signs among 35–44 year olds. Correlation, not proven causation — but devices are the major new variable.

This is one of those reports that makes you rethink default habits. The convenience of screens is undeniable, but the potential long-term brain impacts on developing kids are hard to ignore.

We may be unintentionally running a massive experiment on the next generation’s cognitive health.

Are we underestimating the risks of heavy screen time, or is this concern overblown?

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

I've worked at this dental office for sixteen years and every December they ask me to decorate. Every December I put up the same boring fake tree and the same tired garland and every December I die a little inside because I am SO much weirder than my job allows me to be.
This year I snapped. In the best possible way.
We had boxes of old dental molds in storage, practice pieces and demos that were just collecting dust. My boss mentioned we should probably throw them out and something in my brain just clicked. I asked if I could have them instead. He looked at me like I'd grown a second head but said sure, they're biohazard free, do whatever you want.
I spent two weeks in my kitchen building this monstrosity. My husband walked in the first night and just backed out slowly without saying a word. My teenage son took pictures to show his friends proof that his mom has finally lost it. I didn't care. I was having the time of my life hot gluing dentures onto a cone at midnight while listening to true crime podcasts.
Found the most perfect warm fairy lights from a seller online who does custom string lengths for craft projects. The glow through the pink acrylic is exactly as creepy and beautiful as I imagined.
Brought it into work and set it on the front counter. First patient of the day was an 80-year-old woman who stared at it for a full minute before bursting out laughing so hard she had to sit down. Said it was the most ridiculous thing she'd ever seen and she loved it. We've had people coming in just to take photos.
My boss wants me to make another one next year. Started selling weird dental art through my little shop online because apparently there's a market for this kind of unhinged creativity. Who knew being strange could feel this good.

Credit - Katie Thomson

[Adam Palmer @AdamPalmer91]

@tvlicensing Cleared cache and cookies and literally just clicked the link in your email. And tried via Google.

[Adam Palmer @AdamPalmer91]

@tvlicensing stop emailing me urgent reminders to renew my TV license when your website continues to be broken

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This white nationalist recorded himself making his mum cry and squaring up to his dad and posted it online.

Now, he's a homeless, incel who his own parents can't stand him.

[Tom Vickers @WheresTommyV]

Rory Hutchinson turning into prime Courtney Lawes wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are.

One of best centre showings you’ll see anywhere all season.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Why is this being hushed up in the UK ?

Because the UK press is thoroughly corrupt

[Adam Palmer @AdamPalmer91]

@Kent_and_Stowe broken on its third outing. Quality tool...

[Adam Palmer @AdamPalmer91]

@SouthernWater you had Eastern Road in Portsmouth shut for ages last year to once and for all fix the sewer main that kept bursting. Imagine my surprise, when after a couple of days of rain, Eastern Road is closed this morning due to the burst sewer main again.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

First govt claimed they got that ludicrous £100bn to nationalise the water industry came from a think tank report. Then it claimed didn't because the idea was totally rubbish, transpired the report had been bought and paid for by water companies.

Then it claimed it had been calculated internally by civil servants at @DefraGovUK independent of everyone else. Then it didn't because the idea was also rubbish, transpired there was no independent Defra calculation it was all based on the same rubbish, totally makeup, totally factious @Ofwat's regulatory capital value, the one that also claims that @thameswater is worth a mind melting £21,008,425,000.

Blistering letter calling govt out for its deceit from the People's Commission.

https://t.co/O5N8THe3Za

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade, experts call for hosepipe bans.

No new reservoirs built since 1989. Over a trillion litres a year lost to leaks.

Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan.
https://t.co/P86HGHO05j

[LBC @LBC]

‘You can see why people are upping and leaving, folks.’

@TomSwarbrick1’s trip to Spain has made him realise something about life in Britain…

[Adam Palmer @AdamPalmer91]

@SouthernWater Why am I told that Southern Water's bills are increasing by 53% over the next 5 years, yet my new bill is a 91% increase on last year?

[Adam Palmer @AdamPalmer91]

@SouthernWater waste water bill has gone up >91% on last year, what an absolute joke. Their letter quotes how since 2014 inflation has gone up by 33%, energy bills by 43% and council tax by 48% in a bid to try and excuse this ridiculous hike

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Staggering profiteering from the 5 main private companies providing cataract removals to the NHS.

£169 million in 2023-24 alone. A profit margin of 32%.

This is taxpayers' money being squandered on vast private payouts.

Efficiency, @wesstreeting?

[Frances Hinde @franceshinde]

Analysis of the English local elections by Sir John Curtice: “support for Reform averaged 43% in wards where more than half of adults have few, if any, educational qualifications. In contrast, it polled just 19% where more than two in five have a degree.”

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch - and all the anti-net zero zealots - getting educated about the basics of energy supply live on national TV

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

NatWest proposing 43% pay hike for CEO to £7.7m. Barclays 45% hike to £14.3m. HSBC 43% hike to £15m.

Govts tell workers pay rises are inflationary, but rise in exec pay, dividends, share buybacks OK.

Let customers/employees vote on bank exec pay.
https://t.co/DmNgT67KtK

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

Nine months ago, the NHS was at breaking point.

The turnaround under Labour has been remarkable – and barely anyone’s talking about it.

5 seriously impressive stats:

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Standing Charge has tripled since 2021.

Everyone is now spending more on their Standing Charge than 1/3rd of people were paying on their ENTIRE bill 5 years ago.

The ripoff is insane.