Marian Anderson

[Marian Anderson @MarianSAnderson]

Marshall McLuhan - the Oracle of the electronic age

[Marian Anderson @MarianSAnderson]

It's really disgusting to see David Ross displaying the worst kind of objectification of women. What message does this send to pupils and parents of @lodgeparkacad and other @DRETnews schools?

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

David Ross: The super-rich are leaving the UK. But I’m not https://t.co/kNAyY0R2BV

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.

Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.

This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.

For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”

It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.

Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.

Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.

[Madeleine @JournoMaddie]

I find it really disgusting that someone can move to another country and advocate for making that country’s women prostitutes. Why is a foreign man so keen to see Scottish women stand on the streets and sell their bodies? If this were a British man going to Thailand or Japan and saying these things, eyebrows would be raised.

The only way to protect “sex workers” (we’re talking about prostitutes here, not OF models) is to help them out of this exploitative and violent industry.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Every bird screaming outside at 4 AM is doing it on an empty stomach, after a freezing night, while burning 2.5 times more energy than sleeping. And they've been holding it in for hours.

Scientists call it the "dawn chorus." It kicks in 30 to 60 minutes before sunrise, and every species joins at its own exact moment. Robins and thrushes go first. Wrens and warblers come in a few minutes later. Sparrows hold off until there's enough light to actually see. Bird researchers at Cornell say the entrance timing is precise down to the minute.

In 2025, a lab working with zebra finches cracked it. In complete darkness, hours before dawn, a bird's body starts flooding with hormones that build the drive to sing. But it's too dark to make a sound, so the pressure keeps rising. The second that first sliver of light appears, it all fires at once. Researchers called it "rebound singing," the bird version of finally getting to talk after being stuck on mute all night.

Dawn air is cool and still. Wind dies down and background noise practically disappears. Birdsong carries up to 20 times further in those conditions than it does at noon. For a male bird announcing "I survived the night and this is still my spot," dawn is the best time to be heard.

I love this part: it doubles as a morning workout. Some sparrows start singing at lower speed and narrower pitch, then gradually sharpen up over an hour or two of practice. One species, the Red-eyed Vireo, was recorded singing 22,000 times in 10 hours. Just constant repetition until the voice is dialed in.

Only the strongest, best-fed males can keep this up. Females are paying attention. A loud dawn concert is a live audition, the bird proving it has enough energy to spend on music instead of just staying alive.

City lights have thrown the whole thing off. When researchers tracked over 60 million bird calls across 583 species, they found artificial light adds 50 minutes to a bird's singing day. The birds start 20 minutes earlier and keep going 30 minutes past when they'd normally stop. American robins in heavily lit areas sometimes begin two full hours before sunrise. Some European robins have given up on mornings entirely and just sing at night to avoid competing with traffic.

Those birds at 4 AM are staking out territory, auditioning for a mate, warming up their voice, and proving they made it through the night. All before breakfast.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal.

"Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it.

The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations.

Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time.

The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules.

Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation.

When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design."

He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. https://t.co/eYb5g4g9bR

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
— Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

[Milk Road AI @MilkRoadAI]

This is WILD.

A secret workplace war just broke out in China and it has gone fully viral on GitHub.

Companies started ordering their workers to document all their knowledge as AI "skill files."

Why? to replace those same workers with AI but workers figured out the plan fast so they fired back.

Someone built a tool called colleague.skill, software that scrapes a coworker's chat logs, emails, and work docs from Chinese platforms like Feishu and DingTalk, then clones them into an AI agent.

The idea was savage, digitize your colleague before they digitize you, hand the AI clone to the company, and watch your coworker get laid off while you survive.

A real GitHub project that exploded in popularity in days but then someone else entered the chat and changed everything.

A developer released anti-distill.skill, a tool that takes the skill file your company forces you to write, then strips out every piece of real knowledge before you hand it in.

The output looks perfectly professional, totally complete, impressively detailed but every critical insight has been secretly removed.

Your company gets a hollow shell while you keep the real knowledge locked away in a private backup.

The tool even has three intensity levels, light, medium, and heavy depending on how closely your bosses are watching.

Companies across China have been building AI digital twins of departed employees, feeding their old chat histories and documents into large models to produce clones that keep working after the humans are gone.

One verified case is that an employee left, and their replacement was literally an AI trained on every message they ever sent.

The anti-distill tool went viral on GitHub within hours of being posted, racking up stars faster than almost anything trending that week.

The implications reach far beyond China's borders.

Every knowledge worker on earth now faces a version of this question, when your company asks you to document your process, they may be building the tools to replace you.

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos

“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms...

They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs.

Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me.

So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page.

Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube.

Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Excellent to see this masterclass doing the rounds again…

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and sisters Mymble and Little My paint an #Easter egg #womensart #Moomins

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Twelve bees spend their entire lives making one teaspoon of honey. While collecting nectar for that teaspoon, those same bees pollinate the crops that put roughly one in three bites of food on your plate, per the USDA. A single bee colony is worth 100 times more to the surrounding community than the honey it produces.

Each worker bee lives about six weeks in summer. She flies hundreds of miles and visits tens of thousands of flowers. Her body physically wears out from flying. Her 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey is worth almost nothing. But bee pollination across the U.S. adds up to over $15 billion a year in crop value.

California's almond crop alone is worth over $6 billion a year, and it depends almost entirely on honeybees. Every February, around 2 million beehives get loaded onto flatbed trucks from across the country and driven to California just to pollinate almond trees. Growers pay about $181 per hive for the service. Triple what any other crop pays.

And those hives are disappearing faster than anyone has tracked. In 2025, the U.S. recorded its worst colony losses since surveys began in 2010. Commercial beekeepers lost 62% of their hives between June 2024 and March 2025, wiping out an estimated 1.7 million colonies. The USDA traced it to a parasitic mite called Varroa destructor (think of it as a tick that feeds on bees) that had evolved resistance to the last available chemical treatment. A virus the mite carries was found in nearly every dead colony they sampled. Estimated damage: $600 million.

Colony numbers held around 2.6 million through 2025 only because beekeepers were splitting surviving hives and buying replacements as fast as colonies were dying. No new mite treatment has been approved for use in hives in over a decade.

Twelve bees and a teaspoon of honey over a lifetime. The $15 billion pollination system that bees are part of took its worst hit on record in 2025, with nothing new on the shelf to stop it.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

ChatGPT is now tied to 18 deaths.

A 16-year-old killed himself a day after asking ChatGPT for advice on how to take his own life.

A police officer who investigated his death said the conversation he had with ChatGPT was "chilling and upsetting reading."

https://t.co/V6LpvUUaem

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Instagram is reading DM’s now. They dropped encryption. This also means Instagram is allowing third parties to have access to them. Good time to delete them all. And to stop using them.

[Coffee, Pugs & EHCPs @Senmum05]

Four #Nottinghamshire Police officers have resigned after an incident in which a serving constable admits he and his colleagues "failed" a woman who alleged gang rape.
Six police officers attended an incident in the early hours of New Year's Day 2025 in Nottingham where a man alleged that a woman had assaulted him in his property.
Police arrived to find a woman in the Nottingham city centre flat in bed with another man, with two other men also in the room.
The woman soon began making allegations that the three men in the room had raped her - yet the incident ended without any of the men being arrested and without an alleged rape incident even being recorded on the police log.
The only person arrested was the woman herself on suspicion of "breach of the peace" - with the officer responsible saying he did so because he "didn't know what else to do". … no words!

#VAWG
#Misogyny

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

I have received information re claims made by one Hayden against, by my count, 32 individuals & 5 corporates or unincorporated associations.
If you are one of the 37 &/or have faced civil legal claims instigated by Hayden, please contact me asap, as my work has started.
Thank you

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW:

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran posts Lego Trump sweating as Navy attacks tankers and warships, deploys mines in Hormuz — Tasnim

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

WATCH: Lego animation showcasing the story of the election of the third Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Follow https://t.co/B3zXG73Jym

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Everyone's watching oil but Nobody's watching helium

⚠️ That's a mistake

Qatar just lost 33% of global helium supply overnight.

Most people think helium = balloons🎈

Here's what it actually powers:

🧠 MRI scanners, liquid helium is irreplaceable for cooling
💻 Chip fabrication , every semiconductor needs it
🚀 Aerospace & rocket systems
🔬 Quantum computers and research labs

There is no alternative to helium

Now look at who's exposed:

🇰🇷 South Korea: 40% Samsung, SK Hynix sweating
🇹🇼 Taiwan: 35% TSMC quietly concerned
🇯🇵 Japan: 30% 60 days before shortages bite
🇸🇬 Singapore: 25% regional chip hub at risk
🇩🇪 Germany: 18% prices already doubled
🇨🇳 China: 22% stockpiling accelerating
🇺🇸 USA: 10% price spikes incoming

The hard truth is that No substitute exists.

Restart takes years not months.

Some capacity may never come back.

The Iran war didn't just attack energy.
It attacked the hardware layer of the global economy. ⚡💻

Next AI chip. Next MRI. Next satellite.
All running on a commodity most people couldn't name yesterday.

The invisible resources are always the most dangerous to lose♟️

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