Open Mind Surgery

1. Labour doesn't believe British people should be allowed to live here with their families

(tags:family migration UK OhForFucksSake Labour )

2. Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry

(tags:art design architecture history London UK )

3. Dammit. I'm going to have to get a babysitter so I can go see Superman

(tags:superman movies trailer comics video )

4. Would you like to see someone have their dream come true live on stage?

(tags:musicals video singing impressive )

5. Scottish Water warning after driest period in 60 years

(tags:Scotland water )

6. What it's like being a nanny for the super-rich

(tags:wealth children childcare )

7. EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis

(tags:europe advertising privacy law )

8. How to Sniff Out 'Copaganda': When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

(tags:police propaganda media journalism )

9. Audible to use AI narrators and translators

(tags:books audio ai translation )

10. South Korea's robot chefs worry human workers, disappoint customers

(tags:food cooking robots )

1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien

(tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )

2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites

(tags:Scotland trains internet )

3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals

(tags:insulin sugar eating food )

4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan

(tags:migration economy uk doom )

5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial

(tags:vaccine pandemic flu )

6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell

(tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )

7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use

(tags:ai copyright USA politics )

8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial

(tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )

9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain

(tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )

10. How the news feels right now

(tags:news satire doom )

11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch

(tags:labour libdem green )

12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'

(tags:Labour politics UK )

13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says

(tags:comics murder usa history )

14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)

(tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )

Lovely afternoon today, so the kids grabbed their water shoes and we headed for the river.

They were too small two years ago and last year the weather was mediocre at best. But today it was 20 degrees and sunny, so off we went.

Gideon fell on his bum about 8 times. The first 2 times he cried, but by the fourth time he was saying "Brrrrrr", giggling, and then carrying on to investigate the next bit of the river.

And by the end they were demanding more time to fish big rocks out, crossing the river to wave to me from the far side, and working out between them how to avoid the clouds of midges over the calmer bits of the river.
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1. British Property Management Firms Are Helping Russians Avoid Sanctions

(tags:uk russia OhForFucksSake )

2. Amazon's warehose robots can now stow items faster than most humans

(tags:robots amazon )

3. Trans Labour councillor quits and accuses Starmer of 'throwing transgender people under a bus'

(tags:transgender lgbt labour )

4. Why the rich paid less tax in the 1970s - despite 98% tax rates

(tags:tax uk history )

5. "Letting AI make up cases" hits the UK legal system

(tags:law ai fraud OhForFucksSake uk )

6. The House of Lords wants opinions from autistic people (diagnosed or undiagnosed), or people who care for them.

(tags:autism houseoflords )

7. Scientists turn lead into gold at the LHC!

(tags:materials gold lead )

8. Always, always check the answers the AI gives you.

(tags:comic genocide funny ai )

9. Video Essay Condescendingly Reads Wikipedia at You

(tags:funny satire videos )

10. American men who refer to themselves as 'moderate' or 'centrist' score basically the same on values and opinions as people who identify themselves as 'conservative'

(tags:USA politics )

1. Elon Musk is responsible for killing the world's poorest children, says Bill Gates

(tags:ElonMusk children murder billgates )

2. Human transcribers significantly more accurate than AI

(tags:ai language )

3. Woman accused of illegal abortion cleared by jury

(tags:abortion law UK )

4. Wizardry and the medieval church

(tags:religion magic history )

5. A brief explanation of the new pope

(tags:pope Catholic USA politics )

6. UK announces fresh Russia sanctions aimed at Putin's shadow fleet

(tags:uk russia ukraine shipping )

7. AI use damages professional reputation

(tags:ai work )

8. Who wants an edible robot cake?

(tags:robots cake cooking )

9. "My abuser would be charged under new Scottish law"

(tags:law abuse scotland GoodNews )

10. Michael Ellam: The EU Sherpa Resetting The UK-EU Relationship

(tags:europe uk diplomacy politics )

11. Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu

(tags:gaza OhForFucksSake israel )

The weather is now nice enough that the kids are playing outside.
With the neighbour kids.
And then playing in the house with them.
So I'm hiding in my office from a bunch of a bunch of kids.
This makes me very happy.

(In related news I have ordered a bunch of water pistols and a water sprinkler.)

Bristol airport security has a queue 40 minutes long and 2 of its 8 security scanners running.
I can only assume that this is to force people to pay to skip the queue.
In any case I'm unimpressed.

1. What kind of person is the founder of Blue Labour?

(tags:Labour OhForFucksSake politics UK )

2. Labour decides to destroy the universities funding model in order to satisfy bigots

(tags:university labour asylum UK politics OhForFucksSake )

3. The NHS will be paid to cut waiting lists - at great cost to patient safety

(tags:UK NHS OhForFucksSake )

4. Trump, brushing aside separation of church and state, establishes religious liberty commission

(tags:USA law religion politics )

5. Ex-CIA official says U.S. deliberately gave Ukraine just enough weapons to bleed, not enough to defeat Russia

(tags:Ukraine USA Russia war OhForFucksSake )

6. British pop star Olly Murs' gym transformation kicks off a fight about what women actually find attractive

(tags:women attraction )

7. Autism tips for teachers

(tags:autism teaching advice )

1. The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes

(tags:automation driving delivery )

2. "I like being autistic": Assessing the benefit of autistic-led psychoeducation for autistic children

(tags:autism education children )

3. Snake enthusiast survived hundreds of bites. Now his blood is aiding the search for a universal antivenom

(tags:snakes immune_system genetics viaKenny )

4. They Sent the Message. But Did They Write It? (How AI is disrupting actual communication)

(tags:communication ai doom )

5. Love in the time of cancer

(tags:cancer love death )

6. Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director

(tags:TV Australia art animation )

1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs

(tags:UK weight medication )

2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)

(tags:weight age rats )

3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous

(tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )

4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons

(tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )

5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months

(tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )

6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs

(tags:dogs genetics behaviour )

7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released

(tags:horror Disney mice )