🧵I saw an Aboriginal aunty busking in Newtown last night. She plays the saxophone & it was special. I listened for 20mins, dropped $50 into her case & said "You remind me of Marlene Cummings, the great blues & Jazz artist from way back." She looked up, crying: "I am Marlene."

🇬🇧 Andrew Tate officially launches the "BRUV Party" (Britain Restoring Underlying Values) as he pursues plans to become UK Prime Minister, or as he called it “Britan” He is still banned from the Greater Sandford Area

Israel needs to stop detaining, torturing and killing doctors and other medical staff. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya must be released ASAP.

New footage has emerged of Assad’s thugs torturing a man to death in the underground wing of Sednaya prison. Nevermind, it’s just New York prison guards laughing as they beat a prisoner to death. Back to sleep, America.

There seems to be no end in sight to the deadly threats facing children in Gaza. For a future free from fear, we call for a ceasefire, release of hostages and prioritization of children’s needs. Full statement from @UNICEFmena's @E_Beigbeder: https://t.co/HZFNsE9QSd

IDF is now openly acknowledging the 5 journalists they incinerated were indeed operating as journalists, but the IDF believed their work was “combat propaganda.” The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killed 5 journalists

Jewish-American orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter testifies that Israeli snipers deliberately target Palestinian children, often in the head and chest. Dr. Perlmutter traveled to Gaza as part of a medical humanitarian mission earlier this year.

Within less than 10 hours, Israeli forces have killed three doctors in Gaza: Dr. Mahmoud Al-Namleh, a respected academic. Dr. Saeed Joudeh, northern Gaza’s orthopedic surgeon. Professor Abdelsalam Abu Zaida, Dean of Graduate Studies at Al-Aqsa University.

Finally people are cottoning on to the dangers of podcasts spreading health misinformation @bbcworldservice @drg1985 @parthaskar https://t.co/BZCMoEt5BO

RT @EthicsInAI: Congratulations to our Bernard Williams Essay Prize winner Xiaolan Deng and two runner ups Konrad Wefing and Madoc Wade. Th…

Revealed: the FCA is now so “captured” by the finance sector, it no longer bothers to protect consumers. Damning report by cross-party group of MPs and Lords accuses UK financial regulator of being “incompetent at best, dishonest at worst”. @josiahmortimer https://t.co/34NOCdSiut

LATEST on UK General Election Petition: some of those from over 140 countries who have signed so far

The allegory for our times

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

my cousin Sheldon is missing. Please share and let me know if you have seen or heard from him in the past week !

Doctors Without Borders received confirmation that Dr Obeid MSF orthopedic surgeon has been detained by Israeli forces w/ several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital during a military operation at the hospital. We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague #Gaza

Doctors without Borders is outraged by the repeated killings of our staff in #Gaza and calls for an immediate halt on attacks of medical personnel, humanitarian workers and civilians.

Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

UNIFIL statement: This morning, peacekeepers at a position near Kafer Kela observed an IDF Merkava tank firing at their watchtower. Two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged. Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire on a UNIFIL position.

Here’s a paper by actual geneticists, me @ewanbirney @JenniferRaff @aylwyn_scally, explaining some of the issues of race and genetics. https://t.co/tilBHlgcn5