Bill Anderson
@butchandriley.bsky.social
Old git in rural Wiltshire. Durhamite in exile. Likes evidence, facts. Likes Lowdens and Naim, Good food, wine and real beer. Atheist.
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From the archive
February 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
From the archive
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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
February 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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On the one hand, I do reluctantly accept there's probably a role for AI in the future of journalism. But on the other, I am rather wondering why a local newspaper in Manchester thinks I'm a critic for the Daily Telegraph who really likes Katherine Jenkins.
February 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
On the one hand, I do reluctantly accept there's probably a role for AI in the future of journalism. But on the other, I am rather wondering why a local newspaper in Manchester thinks I'm a critic for the Daily Telegraph who really likes Katherine Jenkins.
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Heated curlers
Olympic F-bombs: Canada and Sweden get into heated argument after claims of cheating in men’s curling
Olympic F-bombs: Canada and Sweden get into heated argument after claims of cheating in men’s curling
The Canadian men’s curling team got into a heated argument with Team Sweden during their match at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday.
www.thestar.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Heated curlers
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I’ve never understood why people in the US think they’re more free than the rest of the developed world.
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
February 16, 2026 at 3:52 AM
I’ve never understood why people in the US think they’re more free than the rest of the developed world.
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This is true about Spector - his Channel 4 show had clearly had some editorial oversight, so he only started talking about glucose spikes to a diabetic participant, but most viewers won't have noticed this and will think things like the wider glucose monitoring is legitimate (it isn't).
Valentine Date ❤️
Spector has slowly become the UK Mark Hyman, this link up of podcast gramps was inevitable really. On the normie internet though (and mainstream TV), Spector remains a reputable prof and authority on all of health. Hyman has gone full MAHA, and is *raking* it in via Function Health
Spector has slowly become the UK Mark Hyman, this link up of podcast gramps was inevitable really. On the normie internet though (and mainstream TV), Spector remains a reputable prof and authority on all of health. Hyman has gone full MAHA, and is *raking* it in via Function Health
February 15, 2026 at 8:51 AM
This is true about Spector - his Channel 4 show had clearly had some editorial oversight, so he only started talking about glucose spikes to a diabetic participant, but most viewers won't have noticed this and will think things like the wider glucose monitoring is legitimate (it isn't).
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February 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Sometimes I think about all the medical breakthroughs that would become available to us if only someone figured out how to turn us into mice.
February 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Sometimes I think about all the medical breakthroughs that would become available to us if only someone figured out how to turn us into mice.
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"[the US's] premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages".
As leadership said, all as part of the effort to "restore trust".
Down is up and up is down.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As leadership said, all as part of the effort to "restore trust".
Down is up and up is down.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:37 PM
"[the US's] premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages".
As leadership said, all as part of the effort to "restore trust".
Down is up and up is down.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As leadership said, all as part of the effort to "restore trust".
Down is up and up is down.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends"
Indeed.
www.science.org/content/blog...
Indeed.
www.science.org/content/blog...
An mRNA Refusal to File
www.science.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
"We are deliberately walking away from the most advanced form of one of the most effective public health measures available to the human race, and instead we are investigated older technologies that happen to involve the administration’s friends"
Indeed.
www.science.org/content/blog...
Indeed.
www.science.org/content/blog...
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Pure gold.
God wants us to understand science. For example, to make sure we understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics, He gave us aging and death.
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Pure gold.
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"Prasad has told others within the FDA that he would like to issue more letters refusing to accept applications so that he doesn’t have to reject them after they have been evaluated, people familiar with the matter said."
I suppose that does make it easier when you have a predetermined conclusion.
I suppose that does make it easier when you have a predetermined conclusion.
Why the FDA Blocked Moderna’s New Flu Shot
The head of the agency’s vaccine division, Vinay Prasad, has overruled pushback from career staffers.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"Prasad has told others within the FDA that he would like to issue more letters refusing to accept applications so that he doesn’t have to reject them after they have been evaluated, people familiar with the matter said."
I suppose that does make it easier when you have a predetermined conclusion.
I suppose that does make it easier when you have a predetermined conclusion.
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Relatedly, plants also thrive when they’re buried in shit
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Relatedly, plants also thrive when they’re buried in shit
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It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
February 11, 2026 at 7:40 AM
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiaaaa2fduedn5fusan4xvikaehxgps2yxdlv7vb3j7ep323zta2u4@jpeg)
February 10, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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context: Labour had previously pledged £3bn for community green energy schemes
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February 10, 2026 at 7:46 AM
context: Labour had previously pledged £3bn for community green energy schemes
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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
February 9, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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I sometimes think the Darwin Awards are a bit cruel and mean spirited, but then someone like this guy turns up.
english.elpais.com/internationa...
english.elpais.com/internationa...
A 24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with a World War I shell lodged in his rectum
Doctors had to operate on the patient with the help of bomb disposal experts. He could yet be charged with possession of ammunition
english.elpais.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I sometimes think the Darwin Awards are a bit cruel and mean spirited, but then someone like this guy turns up.
english.elpais.com/internationa...
english.elpais.com/internationa...