Translation: We the ANC have no moral code of our own. No values or principles we adhere to. No reputation we are concerned with and no standards of our own we uphold. We live in a moral vacuum and can only determine right from wrong when the court tells us which is which.

This is an electricity substation, designed by Stanley Peach (1858-1934), internationally famous as a specialist on substation design. A community garden sits on the low roof, and the machinery is accessed through a pair of delightfully ornamented neo-Mannerist pavilions.

My dad used to tell me that you could yell at a bear and it would go away. Camping when I was 10, a bear came into the site. Dad got out of the tent and yelled at it, and it just snorted back at him. Dad got back into the tent. “That’s all I got.” A lot of life is like this.

Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike. Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:

one easy way to make a simulation of falling sand piling up- just define what happens for all 16 possible 2x2 grids, and repeatedly apply these rules to the picture

"Supply restrictions generate large economic inefficiencies" is undefeated.

The first person ever to run the entire length of Africa. Mission complete🫡

Raised crosswalks and pedestrian bulb-outs should be the default minimum at every intersection in every city in this country.

Russian Embassy in South Africa 🇷🇺 Colleagues, you have been spreading fake news for some time and we are now used to this rather undiplomatic practice. However, this one is particularly ridiculous. We suggest your actors work on their accent with some French classes at Alliance française: alliance.org.za

In 1960, JFK was 43 and Nixon 47! I’m not ageist, but this debate and the choice it represents between two feeble and broadly unpopular candidates is an indictment of a failed political culture and the two-party system.

🚨 AC Milan have become the first side among the elite European clubs to introduce an innovative maternity policy for its female players and staff, offering protections during pregnancy: 👉 Players will receive an automatic one-year contract extension on the same terms if their

British elites have failed to tackle the task in front of them because they have failed to understand its scale or nature. Sam, Samuel and I explain why the UK is in such a bad state, and how to fix it.

If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.

Since journalists and indignant social media sharers tend to focus on bad news, it's easy to think things are changing for the worse, but this isn't true.

Nice one United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

Guy who has a job he loves, a significant other, plentiful savings, contributes to his retirement fund, lives in walkable city, hangs out with his friends on the weekends, keeps in touch with his loving family, travels internationally 1-2 times a year, and exercises regularly

Remarkable thing about Paul Ehrlich is not just how wrong he was but that we was totally unphased and unchastened by his wrongness, just a total epistemic disaster zone — a pattern of conduct that is unfortunately shared by many prominent people from different schools of thought.