Very cool, if true

1. The first non-opioid painkiller (for acute pain) has taken 27 years to produce.

(tags:pain research medicine )

2. UK asylum plans shows post-Brexit Britain is 'in very dark place', Albanian PM warns

(tags:uk migration OhForFucksSake )

3. Reading one book on a subject will put you ahead of the vast majority of people

(tags:experts learning )

4. One in four LGBTQ+ pupils may drop out before finishing secondary school

(tags:lgbt school bullying )

5. India High Court rules trans women are women

(tags:India transgender LGBT GoodNews )

6. A newspaper reported that Arthur Conan Doyle went to a local pub. Turns out to be completely made up (but the history is fascinating)

(tags:journalism fraud Edinburgh history )

7. The transfers between parties in yesterday's Edinburgh council election are fascinating!

(tags:edinburgh elections voting politics scotland )

8. You can now buy The Hobbit in 5 different Celtic languages. (I'm sure people will have great fun comparing them)

(tags:languages uk ireland TheHobbit )

9. Make AI Mediocre Again

(tags:satire ai video advertising )

1. First case on AI and copyright referred to the CJEU

(tags:europe law copyright ai )

2. Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat

(tags:ai drugs )

3. What it's like being made responsible for the behaviour of Conservative MPs

(tags:Conservatives chaos politics UK )

4. Reform leads in voting intentions - but where does their vote come from?

(tags:voting polls uk politics )

5. The Universal Tech Tree

(tags:Technology history visualisation )

1. Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand

(tags:Tesla crash motorcycle OhForFucksSake )

2. Petition To Hold a Royal Commission on reform of the Westminster voting system

(tags:UK voting reform )

3. Remind me, how well does telling investors not to panic work?

(tags:investment doom )

4. 2025 Hugo final ballot: Goodreads / LibraryThing stats

(tags:hugo awards scifi )

5. Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth

(tags:sugar fructose cancer )

6. Neurotoxic worms growing up to 3ft long are in Ontario and you should kill them on sight

(tags:worm Canada aieeee! )

7. Trust in the USA Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.

(tags:USA politics trade doom )

8. Russia's secret war in UK waters

(tags:russia uk navy war viaDanielDWilliam )

1. Why Northern England is poor.

(tags:UK organisation politics history )

2. To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world's grids

(tags:electricity )

3. Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did. What Exactly Are These Odd-Looking Fossils? (fungi 8m tall)

(tags:fungus fossils )

4. Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life (bacteria becoming part of an existing lifeform)

(tags:bacteria life cell )

5. The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It

(tags:ai education )

6. Lib Dem MPs Push for More Time to Debate Voting Reform

(tags:libdem voting reform )

1. I no longer trust opinion polls

(tags:polls fail )

2. Secret Level - an anthology TV series based around various computer games

(tags:games TV animation viaSwampers )

3. The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916

(tags:communication history USA engineering )

4. AOC Shares Reasons Why Her Supporters Voted for Trump

(tags:voting usa doom )

5. Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now's the Time to Put Aside Our Differences

(tags:politics satire funny doom )

6. Baby red panda dies from firework stress, says Edinburgh Zoo

(tags:panda fireworks death )

1. UK solar power wins record backing in latest auction

(tags:solarpower UK )

2. UK's biggest solar farm given go-ahead in Government's anti-Nimby drive

(tags:UK solarpower GoodNews )

3. AI worse than humans at summarising information, trial finds

(tags:ai fail )

4. First of Edinburgh's fully electric double deck buses hit the road

(tags:electricity Edinburgh buses transport )

5. Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?

(tags:UK Europe voting )

6. Automation Bias - when people don't double check computers properly

(tags:psychology bias automation )

7. What they're getting wrong about the Minecraft movie

(tags:movies games )

8. 10+ Things to Know about The Great Wave

(tags:art Japan history )

9. Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients

(tags:ai funny video music )

1. Can someone explain why train companies use overtime so much, rather than employing enough drivers?

(tags:trains scotland )

2. How would the election have gone if Reform hadn't stood?

(tags:UK elections politics )

3. What Labour's strategy was in the election, and how it depended not just on how many votes it got, but what kind

(tags:voting UK Labour Conservatives politics )

4. China's Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts

(tags:batteries china )

5. These rats could be the future of search and rescue

(tags:rats disaster )

1. What a Labour government means for taxes (mostly good things, although obviously doesn't go far enough)

(tags:tax labour )

2. Nobody has ever won a British election on a smaller vote share than Labour just did. This will cause them big problems in the future.

(tags:labour politics voting uk )

3. Royal College of Psychiatry International Congress: Questions about trans health suppressed

(tags:LGBT psychiatry bigotry transgender OhForFucksSake )

4. Vending machines that are powered by artificial intelligence are selling ammunition for guns in grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma

(tags:ai guns shopping USA )

5. Gaza, housing, and trans issues: The reasons young Labour voters turned Green

(tags:Labour GreenParty Gaza transgender housing politics UK )

6. James Timpson has been appointed Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation. Which is frankly amazing

(tags:prison Labour GoodNews epicwin )

7. Vatican excommunicates Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano for schism

(tags:catholicism conspiracy )

1. Scotland's census reveals LGBT numbers for first time

(tags:LGBT Scotland census )

2. In case you were still hoping for any meaningful voting reform from Labour

(tags:reform voting Labour OhForFucksSake )

3. We've here is Keir Starmer defending electoral reform. That was before he was elected, of course

(tags:Labour elections voting reform OhForFucksSake )

4. But how many countries are there really?

(tags:maps countries video )

I really wish that reporting of elections that used Proportional Representation didn't refer to the biggest party as having "won". It makes absolutely no sense to refer to a party which got 24 of 150 seats (16%) as having "won", and yet I've seen multiple headlines refer to Belgian's right-wing "New Flemish Alliance" as having won the election.

In fact, looking at the election results from Belgium, it's incredibly balanced:

Right	44
Centre Right	31
Centre	1
Centre Left	34
Left	31
Green	9

Which, if you lump in the Greens on the Left (which they are in Belgium) means that you have 75 on the Right, 74 on the Left, and 1 in the middle. Or 66 in the centre-ish, with their pick of other parties to form a coalition with.

I mean, sure, I'd rather that the deeply unpleasant far right party "Vlamms Belang" *hadn't* won 20 seats. But that still leaves 130 seats that they didn't get.

So when you see scare stories about "The Far Right Is Winning Elections In Europe!" - go and check *how much* of that election they actually won.

If you'd like some sensible coverage you can find it here