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"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus"
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
"Record numbers of overseas-trained doctors are quitting the UK, leaving the NHS at risk of huge gaps in its workforce, with hostility towards migrants blamed for the exodus"
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
Slow clap to the anti-immigrant rhetoric
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It only just dawned on me today that the handiness of the term “colored” to white supremacists was that it could be applied not only to black people, but to anyone who, for whatever reason, didn’t appear to them to be entirely white.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
It only just dawned on me today that the handiness of the term “colored” to white supremacists was that it could be applied not only to black people, but to anyone who, for whatever reason, didn’t appear to them to be entirely white.
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Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
Illinois to add 3 GW of batteries, saving consumers $12 billion over 20 years
Illinois is set to issue procurements for 3 GW of battery storage, under a bill expected to be signed by Governor JB Pritzker. Transmission improvements to speed renewable deployment are also in the w...
pv-magazine-usa.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
This is what @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/05/i...
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Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
what are the odds that the people in Downing Street briefing this out would also break out in hives at the mere mention of proportional representation?
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Aside from the crucial voting system difference, the Social Democrats over this period have haemorrhaged votes to progressive parties and are currently on course for their worst result in 110yrs, while the Green Left are set for their best ever.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
The Danish People's Party are currently gaining.
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Dit is te weinig in het nieuws:
Het Kremlin probeert al sinds 2013 banden te ontwikkelen met de PVV. En met succes.
#pvv #poetin
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de...
Het Kremlin probeert al sinds 2013 banden te ontwikkelen met de PVV. En met succes.
#pvv #poetin
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de...
Gelekte documenten bewijzen tot nu toe onbekende connecties tussen Rusland en de PVV
Het Kremlin probeert al sinds 2013 banden te ontwikkelen met de PVV. En met succes. De partij figureert prominent in Russische beïnvloedingscampagnes, blijkt uit gelekte documenten. Die maken ook duid...
www.ftm.nl
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Dit is te weinig in het nieuws:
Het Kremlin probeert al sinds 2013 banden te ontwikkelen met de PVV. En met succes.
#pvv #poetin
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de...
Het Kremlin probeert al sinds 2013 banden te ontwikkelen met de PVV. En met succes.
#pvv #poetin
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de...
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Rechtse partijen hadden de kans om niet óver maar mét moslims te praten, tijdens het verkiezingsdebat De Stem van Moslims. Maar ze bleven weg, woensdag in Den Haag. Juist door hun afwezigheid kreeg het publiek een debat met diepgang en nuance. ‘Het was kalm, inhoudelijk en kritisch.’
Debat zonder radicaal-rechts verademing voor moslims: ‘Hier had ik behoefte aan’
Het verkiezingsdebat De Stem van Moslims zou rechtse partijen de kans geven om niet óver maar mét moslims te praten. Maar ze bleven weg, woensdagavond in Den Haag. Juist door hun afwezigheid kreeg…
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Rechtse partijen hadden de kans om niet óver maar mét moslims te praten, tijdens het verkiezingsdebat De Stem van Moslims. Maar ze bleven weg, woensdag in Den Haag. Juist door hun afwezigheid kreeg het publiek een debat met diepgang en nuance. ‘Het was kalm, inhoudelijk en kritisch.’
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The NoKings Protest numbered in the millions across the US.
By way of comparison the most generous estimates of the largest Tea Party protest day (April 15th 2009) put it at 320,000 nationwide.
The largest gathering that day was maybe 15,000 in Atlanta, Georgia.
NYC today had over 100,000.
By way of comparison the most generous estimates of the largest Tea Party protest day (April 15th 2009) put it at 320,000 nationwide.
The largest gathering that day was maybe 15,000 in Atlanta, Georgia.
NYC today had over 100,000.
October 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The NoKings Protest numbered in the millions across the US.
By way of comparison the most generous estimates of the largest Tea Party protest day (April 15th 2009) put it at 320,000 nationwide.
The largest gathering that day was maybe 15,000 in Atlanta, Georgia.
NYC today had over 100,000.
By way of comparison the most generous estimates of the largest Tea Party protest day (April 15th 2009) put it at 320,000 nationwide.
The largest gathering that day was maybe 15,000 in Atlanta, Georgia.
NYC today had over 100,000.
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I Tried Lab-Grown Salmon. Here's What It Tasted Like.
Cultivated meat is getting better and better.
reason.com/2024/11/22/i... #LabGrown #food #CultivatedMeat #Foodindustry #environment #climate
Cultivated meat is getting better and better.
reason.com/2024/11/22/i... #LabGrown #food #CultivatedMeat #Foodindustry #environment #climate
I tried lab-grown salmon. Here's what it tasted like.
Cultivated meat is getting better and better. That's why states keep trying to ban it.
reason.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:18 AM
I Tried Lab-Grown Salmon. Here's What It Tasted Like.
Cultivated meat is getting better and better.
reason.com/2024/11/22/i... #LabGrown #food #CultivatedMeat #Foodindustry #environment #climate
Cultivated meat is getting better and better.
reason.com/2024/11/22/i... #LabGrown #food #CultivatedMeat #Foodindustry #environment #climate
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I ate lab-grown meat for the first time! Cultured quail cells were added to butter, making for an incredibly rich pâté-like spread. I wouldn't normally pay $5 for bread and butter but this? Worth it.
This is a brand new thing in both Australia and the world at large! www.kwm.com/au/en/insigh...
This is a brand new thing in both Australia and the world at large! www.kwm.com/au/en/insigh...
Cell cultured meat is on the menu in Australia! - KWM
On 18 June 2025, changes to the Australian New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code) were gazetted to permit the use of cell-cultured quail as a food.
www.kwm.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I ate lab-grown meat for the first time! Cultured quail cells were added to butter, making for an incredibly rich pâté-like spread. I wouldn't normally pay $5 for bread and butter but this? Worth it.
This is a brand new thing in both Australia and the world at large! www.kwm.com/au/en/insigh...
This is a brand new thing in both Australia and the world at large! www.kwm.com/au/en/insigh...
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This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!
Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
September 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!
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Mijn overpeinzingen van vandaag.
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Mijn overpeinzingen van vandaag.
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No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe
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Recognising that the US is no longer a trustworthy security partner is scary and very expensive. But a failure to make defence and spending decisions that reflect that fact now will lead to much scarier and much more expensive consequences later on.
July 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Recognising that the US is no longer a trustworthy security partner is scary and very expensive. But a failure to make defence and spending decisions that reflect that fact now will lead to much scarier and much more expensive consequences later on.
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Several lessons to be learned here:
1 As I have been saying for some time, Ukraine will ultimately liberate itself;
2 It has carried out an operation that the Allies never wanted to undertake, maybe didn't have the means to;
3 Peace will only come through the demilitarization of russia—by force.
1 As I have been saying for some time, Ukraine will ultimately liberate itself;
2 It has carried out an operation that the Allies never wanted to undertake, maybe didn't have the means to;
3 Peace will only come through the demilitarization of russia—by force.
June 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Several lessons to be learned here:
1 As I have been saying for some time, Ukraine will ultimately liberate itself;
2 It has carried out an operation that the Allies never wanted to undertake, maybe didn't have the means to;
3 Peace will only come through the demilitarization of russia—by force.
1 As I have been saying for some time, Ukraine will ultimately liberate itself;
2 It has carried out an operation that the Allies never wanted to undertake, maybe didn't have the means to;
3 Peace will only come through the demilitarization of russia—by force.
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Paddy Power did a good video on that
June 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Paddy Power did a good video on that
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Slok -- The US sovereign CDS spread is currently trading at levels similar to countries that are rated BBB+, such as Italy and Greece
May 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Slok -- The US sovereign CDS spread is currently trading at levels similar to countries that are rated BBB+, such as Italy and Greece
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All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.
May 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
All you need to know about Elon Musk’s stunning success is that he lasted 2.65 Liz Trusses and lost 150 billion dollars.
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“In this environment, we drop the rigs and buy back stock,” said Travis Stice, chief executive officer at Diamondback Energy, which recently warned investors US oil production has probably peaked. “Every single conversation I’ve had is that this oil price won’t work.
www.ft.com/content/2ca6...
www.ft.com/content/2ca6...
May 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“In this environment, we drop the rigs and buy back stock,” said Travis Stice, chief executive officer at Diamondback Energy, which recently warned investors US oil production has probably peaked. “Every single conversation I’ve had is that this oil price won’t work.
www.ft.com/content/2ca6...
www.ft.com/content/2ca6...
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Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
May 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.
Wow - also look at The Netherlands
I think the word I am looking for is holy frick.
GDP contributions from 2019 to 2024. Germany's GDP would have been 6% lower, had it not been for foreign workers.
(HT @maxkrahe.bsky.social)
GDP contributions from 2019 to 2024. Germany's GDP would have been 6% lower, had it not been for foreign workers.
(HT @maxkrahe.bsky.social)
May 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Wow - also look at The Netherlands
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GATES: I’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid.
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/bill-ga...
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/bill-ga...
May 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
GATES: I’d “love for him [Musk] to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut” American aid.
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/bill-ga...
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/bill-ga...
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this is so similar to 2016-18 when Elon said he was going to make a 100% robotic "alien dreadnought" factory for Model 3, burned billions trying, ended up making cars by hand in a tent, and then admitted that "humans are underrated"
sorry for the spoilers, but this in no way mitigated his hubris
sorry for the spoilers, but this in no way mitigated his hubris
DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism, a not-yet-sufficiently chastened Musk told reporters, after noticing what everyone pointed out, that you can't cut a trillion dollars from government without breaking things.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
#TeslaTakedown
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
#TeslaTakedown
Looking Back at 101 Days, Elon Musk Sounds Less Confident
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
this is so similar to 2016-18 when Elon said he was going to make a 100% robotic "alien dreadnought" factory for Model 3, burned billions trying, ended up making cars by hand in a tent, and then admitted that "humans are underrated"
sorry for the spoilers, but this in no way mitigated his hubris
sorry for the spoilers, but this in no way mitigated his hubris
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by the way, $28m of that $40m Amazon spent on the Melania biopic went to Melania directly, per the FT.
For context: If a European firm, say, had paid $28m to the wife of a leader in a third-world country, the US feds would have jailed all its executives for bribery. I am not exaggerating one bit.
For context: If a European firm, say, had paid $28m to the wife of a leader in a third-world country, the US feds would have jailed all its executives for bribery. I am not exaggerating one bit.
April 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
by the way, $28m of that $40m Amazon spent on the Melania biopic went to Melania directly, per the FT.
For context: If a European firm, say, had paid $28m to the wife of a leader in a third-world country, the US feds would have jailed all its executives for bribery. I am not exaggerating one bit.
For context: If a European firm, say, had paid $28m to the wife of a leader in a third-world country, the US feds would have jailed all its executives for bribery. I am not exaggerating one bit.
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A huge explosion reported in the Shahid Rajaei port at Bandar Abbas in South-west Iran. 80 injured. Iranian authorities have declared a state of full alert.
April 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A huge explosion reported in the Shahid Rajaei port at Bandar Abbas in South-west Iran. 80 injured. Iranian authorities have declared a state of full alert.
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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. Turkish Proverb
April 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. Turkish Proverb