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How Willing Are [X Country] Citizens In Helping Other European Countries In A Crisis?
brilliantmaps.com/help-euro...
brilliantmaps.com/help-euro...
May 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Willing Are [X Country] Citizens In Helping Other European Countries In A Crisis?
brilliantmaps.com/help-euro...
brilliantmaps.com/help-euro...
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Colossal squid filmed in ocean for the first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Colossal squid filmed by scientists for first time in ocean
Stunned scientists say the extremely rare squid can weigh up to 500kg (1,100lb).
www.bbc.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Colossal squid filmed in ocean for the first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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So, important question.
If they made yet another film about the court of Henry VIII, which Muppets should play which roles?
If they made yet another film about the court of Henry VIII, which Muppets should play which roles?
April 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
So, important question.
If they made yet another film about the court of Henry VIII, which Muppets should play which roles?
If they made yet another film about the court of Henry VIII, which Muppets should play which roles?
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I started excerpting this harrowing ProPublica article, but I couldn’t do it justice. It deserves to be read from start to finish.
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
www.propublica.org
April 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I started excerpting this harrowing ProPublica article, but I couldn’t do it justice. It deserves to be read from start to finish.
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
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We're proud to have signed a joint letter with
@endchildpoverty.bsky.social to Rachel Reeves. Written by Rosie - a mum of three pushed into poverty by the two-child limit, the letter calls on the Government to scrap this cruel and punitive policy and help all children thrive. #AllKidsCount
@endchildpoverty.bsky.social to Rachel Reeves. Written by Rosie - a mum of three pushed into poverty by the two-child limit, the letter calls on the Government to scrap this cruel and punitive policy and help all children thrive. #AllKidsCount
This weekend marks the 8th year that the two-child limit to benefit payments has pulled families in to poverty.
Over this weekend the policy has now pulled a further 30,000 kids into poverty since @uklabour.bsky.social came to power.
We highlighted this outside The Treasury to the Chancellor.
Over this weekend the policy has now pulled a further 30,000 kids into poverty since @uklabour.bsky.social came to power.
We highlighted this outside The Treasury to the Chancellor.
April 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We're proud to have signed a joint letter with
@endchildpoverty.bsky.social to Rachel Reeves. Written by Rosie - a mum of three pushed into poverty by the two-child limit, the letter calls on the Government to scrap this cruel and punitive policy and help all children thrive. #AllKidsCount
@endchildpoverty.bsky.social to Rachel Reeves. Written by Rosie - a mum of three pushed into poverty by the two-child limit, the letter calls on the Government to scrap this cruel and punitive policy and help all children thrive. #AllKidsCount
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🚆The last Conservative govt signed up to give our railway a duty to be fully accessible and care for our environment.
Now the Labour government is trying to scrap that key duty.
That simply cannot happen. Take 1 minute to demand they reinstate it: tinyurl.com/railway-for-people
Now the Labour government is trying to scrap that key duty.
That simply cannot happen. Take 1 minute to demand they reinstate it: tinyurl.com/railway-for-people
Demand the government reinstate Great British Railway’s public interest duty - respond to the consultation | We Own It
The government's plans to scrap our rail's duty to be accessible and environmentally responsible must be stopped.
tinyurl.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🚆The last Conservative govt signed up to give our railway a duty to be fully accessible and care for our environment.
Now the Labour government is trying to scrap that key duty.
That simply cannot happen. Take 1 minute to demand they reinstate it: tinyurl.com/railway-for-people
Now the Labour government is trying to scrap that key duty.
That simply cannot happen. Take 1 minute to demand they reinstate it: tinyurl.com/railway-for-people
Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)
April 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)
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You never know… My Dad left behind piles of old journals (see image). It would be a shame to recycle them all so if you want any, or know anyone or any place that might, please let me know. Feel free to pass this on.
April 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
You never know… My Dad left behind piles of old journals (see image). It would be a shame to recycle them all so if you want any, or know anyone or any place that might, please let me know. Feel free to pass this on.
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The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct.
An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Dire wolves remain very extinct
Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.
arutherford.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct.
An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
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The Government should not be cutting support for disabled people.
It should be making the wealthiest pay through a wealth tax.
Join tens of thousands of people and add your name to my call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
It should be making the wealthiest pay through a wealth tax.
Join tens of thousands of people and add your name to my call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
April 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Government should not be cutting support for disabled people.
It should be making the wealthiest pay through a wealth tax.
Join tens of thousands of people and add your name to my call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
It should be making the wealthiest pay through a wealth tax.
Join tens of thousands of people and add your name to my call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
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Is it important for our kids to learn how to swim?
@dannydorling.bsky.social’s book “Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation” is clever, because he brings to life many of the statistics from household surveys & more.
But it seems there are some things we “don’t want to know”…
@dannydorling.bsky.social’s book “Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation” is clever, because he brings to life many of the statistics from household surveys & more.
But it seems there are some things we “don’t want to know”…
April 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Is it important for our kids to learn how to swim?
@dannydorling.bsky.social’s book “Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation” is clever, because he brings to life many of the statistics from household surveys & more.
But it seems there are some things we “don’t want to know”…
@dannydorling.bsky.social’s book “Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation” is clever, because he brings to life many of the statistics from household surveys & more.
But it seems there are some things we “don’t want to know”…
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We've focussed on the big names , Shell , Exxon , BP , but these companies are run by people . People who hide behind those brands to keep their anonymity
These corporations , and their leaders , are committing ecocide & they must be held accountable
Ban Fossil Fuel Ads → govpetition.uk/700024
These corporations , and their leaders , are committing ecocide & they must be held accountable
Ban Fossil Fuel Ads → govpetition.uk/700024
April 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We've focussed on the big names , Shell , Exxon , BP , but these companies are run by people . People who hide behind those brands to keep their anonymity
These corporations , and their leaders , are committing ecocide & they must be held accountable
Ban Fossil Fuel Ads → govpetition.uk/700024
These corporations , and their leaders , are committing ecocide & they must be held accountable
Ban Fossil Fuel Ads → govpetition.uk/700024
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Another comment from a UMich parent:
March 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Another comment from a UMich parent:
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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Last chance - if you don’t live too far away from WD7 8 (just North of London, right by the M25) I will actually put his thing in the car and bring it to you (or to a person/organisation that you nominate). A free 2009 iMac running Ubuntu Linux.
Do you live anywhere near Radlett in Hertfordshire? (Barnet, Edgware, Watford, St Albans) Would you like a 2009 27" iMac running Ubuntu - actually a viable video playback machine and obviously an interesting project? FREE OF CHARGE! Come and get it, friends!
March 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Last chance - if you don’t live too far away from WD7 8 (just North of London, right by the M25) I will actually put his thing in the car and bring it to you (or to a person/organisation that you nominate). A free 2009 iMac running Ubuntu Linux.
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Scores of Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare changes.
Cuts are a political choice, as there are alternatives.
Please ramp up pressure on local/nearby Labour MPs.
Insist on meeting them face-to-face.
Cuts are a political choice, as there are alternatives.
Please ramp up pressure on local/nearby Labour MPs.
Insist on meeting them face-to-face.
Scores of Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare changes
Significant doubts aired at Westminster meeting with Liz Kendall attended by about 100 MPs
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Scores of Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare changes.
Cuts are a political choice, as there are alternatives.
Please ramp up pressure on local/nearby Labour MPs.
Insist on meeting them face-to-face.
Cuts are a political choice, as there are alternatives.
Please ramp up pressure on local/nearby Labour MPs.
Insist on meeting them face-to-face.
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Anyone met a scientist who isn’t critical of the huge cuts to US science?
“French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers… searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers… searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Anyone met a scientist who isn’t critical of the huge cuts to US science?
“French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers… searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers… searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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beaver's return
![Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage.
1
NATURALIST:
And now It is my great honour
2
NATURALIST:
to reintroduce the first wild beaver
back into Britain
3
[Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.]
4
BEAVER:
Well, well, well.
5
BEAVER:
Look who's come crawling back.
6
BEAVER:
Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya?
7
BEAVER:
Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*?
8
BEAVER:
I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head…
9
BEAVER:
First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free…
You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya?
NATURALIST:
I'm so sorry I…I…
10
BEAVER:
“Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…”
Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*?
11
NATURALIST:
I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure…
12
BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]:
Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage.
NATURALIST:
Done.
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreihs2p5lw7psgwmqpzruuvd42k54oippf6wwx5glghmewzjj4w7tne@jpeg)
March 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
beaver's return
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Jack Straw seems rather muddled on this, as gently pointed out by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
“What utility is there in the UK being bound any more into the Strasbourg court,” Jack Straw asked in a letter to The Times at the weekend. “Not much” was the answer he gave.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/who-needs-it
rozenberg.substack.com/p/who-needs-it
Who needs it?
What use is the human rights court, says former human rights minister
rozenberg.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Jack Straw seems rather muddled on this, as gently pointed out by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
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This is the gold standard measure of atmospheric carbon, the one you see in almost every chart that tracks emissions.
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is the gold standard measure of atmospheric carbon, the one you see in almost every chart that tracks emissions.
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Fascinated by the different stock pictures of dogs that various outlets have gone for to illustrate this story.
March 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fascinated by the different stock pictures of dogs that various outlets have gone for to illustrate this story.
A pass on the Courvoisier, as it were...
Oh noes, Americans get to drink bourbon and Zinfandel while the beleaguered Europeans will be forced back on armagnac and Sancerre, the lights are going out all over Europe.
March 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A pass on the Courvoisier, as it were...
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Bill Gates has liquidated his climate policy and advocacy organization, laying off dozens of staff in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere.
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...
The Bill Gates Era of Climate Giving Has Ended
Breakthrough Energy is winding down its policy and advocacy office, depriving the Inflation Reduction Act of a powerful defender.
heatmap.news
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Bill Gates has liquidated his climate policy and advocacy organization, laying off dozens of staff in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere.
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...
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Can we skip to the Ewok Celebration scene please? 😫
You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???
November 27, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Can we skip to the Ewok Celebration scene please? 😫
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Quelques jours après la création de Carmen de George Bizet naissait Maurice Ravel. Comment faire écouter du neuf lorsqu’il s’agit de parler de Ravel ? En remontant à ses origines bien lointaines, le 10 novembre 1668, rue du Monceau Saint-Gervais à Paris ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/7t9
March 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Quelques jours après la création de Carmen de George Bizet naissait Maurice Ravel. Comment faire écouter du neuf lorsqu’il s’agit de parler de Ravel ? En remontant à ses origines bien lointaines, le 10 novembre 1668, rue du Monceau Saint-Gervais à Paris ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/7t9