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Simon Birnstingl
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Professional gardener, councillor, Labour activist, dad. Just a country boy. Join a union https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
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Andrew Tate video used to prove Tate's tax avoidance.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - pause for breath haha ha ha hahha ha!
December 18, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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⏰ There are JUST 7 days left to stop Ofwat hiking YOUR bills to protect England’s privatised water firms.

They’ve already extracted £92 BILLION.

Bills could rise by up to 80% — you shouldn’t pay AGAIN to bail them out.

Sign the petition to stop the hikes... 👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/stop...
Say NO to a shareholder bailout: stop the water bill hikes!
weownit.org.uk
December 12, 2024 at 12:06 PM
As a teenager I used to lie awake wondering whether the senile leaders of the US and the USSR were going to incinerate us in a nuclear holocaust. I’d really thought we’d moved on from such things
November 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
I’ve noticed my screen freezes regularly on X but not here. I wonder what Elno has running in the background on X that might be causing it
November 17, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Rule #1
November 17, 2024 at 7:46 AM
For anyone with doubts about Imperial Boomerang Theory:
This is chilling. In September, as Elon Musk began buying Trump a presidency after Trump promised him a federal department he could use to destroy his enemies, Trump agents at the Heritage Foundation began filing FOIA requests to find anyone in government who had ever mentioned Musk in any document.
Inside the conservative hunt for partisans in the federal government before Trump takes over | CNN Politics
In mid-September, as tech billionaire Elon Musk intensified his efforts to elect Donald Trump as president, a wave of letters arrived at the Department of Transportation, asking the agency to turn ove...
www.cnn.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Hutton, showing that he’s consistently wrong about everything
November 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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Argentine President Javier Milei is preparing for his first sit-down with Xi Jinping, despite once scoffing that he’d never cut deals with communists.
Milei’s Meeting With Xi Signals He’s Come Full Circle on China
Argentine President Javier Milei is preparing for his first sit-down with Xi Jinping, despite once scoffing that he’d never cut deals with communists.
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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What this means is that the bird flu virus (H5N1} has*potentially* found a mutation that brings it closer to infecting humans more easily.
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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Aggregate Vote Share:

LAB: 24.7% (-8.4)
CON: 24.6% (+0.8)
LDM: 17.9% (+3.8)
GRN: 10.0% (+0.7)
SNP: 7.1% (-2.0)
RFM: 6.2% (+5.9)
PLC: 0.9% (+0.0)
Oth: 8.5% (-0.9)

electionmaps.uk/council-by-e...
November 15, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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If you enjoyed the recent episode with James Meadway do be sure to follow his excellent economics podcast: @macrodosepod.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS!

Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙
November 13, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Just started migrating from Twitter. I’ll be on both platforms for a bit to see how it goes
November 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
@llbroadwell.bsky.social I’ve seen some scary stuff going on in NL. Hoping you’re ok
November 10, 2024 at 8:05 PM