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Michael Alexander Kearsley
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Planet Earth. Still on "𝕏", I'm not sure for how long.🐦
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🎭 Usual caveats.🎭🧩🧩🧩
🏞️🌲Northern English & Scottish🏞️🌲
https://www.threads.net/@michaelkearsley
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Will need development of much more powerful engines for such a mission to be viable. #Voyager1 isn't quite a light day away yet, takes 23 hours for a signal from Voyager 1 to reach #Earth, over 20 #lightyears takes 20 years, 40 light years takes 40 years.
An Astrophysicist Proposes We Send a Spacecraft to Visit a Black Hole
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe – a reputation not helped by the difficulty of studying them.
www.sciencealert.com
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White House officials say the boss is really stupid and you have to watch what you say to him
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Maybe there could be an increasing number of jointly run organisations, rather than jumping into a full merger, maybe a full merger could happen later?
More cuts and a merger with Channel 4: the BBC contemplates its radical future
With 500,000 households a year cancelling their TV licence, the corporation may have to do less with less to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If they added 5 years onto #StatePensionAge on top of what it would otherwise be then this would be affordable.
Call for retirees to be paid state pension for five years even if they die
Sir Steve Webb, who was pensions minister when the triple lock was introduced, has urged Rachel Reeves to implement a ‘minimum guaranteed payout’ of five years
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA ushered in the age of genetics and provided the foundation for the biotechnology revolution of the late 20th century, died at age 97 reut.rs/4ou5MZL
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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James Watson was 1/3 of the team. Rosalind Franklin was an integral part of the the discovery of DNA with Watson & Crick but never saw a Nobel prize because… misogyny.
NEW YORK (AP) — James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97.
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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BREAKING: James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix whose work reshaped medicine, forensics and genetics, dies at 97.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Tariffs, AI, and global shifts: Dr. Linda Yueh on trade and tech
From trade disputes to AI adoption, Yueh unpacks the forces driving today’s global markets
www.london.edu/news/tariffs...
Tariffs, AI, and global shifts: Dr. Linda Yueh on trade and tech | London Business School
From trade disputes to AI adoption, Yueh unpacks the forces driving today’s global markets
www.london.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Many things happening in #LibreOffice right now! Markdown support is coming, we've had events in Italy, Cuba and the Czech Republic, and the software is being updated: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10...
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Elise Stefanik, an acolyte of Trump, plans to announce her bid for governor of New York on Friday
Trump Loyalist Stefanik Will Challenge Hochul for NY Governor
Elise Stefanik, an acolyte of President Donald Trump, plans to announce her bid for governor of New York on Friday, according to people with knowledge of the decision, pitting her against incumbent Kathy Hochul in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican candidate to the position since 2002.
bloom.bg
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Outbursts from the sun are sending shimmering aurora borealis farther south than usual. The storm is expected to peak Thursday night and again on Friday.

Here’s where best to see them in the U.S.:
Where in the U.S. you’ll have the best chance of seeing northern lights Thursday
The first wave arrived late Wednesday into Thursday, delivering aurora into the northern tier of the United States. Here’s where another wave of northern lights could hit late Thursday.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Typhoon Kalmaegi left a trail of death and devastation as it tore through the central Philippines this week, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and displacing tens of thousands of people. https://cnn.it/47FIZD5
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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BREAKING: Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk
The money will be awarded in a series of payments over 10 years if Tesla meets a series of performance benchmarks.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Look, it's not even in the top thousand offenses of this administration, but I can't get over how fucking tacky and gaudy the Oval Office has become under this clown.

I'm surprised he hasn't thrown up some LIVE LAUGH LOVE pictures to complete the look of "strip mall Italian restaurant"
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Chicago Alderman, Andre Vasquez, pulls out a whistle from around his neck and asks fellow Chicago citizens to join the Whistle Brigade that patrols streets and sends whistles to warn neighborhoods of the presence of ICE.

"Everyone asks what did they do in 1930s Germany? They did things like this."
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Having bought the sandwich, would've made most sense to eat it!
BREAKING: A D.C. jury found former DOJ paralegal Sean Dunn not guilty of assaulting a federal agent after throwing a Subway sandwich at him in August.
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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BREAKING: A D.C. jury found former DOJ paralegal Sean Dunn not guilty of assaulting a federal agent after throwing a Subway sandwich at him in August.
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power.

We've seen how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.

Be warned.
BREAKING: Tesla shareholders just approved a pay package for Elon Musk that’s worth up to $1 trillion.
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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actual communism
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Can't they just call him Andrew Windsor, saying it with the Mountbatten in it is very long winded, not as if there are that many people called Andrew Windsor!
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM