Michael
@shevekuk.bsky.social
He/him. Gay guy from London, very ex-physicist, into all kinds of science and geeky stuff. Left wing, when's the fully automated luxury communism arriving?
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Abstracts submitted to LPSC 2026 are required to comply with White House (non-legally binding) executive orders forbidding mention of topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
At least USRA/LPI isn't hiding it.
But is this what our community wants? Or deserves? I don't think so.
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Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Indentured servitude as government policy? Great! Great news!!
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Nazi shit
"Outside of the most exceptional circumstances family reunion, will not be possible [for refugees]" Shabana Mahmood tells MPs
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Nazi shit
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Thread of some of the most awful things the any Home Secretary has ever said, including the likes of Patel, Braverman etc. Removing of the legal obligation to 'support people who would otherwise be destitute' is pure, inhuman cruelty. I can't see how that means anything other than 'leave to die'.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, you are a liar. You must be stopped by decent people
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thread of some of the most awful things the any Home Secretary has ever said, including the likes of Patel, Braverman etc. Removing of the legal obligation to 'support people who would otherwise be destitute' is pure, inhuman cruelty. I can't see how that means anything other than 'leave to die'.
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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
'We reluctantly believe it's a real physical illness, but we're not willing to change our approach and look, what we're doing is NICE-compatible because we bloody well say so, what do you mean it's the old rubbish, it's totally new rubbish thank you very much'
That's how it reads to me
That's how it reads to me
The British Association of Clinicians in ME/CFS have published an updated guide. Forum discussion raises serious concerns about their therapist-led rehab approach including pacing-up.
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Screenshot from Science for ME update
#MEcfs #CFS
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Screenshot from Science for ME update
#MEcfs #CFS
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
'We reluctantly believe it's a real physical illness, but we're not willing to change our approach and look, what we're doing is NICE-compatible because we bloody well say so, what do you mean it's the old rubbish, it's totally new rubbish thank you very much'
That's how it reads to me
That's how it reads to me
@fitgeekuk.bsky.social Listening to the Quanderhorn real series and the Churchill-trained parrot just made me spit out my drink
"We shall fight them on the beaches. Darkest hour. Don't make me beg, Clemmy"
"We shall fight them on the beaches. Darkest hour. Don't make me beg, Clemmy"
November 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
@fitgeekuk.bsky.social Listening to the Quanderhorn real series and the Churchill-trained parrot just made me spit out my drink
"We shall fight them on the beaches. Darkest hour. Don't make me beg, Clemmy"
"We shall fight them on the beaches. Darkest hour. Don't make me beg, Clemmy"
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A BBC news reporter talks of 'what Starmer *admits* is a crisis at our borders'. By using that word 'admits' the BBC indicates that this supposed crisis is a fact. But it isn't a fact. It's a manufactured moral panic.
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A BBC news reporter talks of 'what Starmer *admits* is a crisis at our borders'. By using that word 'admits' the BBC indicates that this supposed crisis is a fact. But it isn't a fact. It's a manufactured moral panic.
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English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
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With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?
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Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
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Whether the Ugandan Asians should have been returned there once Amin was overthrown. Whether the Vietnamese boat people should have been returned after the Cold War. Make them take ownership of the outcomes that these claims in the abstract would have entailed in history.
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Whether the Ugandan Asians should have been returned there once Amin was overthrown. Whether the Vietnamese boat people should have been returned after the Cold War. Make them take ownership of the outcomes that these claims in the abstract would have entailed in history.
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Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
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"Claiming *without evidence* that the course of the disease can be influenced by thought patterns shifts responsibility onto the individual,
which can be mentally stressful & lead to both feelings of guilt & a feeling of not being heard."
It's #Ableist & gaslighting as fuck!
which can be mentally stressful & lead to both feelings of guilt & a feeling of not being heard."
It's #Ableist & gaslighting as fuck!
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From: "ME/CFS & post-covid should not be classified as functional conditions: The biopsychosocial treatment model proposed for these conditions...is presented as harmless, but is based on hypotheses & methodologically weak studies"
#PwME #LongCovid
From: "ME/CFS & post-covid should not be classified as functional conditions: The biopsychosocial treatment model proposed for these conditions...is presented as harmless, but is based on hypotheses & methodologically weak studies"
#PwME #LongCovid
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The behavioral medicine approach is presented as harmless, but studies point to several negative effects. Claiming without evidence that the course of the disease can be influenced by thought patterns shifts responsibility onto the individual, which can be mentally stressful and lead to both feelings of guilt and a feeling of not being heard [7, 8].
This view also affects how patients are perceived by those around them. In addition, it can have serious practical consequences, since many advocates believe that support measures risk reinforcing the patient's misguided symptom focus and should therefore be limited. If the causal relationships are incorrect, this would be deeply harmful. The lack of support also impairs the health of relatives, who are responsible for the care [9].
The model also risks causing physical harm, as patients are encouraged to increase their physical activity incrementally, despite the fact that post-exertional malaise is well documented in both ME/CFS and post-COVID [10-12]. Patient surveys have consistently shown that incremental increases in exercise provide the least benefit and cause the most harm of all reported treatments [13, 14].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:43rudsv62fuwsmnk7oppgtdy/bafkreieu2sqdf5mkgdj472nnk6tom23vob5lyzhctzedhn6jw5g4x4elqy@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Claiming *without evidence* that the course of the disease can be influenced by thought patterns shifts responsibility onto the individual,
which can be mentally stressful & lead to both feelings of guilt & a feeling of not being heard."
It's #Ableist & gaslighting as fuck!
which can be mentally stressful & lead to both feelings of guilt & a feeling of not being heard."
It's #Ableist & gaslighting as fuck!
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Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
Landmark Ruling in Strasbourg as MPs Challenge UK Government over Failure to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit
'Nothing less than the future of democracy is at stake' says Caroline Lucas as a cross-party coalition and The Citizens win an unprecedented hearing over electoral safety and national security
bylinetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Temerko, a Soviet-born oligarch and a major Conservative donor, told Belton that he and Johnson spent time… plotting the overthrow May. According to Temerko, Johnson had finally been persuaded to back Brexit in 2016 by a group of “eastern European businessmen”.
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
bylinetimes.com/2023/01/19/l...
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So here’s Bannon celebrating Theresa May’s ouster with George Galloway in 2019, and Farage thanking Bannon and Breitbart for making Brexit happen
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
So here’s Bannon celebrating Theresa May’s ouster with George Galloway in 2019, and Farage thanking Bannon and Breitbart for making Brexit happen
That bastion of all that his right and decent, the Catholic church in the US
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
That bastion of all that his right and decent, the Catholic church in the US
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-...
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Just to be clear on this, the Pulte currently in the administration was a teenager when this happened. Epstein was likely referring to Pulte’s grandfather (who died in 2016)
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Just to be clear on this, the Pulte currently in the administration was a teenager when this happened. Epstein was likely referring to Pulte’s grandfather (who died in 2016)
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Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike
Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...