Alice Porter
@aliceporter.bsky.social
Currently learning to deal with psoriatic arthritis, was a mature student aiming for vetmed until COVID blew up my life/health so now 🤷♀️
Mother of sheep. Childless cat lady.
Mother of sheep. Childless cat lady.
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Don't try this at home. Researchers turned milk into traditional yogurts with help from ants. For science. https://www.snexplores.org/article/ants-bacteria-yogurt-ingredient?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=snesnsocial
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Don't try this at home. Researchers turned milk into traditional yogurts with help from ants. For science. https://www.snexplores.org/article/ants-bacteria-yogurt-ingredient?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=snesnsocial
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It feels that Trump NSS declaring it wants to support, in essence, the overthrow of European Liberal Democracy and undercutting all of the assumptions we've based our last 70 years of foreign policy on should be a bigger news story. More than, you know, Eurovision
🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It feels that Trump NSS declaring it wants to support, in essence, the overthrow of European Liberal Democracy and undercutting all of the assumptions we've based our last 70 years of foreign policy on should be a bigger news story. More than, you know, Eurovision
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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100% wrong.
Russia fought to annihilate Ukraine. Ukraine fought to survive as an independent nation. Territory is secondary in this war.
Russia fought to annihilate Ukraine. Ukraine fought to survive as an independent nation. Territory is secondary in this war.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that if Ukraine takes the right steps, its GDP could surpass Russia’s within 10 years.
"They are literally fighting over a 30-50 km strip in Donetsk, roughly 20% of the region still under Ukrainian control and now a central issue in negotiations."
"They are literally fighting over a 30-50 km strip in Donetsk, roughly 20% of the region still under Ukrainian control and now a central issue in negotiations."
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
100% wrong.
Russia fought to annihilate Ukraine. Ukraine fought to survive as an independent nation. Territory is secondary in this war.
Russia fought to annihilate Ukraine. Ukraine fought to survive as an independent nation. Territory is secondary in this war.
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My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.
Rubbish Mountain
A gigantic pile of rubbish was dumped in a field in Oxfordshire. The response sums up everything wrong with British bureaucracy.
martinrobbins.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.
Really good thread. I despair. We are a failing country.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Really good thread. I despair. We are a failing country.
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Not rude! He has cerebellar hypoplasia (wobbly cat syndrome). Basically when the mum has the panleukopenia virus (parvo in dogs) when pregnant, sometimes one kitten (usually only one) doesn't develop movement centre (cerebellum) properly & comes out wobbly. It's not painful & improves as they grow
I’m sorry I’m new to Smol Paul (but already a fan) not trying to be rude but what is wrong with the little guy? I’ve never seen a cat move like that. 😂
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Not rude! He has cerebellar hypoplasia (wobbly cat syndrome). Basically when the mum has the panleukopenia virus (parvo in dogs) when pregnant, sometimes one kitten (usually only one) doesn't develop movement centre (cerebellum) properly & comes out wobbly. It's not painful & improves as they grow
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Nearly missed #Nudivember!
We found this amazing fabric box my Granny embroidered-Glaucus atlanticus and prey-while helping Grandad with his move into a care home
We found this amazing fabric box my Granny embroidered-Glaucus atlanticus and prey-while helping Grandad with his move into a care home
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Nearly missed #Nudivember!
We found this amazing fabric box my Granny embroidered-Glaucus atlanticus and prey-while helping Grandad with his move into a care home
We found this amazing fabric box my Granny embroidered-Glaucus atlanticus and prey-while helping Grandad with his move into a care home
I've been fighting something for over 2 weeks now. Should really try to get some steroids from my GP. Again. If you're able to WFH please do so when you're ill, and if not, please wear a fucking mask.
Starting a week on the wards so checking the national data. Looks like it’ll be lots of ‘flu and RSV. If you’re unwell, please isolate. I know it’s easier said than done—we all have lots to do—but limiting viral spread is a job for everyone.
😷💉🙏
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😷💉🙏
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69281e...
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I've been fighting something for over 2 weeks now. Should really try to get some steroids from my GP. Again. If you're able to WFH please do so when you're ill, and if not, please wear a fucking mask.
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It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.
Ethiopia has such amazing endemics
Researchers reported last year that Ethiopian wolves enjoy licking nectar from red hot poker flowers, documenting this behavior for the first time in a large predator.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ocqSuW #ScienceMagArchives
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4ocqSuW #ScienceMagArchives
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ethiopia has such amazing endemics
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YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
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Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*
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Gardasil is a MIRACLE and anyone who says otherwise is a scammer imo
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Gardasil is a MIRACLE and anyone who says otherwise is a scammer imo
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(h/t @helenbranswell.bsky.social)
PSA: Please do not buy Botox off the internet and try to perform your own treatment.
Botulinum toxin literally has among the lowest lethal doses of anything on the planet
Also, how are people just purchasing select agents on the internet
PSA: Please do not buy Botox off the internet and try to perform your own treatment.
Botulinum toxin literally has among the lowest lethal doses of anything on the planet
Also, how are people just purchasing select agents on the internet
Notes from the Field: Severe Illnesses After ...
This report describes the public health response to three patients from different states who developed severe illness after self-injecting botulinum toxin.
www.cdc.gov
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
(h/t @helenbranswell.bsky.social)
PSA: Please do not buy Botox off the internet and try to perform your own treatment.
Botulinum toxin literally has among the lowest lethal doses of anything on the planet
Also, how are people just purchasing select agents on the internet
PSA: Please do not buy Botox off the internet and try to perform your own treatment.
Botulinum toxin literally has among the lowest lethal doses of anything on the planet
Also, how are people just purchasing select agents on the internet
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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It’s happened again!
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It’s happened again!
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
If you find anything that resembles a grenade, a bomb or anything you think contains explosives - DO NOT take it the police station.
LEAVE IT ALONE and DIAL 999.
It’s potentially dangerous and needs to be checked by experts.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
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My sister is a sheep keeper in our family’s home village & I know how important livestock is to rural communities (& ultimately, the urban ones they feed). Their devastation doesn’t just wipe out food supplies; it destroys ways of life.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Israel's war wipes out 90 per cent of Gaza's livestock | The National
Cattle, sheep and poultry killed by air strikes or slaughtered in desperation
www.thenationalnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
My sister is a sheep keeper in our family’s home village & I know how important livestock is to rural communities (& ultimately, the urban ones they feed). Their devastation doesn’t just wipe out food supplies; it destroys ways of life.
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
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The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
Why are we like this? Why do we keep intentionally stepping on rakes? Why do we always pick the worst of the available options?
Fun example of how much more willing the government is to spend on bungs versus building
November 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Why are we like this? Why do we keep intentionally stepping on rakes? Why do we always pick the worst of the available options?