Quentin Campbell
@g4oeu.bsky.social
Interested in Korean Peninsula & humanitarian issues in DPRK. Active volunteer with Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net). Radio Amateur (UK). Blog at nkhumanitarian.org. Photo of North Korean children on rollerblades, Chŏngjin city centre, May 2013.
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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"Government decision not to authorise pesticide is ‘sweet as honey’ for pollinators"
Good news. Labour have decided not to allow the use of highly toxic bee-killing pesticides ... which puts the UK on the same footing as the EU in that one small respect at least.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good news. Labour have decided not to allow the use of highly toxic bee-killing pesticides ... which puts the UK on the same footing as the EU in that one small respect at least.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government decision not to authorise pesticide is ‘sweet as honey’ for pollinators
Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide that is highly toxic to bees, has been banned in the UK
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Government decision not to authorise pesticide is ‘sweet as honey’ for pollinators"
Good news. Labour have decided not to allow the use of highly toxic bee-killing pesticides ... which puts the UK on the same footing as the EU in that one small respect at least.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good news. Labour have decided not to allow the use of highly toxic bee-killing pesticides ... which puts the UK on the same footing as the EU in that one small respect at least.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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This is absolutely correct and makes the government’s apparent lack of concern at the financial viability of local government so mystifying. Often forgotten that the innovation in Johnson’s “levelling up” was the importance of social capital
January 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is absolutely correct and makes the government’s apparent lack of concern at the financial viability of local government so mystifying. Often forgotten that the innovation in Johnson’s “levelling up” was the importance of social capital
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The DHSC has confirmed it’s paying the GMCs litigation costs - just think about that - the Health Secretary is actually using tax payers money to defend a case brought to protect patient safety
🚨A legal challenge by @anaesunited.bsky.social
against doctors’ regulator GMC over its regulation of physician associates & specifically its refusal to set out a scope of practice has passed its first hurdle at the High Court
youtu.be/yrwmT255MVY?...
against doctors’ regulator GMC over its regulation of physician associates & specifically its refusal to set out a scope of practice has passed its first hurdle at the High Court
youtu.be/yrwmT255MVY?...
Legal challenge against GMC over regulation of physician associates passes 1st hurdle at High Court
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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January 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The DHSC has confirmed it’s paying the GMCs litigation costs - just think about that - the Health Secretary is actually using tax payers money to defend a case brought to protect patient safety
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www.rte.ie/news/2025/01...
How the EU’s Digital Services Act has been caught in the crossfire between Elon Musk’s free speech warriors and EU leaders warning he is a danger to European democracy
How the EU’s Digital Services Act has been caught in the crossfire between Elon Musk’s free speech warriors and EU leaders warning he is a danger to European democracy
Elon Musk, Europe and the battle for online truth
Having helped re-elect Donald Trump with a $250 million donation and generous boosting on his X platform, Elon Musk has turned his gaze to Europe, notably the UK and Germany.
www.rte.ie
January 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
www.rte.ie/news/2025/01...
How the EU’s Digital Services Act has been caught in the crossfire between Elon Musk’s free speech warriors and EU leaders warning he is a danger to European democracy
How the EU’s Digital Services Act has been caught in the crossfire between Elon Musk’s free speech warriors and EU leaders warning he is a danger to European democracy
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Excellent piece.
I think of this as "plutocratic feudalism": in which overmighty subjects compete to control the court.
Crucially, the court is weak enough to be captured (with erratic child kings, in need of money & prone to flattery), but strong enough to be a threat to them & a weapon v others.
I think of this as "plutocratic feudalism": in which overmighty subjects compete to control the court.
Crucially, the court is weak enough to be captured (with erratic child kings, in need of money & prone to flattery), but strong enough to be a threat to them & a weapon v others.
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The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
January 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Excellent piece.
I think of this as "plutocratic feudalism": in which overmighty subjects compete to control the court.
Crucially, the court is weak enough to be captured (with erratic child kings, in need of money & prone to flattery), but strong enough to be a threat to them & a weapon v others.
I think of this as "plutocratic feudalism": in which overmighty subjects compete to control the court.
Crucially, the court is weak enough to be captured (with erratic child kings, in need of money & prone to flattery), but strong enough to be a threat to them & a weapon v others.
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This is, as you would expect, excellent. A brilliant and important contribution to the debate on social media regulation. Two footnotes.
New
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
By me, in todays @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/917c...
January 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is, as you would expect, excellent. A brilliant and important contribution to the debate on social media regulation. Two footnotes.
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[TBC I don't think a "youth mobility" scheme is either necessary or sufficient to achieve those objectives. Might be modestly helpful, as @johnspringford.bsky.social's analysis argued. My point is that worrying about today's headlines, not delivery in 2028, is precisely what f***ed the last govt]
January 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
[TBC I don't think a "youth mobility" scheme is either necessary or sufficient to achieve those objectives. Might be modestly helpful, as @johnspringford.bsky.social's analysis argued. My point is that worrying about today's headlines, not delivery in 2028, is precisely what f***ed the last govt]
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
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I was just working with a 1929 image that entered the public domain today. Public domain graphics make it much easier to illustrate both technical and historical academic work, without time-consuming permission-seeking procedures.🧪
January 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I was just working with a 1929 image that entered the public domain today. Public domain graphics make it much easier to illustrate both technical and historical academic work, without time-consuming permission-seeking procedures.🧪
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To cut a long story short, before Brexit we had EU water quality regulation with teeth. Now we have UK regulation and it's toothless.
'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'
The EU previously acted as a watchdog on sewage pollution
inews.co.uk
January 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
To cut a long story short, before Brexit we had EU water quality regulation with teeth. Now we have UK regulation and it's toothless.
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An Express poll needs more input. You know what to do...
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Note: the link takes you directly to the poll, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request for an email address - it's not required to submit the poll.
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January 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
An Express poll needs more input. You know what to do...
Note: the link takes you directly to the poll, so you won't boost their ad impressions. Ignore the request for an email address - it's not required to submit the poll.
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How do we ALREADY have 2025 in a single image
JUST IN: Tesla Cybertruck explodes at the entrance to Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas
January 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
How do we ALREADY have 2025 in a single image
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I think this is an absolutely lovely story. What a tremendous way to indulge a child’s passion and get to spend lots of quality time chatting with them.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Seven-year-old boy visits every city in England by train
Austin and his father began year with trip to Brighton in January and ended by travelling to Ely before Christmas
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 8:41 PM
I think this is an absolutely lovely story. What a tremendous way to indulge a child’s passion and get to spend lots of quality time chatting with them.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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🚨 Snapsot below from staff struggling tonight. You can see in the West Midlands there are over 180 ambulances stuck at hospitals...114 over an hour. Second image shows waits in York A&E...longest for a bed is over 40hrs
December 30, 2024 at 10:06 PM
🚨 Snapsot below from staff struggling tonight. You can see in the West Midlands there are over 180 ambulances stuck at hospitals...114 over an hour. Second image shows waits in York A&E...longest for a bed is over 40hrs
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Back in't day, policemen, teachers and nurses earned about double the minimum wage at starting salary. Now they enjoy a premium of about 20-30%. Squish!
A point @duncanrobinson.bsky.social also made, in inimitable style, earlier this year.
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
December 30, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Back in't day, policemen, teachers and nurses earned about double the minimum wage at starting salary. Now they enjoy a premium of about 20-30%. Squish!
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NHS seems to have quietened as a topic in the political sphere, likely as a result of much less industrial action compared to previous two yrs, but the situation for many trusts (particularly emergency response and treatment) is still dire and far worse than pre-Covid, let alone pre-austerity.
There were 340 calls waiting to be answered at the time the critical incident was declared...
🚨 Welsh Ambulance Service has declared a critical incident tonight...
December 30, 2024 at 10:25 PM
NHS seems to have quietened as a topic in the political sphere, likely as a result of much less industrial action compared to previous two yrs, but the situation for many trusts (particularly emergency response and treatment) is still dire and far worse than pre-Covid, let alone pre-austerity.
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@msf.org Gaza report:
• Repeated attacks on civilians
• Systematic denial of humanitarian assistance
• Teams in the north of Gaza seeing clear signs of ethnic cleansing as Palestinians are forcibly displaced, trapped, and bombed.
• The health care system lies in ruins
www.msf.org/msf-report-e...
• Repeated attacks on civilians
• Systematic denial of humanitarian assistance
• Teams in the north of Gaza seeing clear signs of ethnic cleansing as Palestinians are forcibly displaced, trapped, and bombed.
• The health care system lies in ruins
www.msf.org/msf-report-e...
December 30, 2024 at 10:49 PM
@msf.org Gaza report:
• Repeated attacks on civilians
• Systematic denial of humanitarian assistance
• Teams in the north of Gaza seeing clear signs of ethnic cleansing as Palestinians are forcibly displaced, trapped, and bombed.
• The health care system lies in ruins
www.msf.org/msf-report-e...
• Repeated attacks on civilians
• Systematic denial of humanitarian assistance
• Teams in the north of Gaza seeing clear signs of ethnic cleansing as Palestinians are forcibly displaced, trapped, and bombed.
• The health care system lies in ruins
www.msf.org/msf-report-e...
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Die Welt is a very conservative newspaper. For its opinion editor to resign over an op-ed means all sorts of red lines have been crossed.
The AfD is not just a right-wing party. It is so extreme that even figures like France’s Le Pen and Italy’s Salvini won’t work with it
The AfD is not just a right-wing party. It is so extreme that even figures like France’s Le Pen and Italy’s Salvini won’t work with it
Elon Musk’s pro-AfD commentary in German went online on Saturday ahead of being published on Sunday in the flagship paper of the Axel Springer media group, which also owns Politico. The editor of the German paper’s opinion section resigned in protest
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Die Welt is a very conservative newspaper. For its opinion editor to resign over an op-ed means all sorts of red lines have been crossed.
The AfD is not just a right-wing party. It is so extreme that even figures like France’s Le Pen and Italy’s Salvini won’t work with it
The AfD is not just a right-wing party. It is so extreme that even figures like France’s Le Pen and Italy’s Salvini won’t work with it
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About 20 years ago I interviewed Carter regarding development and Africa and the (amazing) work of the Carter Center. He was talking about US farm subsidies and the malign effect on developing country farmers. So naturally I asked him why he hadn't addressed ag subsidies when he was president. 1/n
BREAKING: Jimmy Carter has died at 100, AJC reports. www.ajc.com/news/former-...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at home in Georgia.
www.ajc.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:32 PM
About 20 years ago I interviewed Carter regarding development and Africa and the (amazing) work of the Carter Center. He was talking about US farm subsidies and the malign effect on developing country farmers. So naturally I asked him why he hadn't addressed ag subsidies when he was president. 1/n
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The WHO said Israel’s “systematic dismantling of the health system” combined with a siege of the population in the north of the coastal strip over the past 80 days “puts the lives of the 75,000 Palestinians remaining in the area at risk”.
#CeasefireNow
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
#CeasefireNow
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
WHO ‘appalled’ by Israel attack on northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital
Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia was partially destroyed and critical patients are at grave risk, the UN body says
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 8:42 PM
The WHO said Israel’s “systematic dismantling of the health system” combined with a siege of the population in the north of the coastal strip over the past 80 days “puts the lives of the 75,000 Palestinians remaining in the area at risk”.
#CeasefireNow
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
#CeasefireNow
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...