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Brexit doesn’t want us to have nice things
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Maryna Viazovska, Марина Вязовська, is a mathematician known for her work on sphere packing in various dimensions. In 2022, she became only the second woman to win the Fields Medal. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Maryna Viazovska, Mathematician
Maryna Viazovska is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing and only the second woman to win the Fields Medal.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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10% of white people think you have to be white to be English - but 84% of white people disagree with that. Two-thirds of ethnic minorities think Englishness is a civic, not ethnic identity, though 1/4 of minority groups join 1/10 of the majority group in seeing it as ethnically defined (YouGov)
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) - Rob Reiner’s timeless adventure, romance, and comedy all rolled into one perfect autumnal movie. Shows next Sat 15th Nov at 12:00, with more screenings in December and January!

🎟️ : buff.ly/P3LulhJ
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Maryna Viazovska, Марина Вязовська, is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing, which explores how to pack spheres in the densest way possible in a given number of dimensions. In 2022, she became only the second woman to win the Fields Medal. adalovelaceday.subst...
Prof Maryna Viazovska, Mathematician
Maryna Viazovska is a mathematician known for her work in sphere packing and only the second woman to win the Fields Medal.
adalovelaceday.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
mymodernmet.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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It's been a brilliant first day here at Everything Electric in Farnborough... the tech to make your travel/home cleaner & greener is getting better and easier all the time. So much is on show here and available now. More tomorrow - do join us! uk.everythingelectric.show/south
October 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"Protecting are culture" by defacing our actual cultural heritage. The Westbury White Horse is the oldest of eight white horses in Wiltshire, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Westbury White Horse checked for any England flag damage
Red fabric which was draped over the
www.bbc.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Pffft. You honestly expect me to sit in a cinema for a two hour programme of puppets, miniatures work, and large explosions?

*Picture of composure*

*Momentary twitch*

*Sweat beads on forehead*

*Starts shaking*

INJECT THAT SHIT DIRECTLY INTO MY CEREBRAL CORTEX NOW
August 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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❗️Our next workshop will be on July 31st, 6 pm CEST, on How to Use R with Excel by
@alycolumbus.bsky.social !
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
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July 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.

In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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9 years on from the Brexit vote, the verdict is in and predictions correct:

🕳️£40 billion hole in public finances
📉4% hit to UK productivity
📦15% drop in trade
💷 £100bn in tax rises—40% of which Brexit made necessary

Happy Brexitversary! 🇬🇧🎉

www.thetimes.com/article/346e...
Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
www.thetimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
May 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
@ewacat.bsky.social Happy birthday Ewa 🥳
Have a fabulous time 🎂🎁🍾🥂
May 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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In June of 1975—the same year Greg Stafford founded Chaosium—Lee Gold published the first issue of Alarums & Excursions. Over 590 issues later and with A&E now ending, Chaosium president Rick Meints shows Lee his appreciation for her many decades of service to our hobby.
Out of the Suitcase #54: Farewell to Lee Gold's Alarums & Excursions
In June of 1975 – the same year Greg Stafford founded Chaosium – Lee Gold published the first issue of Alarums & Excursions. Sadly, I just found out that it has ceased publication just shy of its 50...
www.chaosium.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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New blog post! The ENTIRE Naamah Trilogy is now available on Kindle Unlimited. Meet my beautiful orphans! www.jacquelinecarey.com/may-2025/
May 2025 - jacquelinecarey
Sometimes, the bear chooses you. I’m delighted to announce that the entire Naamah Trilogy is now available on Kindle Unlimited! Since I’m still in Deep Writing Mode (check out my last update, nothing’...
www.jacquelinecarey.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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🤖 AI firms have strip mined creative work to train their models. We’re looking into mounting a legal challenge.

✍️ If big tech has stolen your writing, art, photos, music – we’d love to hear from you. Together we can stand up for human creativity.
Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
goodlawproject.org
April 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Our second university getting deeper and deeper into the mire today is the University of Nottingham, which is going to join everyone else shedding jobs. Every single day in UK Higher Education is like this, and it will get worse and worse until someone gets a grip. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham plans to cut 250 jobs
Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a
www.bbc.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.

Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.

arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Dire wolves remain very extinct
Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.
arutherford.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
23andMe files for bankruptcy protection
The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.
www.bbc.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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The misuse in recent weeks of Thucycides’ Melian Dialogue- the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must- annoys me. The treatment of the Melians - murdered and enslaved - prompted small Greek city states to band together with Sparta and ultimately defeat Athens. That’s the lesson.
March 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Today in 1943 Yugoslav resistance fighter Lepa Radić was killed by the Nazis. Unbroken after days of torture she was given a final chance on the gallows to give up her comrades.

She said "I'm no traitor. You'll know them when they come for you, to the last man."

She was 17
February 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Sarah Al Amiri is the Chair of the UAE Space Agency and the UAE Council of Scientists. She played a key role in the Emirates Mars Mission and is currently overseeing a Venus flyby.
https://adalovelaceday.substack.com/p/sarah-al-amiri-engineer
January 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM