Jan
@janh5000.bsky.social
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stop and stare?
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At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.
October 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.
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feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
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NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL
How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL
How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
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Does the news reflect what we die from?
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Does the news reflect what we die from?
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This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
April 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social shares the story of Sarah Inama, a 6th grade teacher in Idaho who is standing up to injustice in her school and state.
Idaho teacher fights back after order to remove ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ poster
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social shares the story of Sarah Inama, a 6th grade teacher in Idaho who is standing up to injustice in her school and state.
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YouGov: Few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything
January 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
YouGov: Few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything
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We’re overwhelmed by all the generous donations from Traitors fans after hearing Alexander Dragonetti’s story! 🎉
You’d wanted to know how much has been raised...
#TheTraitors #AlexanderDragonetti
You’d wanted to know how much has been raised...
#TheTraitors #AlexanderDragonetti
January 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
We’re overwhelmed by all the generous donations from Traitors fans after hearing Alexander Dragonetti’s story! 🎉
You’d wanted to know how much has been raised...
#TheTraitors #AlexanderDragonetti
You’d wanted to know how much has been raised...
#TheTraitors #AlexanderDragonetti
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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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unironically Britain's greatest newspaper
The Daily Star showing the supposedly more serious newspapers how best to report on Elon Musk.
January 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
unironically Britain's greatest newspaper
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It really is difficult to fully comprehend the shamelessness of MPs who did nothing on an issue for 14 long years when their party was in government only to express moral outrage on that same issue months into a new government. These people are everything that’s wrong with our politics.
January 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It really is difficult to fully comprehend the shamelessness of MPs who did nothing on an issue for 14 long years when their party was in government only to express moral outrage on that same issue months into a new government. These people are everything that’s wrong with our politics.
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Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tory bid to force national grooming gangs inquiry voted down by MPs
MPs rejected a Tory amendment calling for a grooming gang's inquiry by 253 votes.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
January 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.
We are in a climate emergency.
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This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.
January 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.
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President Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Michael J. Fox.
I love this!
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I love this!
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January 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
President Biden awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Michael J. Fox.
I love this!
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I love this!
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“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t”
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
Brexit – an unwelcome truth
Labour’s continued silence on Brexit might just reveal an unwelcome truth; another reason, perhaps, to use the Brexit telescope?
westenglandbylines.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 6:31 PM
“The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t”
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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In the late 1940s my dad's army mate John - then working as a diplomat as Britain withdrew from India - went for a swim in a river.
When he climbed out, he started to feel stiff and asked a friend to massage his back
Within hours he was suffering symptoms of polio and he never really walked again
When he climbed out, he started to feel stiff and asked a friend to massage his back
Within hours he was suffering symptoms of polio and he never really walked again
December 15, 2024 at 10:33 PM
In the late 1940s my dad's army mate John - then working as a diplomat as Britain withdrew from India - went for a swim in a river.
When he climbed out, he started to feel stiff and asked a friend to massage his back
Within hours he was suffering symptoms of polio and he never really walked again
When he climbed out, he started to feel stiff and asked a friend to massage his back
Within hours he was suffering symptoms of polio and he never really walked again
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The extraordinary impact and success of the polio vaccine has led some very fucking stupid people thinking that polio is an imagined problem... and the problem with that is that polio could now stage a comeback.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/p...
December 15, 2024 at 10:27 PM
The extraordinary impact and success of the polio vaccine has led some very fucking stupid people thinking that polio is an imagined problem... and the problem with that is that polio could now stage a comeback.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2024/12/13/p...
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In other words, a supermajority of two thirds do not say Covid-19 response was overblown.
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
December 15, 2024 at 8:22 PM
In other words, a supermajority of two thirds do not say Covid-19 response was overblown.
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
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More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination
Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr.
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
