Richard A.
@mymacaroon.bsky.social
Just this guy, you know?
(Personal account. Linguistically NSFW)
🌮 obvs
(Personal account. Linguistically NSFW)
🌮 obvs
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November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Trump just called for lawmakers to be put to death for reminding US military personnel to uphold their oath to the constitution.
Do you get it now? Trump is a demagogue. Even his sycophantic press corps don't bdeny it – they're claiming instead that he was justified.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Do you get it now? Trump is a demagogue. Even his sycophantic press corps don't bdeny it – they're claiming instead that he was justified.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump accuses Democrats of 'seditious behavior, punishable by death,' for urging military to ignore illegal orders
The president's comments came after a group of Democrat lawmakers released a video urging US service members to refuse unlawful commands.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Trump just called for lawmakers to be put to death for reminding US military personnel to uphold their oath to the constitution.
Do you get it now? Trump is a demagogue. Even his sycophantic press corps don't bdeny it – they're claiming instead that he was justified.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Do you get it now? Trump is a demagogue. Even his sycophantic press corps don't bdeny it – they're claiming instead that he was justified.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How the hell is $6 per day enough to feed a family? Just like no one can live on $7.25 minimum wage, no one can live on $6 per day for food. smdh.
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
How the hell is $6 per day enough to feed a family? Just like no one can live on $7.25 minimum wage, no one can live on $6 per day for food. smdh.
It’s true! I made a radio show with my friend and fellow science communicator. You can listen to the pilot episode on Mixcloud and hear our second show live at 5pm on Tuesday 28th October.
I was interviewed by the intrepid @mymacaroon.bsky.social - who has an exciting new science show on @resonancefm.bsky.social - listen here (my bit near the end)! We chat about #lablit - scientists in novels - and why representation matters. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl... @lablit.bsky.social
Clear Spot - 9 October 2025 (The Science Show)
The Science Show. Richard and Mike from Science in the Pub present a show about science and science culture. This month: unmissable exhibitions, old news is good news, strange neanderthal diets, an in...
www.mixcloud.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It’s true! I made a radio show with my friend and fellow science communicator. You can listen to the pilot episode on Mixcloud and hear our second show live at 5pm on Tuesday 28th October.
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It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated:
If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.
If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.
So you know how many views Charlie Kirk’s memorial got online in TOTAL now a day later ?
26000
Folks are having “dialogues” to see both sides with folks who can’t top a mid level anime food influencer
At some point we admit they aren’t being bullied . They’re racists weaponizing cowardice
26000
Folks are having “dialogues” to see both sides with folks who can’t top a mid level anime food influencer
At some point we admit they aren’t being bullied . They’re racists weaponizing cowardice
September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated:
If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.
If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.
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‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow
‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow
Russian national who applied for asylum on political grounds describes inhumane treatment while in US custody
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
‘I told my family, I’ll probably die’: US immigration sends Russian asylum seekers back to Moscow
Simply glorious
@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.
August 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Simply glorious
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Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism
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August 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism
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“Americans should be able to drink their water & breathe their air without being poisoned. & if they aren’t, then our government is failing,” said Amelia H., an environmental protection specialist at the EPA on admin leave.
Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
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Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
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EPA employees put names to 'declaration of dissent' over agency moves under Trump
A group of Environmental Protection Agency employees has published a declaration of dissent to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin over the agency's leadership and policies.
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July 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Americans should be able to drink their water & breathe their air without being poisoned. & if they aren’t, then our government is failing,” said Amelia H., an environmental protection specialist at the EPA on admin leave.
Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
zurl.co/8jUuu
Support her & brave #EPA employees here zurl.co/7A6RE
zurl.co/8jUuu
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🧪 In July's PubSci 🍺 blog I preview our event with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social on Weds 16th, share other science news and events, reflect on last month's talk, dip into the world of science poetry, and share an exclusive discount code for a talk this coming weekend.
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July Blog Post: Asteroids, Astronomy, Science Photography and Poetry plus July’s PubSci and discount tickets to a talk on the Northern Lights
In this issue: An exclusive discount for a talk on the Northern Lights, details of July’s PubSci, astronomy news, art, poetry and other great science-things to do, and an interview the bloke …
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July 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🧪 In July's PubSci 🍺 blog I preview our event with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social on Weds 16th, share other science news and events, reflect on last month's talk, dip into the world of science poetry, and share an exclusive discount code for a talk this coming weekend.
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#OtD 16 Jun 1531 Henry VIII modified vagrancy laws which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds and were to be whipped, then mutilated, then executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8796...
June 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
#OtD 16 Jun 1531 Henry VIII modified vagrancy laws which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds and were to be whipped, then mutilated, then executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8796...
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Fire! Glorious evening celebrating 200 years of science for the masses, with a spot of science in the pub. Thanks @pubsci.bsky.social as ever.
May 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Fire! Glorious evening celebrating 200 years of science for the masses, with a spot of science in the pub. Thanks @pubsci.bsky.social as ever.
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Henry VIII captivated by 500 million years of the universe trying to wipe Earth off the map. As were we. A cracking bit of cosmic snooker tonight with @pubsci.bsky.social.
June 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Henry VIII captivated by 500 million years of the universe trying to wipe Earth off the map. As were we. A cracking bit of cosmic snooker tonight with @pubsci.bsky.social.
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Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
June 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
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Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained.
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
June 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained.
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
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I love the Amnesty Bookshop in Kentish Town - they have a battle ahead - please support and share if you can
Brilliant, thanks. Here’s our petition: www.change.org/p/save-our-a...
June 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I love the Amnesty Bookshop in Kentish Town - they have a battle ahead - please support and share if you can
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Thank you to everyone who is helping get the word out about Normally Weird - seems the media has grown bored of this sort of stuff - Gina Rippon’s excellent Lost Girls of Autism has seen similar silence - thank you to The Psychologist
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
What it means to be weird | BPS
Professor Catherine Loveday (University of Westminster) reviews ‘Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal – My adventures in Neurodiversity’, by Robin Ince.
www.bps.org.uk
June 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Thank you to everyone who is helping get the word out about Normally Weird - seems the media has grown bored of this sort of stuff - Gina Rippon’s excellent Lost Girls of Autism has seen similar silence - thank you to The Psychologist
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding.
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding, Targeting NSF, EPA
The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and other agencies
zurl.co
June 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding.
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science.
This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience
zurl.co/NA6BY
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Read my recent interview with Richard Marshall, science communicator and current facilitator of an event series in London known as PubSci (@pubsci.bsky.social) or Science in the Pub, on how he runs the event and his views on public engagement with science.
#SciComm
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#SciComm
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Finding science in unlikely places: In conversation with Richard Marshall
Almost every third Wednesday of the month, a group of people gather in a room on the first floor of a lively pub in London, pints in hand and an order of scampi and chips on the way from the kitche…
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June 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Read my recent interview with Richard Marshall, science communicator and current facilitator of an event series in London known as PubSci (@pubsci.bsky.social) or Science in the Pub, on how he runs the event and his views on public engagement with science.
#SciComm
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#SciComm
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Another reason no decent human votes Tory
May 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Another reason no decent human votes Tory
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🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
actionnetwork.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham.
It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda.
We’ve launched an open letter.
SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Israel investigates use of Palestinians as human shields by its forces in Gaza
Israel investigates use of Palestinians as human shields by its forces in Gaza
IDF says practice ‘strictly prohibited’ after report of incidents quoting both Palestinians and Israeli troops
Israel is investigating “several cases” involving soldiers who have forced Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.
“The use of Palestinians as human shields, or otherwise coercing them to participate in military operations, is strictly prohibited in IDF [Israel Defense Forces] orders,” the Israeli army said in a statement. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Israel investigates use of Palestinians as human shields by its forces in Gaza