@sheilashave.bsky.social
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Light as Survival: The Radical Truth Behind Christmas youtu.be/y5KzethXUxk?...
A Christmas(y) video. Have a happy Christmas.
A Christmas(y) video. Have a happy Christmas.
Light as Survival: The Radical Truth Behind Christmas
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Light as Survival: The Radical Truth Behind Christmas youtu.be/y5KzethXUxk?...
A Christmas(y) video. Have a happy Christmas.
A Christmas(y) video. Have a happy Christmas.
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Adopt ‘air hygiene’ ratings—like food hygiene—for indoor spaces.
Independent SAGE designed such a ‘scores on the doors’ system, yet progress is minimal.
Make clean air as normal as clean water: visible standards, accountability, and incentives to improve.
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Independent SAGE designed such a ‘scores on the doors’ system, yet progress is minimal.
Make clean air as normal as clean water: visible standards, accountability, and incentives to improve.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Adopt ‘air hygiene’ ratings—like food hygiene—for indoor spaces.
Independent SAGE designed such a ‘scores on the doors’ system, yet progress is minimal.
Make clean air as normal as clean water: visible standards, accountability, and incentives to improve.
9/10
Independent SAGE designed such a ‘scores on the doors’ system, yet progress is minimal.
Make clean air as normal as clean water: visible standards, accountability, and incentives to improve.
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Kindness and empathy aren’t weaknesses, they are strengths. 300,000 years of human evolution hinge on our caring about and protecting one another. Hold onto it. Never let them make you forget it.
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Kindness and empathy aren’t weaknesses, they are strengths. 300,000 years of human evolution hinge on our caring about and protecting one another. Hold onto it. Never let them make you forget it.
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Having appeared on it three times, I can 100% confirm that @robinince.bsky.social *IS* the #InfiniteMonkeyCage.
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
I just want to say @robinince.bsky.social is the very best of humans. How the BBC could have a problem with him is beyond me. The IMC will wither on the vine without the rich, nutritious value of Robin's brain. Go see him perform, and buy all his books. Your soul will feel like it has been hugged.
December 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Having appeared on it three times, I can 100% confirm that @robinince.bsky.social *IS* the #InfiniteMonkeyCage.
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
Without him, it doesn’t even exist as a concept 🤷🏾♂️
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Just one final thing - someone filmed some of my departure speech after Monkey Cage last night (I should make it clear no one knew I was going to do it) and it has been put up here - i cannot deny i was very emotional #science #comedy
www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...
www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...
Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views - Comic leaves Infinite Monkey Cage after pressure from bosses
www.chortle.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just one final thing - someone filmed some of my departure speech after Monkey Cage last night (I should make it clear no one knew I was going to do it) and it has been put up here - i cannot deny i was very emotional #science #comedy
www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...
www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...
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I am currently breastfeeding and sleep deprived and if anyone tries to serve me a lil’ lady portion of chips I will set fire to Labour HQ
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I am currently breastfeeding and sleep deprived and if anyone tries to serve me a lil’ lady portion of chips I will set fire to Labour HQ
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Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future?
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
Generation Despair
Work doesn’t pay, housing is a trap, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future?
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...
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Rachel Reeves' Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City of London. In this video, I ask why the Chancellor has surrendered economic power to finance. youtu.be/6pTpT_uB_4M?...
Rachel Reeves’ budget: Who really governs Britain?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Rachel Reeves' Budget was a damp squib, delivering austerity by stealth. There was no vision, and no investment. There was just fear of the City of London. In this video, I ask why the Chancellor has surrendered economic power to finance. youtu.be/6pTpT_uB_4M?...
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If you want to know more what this is about (and you should - quite likely this will affect your life and your children): youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
If you want to know more what this is about (and you should - quite likely this will affect your life and your children): youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8?...
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Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/
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Caught in the middle of Kirstie Allsopp's Michael Rosen Freedom Pass Palaver youtu.be/OVamGRtmz3A
Caught in the middle of Kirstie Allsopp's Michael Rosen Freedom Pass Palaver
YouTube video by MrJoeGooch
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Caught in the middle of Kirstie Allsopp's Michael Rosen Freedom Pass Palaver youtu.be/OVamGRtmz3A
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26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested.
Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested.
The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.
Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested.
The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.
September 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested.
Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested.
The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.
Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested.
The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.
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If you can’t comment on a foreign billionaire calling for your government to be brought down, what is the point of you?
Observer: 10 refused to comment on the Robinson march, on Musk's call to bring down the government (OK) or for his "fight back or die" declaration that violence is inevitable and necessary (not OK)
The home secretary criticised those arrested for violence.
The home secretary criticised those arrested for violence.
September 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you can’t comment on a foreign billionaire calling for your government to be brought down, what is the point of you?
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This is an excellent article that brings an empathetic eye to an escalating crisis in higher education 👇👌
I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning
As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake
www.irishtimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is an excellent article that brings an empathetic eye to an escalating crisis in higher education 👇👌
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Just to be 100% clear, students own the copyright in their own work and you should not be putting it into commercial AI products without their explicit permission. Just because AI makers stole copyright doesn't actually make it okay to do that.
But I doubt many schools want to have an open meeting where the community is allowed to discuss why teachers aren’t marking work and are putting it into a plagiarism machine.
Funny how no talks ever actually discuss the reality of good practice
Funny how no talks ever actually discuss the reality of good practice
September 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Just to be 100% clear, students own the copyright in their own work and you should not be putting it into commercial AI products without their explicit permission. Just because AI makers stole copyright doesn't actually make it okay to do that.
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“They looked like grotesques from a Roald Dahl book. Shrivelled, pinched faces, every bit as nasty as they sounded.”
This week: vandalised takeaways, racist pensioners, and the privilege of being a 6’3 white immigrant.
This week: vandalised takeaways, racist pensioners, and the privilege of being a 6’3 white immigrant.
Chaos, Cupboards and Cat Sneezes at Six on a Sunday Morning
Woken by an Elderly Cat, Confronted by Racism - On Why the UK Must Stop Defending Bigotry as “Local Anger.”
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“They looked like grotesques from a Roald Dahl book. Shrivelled, pinched faces, every bit as nasty as they sounded.”
This week: vandalised takeaways, racist pensioners, and the privilege of being a 6’3 white immigrant.
This week: vandalised takeaways, racist pensioners, and the privilege of being a 6’3 white immigrant.
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Israel bombed a hospital.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
August 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Israel bombed a hospital.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded.
Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV.
Read that again.
Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.
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One enduring modern idea I find a bit daft is that other people's summaries of books are just as useful as if you read that book yourself.
The point being missed is that *you're* supposed to be the one doing the summarising - after *you've* read the book.*
The summary is just the reminder!
The point being missed is that *you're* supposed to be the one doing the summarising - after *you've* read the book.*
The summary is just the reminder!
August 21, 2025 at 11:21 AM
One enduring modern idea I find a bit daft is that other people's summaries of books are just as useful as if you read that book yourself.
The point being missed is that *you're* supposed to be the one doing the summarising - after *you've* read the book.*
The summary is just the reminder!
The point being missed is that *you're* supposed to be the one doing the summarising - after *you've* read the book.*
The summary is just the reminder!
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Back in 2020 I posted this.
August 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Back in 2020 I posted this.
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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We could nationalise water for £20 – here’s how youtu.be/tnqPZNNx_rY?... English water companies are financially broken. So why is Labour ruling out nationalisation? They say it would cost too much. That's wrong. It could cost less than a round of drinks.
We could nationalise water for £20 – here’s how
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
July 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We could nationalise water for £20 – here’s how youtu.be/tnqPZNNx_rY?... English water companies are financially broken. So why is Labour ruling out nationalisation? They say it would cost too much. That's wrong. It could cost less than a round of drinks.
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There’s a myth doing the rounds about the founding of the NHS - and it’s doing so for a reason.
A brief history of the founding of the NHS and why commentators on the right are very keen on revising it.
A brief history of the founding of the NHS and why commentators on the right are very keen on revising it.
From Myth to Market: How the Right Is Prepping You to Sell Off the NHS
First they rewrite the past. Then they sell off the future. The NHS is next.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
There’s a myth doing the rounds about the founding of the NHS - and it’s doing so for a reason.
A brief history of the founding of the NHS and why commentators on the right are very keen on revising it.
A brief history of the founding of the NHS and why commentators on the right are very keen on revising it.
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Politicians used to spin, but now they just lie. And the trouble is, they lie on big issues like genocide, the fact that it is going on, and that our country is complicit in it. How long can this go on for before trust breaks down completely? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...
When truth departs – as it is doing from the political field – we are in very deep trouble
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has written this on X when referring to the sanctions put on United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese by the United States of America:
The at...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Politicians used to spin, but now they just lie. And the trouble is, they lie on big issues like genocide, the fact that it is going on, and that our country is complicit in it. How long can this go on for before trust breaks down completely? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...