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Alan Rew

@alanrew.bsky.social

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UK-based retired software developer. Art, Photography, Science, Music, Economics, Politics, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Architecture, Archaeology I can't send/receive DMs here. Signal: alan.285

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Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · Sep 7

I now have a Signal account. Address in bio. Signal accounts are free: just download the app to get started.

Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · Sep 6

Apologies to anyone who's sent me a DM recently: I can't read or send DMs here. I don't trust the security of the third-party verification company. I'm looking at alternatives for private chat.

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Ken Appleby @kenappleby.bsky.social · 3d

No mention of why extreme heat conditions now exist for them at all:
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
#climate #climatebreakdown #globalwarming

‘You want a player to die?’ Heat is on tennis after players wilt in extreme conditions

Every year players are pushed to their limits in a sport that chases the sun. But the number of retirements, withdrawals and injuries this season has been shocking

www.theguardian.com

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 13h

astrophysicists, please help a poor terrestrial palaeontologist out:

Did beryllium form in the first 3-5 minutes of the Big Bang, or not?

Nasa mentions it here, science.nasa.gov/universe/ove... but other places EXPLICITLY say there was only H, He and Li until star formation.

thank you!

Overview - NASA Science

The origin, evolution, and nature of the universe have fascinated and confounded humankind for centuries. New ideas and major discoveries made during the 20th

science.nasa.gov

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12h

I learned it as “Free Rocket Over Ground” in reference to Soviet nuclear capable Luna (b/c present in Cuba during Missile Crisis).

And this is even better!

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG!

Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 13h

FROG = Fascism Resistance On the Ground

👏 👏👏Let’s hear it for the amphibians on the front lines 👏👏👏

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

Portland Frog gets it

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 10h

This is a contextually brilliant response (amongst other responses people are doing most of which are a valid part of a diversity of tactics).

Also I like the lower investment cost vs frog suit (maybe?), and the better mobility and access to pockets, etc.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10h

Washington DC is, by several measures, America’s most liberal city. It no longer has a newspaper that’s even trying to represent that in its op-ed pages.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 14h

I didn't know it was black cat awareness month! Well in that case, here's Kit Marlowe, aged 2 and 3/4. She's the light of our lives, 4am nose-licker, kindly mouse-deliverer, Dreamies addict and bed-lover. ❤️

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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 10h

Bar Council shows how to stand up to bullies and bigots.

@thebarcouncil.bsky.social

Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 11d

The hatemonger Rupert Lowe MP wrote a whiny letter to @thebarcouncil.bsky.social complaining about the Black Interns scheme.

Well done Bar Council and Bar Chair for this robust response.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 11h

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 9h

American digging folk are much more: ‘I want to dominate my rivals’, ‘I must find more gold than everyone else so I can crush their hopes’, ‘I have sabotaged my rival’s equipment, ha ha’, ‘I’m cheating my sons of their gold’, & ‘I’ve stolen my rival’s claim while he falls on hard times, ha!’

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 9h

Australian digging people are all: ‘I must find gold to care for my family’, ‘Brett’s jackhammer is broken, a neighbour helps him out’, ‘I’m raising money for a drug/alcohol rehab centre’, ‘Les is sad, so I’ve traded my last opal for a puppy to cheer him up.’ ‘One of us is injured, but equal shares’

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JANUSZCZAK @januszczak.bsky.social · 18h

Satanists! As there is no description of the Devil in the Bible he/she had to be invented by artists! They did a fabulous job of imagining the unimaginable. So in Art’s Most Satanic next Tuesday on Sky Arts at 9pm I throw caution to the waves and go Devil hunting! And I end up in weird places!

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 17h

Conversation behind me on the bus: “I think newspapers are going to be coming back. See with this social media, you don’t know what’s true anymore.”

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 17h

What’s the word “vegan” doing in that sentence???

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · 13h

It's a silly term, isn't it. Like you, I assumed it referred to the materials they were made from. Which, in turn, suggested they might be edible in an emergency.

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Soph Warnes @thatsoph.bsky.social · 17h

I googled and apparently some tampons are tested on animals, hence not vegan

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16h

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 20h

"People like Neville represent a cultural and political threat, because the right wants them to think what they think - and very often they don’t."

Why Gary Neville's views on British flags made him a target for Farage

‘Gary Neville is a political threat to Nigel Farage because he doesn’t think the same' | The News Agents

Gary Neville has accused “angry, middle aged white men” of stoking division in the UK following the Manchester synagogue attack on Yom Kippur. His comments have angered right-wing voices, but is this…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 15h

Hehehe, "that" speech. I always used to have this comedy bit about Labour centrists, saying that if they went on Desert Island Discs, seven of their choices would be Tony Blair speeches but the one they saved from the hurricane would be Kinnock bashing the left.

John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 16h

A very moving interview with the great Neil Kinnock from @lewisgoodall.com on @newsagents.bsky.social - really worth a listen on the 40th anniversary of that speech.

They say never meet your heroes, but that doesn’t apply with Lord Kinnock.

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 14h

"am I feeling ill because I ate nine billion cola bottles? no, must be the pork"

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 22h

Graphis 226, 1983. Cover design by Zenji Funabashi designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 21h

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · 14h

This is a lovely positive piece, full of joy.

You should update your Bluesky bio to include "my balance and posture are surprisingly good".

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 20h

Finally I sacrificed some of my limited remaining dignity in order to be taught how to ski properly by one of the best. Here is the (I think unnecessarily warts and all in its presentation) story of a middle aged woman with a lot of snow in her hair getting better fast on.ft.com/4h9zIrl

Beyond the intermediate plateau: a masterclass for middling skiers

[FREE TO READ] Can a bog-standard ‘mum-skier’ be transformed in three days?

on.ft.com

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 14h

ANOTHER 38c day in CHINA

Brutal heat day and night continues in this insanely hot October,a month which is rewriting history.
Next days temperatures will increase even further, breaking dozens/hundreds of records again with peaks close to 40C.

Map credit:Jim Jiang

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