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ClaireJane5

@clairejane5.bsky.social

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Plague Islands-er; citizen of the 🌍; Jill of many things, mistress of none; work in progress; #CovidIsAirborne. "Things change. Nothing stays the same, yo" Ghostface Killah

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 16h

The last part of the UK firesale is currently well under way. Freeports and SEZs, Sunak's plan that Starmer embraced and turbocharged.
bsky.app/profile/euro...

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks

Govts of Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, China, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, UAE, US would like to thank UK for letting their entities own UK infrastructure.

Vast profits exported, Britons stare at sewage in rivers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 16h

"According to satellite imagery analysis, as of 22-23 September 2025, approximately 83% of all structures in Gaza City are damaged....

Compared to the 8 July 2025... this corresponds to a 7% increase in total affected structures, & a 36% increase in destroyed structures..."
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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

To me, the ongoing pandemic isnt JUST about science. It is about morals and ethics.
It is acting on the evidence and the HARM that sars2 is causing. There is evidence of harm.
There is ONGOING evidence of harm
The is evidence of ONGOING transmission of sars2
CLEAN THE AIR
Do no harm

ClaireJane5 @clairejane5.bsky.social · 18h

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Susan Board, PhD @suseboard.bsky.social · Apr 29

Read this thread and weep. Then act as if airborne viruses matter 😷

tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · Apr 29

In the last year before Covid arrived in England, 4,059 people waited more than twelve hours to get admitted to hospital after the decision was made to admit them to hospital.

During the emergency phase of the pandemic that number rose to a staggering 48,626.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · Apr 29

It's staggering.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · Apr 29

Rampant Spread:

You need to *click* on this image to see the *mindboggling* change in number of people waiting 12 hours for treatment when they attend urgent care.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · Apr 29

Emergency Phase:

Then Covid arrives.
You probably look at this and think it's bad, right?

You p

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · Apr 29

Pre-pandemic:

This is the sad graph of how many patients had to wait *12 hours* to be admitted after the decision to admit them to hospital was made.

Depressing, right.

We're talking about urgent care here.

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tern @1goodtern.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'm going to try to show it visually.

I'm going to show three graphs of the weekly numbers of people facing one of the types of delay in urgent care.

Pre-pandemic.
Emergency Phase.
Rampant Spread.

*all with the same scale*

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 19h

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 23h

Disrupting traffic? Didn’t Just Stop Oil go to gaol for that?
One rule for everyone please.

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Ronil Patel @randomronil.bsky.social · 23h

Disrupting traffic, that's 5 years in prison like theJust Stop Oil protestors right?

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Rob Stewart @robstewartwriterq.bsky.social · 22h

Care to follow any if this up @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ? If you don’t there might not be a Newsnight in a few years. In case you don’t know Farage and friends aren’t big fans.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 23h

A fascist tapeworm & faux patriot who “loves giving interviews. But ask him about his connections to Russia & the consequences of #Brexit, he'll put a stop to the conversation.”
“Brexit was the best thing to happen for Russia...”
Where is the UK? 👇
www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Roy @roysaywhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

You can't do it right. No one wants it. No one needs it. No one has asked for it.

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O w l l i e 🦉 @eternowllie.bsky.social · 4d

And like, even if it is technically more "convenient," I don't value convenience over data security.

I don't want my biometric and other personal data inevitably leaked and made available on the dark web for these nebulous promises of convenience.

The cost outweighs any benefits.

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Reluctant Trail Runner. Enthusiastic Couch Potato. Chocoholic. @richardofshoes.bsky.social · 4d

"We will introduce a digital ID within this Parliament to help tackle illegal migration, make accessing government services easier, and enable wider efficiencies.".

But people don't believe it will do those things! The public haven't asked for this.

Restore trust? How about listening?

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 4d

there is no way to do ‘spying on private citizens’ right.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

On the first day of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, emergency teams recovered the bodies of 152 Palestinians from various areas across the enclave.

In the image, several men are seen carrying a body wrapped in a purple blanket through the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza. The area around them is filled with debris—broken concrete, twisted metal, and splintered wood. Behind them, a group of people stands on the damaged steps of what appears to be a residential building with shattered windows and a cracked facade. The scene conveys devastation and grief, highlighting the human toll of the bombardment even amid the announcement of a ceasefire.

ClaireJane5 @clairejane5.bsky.social · 1d

Think it was his wife.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.