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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 2h

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 18h

To all who abhor the spyware of Meta (inc. WhatsApp), but feel trapped:

Install @signal.org and register.

That's it. You don't have to use it.

The more people have it, the more other people will see their contacts when they install it.

Signal is a US non-profit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

Signal Foundation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 18h

Worth considering donating a few ££ too.
The era of users-as-the-product has gone spectacularly badly, and we will eventually move to a PAYG model for the health and sanity of all nations.

Debenore @debenore.uk · 18h

Signal for iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/signa...

Signal for Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

‎Signal - Private Messenger

‎Signal is a messaging app with privacy at its core. It is free and easy to use, with strong end-to-end encryption that keeps your communication completely private. • Send texts, voice messages, phot...

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 18h

To all who abhor the spyware of Meta (inc. WhatsApp), but feel trapped:

Install @signal.org and register.

That's it. You don't have to use it.

The more people have it, the more other people will see their contacts when they install it.

Signal is a US non-profit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

Signal Foundation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social · 21h

Great to be out over the weekend with my good friend @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social campaigning in the Moseley by-election for @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social.

Friends in politics are very important. Jess is loyal, feisty, kind, and you know exactly what she’s about. Politics needs more like Jess.

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 1d

3/3 the sort of person at the back of the class who is not agreeing with you!"

Debenore @debenore.uk · 1d

2/3 conventional thinkers; who give teachers what they want to hear; and are not the people how are more creative and whose minds are more diverse and divergent.

It's just not how the system works.

And additionally, teachers, me included, you know you really don't like

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 1d

1/3 SIr Anthony Seldon, historian and ex. headmaster of Epsom & Brighton Colleges, talking on #bbcr4 #radio4 this morning about education:

"Some of the most interesting, creative people are not picked up at school.

The school system, particularly as it has developed, rewards young people who are

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 1d

Nah you're good

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Steve Griffiths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cymry.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye nails it

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 3d

Did a double take last night! Brilliant stuff

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4d

On the current trajectory, he will require six generations of white-English ancestors by the end of the year.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 5d

Starmer: "It’s quite hard to take anything that Robert Jenrick says seriously"

The right line to take here I think.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer says Jenrick is ‘hard to take seriously’ after Birmingham comments

PM says Jenrick is ‘still running his leadership campaign’ after he complained about ‘not seeing another white face’

www.theguardian.com

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 6d

Yes I realised that after I'd asked the question - I should have read further into the Guardian report.

Debenore @debenore.uk · 6d

He knows exactly what he's doing.

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 6d

Because I was curious about the way Lizzi had phrased her post and was interested in her view.

For me it's not news that Jenrick is seeking to profit from stirring up hatred and division, racial or otherwise.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d

Police have cracked a gang responsible for stealing half of all phones in London and many more across the UK, then shipping them to China.

One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China

BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 6d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 6d

Aside from Jenrick's dog whistling, would you say that integration is nonetheless important?

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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 7d

Let me get this straight...

You changed the law so that hundreds of people would be arrested for holding placards, and now you're blaming those people for wasting police resources?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8d

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s slapstick gaffe parade continues today. She countered criticism of her Reform-copy plan to take the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights by pointing out the US, Australia and NZ aren’t members of the ECHR.

The *European* Court of Human Rights.

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Debenore @debenore.uk · 8d

🤡🤡🤡

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 8d

"Our credible plan is also an acrostic."

(This is, genuinely, the actual Conservative press release.)

Debenore @debenore.uk · 8d

Yes and it turns out to have been more devastating for the party that it seemed even at the time. What I didn't anticipate is just how damaging that act would be more generally for UK politics.

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