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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 3h

Funding is flowing into UK politics, and there's no limit on what individuals or companies can "donate" for access to ministers, senior officials, contracts and seats in the Lords.

JCB and Bamford family have switched from BoJo to Reform. This piece is about abuses by Israelis and Modi using JCBs.

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 7h

Interesting piece. Reform currently control Staffordshire CC and the company HQ is at Rocester with major facilities at nearby Uttoxeter. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uk/...

The right’s love affair with JCB

The British firm has acquired an obsessive fanbase and influential political allies in the UK. But in India and the West Bank, its big yellow diggers ...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social · 6h

And whilst people might criticise this as playing to the already converted, research shows Reform are actually vulnerable to messaging like this.

Rather than, you know, saying they have a point and you actually like flags too. 🙄

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 10h

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 11h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

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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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
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Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 8h

The economics of AI (LLM) data centers continue to be utterly unworkable. This whole thing is going to crash sooner rather than later and leave a giant smoldering crater where a big chunk of the economy used to be.

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 16h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 10h

I had a similarly petty response to the same issue. They are trying to avoid the fact it's anti fascism by pretending it's some other thing

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 10h

You must be getting very tired of this nonsense

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 3d

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.

Should stamp duty be scrapped in the UK?

Conservative party says property tax deters people from moving house and stifles productivity

www.ft.com

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Bean N. Curling @beancurling.bsky.social · 1d

Since covid and political insanity, the kids in my classes have been not willing to interact with me or each other.

Yesterday's classes were like art classes in the 80s. Everyone curious about other student's work. Trying new things without being coerced. Horsing around.

Singing.

There's hope.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 16h

I know that governing is harder than getting elected. But it is literally a relief to have a politician and a political party regularly speaking hopefully and positively about the country we share. We need that hope to have the climate crisis and to address the inequalities that divide us.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Heritage Volunteering Group @heritagevols.bsky.social · 16h

💼 #Volunteering Experience Lead at RABI, the farmer's charity. Oxford, £35-38k, full-time, permanent. Closes 15/10

📝 Apply: rabi.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...

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#HVGJobs #CharityJobs #LoVols #Volunteer

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 16h

Essex fossils have a way of starting rumours. Megalodon teeth on the coast. Mammoth bones in the gravel. No surprise our villages are full of dragon stories.

Video courtesy of Bethnal Archives - more here: youtube.com/@BethnalArchives

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 17h

People in #Gaza have started returning north again.

They are unsure what they will find left of their homes and communities. “Whatever it is, it’s better than facing death every second,” one of our colleagues in Gaza told us.

#ceasefire

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 1d

Lil pavement folly that entertains me greatly. A parkland estate for a tiny signpost.

I don’t know how to describe it. A weird section of a kind of ellipse of grass tacked onto a curved piece of pavement. To call it a flowerbed would be misleading. Strident double yellow lines enclose it on the road side. In the middle of the grass stands an upright pole with a tiny sign at the top. Beyond a proper park with fields and trees is visible. I doubt this makes sense if you can’t see the image.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, wrong Toby Driver, I'm sure you'd make a great double act

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 1d

Wrong @drtobydriver.bsky.social!

Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 1d

What a joy to be taken around Pen Dinas by @tobydriver.bsky.social as the first stop on the Society of Antiques Annual Wales field trip

Photo of Toby Driver standing on a low Bronze Age barrow in the middle of Pen Dinas hillfort with views over Aberystwyth.

Photo of the path up to Pen Dinas hillfort, a green strip cut into a heather clad hill with the south gateway of the hillfort showing as a cut on the right hand side of the photo and a Wellington monument showing on the skyline. The fort was excavated in the 30s and again in 2023

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 1d

What a joy to be taken around Pen Dinas by @tobydriver.bsky.social as the first stop on the Society of Antiques Annual Wales field trip

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Sir Jim Ratcliffe spent part of the £4bn tax bill he dodged to fund Manchester United.

That is how the UK works you pay tax, the big people don't and they get richer and richer and RICHER.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for that response, and for using artists

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 1d

Homeless people often face the heartbreaking decision of deciding between their dog and a place indoors. Dogs Trust is working to change it.

How Dogs Trust keeps homeless people and their dogs together

www.bigissue.com

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