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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1h

Headlines that make much more sense now than they would have 10 years ago.

‘I Am Worried About My Community,’ Says Frog Who Daily Confronts Federal Agents in Portland

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 9h

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14h

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

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Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
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Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa.bsky.social · 1d

Para Israel un cese el fuego significa asesinar a palestinos por decenas y no por centenares. Es lo mismo que lleva meses haciendo en Líbano.

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 14h

se a extrema direita dominar, e nos colocar num campo de concentração
os "companheiros de cela" que vão te trair e denunciar pros algozes serão aqueles que se dirão "neutros" ou "isentos"

foto de Eduardo Leite abraçando Bolsonaro, ao qual declarou voto

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 14h

sempre achei os ditos "centristas" fingidos mais nojentos que os extremistas raivosos

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Paulo Moreira @paulomoreira.bsky.social · 18h

boa tarde seu guarda

uma tirinha da cigarra e da formiga! Aqui temos um sapato com chapéuzinho de policial intimando a cigarra, esta que ta sentadinha numa pedra com um tambor, ele diz "boa tarde, cigarra, recebi uma denúncia aqui de som alto contra a sua pessoa" ela responde "nossa, seu guarda, mas eu tô tocando tão baixinho", ele faz "é? Toque um pouco pra eu ouvir" aí ela começa a batucar...
termina, a cigarra "eaí?" O sapo "eu gostei", mais longe escondida atras de uma pedra, vemos a formiga espiando com um olhar de desgosto. A cigarra pergunta então "tá vendo? Quem foi que fez a denúncia, seu guarda? O senhor pode dizer?"
"Foi uma denúncia anônima" responde o sapo, a cigarra olha então pra longe e vê uma enorme folha sobressaindo por trás da pedra. Ela diz "hum... beleza"

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 22h

"liberal" media 🫶 authoritarians attacking universities

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22h

The NYT remains one of the biggest threats to academic freedom. Do not support it!

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 22h

that first reaction, cos it's upsetting Trump

then you dig into her history for details ...

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 23h

also on "balanced" bothsiding
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/28/h...

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 23h

Reference
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BBC bosses tell Evan Davis to quit heat pump podcast claiming it was too 'political'

Davis says “I take their shilling, they dictate the rules… and they’ve decided heat pumps can be controversial”

www.homebuilding.co.uk

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 1d

BBC decided to cancel a podcast on heat pumps deeming the topic "controversial" because it presented that the technology could contribute to net zero reducing carbon emmissions.

In 2025 an anti-science posture is not only valid, but required in any debate to be considered "balanced" 😬

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 1d

When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.

ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social

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Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 1d

The winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is: María Corina Machado

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

sky says trans rights

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

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 1d

move fast
drop things

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Futurism @futurism.com · 1d

Look out!

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

"The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote." www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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