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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2h

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Home Office cannot be redeemed.

‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 5h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13h

I adore London&fully agree on Dubai, but the author‘s criticism of Paris& Berlin is a joke. French political turmoil is bad is it? Have you watched UK news since 2014? German trains are slow? Thank God for the sound state of UK Infrastructure.
Love you 🇬🇧. But ditch the superiority complex. Please.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 15h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7h

A man born in Pretoria, 1971, left for Canada in 1989, might want to wind his neck in (though apartheid South Africa was not necessarily too traumatic place for those who could benefit from apartheid if could manage to resist being too troubled by the racist principles of the state and society)

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 8h

Orban announces a national petition drive against "Brussels's war plans," accusing the EU of "launching a campaign against Hungary" for his government's opposition to the Union's defense policies. The petition reportedly rejects EU military aid for Ukraine.

We’re facing a heated autumn. Europe is drifting ever more quickly toward war.
A few weeks ago in Copenhagen, Brussels’ war plan was unveiled: Europe pays, Ukrainians fight, and Russia will eventually be exhausted. How much this will cost and how long it will take—we were not told. Instead of a real strategy, Brussels offered only wishful thinking. In Denmark I made it clear: we want no part of this.

Since then, they have launched a campaign against Hungary. The arsenal is broad—spy accusations, fake news scandals, and legal maneuvering. They have moved against us in Brussels and set their local proxies in motion at home. We cannot sit by and watch this! We must once again show that the Hungarian people do not want war.

That is why today we are launching a petition against Brussels’ war plans. We will be present in every city and every village, because right now every peace‑loving Hungarian is needed!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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Euronews @euronews.com · 11h

A Russian overnight drone attack on energy facilities in the Ukrainian Odesa region left hundreds of thousands of people without power on Saturday. Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK said that power has been restored.

#EuropeNews

Power restored to Ukraine's Odesa following Russian overnight attack

A Russian overnight drone attack on energy facilities in the Ukrainian Odesa region left hundreds of thousands of people without power on Saturday. Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK said that power has been restored.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 10h

Russian air strikes disable 60% of Ukraine’s gas production ahead of winter

A series of massive Russian air strikes in the past week has disabled nearly 60 per cent of Ukraine’s gas production, raising fears of winter shortages.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

“The agency’s human resources staff, which had been furloughed as part of the government shutdown, [was] called back to work to send out layoff notices to their colleagues.”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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NPR @npr.org · 10h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 11h

Idiocracy

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 14h

So important. They fired people working on Ebola in Africa tonight. The people who track and investigate and report on disease outbreaks. The CDC prior to the first Trump administration was the global gold standard... but the ideologues can't stand it.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 19h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 11h

“In the case of the US, CEOs of publicly listed companies earn 269 times more than the average full-time worker. People thought CEOs only earned 18 times as much, and they would prefer it to be just 5 times”

– Christopher Hoy in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

The wage gap and far-right support for redistribution

New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 10h

"This is the most extreme version of the options presented to her by her shadow Attorney General," Joshua Rozenberg says on Kemi Badenoch's intention to remove the UK from the ECHR.

"There needs to be much more discussion before that is a policy"

‘She’s taking the most extreme option’: Why Kemi Badenoch wants out of the ECHR | The News Agents

The Conservative Party will pull the UK from the European Convention of Human Rights if it wins the next general election, says Kemi Badenoch. Why has she chosen this extreme option?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study The number of wild bee species in Europe at risk of extinction has more than doubled over the past decade, while the number of endangered butterfly species has almost doubled. The jeopardy facing crucial pollinators was revealed by scientific studies for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species, which found that at least 172 bee species out of 1,928 were at risk of extinction in Europe. Continue reading...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 12h

“A pointed insult”.
The pre-Copernican weltangschauung of @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Luckily, most Telegraph readers will have no idea what either of those words means.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 12h

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, it's still early June 2016.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 12h

Melania Trump says 8 Ukrainian children abducted to Russia have been returned home after secret talks with Moscow.

She calls it an “ongoing mission” to reunite children separated by the war.

More than 19,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken to Russia since the full-scale invasion began

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h

In case you missed it:

Jenrick supported the appeal of an asylum seeker (to him: 'illegal migrant') who had run into trouble with a law first introduced by Thatcher, and was now drawing on the ECHR to overturn his conviction.

His free speech rights under the ECHR helped his appeal succeed.

#Irony

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 15h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 15h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13h

Think America is a gerontocracy?

Cameroon's President Paul Biya is running for another term at the age of 92.

He's been either PM or President for 50 years - starting his first term when Harold Wilson was UK Prime Minister.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 1d

Thought this was quite an interesting question. We asked which political party do people think is most "American" in it's style and Reform comes out on top by a country mile. Most likely to do with Trump, but also perhaps their more attention grabbing set pieces?

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