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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 7h

“The results were surprising, even for me,” says Llavero Pasquina. “I knew they were playing a very little role in the energy transition. I knew it was only for show. It was only for dressing their narrative. But I didn’t expect this low number.”

www.newscientist.com/article/2499...

Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power

Despite public promises by many fossil fuel firms that they are investing in the green transition, it turns out that they have made little contribution to the growth of renewable energy

www.newscientist.com

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 10h

Completely agree about the marketing!

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Kit Butler (Author) @kitbutlermagster.bsky.social · 10h

I recently gave an interview for The Rebel Reading Society's Author Spotlight section.
You can read my musings here, should you so desire.
rebelreadingsociety.co.uk/kit-butler

Kit Butler Interview | The Rebel Reading Society

rebelreadingsociety.co.uk

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 10h

Stretchy jeans might be recyclable using enzymes. Our work is showing some promise. Led by Silvia Anselmi, Jack Jeffries and Helen Hailes we show that enzymes can biodegrade spandex in lab conditions. Full paper here: share.google/gdpM87tlnZsj...

The discovery of new metagenomic urethanases utilising a novel colorimetric assay for applications in the biodegradation of polyurethanes

The enzymatic molecular recycling of plastics is of increasing interest, where polymers are converted into monomers for reuse or upcycled into value added chemicals. Polyurethanes are an important cla...

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 10h

I’m just happy that she reads. And I hope she’ll find her own way to the books I love. But as long as there are books she loves, it’s all good.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 10h

My 8-year-old is a voracious reader… who rejects anything I suggest. I admire her desire to rebel against me, but it hurts nonetheless…

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Jim Burke @barcajim3.bsky.social · 10h

Just remember what the roundabout painters are telling you, it's the lads in the boats that are costing you a fortune.

The boats are in water so that means your water bill goes up 36%

Nothing to do with the unchecked greed of water companies for decades.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises

Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills Millions of households in England will see their water bills increase by even more than expected, after the competition regulator gave the green light for five water suppliers to raise charges to customers – but rejected most of the companies’ demands. An independent group of experts appointed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally decided to allow the companies to charge customers an extra £556m over the next five years, it said on Thursday. That was only 21% of the £2.7bn that the firms requested. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty sure there’ll be teachers out there handing out AI generated worksheets without checking them.

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 10h

As one example one excellent trainee told me they had struggled for a while to get Gen ai to create a worksheet for Spanish vocab. That would have been done in minutes in a collaborative group or even a chat with another teacher. You’d get a whole unit of work most likely from an experienced teacher

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 10h

As one example one excellent trainee told me they had struggled for a while to get Gen ai to create a worksheet for Spanish vocab. That would have been done in minutes in a collaborative group or even a chat with another teacher. You’d get a whole unit of work most likely from an experienced teacher

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 10h

Talking to our cohort of trainee teachers and they are all using gen ai. I get it for lesson planning ( no one reads that bs) but when I warn them about not isolating, not giving IP to these apps and the value of community, they look at me like I am mad. Teacher training is letting them down imo

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 11h

In the creative industries/the media and want to mentor? @artsemergency.bsky.social is looking for enthusiastic professionals

Although we have lots of great potential mentors, we are still short of applicants in the Merseyside region and we could do with more applicants in London working in the following career areas:

- Gaming and animation
- Fashion design
- Broadcast journalism
- Visual arts: illustrators / people with illustration experience or any experience relevant to character design
- Performing arts: musical theatre performers or people with experience in the musical theatre industry
- Film & TV - on screen
- Architecture and interior design

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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 20h

If you want to know more about the metal organic frameworks that won the Chemistry Nobel prize today. I go into them in my book It's a Gas. They are at the heart of oxygen concentrators that kept people alive during Covid.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel awarded to three scientists for their work on metal organic frameworks

The winners of the prestigious science prize were announced by the Nobel committee in Sweden.

www.bbc.com

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 11h

Amazing! A Republican with an actual moral line they won’t cross!!!!

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 11h

Wow, that’s an incredibly unprofessional and inappropriate email. Can you take it higher up the management chain?

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 1d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Neil Miles (but spooky) @miles-online.co.uk · 23h

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it
Omid Djalili

Krusty the Clown - "They drove a dump truck full of money to my house. I'm not made of stone"

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 21h

"Some have said about Assassin's Creed games that "DEI kills art" but this might be a case where "anti-DEI" helped kill art."

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 22h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Essex and Thames SCITT Teacher Training @etscitt.bsky.social · 2d

Applications are open. Apply now! Train to be an outstanding teacher with Essex and Thames Scitt in Sep 26.

#traineeteacher #TeacherTraining #traintoteach #getintoteaching #teaching #apprentice #teaching #teachereducation #pgce #qts

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Dr Priest @pennypriest.bsky.social · 2d

"Peter Mandelson lost his job for being friends with a paedophile. Donald Trump, who was friends with the same paedophile, was given a state banquet hosted by a King whose brother lost his job because he was friends with the same paedophile.“

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

And he’s back!!

Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.

His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME

STEWART LEE

www.thenerve.news

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22h

Feels like this article should mention the fact that fossil fuels and climate change massively intensified this fire, making it deadlier than it otherwise would have been, because a lot of ppl will read this story and assume it means climate played no role

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities announced the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting a fire on New Year’s Eve that eventually became the Palisades fire.

www.latimes.com

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 23h

the only solution here is to point out that no minority group is causing shit. What’s causing problems is an exploitative system geared at making some people richer than god at the expense of everyone else

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Very, very weak stuff here from someone I thought better of www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 22h

Wish these motherfuckers would just be honest and say “I like money too much to turn down this much of it”.

Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 23h

Good for him - he’ll have made another £80 or so writing that article.

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