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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 8m

Not surprising is it? Boris Johnson said inflation didn't matter and woosh the profiteers weighed in. So much UK money is locked up in housing due to high land prices, sky high rents and high utility bills that many people have next to nothing left for spending on much else given food costs on top.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23h

“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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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 3h

Farage has given up the pretence that he barely knew Nathan Gill. He can't do otherwise, given the flood of evidence to the contrary.

Here is Gill saying he's just come from having lunch with Farage on the day that Farage resigned as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 32m

Typical of The Mail and others. Weak journalism; with online versions often slacker than print ones.

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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 1d

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 6h

Spot on.

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 6h

Federal funding matters. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-wins...

UC wins 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 days — and sets a new world record

These discoveries span decades and disciplines, but they all have one important thing in common: They’ve all relied on competitive funding from the federal government.

www.universityofcalifornia.edu

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 15h

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 8h

What a combination. Blair and Clegg. What could possibly be going wrong here?

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 9h

Wasn't Trump President when some Portland shops were boarded up after unrest linked to George Floyd's death? Classic case of old person remembering past and thinking must still be the case??

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 9h

But headline is wrong. You cannot 'lose' a Nobel Prize. It is not some kind of race. This is the kind of thing that seems so wrong with some people's thinking.

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 9h

Is it really Sasha Baron-Cohen?

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11h

Well Mikey,We're Going To Protest
In Spite of You And Chump,
NATIONWIDE.......

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 9h

Reform are copying Trump's MAGA exactly. With exactly the same motives. Making money from threats and division.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 10h

.... And Brexit... but that had money making behind it as it was designed to drive deregulation and privatisation and literally nothing else.

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 14h

Starmer blaming #Brexit for tax rises may be accurate but when only 37% of a now disproportionately dead electorate voted for it almost 10 yrs ago, based on undeliverable lies, the questions are why should the rest of us stomach it & where is Labour’s plan to change that? archive.ph/2025.10.10-2...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

I completed a PhD in Physics at MIT in '03. Even when the intensity seemed to be off-scale, there was one piece that I never doubted: the place had integrity, purpose, and passion.

It's clear the culture and drive of MIT remains.

MIT says no to the compact.

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT’s record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America’s research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.

Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

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CPRE Sussex @cpresussex.bsky.social · 1d

How about fungus spotting this weekend? Look for white-spotted red fly agarics – classic ‘toadstool’ in children’s books, scarlet elfcaps or shaggy parasols. See: www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/fungi Don’t be tempted to eat any fungi unless you really know what you are doing.

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 1d

Hang on. Attorney General. Political Opponents? How about just Attorney General or Prosecutor (not persecutor .. not sure if Trump knows difference??). Lazy journalism @cnn.com not up to scratch.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 2d

In the two years after the Brexit referendum, the BBC almost entirely silenced the 50% who supported staying in the EU, but now it gives massive coverage to fascists with only 30%.

The BBC is politically corrupt. It must be reformed.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2d

This is quite literally, anti-science.

It is what happens when ideologues fit the data to the narrative and not the other way around. With these leaders in charge, HHS will generate junk discoveries, junk findings, and ultimately, junk cures.

Americans must turn elsewhere for guidance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Farage couldn't care less about the safety of teenage girls.

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