Bill Anderson
@butchandriley.bsky.social
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Old git in rural Wiltshire. Durhamite in exile. Likes evidence, facts. Likes Lowdens and Naim, Good food, wine and real beer. Atheist.
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Kwasi Kwarteng, the former UK chancellor whose infamous “mini” Budget under then-Prime Minister Liz Truss triggered a crisis in the gilts market, is backing the launch of a bitcoin investment company.
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Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company
Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury
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A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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After 13 years in the US, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave. Having packed up everything and rethought about priorities, rather painstakingly, while I’m sad to leave the life I’ve made here, I’m also relieved that I won’t have to plan my life around immigration policies anymore.
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Yeah, or "Labour councils have attached so many secret taxes that not even a Labour chancellor can keep track of them all!"
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Roll up, roll up for your free plutonium. Trump is preparing a dangerous giveaway to struggling commercial #nuclear startups.
beyondnuclearinternational.org/2025/10/26/r...
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Roll up, roll up for your free plutonium
Another nuclear no-go line is crossed
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Excited by the possibility that over the four-year local election cycle Reform will end up expelling so many councillors that it gets back to zero.
Two Kent Reform councillors have been formally expelled from the party.
Cllr Robert Ford and Cllr Bill Barrett have been kicked out after being suspended over the last fortnight for "bringing the party into disrepute."
Cllr Robert Ford and Cllr Bill Barrett have been kicked out after being suspended over the last fortnight for "bringing the party into disrepute."
Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.
At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.
"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...
At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.
"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...