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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 18h

If there are no consequences then it is de facto permitted. If the consequence is a fine, well, a fine is a price. Vandalism on this scale SHOULD have consequences.

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 20h

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19h

This seems like a mistake.

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 18h

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 23h

If you're horrified by this, complete the survey.
cc @niais.bsky.social
Thanks @dotsandlines.bsky.social for the HT
🧪 🔭

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Piers Morgan drag out the “what is a woman” question with Zack Polanski and using it to try and diminish Polanski and then reminded that Morgan’s allyship to women stretches all the way to calling Mohammed Al Fayed “a bit of a rascal”

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Mohamed Al Fayed may have raped and abused at least 111 women and girls, say police

Scale of criminality would make Fayed, who died last year at the age of 94, one of Britain’s most notorious sex offenders

www.theguardian.com

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 20h

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action
Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action

Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 21h

UK government flat out lying to the UN here

Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 21h

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government.

Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025:

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 20h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Unrecoverable loss of attitude.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 21h

Feeling unwell?

If you have COVID symptoms, TEST
If you test positive, ISOLATE
If you can’t test, MASK

Protect yourself and others (especially high-risk people) - it still matters!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 21h

Data for England show COVID levels increasing.
Little likelihood that these data have peaked yet.
Issues?
🛑Limited testing
🛑Waning immunity
🛑Low priority by leaders
🛑Limited vaccine eligibility
🛑Scant use of face coverings
🛑HCAIs in healthcare settings
🛑Mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces.

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Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · 1d

What the Science Says: Long COVID, Brain Health, and Cognitive Decline beingpatient.com/what-the-sci... by @beingpatient.bsky.social

#COVID #LongCovid #Alzheimers #dementia #science

What the Science Says: Long COVID, Brain Health, and Cognitive Decline

Researchers are uncovering how COVID-19 affects the brain, from inflammation to brain fog, and what it could mean for Alzheimer’s risk.

beingpatient.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

COVID: Concerned about the pressure on our NHS, as we enter the darker, colder months, and want to protect services, staff and patients!
Then, it's time to be more focused on the spread of this disease, especially in healthcare settings, as well as the labour, social and economic impacts. #LongCOVID

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

We think the UK government should ensure that management of healthcare associated infections (HCAI) is extended to include recording data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
That’s why we signed this petition.
Please join us - if you haven’t already.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings

Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...

petition.parliament.uk

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s immigration crackdown is risking higher food prices for Americans, according to the Trump admin itself.  DOL warned in an obscure document last week that “near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 2d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 1d

There’s a comment piece in The Times about sickness benefits mysteriously going up and no mention of Covid, long Covid, the effects of lockdown etc. Boosters help people stay healthy, but now they are only available to the very old or people who can afford them.

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 1d

People often dismiss cell biology as just “looking at stuff”, which makes seminal discoveries like this even sweeter. Congrats @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and team

Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 2d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 1d

Paging @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social - any room on the program for this?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The World Fantasy Convention will be meeting in Brighton at the end of the month and I hope they’ll be considering Trump’s health report released after his six-monthly annual examination yesterday.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

153 kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

This is what happens when we ignore the science.

When we stop vaccinating, long eradicated diseases come back.

The kids deserve better than this. Measles can disable. It can kill. And it’s completely preventable.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Standing up to fascism is always the right choice.

Rejecting censorship is always the right choice.

Fighting for marginalized and vulnerable communities is always the right choice.

A Wyoming librarian refused to purge books with LGBTQ+ content and was fired for it.

She won a $700,000 settlement

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

www.nytimes.com

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