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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1h

If only the UK could invent a system proportionally based on property price...

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 12h

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1h

A very 20th Century solution.

Instead it could be close to through traffic. There is no reason to have traffic along the river when there are spokes from the edge inwards. This is what 21st Century cities do.

Overhead railway anyone...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
on.ft.com/4nZ6DBt

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19h

We knew. We know. Same with the Internet of Things etc in the past.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 19h

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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Mathan bàn na h-Alba @scotswhitebear.bsky.social · 1d

#Trumpery

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1d

I left to stop Clyde using any material I might put up.

Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1d

Right to buy was exerted by the not so wealthy - the wealthy didn't own Council Housing.
the irony was the long-term drop in her much vaunted concept of a property owning democracy and the rise of the rentier class!
It would be interesting to get her views on the state of affairs!

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paul-e24.bsky.social @paul-e24.bsky.social · 1d

We aren’t a part of those now, all we kept was right to buy (by the wealthy)and the greed ethic
And all that got us was a moral vacuum called Farage

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, apart from FOM, single Market, but her 'heirs' don't seem so taken by these

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1d

Her main legacy was in relation to the EU, SM, FoM and so on...

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Sebastien Vidal @sebvidalchem.bsky.social · 1d

A sunday afternoon in Paris

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1d

Well Corbyn is pro tourism 😉

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 1d

And (that reminds me) his stance on the Salisbury poisonings.

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1d

Elections are lost, never won...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention his stance on Syria... ...well documented for example by @ozkaterji.bsky.social
Poison is perhaps not quite the right word...

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 1d

“Commitment to his beliefs?”👇”we believe”.
“Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers’ rights if we voted to leave..a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU” He ordered a 3 Line Whip for A50 without a SINGLE protective amendment.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d

Not true, he wears a monocle

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Paolette @paolette.bsky.social · 3d

😱 - Chéri, il y a un ours sous la tonnelle !
😳 - Mais qu'est-ce qu'il fout ?!

🐻 - Bah chuis venu éteindre les lumières. On n'est pas à Versailles ici !

Un ours brun est debout sous une tonnelle sur laquelle sont accrochées des guirlandes de lumières.

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leoxymoron3.bsky.social @leoxymoron3.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, puéril...

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Dave Fernig @davefernig.bsky.social · 2d

His credentials as a 'green energy' entrepreneur are rather heavily dented.
Money making individual by all means