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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 22h

Brucella canis is an infectious disease affecting dogs and, in some cases, humans. Vets have long been calling for more testing, so it's welcome that the Government has announced - dogs commercially imported from Romania must have a negative Brucella canis test result.

www.bva.co.uk/news-and-blo...

Government decision on mandatory testing for Brucella canis vital step forward for animal and public health

Following years of campaigning, BVA has welcomed news that all commercial dog imports from Romania into Great Britain will be required to undergo mandatory pre-import testing for Brucella canis.

www.bva.co.uk

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 22h

It's certainly been observed at the venue I'm an investor in (via a CIC)

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 1d

Have you tried asking ChatGP.... I'll get my coat

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI still can't count. It's ironic that it's called 'computation' and tragedy that it's called 'information technology'

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 1d

Why would the CDC have any say over what the NHS does?

Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 1d

They can do it onto your bare feet whilst you're distracted making coffee. Quite the talent.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 2d

Why is this an either/or? Why not switch to inhalers with lower global warming impact?

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Llama God @thellamagod.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to seeing this expanded to also cover cars that have been left for more than two hours...

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 3d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

buff.ly

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 5d

The power of salmon oil

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 7d

Just one pedestrian killed by a pedal cyclist in the UK in 2024. 265 killed by cars www.gov.uk/government/s...

Who kills who chart showing most road fatalities are killed by cars. Most car casualty fatalities don’t involve another vehicle

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 5d

Stellar packing job

A cardboard box with a bicycle wheel hub poking out the centre

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 6d

That's the fundamental flaw with the US adaptation Vs David Brent (who coincidentally would be a much better fit for Weiss)

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 6d

idk who needs to hear this, but “if you’re afraid of being the target of violence because you are jewish, just don’t attend a synagogue who supports israel” is uh

a pretty antisemitic thing to say

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 6d

Yarp, got tix

Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 6d

always be corvidposting

Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 8d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 7d

This is how you promo music production gear! :)

youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments

youtu.be

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 9d

At our recent @lshtm.bsky.social event on misinformation, Chris Whitty gave some useful reflections on common causes and some important considerations for handling it.

Full event: www.youtube.com/live/H_nClQ2...

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 9d

Dead good, that is

Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 9d

A taxi which the extremely wealthy can avoid paying. Which is not at all like other taxes

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Jon Massey @jonnyboy27.bsky.social · 9d

Sure about that, Duo?

A Duolingo French screenshot where one is asked to choose the word that means "facile" where the purportedly correct answer is "difficile"

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 9d

On this day 10 years ago, Russia entered the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Assad regime, devastating infrastructure, displacing millions and murdering thousands of Syrian civilians.

Despite all of these widespread crimes, Moscow and Assad would go on to lose.

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Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 10d

when the goat-legged god of impromptu music splits your slacks while you're playing cowboys from hell:

Pantera pant error?? Pan terror, a pant tear, ah!

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Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science @bennettoxford.bsky.social · 10d

We are hiring researchers!

We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team at the Bennett Institute.

Please check out the job advert and tell your friends!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

We're hiring researchers to work on OpenSAFELY | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Come and work with us! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team.

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk

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