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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 2h

Ooh, Duckzilla and his forest friends birthday cake

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 3h

SAG-AFTRA is continuing negotiations re: AI and I wish we‘d think about this more in academia but then we‘d also need functioning unions 🙃 Or more scholars who actually consider this a threat. If you agree and haven‘t signed this…

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 5h

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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Benny Brycheiniog @cupking11.bsky.social · 11h

🎶 "What a difference 9 years makes..."🎵

Simon Jenkins: Brexit will be good for Britain (2016)

Simon Jenkins: It's time to reverse Brexit (2025)

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 1d

I'm told this is where the Portland antifa operatives are gathering and holding their resistance meetings.

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

This is not true. At the moment, we only control the weather.

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

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Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social · 1d

This is where we are with this guy

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

On twitter one person with a million+ followers referred to the crowd as an "antifa army".

Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 1d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality.

In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or more effective.

We Can Use Predistribution to Fight Income Inequality

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or more effective.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

If we're talking about the greatest living lyricists, it's worth remembering that Wu-Tang Clan's discography uses a larger vocabulary than Shakespeare, so GZA has to be on that list.

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Shakespeare loses to the Wu-Tang Clan in vocabulary duel

“To be, or not to be” could have been the perfect start to a rap song. Some have even called Shakespeare the original rapper, his use of iambic pentameter the first dropped beat. So, it seems fitting...

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 1d

Yknow not to be dramatic but officially seeing ill health and disability as a problem to be seen in terms of labor is a sign of core principles of your society falling apart it seems to me

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 1d

If you don’t have time to read Krasznahorkai’s “Satantango” you can always watch the film version.

#OneForTheKids

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Forbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social · 1d

Which is your favourite of these Razorback posters from around the world?

See Russell Mulcahy’s iconic Outback creature feature on Bristol Megascreen on Saturday 25 October as part of The Big Scream: Six Feet Down Under.

www.forbiddenworldsfilmfestival.co.uk

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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 1d

Another year, another Nobel winner I’ve not read despite having one of their books on my shelves for years

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 1d

This is deeply concerning. I really hope that this government isn’t going to attempt to raid other parts of the NHS budget to pay for increasing drug prices… 🚨

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