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MColvinMcKenzie @mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social · 5h

Mrs Pippy Fluff Puppet at gorgeous Callan Park

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MColvinMcKenzie @mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social · 5h

Love them so much xxxx

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 6d

"The people who jostled their way into this lane for a grotesquely outsize cash bonanza and then boasted about helping the nation were profiteering, plain and simple."

Brilliantly & appropriately savage from the peerless Marina Hyde 💥

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Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? | Marina Hyde

After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhood, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

It’s Tory conference: Boris-wave goodbye to a deluded party on its way to electoral annihilation | Marina Hyde

When both Reform and the Liberal Democrats are eating your lunch, and even Nadine Dorries has abandoned ship, it might just be time to call it, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) the classic (and ever relevant) film: "All the President's Men" (1976) - Dir. Alan J. Pakula

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All The President's Men (1976) Official Trailer - Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman Thriller HD

YouTube video by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19d

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 17d

First Lab Meeting of the new academic year at the Institute of Philosophy begins with @michaelhannon.bsky.social on the irresolvability of philosophical questions

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 14d

Tasting requires contemplation and thst moment is beautifully caught by photographer Kate Bamber @howthelightgetsin2.bsky.social

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 13d

Great guide to the unjustly neglected sense. Jonas Oloffson talks to ⁦‪Tim Atkin‬⁩ about our sense of smell. A must listen!

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The Tim Atkin Cork Talk Podcast | timatkincorktalk

Tim Atkin Cork Talk

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 12d

We have lost a great poet and an important voice that spanned class and country divide. RIP Tony Harrison

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Harrison V Part 1

YouTube video by realthedeal33

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8d

After Donald Trump's address to military leaders today, "senior U.S. officers have to wonder who will shield them from the impulses of the person they just saw onstage," Tom Nichols argues in The Atlantic Daily.
https://theatln.tc/0WI2Lqm9

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 3d

Worse than we thought

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 3d

Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

🖊️ Ethan Croft

Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

www.newstatesman.com

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 2d

#philsci

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Next Friday, talk, discussion and reception at the Francis Crick Institute with philosopher, Hasock Chang talking about the tricky role of measurement in science. Free and open to all

Part of School of Advanced Study and Crick Institute Being Human Lectures

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Measurement and the search for meaningful scientific concepts

Professor Hasok Chang, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, delivers the eight Being Human talk.

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all about them. Think of the children! And the mothers!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?

Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 1d

If her fetus is "in her placenta," that woman is in a ton of pain and the pregnancy's a nonstarter anyway. Good lord, don't take medical advice from this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 1d

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

www.nytimes.com

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Jo Durrant @joannadurrant.bsky.social · 1d

🎉 My 5 year anniversary of Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast, ep 253 is out now!

🤩 @barrycsmith.bsky.social on favourite smells of my Quick Six guests!

🧪 @jamiebgall.co.uk on Periodic Table in TV shows

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