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jasfriedman.bsky.social @jasfriedman.bsky.social · 1h

To me, the ongoing pandemic isnt JUST about science. It is about morals and ethics.
It is acting on the evidence and the HARM that sars2 is causing. There is evidence of harm.
There is ONGOING evidence of harm
The is evidence of ONGOING transmission of sars2
CLEAN THE AIR
Do no harm

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 4h

"Well it was nice while it lasted. We had an unprecedented 10 months of low and stable Covid levels in England - but this is now over. We are seeing a definite, significant wave of Covid infections across England."

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 6h

It’s quite difficult listening to an audiobook when the author is unaware how to pronounce a word he uses in nearly every sentence.
It’s Jew-fray not Gif-ray or Gif-ree, Andrew.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10h

If this isn’t evidence of an AI bubble I don’t know what is 🫧

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10h

Rishi Sunak’s twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for AI breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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Dr Sue Oosthuizen @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social · 16h

'Thor's stone' rising above Thurstaton [=Thorstein+tūn] Heath (Wirral), the latter used for common grazing since time began. The stone’s encircled by a broken ring of peaty ponds, the result of quarrying - but I can't help thinking of other monuments where the juxtaposition was deliberate

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 16h

Phew

Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 17h

Terrible family. Disturbed. Mother (I think it was her not him) chucked the children’s TVs in the lake.

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 18h

The BBC still furiously peddling the fiction that Trump "railroaded" Netanyahu into a peace deal.

No, the US could have secured a deal any time over the past two years by ending the shipments of bombs.

Washington *chose* to keep the genocide going till Gaza was levelled.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 26

The ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has been continually driven, from the outset, by an extensive conspiracy of negligence and denial on the part of authorities who are supposedly charged with preserving essential safety in the public realm.

#COVID19

Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 26

From the start, there was never any attempt by authorities to honestly acknowledge the full extent to which Covid-19 was spreading. Everything was constantly downplayed, to keep the public in a state of delusion regarding what was happening at the time, and what was likely to happen in the future.

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 20h

Just catching up. Omg do NOT leave Rome without doing the underground tour of San Clemente. One of my favourite places ever. Mithraeum AND underground spring.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 21h

A perfect zero presumably

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

President Trump, "I also did a cognitive exam. One of the doctors said he had never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score"

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h

Who could have predicted this could happen? You know apart from absolutely everyone.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d

More horrific scenes from war ravaged Portland. 😂🤣👇

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22h

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

When Farage told the people of Clacton that he would spend his time working I imagine they thought it would be for them and not for 12 companies.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · Oct 31

#HalloweenTombstones

Tombstone: The Precautionary Principle 1988-2021

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 1d

I’d probably just smite all the humans and have done with it. Leave everyone else in peace.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks. Some users’ names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord’s customer service agents may also have been taken. The attacker has been trying to extort a ransom from the company. No full credit card details or passwords were seized. Continue reading...

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Playful black and white drawing of several stilt houses emerging from water, populated with tiny figures, swimming, boating, climbing.

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Miranda Whiting @mirandawhiting.bsky.social · 1d

Not even aware of their own rules. I was but I couldn’t be bothered to tell them.

‘Apologetic’ email pointing out the ‘logical’ rule they missed that if you’re already 65 you have to wait until 70 for the shingles vaccine while those now reaching 65 get it.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

Normally we drink ‘a cup of tea’. It only turns into ‘a nice cup of tea’ following some exertion eg shopping or mild contretemps/disappointing news/ etc.

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