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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 3d

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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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 4d

🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 4d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Saved an owl that had got trapped between panes of glass in a window at about 3am in rural highlands. Snowy white and so so light to pick up compared to its size! Was holding it gently still half asleep deciding what to do next with it and it flapped its wings and disappeared silently into the night

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 9d

George would have Charli’s back. Can’t believe the outrageous slop of Taylor’s ‘interpolation’ 🤮

a man wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket says " i 'll be your father figure " in a black and white photo

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 12d

Putting the back of my head to good use as the frame for @immykaur.bsky.social what a day this was (used the last chilli 🌶️ ‘borrowed’ from the greenhouse yesterday!)

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 12d

WHO IS STILL PRINTING EMAILS IN 2025? I want someone to analyse whether thousands of additional lines of emails containing the words ‘we care about the environment please think before printing this email’ has a bigger footprint than the two people printing emails still.

a man is sitting at a desk with a computer in front of him .

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 17d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Old UK Print Ads @oldukprintads.bsky.social · 16d

Sep 1984: Freedom ad from Wham!

«FREEDOM»

A black and white advertisement for the song "Freedom" by the pop duo, Wham! The ad features a photograph of the members. The advertisement announces the upcoming release of the single on 7" and 12" formats.

FREEDOM

by WHAM!
Coming soon. The single on 7" & 12"

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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 19d

Blackouts are commonplace in Kuwait, with the petrostate still wedded to 1960s oil-boom dreams.

Why the Most Oil-Rich Country Can’t Keep the Lights On

Kuwait is a cautionary tale of where fossil-fuel addiction can lead.

bloom.bg

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20d

I’m in Norway right now. When I told folks here that back home in the UK people say heat pumps don’t work in cold weather they just laughed out loud.

Find out why 👇

www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief

A common criticism of heat pumps is that they do not work in cold weather. But how did heat pumps became a Nordic success story?

www.carbonbrief.org

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19d

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 19d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 19d

One button to rule them all

Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 21d

I will be good and fix this bag without a zip pull. Locate ingenious German zip fixing device. In order to get the correct size I have to check either the number on the zip pull which doesn’t exist or measure the width of it when done up which I can’t do. Is it circular economy if I set fire to it?

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 21d

Drag name idea: Polly Tickle doing exclusively government/policy announcements and party political broadcasts.

a drag queen wearing a blue dress with the word iconic on the front

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Possible @wearepossible.bsky.social · 26d

Screen-free hands-on fun, anyone? We’ve got just the thing.

Fixperience Workshops, hosted at our Camden and Hackney Fixing Factories, are the perfect way to try something new this season.

🎟 Spaces are limited — reserve your spot today: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/fixperience-workshops-3845323

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 21d

The Sunday Times has named the man accused of killing Agnes Wanjiru in 2012

Revealed: the British ex-soldier accused of killing Agnes Wanjiru

www.thetimes.com/article/39b9...

Revealed: the British ex-soldier accused of killing Agnes Wanjiru

Thirteen years after the young mother’s body was found in a septic tank, Kenya has finally issued an arrest warrant — for ex-combat medic Robert James Purkiss

www.thetimes.com

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 22d

My fear is that people are internalizing ChatGPT's voice as "good writing" and real humans will start writing/talking like that in real life, and then I will have no choice but to return to the sea.

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 24d

it's not just online dating lol a guy I met hiking sent me some of the weirdest most linked-in-ass texts I've ever received! sir I am a writer, don't disrespect me like that www.thecut.com/article/ai-i...

AI Is Making Online Dating Even Worse

What happens when users are inundated with machine-generated profiles and pickup lines?

www.thecut.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23d

Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 23d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 22d

Seeds that have been buried in mud for a thousand years can still grow?!

Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 22d

Some hopeful weekend reading.

“This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”

‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

www.theguardian.com

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 22d

Lichen subscribe

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Aug 25

Saxicolous (stone) lichens, in some places thought to live for 11,500 years, challenge basic concepts like species, and some consider them more akin to actual ecosystems.

Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 22d

Absolutely wild, record breaking numbers coming back on solar-plus-
storage tenders in India - equivalent to about 2p per kWh!

Madhya Pradesh secures record-low price for solar-plus-storage power project

Madhya Pradesh has achieved India's lowest price for solar power with battery storage through a clean energy auction, with CEIGALL India and ACME Solar winning tenders. This deal could potentially res...

m.economictimes.com

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 22d

This is like when I found out that low oestrogen causes weight gain, and taking replacement oestrogen causes weight gain. Make it make sense!

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 22d

Taking vitamin D2 supplements seems to reduce levels of vitamin D3 in our body

Vitamin D supplements may lower your level of one type of vitamin D

Taking vitamin D2 supplements seems to reduce levels of vitamin D3 in our body

www.newscientist.com

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 22d

Dropped the biggest kid off at uni yesterday, emotional rollercoaster ride of joy and tears. All her kitchen stuff was from my grandparents house which we’re clearing out, my Nana would have been so proud.

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