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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 10h

I never see fresh yeast available anymore here in the UK.

Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 11h

Like Johnson, Starmer has deselected several on the left and probably may do again at the next election.

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 11h

They look sooo good! My son used to make them. Time to get a new sourdough going!

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 11h

I once heard some sound advice about leadership:
'A's employ 'A's, secure in their ability;
'B's employ 'C's, because they need to be the seen to be the smartest.

I doubt that that people selected by Trump (an 'X' at best) would know there was anything mathematically nonsensical in his statement.

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 18h

💥The shingles vaccine might be one of the most underrated health moves after 50.💥

New large study(174K pts):
▪️ 50% lower risk of vascular dementia
▪️ 27% fewer blood clots
▪️ 25% lower risk of heart attack or stroke
▪️ 21% lower risk of dying early
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky 🧪 #NurseSky #IDSky

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 11h

With Starmer in charge, I think he'd go in coalition with the tories. Ideologically there's scant difference. Both seek approval of their neoliberal masters.

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations
So needed in our society that favours wealth hoarding over community health

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 2d

Switzerland has a population of just 9 million. The UK has around 70 million souls, so if pro-rata the treasury could raise around €70Bn

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 8d

Even if we feel helpless against the evil we see in this world, we must object to it while we can. Even if we think this is not our responsibility to the people inflicted by it, it’s our responsibility to our own humanity. Even if we feel it won’t change a thing, it’s enough that it will change us.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 8d

Meanwhile....

"The other prisoners also looked to be in bad shape. Their cheekbones jutted out, with some bearing the marks of recent beatings and a few unable to walk without being propped up by their relatives"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 9d

I want to see pictures of an Edinburgh summer in India

Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 17d

I can foresee the British list just having tigers and lions on it so as not to stop donors from building anywhere

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Daniel Johnston Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 20d

He calls Nigel Farage racist and then does literally all the same things but wearing a red tie.

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 22d

If government fails to obey the party in this, next year a motion should be put to rebrand the party as the "Genocide Party." This would force MPs and Councillors to confront their ethics.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22d

The police seem inexperienced with how to arrest a dangerous terrorist in a wheelchair.

Well done Yvette Cooper. Slow hand clap. 👏

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · 29d

Postgrowth Planet. Write the newsletters then edit and bind them into the book.

Or "Julia's one stone, a mountain doesn't make" (see what I did there?)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Sep 16

Zoe Gardiner, "The saddest thing I've heard about Trump's visit, is that he is going to get his golden carriage ride, but in private, because the great British public would have given him the rotten tomato treatment if he dared to show his face in public"

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · Sep 15

"When the rich rob the poor, the rich call it 'business'. When the poor fight back, the rich call it 'violence'."

Mark Twain

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · Sep 14

Every UK organisation -governmental or not- should quit X right now. Actively using that platform is no longer justifiable by anything.

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · Sep 14

Love this idea.
Our independent bookshop does this with some new books too.
Stops you judging a book by its cover!

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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · Sep 10

I’ve a contempt for our Prime Minister I’ve not felt for any of his predecessors. Not one. If you can’t take a stand on genocide, what else is there? How can any human being have so little humanity?

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · Sep 11

Now we can say which heatwave deaths have been directly the result of which oil giants

No excuses now not to sue the arses off them, and jail those at the top

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time

Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

www.theguardian.com

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · Sep 11

"We must be free to debate openly without fear", says the man who has had almost 1500 OAPs and disabled folk arrested for holding placards opposing genocide.

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Simon @therapod.bsky.social · Sep 7

I use a comb to pull the weft up to the head of the fabric as I don't have a reed (I only weave ribbons). Don't pull the weft tight, use just enough tension to keep the edge neat. This can be done after you have brought the weft to the head of the fabric.

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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Aug 29

I can’t tell you how many parents’ MENTAL HEALTH problems are CAUSED and EXACERBATED by the pressure of trying to get any—let alone decent—SEND SUPPORT. If the GOVERNMENT want to reduce DIAGNOSIS, they should make SEND FUNDING easier and more RELIABLE to get, not CUT it.

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