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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 13m

Eloquence in the face of state-sponsored terror.
Relatives of mine who believed in the project of Israel joining their military, working in kibbutzes would be turning in their graves.
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They Took Me To The Prison Where My Brother Was Tortured

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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 14h

That’s not how science works dip shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 2h

I can't imagine Churchill or de Gaulle or Roosevelt or Nehru or Mandela, or, in fact, anyone wanting to be heard as statesman blathering on about whether Vegans ever intentionally or not ate mosquitos.
Too many little people with egos and no ideas wanting power for its own sake.

Fabienne Cassagne @fabulousfab.bsky.social · 12h

Sous vos yeux ébahis, le grand pote de la présidente de l’Assemblée nationale

Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 21h

Sur BFM, Sébastien Chenu bafouille que les "écolos vegans complètement tarés mangent des moustiques" 😂

Ce monsieur est vice-président de l'Assemblée nationale grâce aux macronistes et LR.

Et il prétend gouverner la France !

Vous imaginez le carnage ?

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 16h

NEW #DoctorWho postcard pack on sale next week. 15 Doctors, 15 debut stories. Artwork based on #DavidPelham’s #PenguinBook covers from the 1970s. Here are the first four —

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes brackets mean optional items in scripts, so perhaps that's the issue. ho knows when you're dealing with MSFT. Could your rule target a common part of the sender's email address or some other common phrase in the message body?

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 2h

Simple rule. If you're an expert in climate change and an oil exec criticises you just ignore it (the exec and the criticism).

Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 14h

Today from @lesleyclark.bsky.social and @saraschonhardt.bsky.social + contribs from me:

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Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, yeah. I know. America is important. But I'm so fucking sick of it absolutely dominating the UK news cycle. I get it. You voted in a turd and now you're swimming in fascist shit. But we have our own rightwing wanklord problems that need more national coverage.

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 2h

Given that #Hamburgers derive from a place, Hamburg, it's insane to think that the word can be co-opted by one side of the food debate or another. Give the eating public credit for knowing if something is #plant- or #meat-based.

Anne Stambach-Terrenoir @annestambach.bsky.social · 17h

🇪🇺😡Le Parlement européen veut interdire les mots steak ou jambon pour parler des alternatives végétales.

Sous pression des lobbys, ils censurent les mots… au lieu de s’attaquer aux vraies causes de la crise agricole et écologique.

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 3h

Srars' statement is the very definition of discrimination. This detachment of people in authority from reality is the root cause of current problems.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h

Sears also said that being fired for being gay “is not discrimination.” That’s going in ads. #VAGov

American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 9h

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 13h

I always liked the representation of Shakespeare in the Doctor Who episode, "The Shakespeare Code". Bawdy, irreverent and loud-mouthed.

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 13h

The power of mythos.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 20h

Mordecai Ogada is never afraid of challenging received opinion and always worth listening to. Before mythologising Jane Goodall we should recognise that she wasn't a hero to everyone in conservation.

Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 1d

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 14h

So we've gone from no acetaminophen while #pregnant to no #acetaminophen when you need #analgesia!
They're just making it up as they go along and people will #suffer as a consequence. #Cruelty is the point.

Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 14h

WHAT WOULD POSSIBLY BE THE MECHANISM THIS IS SUCH CLOWN SHIT

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 15h

Picture of the #girlfriend of #antifa, her best friend and the founder himself - a purveyor of #apples.

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 17h

A member of the US Congress says it's OK for Trump to randomly order the murder of anyone he wants to. Further, that Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 17h

Last night Fetterman voted to allow Trump to execute people at sea, today he wants to give him a Nobel Prize. Just no core principles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 23h

The media are too busy becoming the news rather than reporting it. The gap between fact and editorial opinion is increasingly narrow and our politicians are happy to live there like trolls under the bridge.

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 23h

Josh Johnson is an acute observer of humanity. He's also very funny and empathetic.
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MAGA Mega Mad over Bad Bunny Bowl

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 1d

Given that they interviewed 300,000 people globally from companies employing 1000 or more people when the 160,000,000 employees in the US alone let alone globally, the sample is hardly representative of working life.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The 900 companies on this year's list of the top global employers offer employees generous benefits, career growth opportunities and a healthy work-life balance.

Meet The World’s Best Employers 2025

The 900 companies on this year's list of the top global employers offer employees generous benefits, career growth opportunities and a healthy work-life balance.

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 1d

"Getting elected to this office doesn't change you, it just amplifies who you are." ~ Pres. Obama

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 1d

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 1d

This anger is so warranted, so necessary. We CANNOT be complacent right now. But everything seems to be designed to reduce attention, demoralise, and then divert your energies elsewhere so all you can do is turn off your brain. @MyMampa from comments to the video.

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 1d

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"The extent to which these very powerful people feel NO sense of #responsibility to ANYthing makes me feel like maybe they shouldn't have this much power". Hank Green

#AI taking people’s #jobs isn’t the worst outcome - we managed to find a worse one!

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 1d

We used to have a branch of the Police in the UK called Traffic Wardens. They managed the administrative side of who was parking where and when leaving the police to police. Now it's all faux tax collectors in official-looking uniforms.

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 2d

David Graeber on the police.

From an interview he gave a few years ago with the Scottish publication called Bella Caledonia. davidgraeber.org/interviews/t...

"The police don’t actually end up spending their time
fighting violent criminals. Instead, they enforce
administrative regulations and endless rules. So
rather than protecting us against violence, police
actually bring the threat of violence into situations
where it would have never occurred otherwise.
Most incidents of violence —domestic violence,
a drunken brawl, or gang fights— the police don’t
get involved. On the other hand, try driving down
the street with no license plates: how long will it
be before you are surrounded by people with weapons."

- David Graeber

Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 1d

Missing the point in Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" but REALLY getting exactly what it's about and not realising it!

But $700 dollars for a seat - that's surreal!

Jason @jxsxpx.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, this is like the perfect reaction to Waiting for Godot. This person took the themes and material and internalized them so profoundly that they didn't even know that they did it. On the other, please say sike.

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

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Aaron Milstein @neurosutras.bsky.social · 2d

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Tom Spoors @tomspoors.bsky.social · 1d

In Daniela's immortal words, "Don't be a silly koala!".
Trump has lost over 90% of his legal cases.
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Get Your Facts Straight: He is Not Winning Legal Battles

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