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Dr Dan
@dpdormouse.bsky.social
Associate editor, researcher of Palaeoclimates and oceans. Interested in changes in AMOC past present and future! 🌊🐚🌎🌍

A bit twitchy.

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There’s probably something in studying how we can reduce the instant access we all have to everyone and everything because it isn’t healthy. Having some barriers in place to promote healthier use would be good
January 19, 2026 at 10:52 PM
I’m super interested in the outcome of the Aussie change tbh. Anecdotal stories of people being happier, finding hobbies, not repeatedly reaching for their phone. Experienced similar when I deleted socials from my phone and had them only on my laptop
January 19, 2026 at 10:50 PM
I don’t know if banning a particular age group is the way (I would probably ban the over 50s first) but there is 0 appetite from government or platforms to regulate social media to not make us addicted so we probably need to talk about forcing us all to drastically reduce our usage in some form
January 19, 2026 at 10:49 PM
9/11 doormats are responsible for flying planes badly
January 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Anyway the Tories are down to 117 MPs now... another day closer to Ed Davey becoming leader of the opposition.
January 18, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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With characteristic intellectual dishonesty, The Times, and Geraldine Scott, having come to us for quote have deliberately omitted most of what we said in response. Compare and contrast. 2/2
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Or A v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, refusing to accommodate irrational prejudice cannot amount to indirect discrimination.

Men are more homophobic than women, but we can’t argue a gay-inclusive changing room is indirect discrimination, because it’s irrational.
January 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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I would like to once again emphasise that the ET entirely exonerated (and indeed went out of its way to say it was doing so) the trans woman who has been so publicly monstered in this case.
Still not seen the full judgment, but notably the ET dismissed the harassment claim against Rose Henderson, the trans woman in the Darlington Nurses case.

Yet another trans woman who has been publicly demonised after doing nothing wrong.
January 16, 2026 at 1:44 PM