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Ian Miles
@ianmiles.bsky.social
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Prof Emeritus, University of Manchester. Research: foresight, innovation, services, soc change... HE/HIM -don't mind, but dislike those who find pronouns offensive No interest in sport I love music, speculative fiction, play with words and colours....
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · 11d
You need #Oracle ! Alarming story on #TBI #TonyBlairInstitute and its relations with, and for, big tech. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
Inside the Tony Blair Institute
Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?
www.newstatesman.com
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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Aug 21
“He was paid for by the taxpayer!”

Prince Andrew allegedly had 40 escorts "brought to him" in four days during a taxpayer-funded official trip to Thailand, biographer Andrew Lownie says tells The News Agents.

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/prin...
Prince Andrew 'met with 40 escorts on taxpayer-funded Thailand trip', biographer claims | The News Agents
A new biography makes explosive allegations about Prince Andrew's conduct as trade envoy, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and claims of extreme sexual behaviour during a taxpayer-funded trip. A...
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Aug 18
Spot on from Olga Rudenko: "Russia could end the war in Ukraine at any moment by stopping its attacks and withdrawing its forces. By simply going home. Mr. Putin could end it with a phone call."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Opinion | All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home
www.nytimes.com
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 18
Language was invented to communicate orders and instructions.
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 14
enjoy the comments, too.
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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · Aug 13
This is the side of Mimas they don't want you to see (the side without Herschel, the massive crater that makes it look like the Death Star)
The "back side" of Mimas without the massive crater is, well, covered in much smaller craters that pockmark the surface. There's no additional geology to be observed, just endless craters.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Aug 8
The University of Warwick has paid a lot of money, I'm guessing, for their internet banner ads on the Guardian and elsewhere.

But they can't spell "curiosity". This isn't a US-UK variant. They just, genuinely, have a massive spelling error in their banner ads.
A banner advert for the University of Warwick, which says "Beyond ignores curiousity". This is a spelling error.
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 8
Call to Action on AGI Governance: I've asked @DavidLammy #FCDO to press the #UN to convene a General Assembly on #AGI governance—before tech outstrips our collective wisdom.
#FutureOfAI www.linkedin.com/posts/ian-mi...
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Aug 4
Why hasnt this good #hydrogen news received more attention? Are there undisclosed problems (scaling up? use in remote or impoverished areas?) www.goodnewsnetwork.org/australias-r...
Australia’s Revolutionary Hydrogen Powder Is Easier and Cheaper to Use for Clean Energy
A mere month of expected output at 2030 production targets would more than satisfy the entire global hydrogen energy demand.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 31
Sleepwalking into a corporate coup via deregulated Freeports & SEZs?
Read, sign and share the petition calling for full Freeport/SEZ transparency
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Jul 10
London is Over, Finished, and Washed Up
By Professor Matt Goodwhinge

From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 9
From #TheLancet: Despite Secretary #RFK Robert F Kennedy Jr's calls for “radical transparency”, unlogged #data manipulation - mainly substituting "sex" for "gender" is happening big time. Changes are not being made transparently www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...
www.thelancet.com
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 7
Chipster
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Richard Sedgley @richardsedgley.bsky.social · Jul 5
Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is | George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Palestine Action isn’t a danger to British democracy – but Yvette Cooper is | George Monbiot
The home secretary is apparently an admirer of the suffragettes. I have no doubt that if they were active today she would proscribe them, too, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · Jul 6
Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.

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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Jul 5
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops o...
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jul 6
Wonder what the current legal definition of "support" is. Is criticism of the banning of #PalestineAction support? [asking for a friend]
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Jul 6
Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action
Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation
www.theguardian.com
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 6
Funny. I would have expected the "Free Speech Union" and the other self-proclaimed defenders of free expression to be all over this. But 🦗🦗🦗

How strange.

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UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide
Outrage after retired priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action amid UK crackdown on pro-Palestine activism
www.middleeasteye.net
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · Jul 6
Peter Hain says anti-apartheid campaigners would have been treated as terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened
Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group
www.theguardian.com
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 19
THIS IS ABSOLUTE INSANITY.
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · Jun 9
youtu.be/7fej5XgfBYQ?... #fabricating a #Sky_News podcast, denying the lie till disproved. #chatGPT #generativeAI .
Did ChatGPT lie to Sky News presenter about transcript for podcast?
YouTube video by Sky News
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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · Jun 5
I’ve read The Invisible Doctrine by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and it was an eye opener. It’s helped me understand why politics transfer wealth.

Now it’s on film and you can view it, from a few places including Apple TV - but here’s the link to the YouTube offer

youtu.be/lc--mVz3n2A?...
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · May 31
Closed!
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · May 30
Witness the *proposed* devastation of NASA science. If this concerns you, consider exploring the tools provided to make your opinions known: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
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Ian Miles @ianmiles.bsky.social · May 31
Would a human born and raised on a nearby planet count? How about a Belter or one of the kids from Jupiter's moons?
And don't get me started on posthuman time travellers or interdimensional hominids...