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ibiltari.bsky.social
@ibiltari.bsky.social
Living at the intersection of food and science. Seeking more Information, more light, more integrity, more enlightenment.
Environmentalist first, capitalist second.
Satisfaction from efficiency and optimisation.
#UK and Europe need to face reality. An almost majority of the voting population in much of the USA supports autocracy and fascism. This will not go away. #Europe needs to pivot inwards.

Voters in #Tennessee elected Republican Matt Van Epps to fill a vacant U.S. House of Representatives seat,
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Every day in December starting tomorrow, OPN will highlight one of 30 exciting peer-reviewed optics studies published in the past year. Take a look at the #OpticsIn2025 hashtag to follow along and the link below to get a sneak peek! bit.ly/43KB1Yj 💡 ⚛️
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Putting more carbon in the atmosphere could make a disruptive ionosphere effect called the sporadic-E layer occur more often and with greater intensity, harming radio communications used in broadcasting, air traffic control and navigation. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/extra-carb...
Extra carbon in the atmosphere may disrupt radio communications – Physics World
Increasing CO2 levels are triggering changes in the ionosphere that will adversely affect signals, say scientists
physicsworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I wrote this!

It argues that major parts of black hole physics rest on invalid deduction from general relativity — not disagreement in interpretation, but logical misinference.

🧪 🔭 ⚛️ #philsci #philsky

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New Theory Suggests We’ve Been Wrong About Black Holes for 60 Years
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that black holes already exist, but only that their formation is inevitable in an ...
scitechdaily.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I’ll plug the gap with one crunchy morcel every few minutes until everyone forgets the entirety of what we’re even talking about! Nothing beats #Chocapic budget stocking fillers. It’s real substance in bite size pieces.
#Labour #budget
#UltraHighlyProcessed and BORING
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Elon Musk warned on social media that a major global war is “inevitable” within 5 to 10 years, responding to a discussion about how nuclear deterrence has made governments complacent without specifying which conflict or parties might be involved.
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Two Indian astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered Alaknanda, a fully formed spiral galaxy resembling the Milky Way that existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, defying theories that such mature structures could not form so early in cosmic history.
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Researchers discovered that two bacteria working together—Sporosarcina pasteurii and Chroococcidiopsis—can transform Martian soil into concrete-like building materials through a natural process called biocementation that produces calcium carbonate at room temperature. Good? Bad? Destructive?
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Cladosporium sphaerospermum, a melanin-rich black #fungus discovered thriving inside #Chernobyl’s radioactive Reactor 4, appears to convert deadly gamma radiation into chemical energy through a process called “radiosynthesis,” though scientists have yet to prove the complete biochemical pathway.
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Fact: Israel is committing these atrocities with YOUR TAX DOLLARS!

YOUR TAX DOLLARS
YOUR TAX DOLLARS
YOUR TAX DOLLARS... are killing innocent children 💔
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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One of the hypotheticals in Trump's arguments for immunity was that he could send Seal Team 6 to kill someone and be immune from prosecution.
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Murdoch really loves spreading malicious lies from well placed liars. And Americans lap up believing FOX news, because to think critically would require effort and to believe FOX lies is cool if you’re lazy, thick, or simply intentionally uneducated.
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
When #NASA starts talking fluffy fluff, and obfuscating rather than providing transparency, we should be getting worried.

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Stunning Thermal Capture Shows 3I/ATLAS Firing Multiple Jets Against Solar Physics - USA Herald
KEY FINDINGS The latest thermal frame reveals jets that refuse to obey the Sun. The anti-tail points into the solar wind as if pushed from within. What we’re seeing now challenges every natural explan...
usaherald.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The National Audit Office reports that Home Office spending on asylum support (mainly accommodation and cash support for people awaiting decisions) rose from about £739 million in 2019–20 to £3.6 billion in 2022–23 and £4.7 billion in 2023–24.

#UK
#Taxes
#TaxExpenditures
#Budget
#Growth
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
DWP “benefit combinations” statistics show about 24 million people receiving some DWP benefit (including pensions and disability benefits) in early 2025, of whom about 10 million are working age.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Around 12% of the UK population are currently receiving Universal Credit.
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
DWP’s UC systems record each child in every UC “benefit unit” (household for benefit purposes), including age, number of children, and which elements of UC are paid, so officials can produce exact totals from Stat‑Xplore and internal databases.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Earlier DWP data highlighted by Save the Children showed about 4.03 million children in 2.14 million households receiving Universal Credit as of August 2022, which is a good ballpark for the current order of magnitude.
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Around 4 to 4.5 million children are in families receiving Universal Credit, depending on the exact date and definition used.

#UK #SocialNet
November 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is fantasy, right?

“optimism fuels the narrative around Labour's economic strategy”
Rachel Reeves certainly knows how to capture headlines, and that budget seems to be working wonders for the pound. Expect a surge in points for her, especially as optimism fuels the narrative around Labour's economic strategy.
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Murdered by Russians in Kherson, 6-year-old Vladyslav and his 34-year-old mother Alina.

Both were targeted by a Russian drone as they took a taxi.

Vladyslav was a first-grader and his mother Alina was a nurse.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM