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Chris Avanti @chris4nature.bsky.social · 22h

Noticing more Starlings, these dazzling twitterers that currently delight in darting around in small groups (mini-murmurs) around #Cullercoats and #WhitleyBay

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2h

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 3h

A great title too.

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Elizabeth Gibney @lizziegibney.bsky.social · 4h

Over at @naturepodcast.bsky.social we also made a super short vid on this year's physics Nobel Prize. Quantum phenomena at the macroscopic scale in two minutes... go! With me, and Ben Thompson & camera work by the fab @emzywb.bsky.social 🧪⚛️

www.youtube.com/shorts/krita...

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent news for a change:

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 3h

Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of Rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk - alleging that Welsh Water & two corporate chicken producers are responsible:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thousands take legal action over ‘widespread pollution’ of three UK rivers

Environmental group seeks damages from Welsh Water and two chicken producers, alleging responsibility for pollution in Wye, Lugg and Usk

www.theguardian.com

Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 3h

Yep, and thank goodness they're taking it seriously. Just recovering from Covid25 and do not recommend it. The fatigue is beyond belief.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 13h

As alarmed as people may be, they aren't alarmed enough. Trump just escalated this crisis from a fight between the federal government and a state, to a situation where one state is deploying armed forces to impose its will on another state. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · 6h

This Friday 10th October 15:30-16:45 in the Weston Library, @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Federico Varese & co-curator Jessica Douthwaite will give a talk on their @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition on John Le Carré visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/lecarre #JohnLeCarré #SpySky

John le Carré talks

Join us for a series of talks on John Le Carré, to tie in with the new exhibition at the Weston Library

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 6h

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 6h

it in a nutshell

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 7h

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 6h

Exactly.

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 6h

What's needed is a paradigm shift in THINKING, then perhaps coverage will follow. I get the reluctance to address what's in front of our collective face; everything we've thought about ourselves precludes fascism. Especially since WW2, when 'we' vanquished it. Or so we thought. Fascism never dies.

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 6h

It would also massively aid the decline in critical thinking. Thus making the general population more malleable.

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 7h

Go Chicago. 💙

Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 7h

Hurry up please.

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 7h

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 7h

Can I please be in your gang?

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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social · 7h

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 7h

She is seriously ridiculous isn't she.

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 7h

Blinded by exceptionalism, as in the US. 'It could never happen here' fast being shown to be an absurd premise. 'It' could, 'it' can, happen anywhere.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 8h

BHL has retrospectively assigned DOIs to 50,000+ historic journal articles These articles, which include the first scientific description of the Platypus (1799), are now part of the great linked network of scholarly research: doi.org/10.5962/p.30... #ILoveBHL #RetroPIDs 🧪
@crossref.bsky.social

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Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology.bsky.social · 8h

Shrewbury & Telford NHS Trust reintroducing masks as of today.

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 7h

!!

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 19h

@viola-jane.bsky.social can you ask around your string players?

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Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social · 19h

And/or stop paying our bills. If loads of people do that, there will be change.

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