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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5m

@Livija Man får kanske hitta ett annat ord för ketchup än Indian-svett åtminstone, hahahah

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30m

Jag vil minnas att de kallades för "slang" en gång i tiden på Söder, typ "En slang med halka och indian-svett, tack."

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

Warning for serious tear-jerker Good Dog story: https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/10/08/very-good-boy-dog-leads-police-to-elderly-woman-who-was-injured-while-walking-him/

‘Very good boy’: Dog leads police to elderly woman who was injured while walking him

Bodycam footage captured a dog catching the attention of police to lead them to an elderly woman who was injured while walking him.

www.ctvnews.ca

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Honestly, I would be less disabled if I had no legs, than I am with ME-CFS.
People in wheelchairs have ENERGY. They can have jobs. They don't have brain fog. They have a life, we don't.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h

In the firing line, as ever, are the UK’s hundreds of thousands of ME/CFS patients. As a practitioner once remarked, “the bastards don’t want to get better”. If there is one characteristic all the ME/CFS patients I’ve come across have in common, it is a desperation to get better.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10h

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

@kim_harding "The fly in the ointment", haha

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/how-ants-can-kick-start-fermentation-to-make-yogurt/
Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it.

Original paper here […]

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to a “cult”
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/former-whatsapp-security-boss-sues-meta-for-systemic-cybersecurity-failures/
Meta allegedly prioritized user growth over security, lawsuit said.

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21h

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/2025-nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-for-macroscale-quantum-tunneling/
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03227-w
She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists

Nature, Published online: 06 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03227-w She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

www.nature.com

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 20h

The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03221-2
It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference.

The EU’s Horizon research fund needs to stay a defence-free zone

Nature, Published online: 07 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03221-2 It is time to sound the alarm as the EU’s research priorities face an unprecedented degree of political interference.

www.nature.com

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

More rumblings:

Screenshot:
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com - 4h

It troubles me that I'm starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that |
do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people | know
are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I'm a bit
worried it may all be over in a couple of years.

>, Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com - 3h

It's probably also not ideal that a lot of Brits, seeing this post, are saying
“whhhoooa, | had no idea Bluesky was that messed up.”

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Is it just me, or do Trump's golden gimgaws look a lot like the Mandelbrot?

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

@yetiinabox That's so weird, Will. Considering that we had the first Buddhist monastery in the west, and that the word compassion is carved into the official mace at Holyrood.

There is a very funny and warm book called "BuddhaDa" by Anne Donovan, about a Glaswegian house painter who gets […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Broadband and Mobile Considered as Part of UK Home Buying and Selling Reform
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/10/broadband-and-mobile-considered-as-part-of-uk-home-buying-and-selling-reform.html

Note that this article refers to England and Wales as "UK"... this is not currently […]

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Broadband Outages on Shetland After Second Subsea Fibre Break in 3 Months https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/10/broadband-outages-on-shetland-after-second-subsea-fibre-break-in-3-months.html

Broadband Outages on Shetland After Second Subsea Fibre Break in 3 Months UPDATE

Customers of ISP Sky Broadband, Vodafone and possibly others on Shetland, which is a remote UK subarctic archipelago that resides north of the Scottish mainland

www.ispreview.co.uk

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Misplaced fears? What the evidence reveals of the ecological effects of tidal power generation
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.70124
This work provides foundations for environmental impact assessments of future tidal projects and may enable more informed […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah W @sarahw.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 1d

https://goodlawproject.org/s/e9a792

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Rumblings of discontent over on BlueSty:

Screenshot of Blue sky post:
John Lees
@johnlees.bsky.social

I did bring up a couple of days back that BlueSky is at risk of
becoming the Keir Starmer of social media platforms.

7 October 2025 at 16:27

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@kim_harding MWAHAHAHAAHHAH 👻

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Chris Wiegman @chris.mastodon.chriswiegman.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I have a Bluesky account. It's mostly to follow a few folks I really respect that went there instead of here.

The reasons I didn't trust it seem to be proving themselves true at an alarming rate this week.

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