Lindsey Kirk
@lindki.bsky.social
Active pensioner and sometime interim worker for the European Commission interested in ideas, equality, social justice, politics, dogs, reading, art, travel and society. Volunteer for ICE project set up by British in Europe. Passionate about my family.
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A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
Video: Visual Analysis Shows U.S. Likely Bombed Yemen Migrant Detention Center
Videos and photos reveal remnants of at least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of an April 28 attack. The strike killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that con...
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A visual analysis shows the U.S. likely bombed a migrant detention center in Yemen on April 28. At least three U.S.-made GBU-39 bombs at the site of the attack, which killed 68 African migrants, according to the Houthis, a militant group that controls northern Yemen.
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checked into the other place for a minute earlier and the discourse hasn’t exactly improved
March 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas & 7 states due to a measles outbreak.
Mexico’s Health Secretary describes 106 cases of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas.
www.borderreport.com/news/health/...
Mexico’s Health Secretary describes 106 cases of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas.
www.borderreport.com/news/health/...
Mexicans warned not to travel to Texas over measles
Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.
www.borderreport.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas & 7 states due to a measles outbreak.
Mexico’s Health Secretary describes 106 cases of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas.
www.borderreport.com/news/health/...
Mexico’s Health Secretary describes 106 cases of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas.
www.borderreport.com/news/health/...
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Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:
March 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:
While we were looking the other way….
🔴 BREAKING: Israel blocks entry of all goods and supplies into Gaza after first phase of truce ends.
LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc
LIVE updates: aje.io/2y192mc
March 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
While we were looking the other way….
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WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit.
The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.
The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.
March 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit.
The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.
The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.
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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
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Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦
March 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Looking beautiful Time Square. 🇺🇦
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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A former spy and close friend of Vladimir Putin has been engineering a restart of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe with the backing of US investors, a once unthinkable move that shows the breadth of Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Moscow.
www.ft.com/content/dc9c...
www.ft.com/content/dc9c...
Putin ally pushes deal to restart Nord Stream 2 with US backing
Ex-spy Warnig’s plan to involve American investors shows breadth of Trump’s rapprochement with Russian president
www.ft.com
March 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A former spy and close friend of Vladimir Putin has been engineering a restart of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe with the backing of US investors, a once unthinkable move that shows the breadth of Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Moscow.
www.ft.com/content/dc9c...
www.ft.com/content/dc9c...
DID YOU KNOW: NEW anti-protest law proposed
The proposed Crime and Policing Bill continues the long pattern of restrictive anti-protest laws.
The last government tried to pass many of these measures.
Together we opposed them last time. And we will do it again.
Stay tuned…
The proposed Crime and Policing Bill continues the long pattern of restrictive anti-protest laws.
The last government tried to pass many of these measures.
Together we opposed them last time. And we will do it again.
Stay tuned…
February 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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This is doing the rounds. It's a very good burn 🔥, but should come with the caveat that this is a satirical account. ~AA
February 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is doing the rounds. It's a very good burn 🔥, but should come with the caveat that this is a satirical account. ~AA
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Palestinian authorities have begun operating 13 mobile desalination stations in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring a dire water crisis after Israeli forces destroyed 85% of the enclave’s water and sanitation facilities.
🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
Three children freeze to death in Gaza as Israel blocks tents, mobile homes
Official says Jenin is ‘uninhabitable’ as Israeli forces make preparations to set up a base in the refugee camp.
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February 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Palestinian authorities have begun operating 13 mobile desalination stations in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring a dire water crisis after Israeli forces destroyed 85% of the enclave’s water and sanitation facilities.
🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
More than 350 rabbis and dozens of Jewish creatives and activists have signed a full-page Ad in The New York Times condemning US President Donald Trump’s proposal for the forced removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4rpluk
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4rpluk
February 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for MLK Jr. Day, Black History Month, Pride Month, and others
Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for MLK Jr. Day, Black History Month, Pride Month, and others
The Defense Department’s intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.
www.live5news.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Pentagon agency pauses celebrations for MLK Jr. Day, Black History Month, Pride Month, and others
If the figure for the loss of troops is correct this is more heartbreaking than ever.
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Jan. 30, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
January 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
If the figure for the loss of troops is correct this is more heartbreaking than ever.
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Elon Musk outraged by Rape Gangs but not so much by Billionaire Epstein Rape Islands.
I wonder why?
I wonder why?
January 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Elon Musk outraged by Rape Gangs but not so much by Billionaire Epstein Rape Islands.
I wonder why?
I wonder why?
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Does this worry you?🚨
We're currently conducting a research project, investigating the links between MPs and the private healthcare sector. We don't think that there should be *any* links of this nature. We've just discovered something that we thought we'd tell you about...
Peter Kyle, minister...
We're currently conducting a research project, investigating the links between MPs and the private healthcare sector. We don't think that there should be *any* links of this nature. We've just discovered something that we thought we'd tell you about...
Peter Kyle, minister...
January 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Does this worry you?🚨
We're currently conducting a research project, investigating the links between MPs and the private healthcare sector. We don't think that there should be *any* links of this nature. We've just discovered something that we thought we'd tell you about...
Peter Kyle, minister...
We're currently conducting a research project, investigating the links between MPs and the private healthcare sector. We don't think that there should be *any* links of this nature. We've just discovered something that we thought we'd tell you about...
Peter Kyle, minister...
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...for science, innovation and technology, accepted a staff member from an AI firm linked to Dominic Cummings - a donation in kind worth £36,000.
Faculty AI, which previously worked with Cummings' Vote Leave campaign, provided Kyle with a secondee to help with "policy research on AI" for one day..
Faculty AI, which previously worked with Cummings' Vote Leave campaign, provided Kyle with a secondee to help with "policy research on AI" for one day..
January 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
...for science, innovation and technology, accepted a staff member from an AI firm linked to Dominic Cummings - a donation in kind worth £36,000.
Faculty AI, which previously worked with Cummings' Vote Leave campaign, provided Kyle with a secondee to help with "policy research on AI" for one day..
Faculty AI, which previously worked with Cummings' Vote Leave campaign, provided Kyle with a secondee to help with "policy research on AI" for one day..
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...a week between May and June 2024, according to the register of MPs' financial interests.
In October, Kyle announced the creation of a new Regulation Innovation Office (RIO) which aims to "reduce the burden of red tape" for introducing new technologies such as AI into public services, ...
In October, Kyle announced the creation of a new Regulation Innovation Office (RIO) which aims to "reduce the burden of red tape" for introducing new technologies such as AI into public services, ...
January 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
...a week between May and June 2024, according to the register of MPs' financial interests.
In October, Kyle announced the creation of a new Regulation Innovation Office (RIO) which aims to "reduce the burden of red tape" for introducing new technologies such as AI into public services, ...
In October, Kyle announced the creation of a new Regulation Innovation Office (RIO) which aims to "reduce the burden of red tape" for introducing new technologies such as AI into public services, ...
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...including the NHS.
The announcement said that the RIO "will support the healthcare sector to deploy AI innovations safely, improving NHS efficiency and patients' health outcomes."
Faculty is already involved in providing AI services to the NHS. It was awarded a £2 million contract by the ...
The announcement said that the RIO "will support the healthcare sector to deploy AI innovations safely, improving NHS efficiency and patients' health outcomes."
Faculty is already involved in providing AI services to the NHS. It was awarded a £2 million contract by the ...
January 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
...including the NHS.
The announcement said that the RIO "will support the healthcare sector to deploy AI innovations safely, improving NHS efficiency and patients' health outcomes."
Faculty is already involved in providing AI services to the NHS. It was awarded a £2 million contract by the ...
The announcement said that the RIO "will support the healthcare sector to deploy AI innovations safely, improving NHS efficiency and patients' health outcomes."
Faculty is already involved in providing AI services to the NHS. It was awarded a £2 million contract by the ...
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...Department of Health and Social Care in September 2023 to create a platform for the NHS aimed at accelerating its use of AI for medical imaging. The contract is set to expire in March 2025.
Does this concern you? If so, please repost this!
Does this concern you? If so, please repost this!
January 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
...Department of Health and Social Care in September 2023 to create a platform for the NHS aimed at accelerating its use of AI for medical imaging. The contract is set to expire in March 2025.
Does this concern you? If so, please repost this!
Does this concern you? If so, please repost this!
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Right-wing attacks singling out Sadiq Kahn - who is obviously & demonstrably an exceptionally popular mayor as far as Londoners are concerned - are so blatantly Islamophobic & racist that we don't even say it anymore.
But we should say it. It isn't normal.
But we should say it. It isn't normal.
December 31, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Right-wing attacks singling out Sadiq Kahn - who is obviously & demonstrably an exceptionally popular mayor as far as Londoners are concerned - are so blatantly Islamophobic & racist that we don't even say it anymore.
But we should say it. It isn't normal.
But we should say it. It isn't normal.
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Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
December 30, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.