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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 51m

Another unacknowledged genocide is the Philippines genocide between 1899-1902 where the USA killed over 1 million people (1/6 the population). General Jacob H. Smith gave the order to “kill all Filipinos over the age of ten”.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 2h

True. This is an old cartoon from 2006.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 4h

Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Congratulations to:

Susumu Kitagawa
Kyoto University, Japan

Richard Robson
University of Melbourne, Australia

Omar M. Yaghi
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“for the development of metal–organic frameworks”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

www.nobelprize.org

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 4h

It is 'lied'.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, but probably only feel powerful in their group.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 5h

Classic bullies.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 5h

Whatever those 'enforcement' morons (I won't dignify them by calling them 'officers') are, they are not professional.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 6h

The moral monsters of the USA. How empires fall. 💔

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 11h

Sounds like you would be in bed for a week after that.
Morning Mev 👋☕

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 11h

No idea. I don't understand these concepts. But they sound cool.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 22h

The Nobel Prize laureates in physics for 2025, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand. 👏👏👏
#NobelPrizePhysics

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

www.nobelprize.org

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 22h

European rights court sides with Estonia in undercover child grooming sting www.courthousenews.com/european-rig...

European rights court sides with Estonia in undercover child grooming sting

Europe’s top human rights court upheld Estonia’s online sting against a writer who thought he was chatting with a 12-year-old girl, ruling the operation didn’t amount to entrapment and setting a new b...

www.courthousenews.com

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 6d

A searchable works list has been released to identify the authors’ works that were stolen by US Corporation Anthropic, to train its AI models. It includes UK authors whose works were copied without their permission or payment.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky thinks the photo in this AP news article is graphic content. Good. You should see it then to avoid sanitising the #GazaGenocide.

Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 1d

Out of every 10 people, one has been killed or injured in an Israeli strike. Nine are displaced. At least three have not eaten for days. Out of every 100 children, four have lost either one or both parents. Out of every 10 homes, nine are wrecked.
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

These numbers show how 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza

Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip. But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians li...

apnews.com

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I iron every one to two weeks. Creased cotton shirts or linen shirts & trousers. 1-2 hours. It's my time to listen to podcasts. I find it therapeutic.

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 1d

Out of every 10 people, one has been killed or injured in an Israeli strike. Nine are displaced. At least three have not eaten for days. Out of every 100 children, four have lost either one or both parents. Out of every 10 homes, nine are wrecked.
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes

These numbers show how 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza

Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip. But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians li...

apnews.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.