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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

CJ Samson is BRILLIANT! Sadly, I've read them all now but you've just put me onto SJ Parris. Thanks. 😊

Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

Reeves is reprehensible. The UK is suffering, yet again, from the lack of scientists in Cabinet, especially at least a token biologist of whatever discipline.

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 22h

First of all, 5mm isn't microscopic and you CAN see them.

Second of all, the fact that our Chancellor thinks she can't see these seems to mean she thinks they're not worthy of our consideration.

A hallmark of this government's terminal lack of imagination.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

I'm cheating with the BBC series.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

I hope it's a VERY spiky hedge, and that they fall into it.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

"Maxwell makes coffee, doesn't she?"

I'll be honest, I'm shocked at those new figures. ☹️

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Sid Eschenbach @sid-eschenbach.bsky.social · 21h

"Epstein? Nope, never heard it. And you mention Maxwell... but that's been so long I hardly remember the name."

Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

2,348 individuals went to Epstein island, a huge increase from the 150-200 people previously known about.😳

There were 1,083 previously unknown flight routes compared to the 20 to 30 routes previously documented, with 47% from financial centres like NYC, London and Geneva.

Gary @lionyolo.bsky.social · 1d

Investigation reveals over 2,000 previously unreported flights to Epstein’s Island | Story by Ben Barry | "Through the investigation, Zalingo Data Refinery found that there were 2,348 more individuals who visited Epstein Island."
tinyurl.com/ys66wmjh MSN News
Mind blown!

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

2,348 individuals went to Epstein island, a huge increase from the 150-200 people previously known about.😳

There were 1,083 previously unknown flight routes compared to the 20 to 30 routes previously documented, with 47% from financial centres like NYC, London and Geneva.

Gary @lionyolo.bsky.social · 1d

Investigation reveals over 2,000 previously unreported flights to Epstein’s Island | Story by Ben Barry | "Through the investigation, Zalingo Data Refinery found that there were 2,348 more individuals who visited Epstein Island."
tinyurl.com/ys66wmjh MSN News
Mind blown!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

Why I'm not going to the US

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social · 1d

Rapidly falling battery prices are a game-changer.

"Held on September 30, the tender closed at an average price of just €12,959 per MWh per year, far below the reserve price of €37,000 per MWh per year set by system operator Terna."

Italy’s first MACSE battery auction smashes expectations with 10 GWh awarded at record low prices - Energy Storage

The result of the auction are tariffs that came dramatically below the reserve premium which was set at €37,000 per MWh per year.

www.ess-news.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 21h

Both Palestinians and Israelis mourn their dead. As Mandy Patinkin has said, the "revenge business" wreaks havoc for all.

A minimum of 67,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza. That includes a child every hour, at least 20,000.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Writing in The Times, Starmer had urged students to avoid taking part in protests two years on from the day when more than 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas.'

If he's writing in The Times, he's not actually addressing students.

Students defy Starmer’s call not to hold Gaza protests

Hundreds gather in London despite the prime minister telling them to stay at home on the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 22h

Timely, as I'm enjoying 'Wolf Hall' for the first time.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 22h

Badenoch’s Leader’s speech will actually be a Leaver’s speech.

Bye 👋

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Man she’s in his head

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 22h

Tinfoil hats in the Tory goodie bag, along with Britian bars

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 22h

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 23h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 23h

Such a fabulous wood!

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Andrew S. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🌈 @parallax2112.bsky.social · 1d

The infestation is not under control. #ReformUK www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 23h

There are VERY few alternatives left among the Tories.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

How on Earth is that man still in a job?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 23h

The trial of a former paratrooper accused of murdering two men in Derry more than 50 years ago has heard an eye witness account of “pandemonium” with people screaming and shots being fired
https://www.thejournal.ie/soldier-f-trial-bloody-sunday-6838041-Oct2025/

Soldier F trial hears of ‘pandemonium’ on Bloody Sunday

John McCourt said he was struck himself by a rubber bullet and had not posed any threat to the soldiers.

www.thejournal.ie

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a VERY alarming finding on PFAS in the EU

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

🔎 Findings briefly:

- Between three and eight PFAS chemicals were detected in the blood of all EU officials tested

- Half of EU leaders tested exceed levels linked to health risks

- Six PFAS (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, PFDA & PFUnDA) are already regulated in Europe - yet still found in their blood

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