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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 11h

some brilliant news in this tricky old world

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 11h

Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds - ABC News 🦑🧪🌎

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there's 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 12h

this
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 13h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 14h

I have watched this SO many times

Awesome protesting

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 22h

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 1d

This. Absolutely this.
Far too many Americans and media are operating as if things are normal.

Things are NOT normal.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 1d

I lived in the UAE - a hard place to work if you are in any way a woman in charge of men tbh. It almost broke me.

But my friend had the best take of all - you don't pay tax but they take 40% of your soul.

So, so true

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 1d

"he's such an arsehole, Robert Jenrick" - my husband a former employee due to working as a civil servant in that department.

I'd go further tbh

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 1d

OMFG

dogs

Dogs

They are just the best

Humans do not deserve dogs at all

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 1d

National Front racism openly spouted by a sitting MP and potential party leader.

We are living in very worrying times and I fucking hate it.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

There is a decency agenda absolutely in tune with majority feeling in the country that would be an open goal for the government if it wasn't also inclined to lurch towards an unpleasant space. Indeed it is one Keir Starmer could have personified if he could escape "Blue Labour" unpleasantness.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 2d

me looking at the replies

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 2d

The Economist tends to be very well-briefed when it comes to matters of British security. This is the second article I have seen in as many days warning about Russia‘s hybrid warfare against the West.
I would take this seriously.

The Economist @economist.com · 2d

The escalating grey-zone conflict between the West and Russia is being contested on the sea as well as in the air. A rise in worrying maritime incidents is forcing NATO to step up econ.st/3ILHiM8

Photo: Reuters

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 2d

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 3d

he's never spoken to a civil servant in his life

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 3d

The fact that this is the first AI created actress and not one based on Meryl Streep or Olivia Coleman shows how much they want a young sex doll and not an actress.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 4d

this is incredible

this is why I'm here

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

The US is deporting a journalist today

Mario Guevara was live streaming ICE atrocities

They grabbed him

Detained him for 100 Days and are sending him to El Salvador without letting him say goodbye to his family

The ACLU confirmed he was working in the US legally

They’re attacking the free press

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 5d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5d

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.

In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist
attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly
with our allies in the United Kingdom.

On behalf of the State of Israel, I am proud to
host British patriot @TRobinsonNewEra who will
visit Israel in mid-October.

Tommy is a courageous leader on the front line
against radical Islam.

At a time when Jews across Europe face rising
antisemitism, it is vital to strengthen bonds with
allies who refuse to be silent.

He has proven himself a true friend of Israel and
the Jewish people, unafraid to speak the truth
and confront hate.

Israel will always stand with the Jewish
community and our allies worldwide. Together
with friends like Tommy Robinson, we will build
stronger bridges of solidarity, fight terror,

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