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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 1h

This is a beautiful tribute to her friend Manchán Magan from Roisin Ingle www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get

One of the most precious gifts cancer has given me is a deep friendship with this extraordinary Irish man

www.irishtimes.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 1h

In the UK?

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3h

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 1h

@anjahuja.bsky.social captures precisely the dangers lurking in the @royalsociety.org’s mishandling of Musk’s reckless disregard for scientific values. “The Royal Society risks looking like a bystander as reason and rationality come under sustained global assault from populism.”
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The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

on.ft.com

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 12d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 17d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 2h

We must be patriotically proud to be British but not to learn about or contribute to any of the culture that pride might be based on

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 2h

Yes but is that a red-wall or metropolitan-elite industry…?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 3h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 1d

Imperial staff have had enough.

A 2% below-inflation offer from one of the wealthiest universities in the UK is an insult to every worker who keeps it running.

Today we strike for fair pay, decent conditions, and respect ✊🔥

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 3h

Incredible idiocy

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5h

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 4h

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

museumofhomelessness.org/news/new-res...

Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

museumofhomelessness.org

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 4h

They can afford to make them safer

Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5h

Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 15h

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 16h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 18h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 15h

Wow this is concerning

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 15h

The Chinese espionage case collapsed after the government refused to designate Beijing a national security threat despite efforts over “many months” to get the evidence, Britain’s top prosecutor has said

Spy case collapsed ‘because of failure to call China a threat’

www.thetimes.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 21h

This story is absolutely bonkers.

“There is a “crazy hole in our food safety system” that prevents the FDA from entering Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) to sample for pathogens that have caused an outbreak in people”.
Let the stewards of the land poison us galore.

Julian A Nowogrodzki @plantnerd.bsky.social · 21h

Factory farm dust could be the missing link in a major food poisoning outbreak, thanks to a "crazy hole in our food safety system”

Natasha Gilbert reports: sentientmedia.org/factory-farm...

How Factory Farm Air Pollution Can Spread Dangerous Bacteria

Factory farm dust can spread E. coli and could have sparked a large food poisoning outbreak in 2018, a new study shows.

sentientmedia.org

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 4d

Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.

I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.

Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

And some thoughts 🧵

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21h

FACTCHECK: What the Climate Change Act actually means for the UK – and what is a load of old nonsense

Really enjoyed putting this together with colleagues, inc learning new things about the fascinating backstory to the Act

Feat. OG authors of the Act & more

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 22h

Lot to be hopeful about here, from the impressive @sundersays.bsky.social

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

www.theguardian.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 23h

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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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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 1d

How wonderful!

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

YEAH! 👍 Renewables ☀️ 💨 💦 overtake coal globally for 1st time on record, per records from 88 countries representing 93% of demand globally

Let’s just walk over the screaming naysayers & push on, leaving them in a squabbling mess in the corner

We’ll just step up harder

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

www.itv.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 1d

Gross

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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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 1d

This is a result!

Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 1d

“The accused was not only giving orders…but was personally involved in the beatings & later was physically present & giving orders for the execution of those detained.”

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The first senior perpetrator of atrocities in Darfur is convicted at the ICC! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

ICC convicts former Sudan militia leader for war crimes in Darfur

Janjaweed commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, found guilty over atrocities

www.theguardian.com

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