Môr Leidr
@bartiddu.bsky.social
Prof of Child Health (retired) Interests: art; history; children’s rights; 🏴. 🏳️⚧️ & 🇵🇸 rights are human rights Banner: 1 of our dogs contemplating his existence in a shaving mirror Profile: the other channelling Rousseau’s tiger🐅 No DMs (I can’t access) 🙏🏻
One of Wales' most popular visitor attractions has brought back a firm childhood favourite to the delight of a new generation of families
Popular visitor attraction brings childhood favourite back
Nation Cymru staff One of Wales’ most popular visitor attractions has brought back a firm childhood favourite to the delight of a new generation of families. Techniquest is the UK’s oldest purpose-bui...
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Liddle was an appalling person: selfish, narcissistic, violent in his personal life; racist, misogynist, a supporter of child pornography in his public one. None of those are to be “disagreed” with; they are to be condemned. What Goldacre reveals about himself here is unclear, but probably not good.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
If someone has committed domestic abuse in their life, that should be mentioned most especially by our national broadcaster. To not do so, while releasing endless fawning obituaries, is to be complicit in societal misogyny and the erasure of victims.
"A mass funeral was held in the #Gaza Strip for 112 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble nearly 2 years after they were killed. The remains were retrieved during ongoing recovery operations..." m.youtube.com/watch?v=VAQO... #GazaNews #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews
LIVE | Mass funeral held for 112 bodies recovered in Gaza
YouTube video by Roya News English
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Research on Romanies in general is under funded & unsupported British Romanies have suffered from a very successful Cultural Genocide that homogenises their ethnic identity with Irish Travellers & other itinerant people. Yet British universities & funders have no interest in this ethnocide.
Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 2d agoAnna Mirga-Kruszelnicka writes that the Roma Holocaust remains a footnote in mainstream narratives of the Second World War: “Research on the Roma Holocaust is underfunded, while hundreds of its sites across Europe are still unmarked and disrespected.” eriac.org/anna-mirga-k...
This has made me so angry. It's time NHS staff were properly protected from these people who should be banned from accessing NHS treatment. Let them pay for a 'white' clinician if they want one so badly (and hopefully they'll struggle to find one- be an ally!) news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...
Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data
The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ...
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The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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1/3 The dangers of the NHS's £330m contract with Palantir are well known. A subscription-based contract that leaves the NHS without meaningful ownership. Lock-in to a single supplier that risks future price gouging. Critical health infrastructure dependent on a shady spy-tech company.
If before you haven’t understood the links between transphobia & misogyny this 👇🏻should make it clear Transphobia and a misogynistic crusade to police, control, and standardise women’s bodies travel together
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Liddle was an appalling person: selfish, narcissistic, violent in his personal life; racist, misogynist, a supporter of child pornography in his public one. None of those are to be “disagreed” with; they are to be condemned. What Goldacre reveals about himself here is unclear, but probably not good.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
Israel - the place which is infinitely kinder to crocodiles than to Arabs
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoIsraeli court blocks Ben Gvir crocodile moat plan for prisons holding Palestinians - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-court-blocks-ben-gvir-crocodile-moats-outside-prisons-holding-palestinians
A new report warns that behind Wales’s progressive image, women are losing ground on pay, safety and support | Megan Evans
Inequality in Wales grows: urgent action needed today
Inequality in Wales persists across pay, health, and safety, placing the burden on women. This report on inequality in Wales highlights failures and actions needed.
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#Germany calling out #Jews for being the wrong kind of Jew, or for not being Jewish enough, seems the ultimate irony to me. Just effing grim.
+972 Magazine@972mag.com · 2w ago‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’ For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. www.972mag.com/michael-bare...
Within the next 2 decades half the entire world’s infrastructure will be located in places where we can no longer survive. Half the global human population will need to migrate in the next 20 years just to survive.
This is what I think of when people complain that climate activists are 'disruptive'
Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 4d agoWithin the next 2 decades half the entire world’s infrastructure will be located in places where we can no longer survive. Half the global human population will need to migrate in the next 20 years just to survive.
The weight of fear and sadness crushing Gaza is way, way, way beyond anything I can imagine. Even if Israel stopped now how does this population ever heal?
Raimo Kangasniemi@rk70534.bsky.social · 4d ago"1.8.2026 Mourners bid farewell to Palestinian Saber Abu Rabie at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, following his death in an #Israeli strike in the central #Gaza Strip." m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohTL... #BoycottIsrael #GazaNews #Israel #MiddleEast #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews
Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness
Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
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Exactly. Same in the UK. Pro-lifers on the right - eg Danny Kruger - noisily profess their anti-abortion views, but invariably support exactly those policies that result in slow post-natal ones. Except for cancer, all categories of death in childhood have a social gradient. Child poverty is deadly.
Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 7d agoThey call themselves pro-life. Then they signed a law cutting $990 billion from the health coverage that insures poor children and $300 billion from the program that feeds them, the largest food-aid cut in history. CBO says 10 million lose coverage. The concern for the child expires at birth.
Fuck off you warmongering knob! Instead use the engineering expertise to invest in sustainable green energy, which will create jobs and make us more secure by fighting climate catastrophe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nuclear submarine investment will protect Britain and boost jobs, PM says
Speaking ahead of a visit to Barrow-in-Furness, the PM seeks to stress the economic benefits of defence spending.
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Exactly. Same in the UK. Pro-lifers on the right - eg Danny Kruger - noisily profess their anti-abortion views, but invariably support exactly those policies that result in slow post-natal ones. Except for cancer, all categories of death in childhood have a social gradient. Child poverty is deadly.
Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 7d agoThey call themselves pro-life. Then they signed a law cutting $990 billion from the health coverage that insures poor children and $300 billion from the program that feeds them, the largest food-aid cut in history. CBO says 10 million lose coverage. The concern for the child expires at birth.
#Germany calling out #Jews for being the wrong kind of Jew, or for not being Jewish enough, seems the ultimate irony to me. Just effing grim.
+972 Magazine@972mag.com · 2w ago‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’ For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. www.972mag.com/michael-bare...
There’s an average of 9 anti-trans articles per day in uk media and the mob can’t stand even one dissenting voice and they all go and scream at her. They are so silenced 🙄 www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/new-u...
UK: Anti-trans organisations exerting powerful influence over media and politics, new analysis reveals
Amnesty International UK’s latest analysis exposes the scale of anti-trans influence in UK media and maps the rapid rise of anti-trans organisations.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️@gemmaclark.bsky.social · last wk.Journalists like Allison Morris from Belfast Telegraph are the ones who are brave and the ones who get ‘hounded’. Every obsessive anti-trans bigot on the bad place going after her like a baying mob. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/womens-...
