I’d ask: how many times is it possible to accidentally give readers the impression crimes committed by neo-Nazis were in fact the work of nice nurses and teachers in the Labour Party, before we conclude that some kind of calculated dishonesty was at work there www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not especially thick, but mossy. There is moss everywhere in these parts. The wet Atlantic air hits the slopes of Dartmoor and everywhere is wet. Moss loves it. We've had the driest Summer for many years. This temperate rain forest won't survive the coming storm. #thicktrunktuesday

BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

They concluded they can't rely on US tech and US servers for their data. Not after Trump and Microsoft colluded to kill the accounts of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to punish him for swearing out a genocide warrant against Netanyahu: apnews.com/article/icc-... 17/

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work

Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

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Live your life such that no one has to say "Please don't speak ill of the dead, no matter how awful they were in life" about you.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad 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 only the UK had massively subsidised the green economy with retraining for wind & solar and 100% home insulation instead of massively subsidising polluting but profitable oil and gas and warmongering ... meme via Neil McEvoy

If you were a half-notable Labour Party member in the 2010s, saying this would’ve got your photo plastered all over news stands as a terrifying Hitlerian hate-monster, with demands to have you expelled and hounded out of public life.

The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump | Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton

Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history

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AMAZING MOMENT A woman came back still wearing a custody tshirt having been released for a terrorism arrest. While being arrested for declaring support for Palestine Action a second time, another woman came back to do the same. The opposition to this ban cannot be contained.

You know that Fourth Lord Rothermere bloke? The billionaire who inherited the fortune the Third Lord Rothermere inherited from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere? Well, it turns out he's against inheritance tax.

Back in 2015 I made a camera out of an optical mouse chip. It was a pinhole camera (no lens) & I had to make the pinhole with a needle. I called it Polyphemouse.

And this is why disabled and older people in England are currently forced to sit in their own urine because they can’t get to the toilet.

Postal services, run as a gouging monopoly, are one of the things that pushes up the cost of everything else. This is even more obvious with electricity & gas prices. We all get ripped off, then every business has to put their prices up to cover their costs, so we pay for that as well. Extortion.

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Privatisation dividend. Royal Mail to hike price of bulk service by a third. Big blow to the NHS and large organisations. Other customers ripped off. 1st class postage price £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets.

Fixed the frame on one of my favourite prints. A Halfpenny of old Ouse Bridge in York. Managed to not cut myself too badly handling the glass. The Halfpenny prints are a wonderful record of that era. 1807. The old bridge & its chapel were demolished not long after.

A petition in support of Rajiv Menon KC is approaching 40,000 signatures. Rajiv is accused of contempt of court for his closing speech while defending nonviolent actionist Lottie Head (Filton 25) Rajiv’s ‘crime’? Referencing the rights of jurors. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa... @netpol.org

Two of the greatest achievements that the Generation who fought in WW2 won were the NHS and Social Housing. Social Housing has been destroyed and now the NHS is on its knees They are almost all dead, but if they weren't they would be horrified at what is being allowed to happen

ATTENTION FOX NEWS! At Nuremberg, Julius Streicher was not convicted of having committed or participated in any crimes or acts of violence himself, but was convicted on the grounds that as a journalist his many speeches and articles supporting and excusing violence made him an accessory. He hanged.

Angela Rayner being forced to write out "killing babies is self defence" 1000 times.

1956 Republican National platform.

Sean Bell is the Sky military analyst who previously described a 3 year old Palestinian child murdered by Israel as a "little lady". Here he is describing the Iranian school targeted & bombed by the US as a "facility"

They claimed that 45% Income Tax was too high. So instead the Judge let them pay just 24% Capital Gains tax. On an income of millions of pounds a year. THIS is why we need a Wealth Tax.

Elon Musk said that the reason dinosaurs went extinct is because they didn't develop space travel. How does he know they didn't?

The new Health Secretary took more than £165,000 from donors linked with the private healthcare sector, it has emerged

❗️ NEW: 1 million pensioners are skipping meals thanks to Labour's Winter Fuel Payment cuts, reports Guardian. 7 million pensioners are keeping the heating off because Labour's cuts have forced them to stay cold, and applications for pension credit are "overwhelmed".

Tell me again about how nurseries and schools don't drive infections in local communities.

One day I'd love to make a documentary of the history of ID doctors and infection control ignoring air spread of pathogens. I will absolutely vote to call it, "Don't Look It Up".

In 1941, experimenters found ferrets that were sick with flu could infected their buddies at the other end of a "U" shaped air duct. Downwind, but not upwind. Next 60 years: "B-b-but it's droplets" mastodon.social/@jmcrookston...

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Attached: 1 image They made U shaped chambers, and still the ferrets passed on the influenza. The thought was droplets would not turn the corner.

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