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Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.

The Cathy Wilcox@cathywilcox.bsky.social · last mo.

www.smh.com.au/business/com...

the CDC director needs to resign.

Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: For a third week in a row, the CDC hasn’t included the PA measles-associated deaths in its weekly update. The controversy around the deaths has eroded what little trust staff had in the new director. Gift link for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you are a fisherman in the Caribbean and are even suspected of having drugs on the boat, the Trump regime claims it has the “right” to automatically kill you. However, if you run one of the biggest drug rings in the US, you get a Trump pardon and then a speech at the GOP convention.

Imagine having more money than you could ever need and instead of using it to tackle poverty or disease you give it to a bunch of entitled grifters who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it about a system favoured by money launderers that allows donations to be totally untraceable that first attracted you to crypto?"

Another Pennsylvania #measles death, this time in an unvaccinated 40 year old woman. 3 deaths with less than 700 confirmed cases suggests this outbreak is much larger than reported (no surprise).

Pennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner says

The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner.

washingtonpost.com

It’s fucking intolerable that the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the United States of America is a science-denying anti-vaxxer. It’s a disgrace that another unvaccinated person has just died of measles. Her life mattered.

The crypto billionaire, who pled guilty to financial crimes in America in 2022, has smashed the record for the biggest ever donation to a British political party.

Ben Delo: the man who just gave Reform £36m

One man has been propelled into the spotlight after his record-breaking donation to Reform UK of £36m, but who really is Ben Delo?

thelondoneconomic.com

It may be useful for others to see how this unfolds. Entitlement and weaponized ignorance are designed to waste our time. Don't let it. People can engage in good faith, and ask questions and learn. This is NOT that. It is important to be able to tell the difference.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A question to think about: Would you also insert naive ideas about how the universe works when intending to respecfully engage with experts in astrophysics?

"Dad?" "Yes, son." "Do you think things would be different now if we hadn't allowed democracy to be sold out to a few billionaires?"

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 2mo ago

🚨 BREAKING: Crypto billionaire Ben Delo has donated £36m to Reform UK - the biggest ever donation to a UK political party

Can toasters feel pain? Is the nozzle bit the vacuum cleaner's nose or its mouth? Does stone like being part of a building? Is that cloud a bunny rabbit?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

#TrendingNow | Using a modified host, this study adds 36 new phages to the BASEL collection of phages that infect E. coli, revealing key roles of the O-antigen barrier in host recognition and restriction-modification systems in bacterial immunity. #ICYMI #MicroSky 🧪 buff.ly/grvuhX2

Completing the BASEL phage collection to unlock hidden diversity for systematic exploration of phage–host interactions

The BASEL collection of phages that infect E. coli has been a valuable resource, but is limited by the peculiarities of the host strain used. This study uses a modified host to expand the collection…

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In 1988, Sesame Street mocked a greedy real estate tycoon named Ronald Grump who wanted to bulldoze the neighborhood for luxury towers. Sound familiar?

maybe we all understand that it's straight to the veins propoganda. but worth sitting with the fact that the entire war on DEI/CRT is based on mythology sized distortion and caricature of university life.

In 2011, one chick held the record for most plastic ever found in the species: 276 pieces, 64g. We thought that was as bad as it could get. We were wrong. The record fell in 2023. Fell again in 2024. Then in 2025: 894 pieces in a single chick. (Photo: worst chicks in 2010, 2015, 2021, 2025)

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

bbc.co.uk

Who knew ammonia-oxidizing archaea could be “flexitarians”? Our new study in Science Advances shows that #AOA living inside marine sponges can assimilate branched-chain amino acids, an unexpected talent that may even shape how they interact with their hosts 🧽🤝🦠 🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Branched-chain amino acid assimilation enables mixotrophy of ammonia-oxidizing archaeal sponge symbionts

Marine sponges and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) represent one of the earliest animal-microbe symbioses. AOA are considered metabolically constrained chemolithoautotrophs that remove nitrogenous was...

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📌 ICYMI — Jason Arday’s Death Has Unmasked Trump’s Support for Anti-Black Racism — Karam Bales The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department

Jason Arday’s Death Has Unmasked Trump’s Support for Anti-Black Racism

The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department

bylinetimes.com

The race for Congress has been getting a lot of the attention. But what happens in state legislatures this November could matter just as much, if not more. Don't sleep on it.

Trifecta Watch: The States Where Democrats Are Hoping To Win Full Government Power

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I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

At the start of 2026, EMBL lost long-serving colleague and Interim Director General Peer Bork. Join us in commemorating Peer and his legacy at the #EMBLBorkMemorial. Submit your abstract by 10 November: s.embl.org/pbs27-01-bl

I’m interested in the emotional response (I have it too) whereby anger at the worst people is immediately displaced on to institutions you think should be calling them out. Labour and the BBC’s weak response to fascists arouses more fury than the fascists themselves. Must be a term for it

According to these figures London is safer than many if not all major North American cities. In 2025, there were 1.1 killings for every 100,000 residents of London, compared to 2.8 in New York, 5.6 in Los Angeles, 10.5 in Houston and 12.3 in Philadelphia www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world

theguardian.com

A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...

Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'

Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules

schoolsweek.co.uk

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." — Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor ​

Will the AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt I've taken the paywall off the post I wrote last year about how memories of WW2 are being distorted by them and other radical right parties. "Never again?" samf.substack.com/p/never-agai...

Never again?

Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order

samf.substack.com

having seen it in Sydney (!) i can confirm this is totally brilliant!

Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you enjoyed Chris Packham's Evolution series - you'll love this! 4 billion years of evolution in one evening - I'm live on tour across the UK this November... www.alice-roberts.co.uk/tour

In case you had any doubts about the judgement and moral standards of my (former) Chief of Staff, Dan Jukes, here he is with Andrew Tate.