Did you know it was the tobacco industry that bought all the main processed food manufacturers? The science of addiction was transferred to the food we eat. What a world
Ray Alexander
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He / Him / It Scottish Father, artist, song writer and keyboard player from Glasgow. Pro independence climate activist. Climate collapse is accelerating. https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ray-alexander/1436228501
The Trump administration is drafting a new nukes strategy which emphasises the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict with China or Russia.
Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say
The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the commander in chief during crises.
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A book to galvanise www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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When you look out your window, read the news, listen to the news. It's all Thatcher's fault. And yet she studied physics. Pure evil.
Not a surprise. Fewer people reading books and reading small nuggets like this being one of the main drivers www.sciencealert.com/are-american...
Are People Actually Getting Dumber? Introducing The Reverse Flynn Effect
Just over a hundred years ago, the Binet IQ test was developed in France and soon after, brought to the United States, where it was given to public school kids, physicians, and immigrants at Ellis Isl...
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I would ban English racist scum from the NHS. Let them pay for private care www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
NHS radiographers report rise in overt racist abuse by patients
Survey reveals medics were called ‘monkeys’ and ‘dirty foreigners’, and patients refused to be seen by black or Asian staff
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4,000,000,000 people dead by 2050 When is it time to act? Nearer the time? Or now? Or tomorrow? Four billion dead twenty four years from now. Get together 4billiondead.org
4 Billion Dead - There are no words
Join the next public call We’ve passed +1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures. +2.4°C is now unstoppable. The image above is from the Planetary Solvency report by the Institute and Faculty of…
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Dear Seattle: It'd be a real shame if this happened to, say, streets around Fremont and Ballard
tyler@tylergscott.com · 5d agoin portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
"Summer book post: the perfect beach-on-fire read!" "A great recent book on the subject is 'The Fate of the World' from the outspoken Bill McGuire, who takes us through our geological past to put the present in context" Thank you so much Ben Carey - Creative Director, Utopia Bureau
If you were a kid in the mid eighties and were seriously into gaming, this was essential for one game in particular
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Save the CCA: Keep 350 Sauchiehall Street as a Public Cultural Asset
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Beautiful game? Racism remained the most common rising 19% year-on-year, the 792 reports making up 45% of the total.sexist behaviour rose 12% to 216, homophobia rose 46% to 203, antisemitism rose 43% to 93, ableism rose 20% to 89, and Islamophobia rose 88% to 60 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Abusive chanting against immigrants in English football on rise, new data reveals
Kick It Out data said reported incidents of all discrimination had reached a new high, while abuse in grassroots football rose for a fifth consecutive year
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Macron: “We are facing a fire that is completely unprecedented. We are experiencing the most severe situation we have ever recorded—the worst since the Second World War. “More than 160,000 hectares have already burned, and the fire season is far from over. 1/
I have been saying for a while that we are going backwards Here is the latest grim evidence app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/c374dd...
⚠️ The Fossil Lobby Is Winning: 45 Climate Policy Reversals in One Year
Last week I wrote on LinkedIn: I have been following climate politics for a long time. I do not think I have ever felt this upset. As the climate crisis accelerates, our leaders are not accelerating c...
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The planet-warming super El Niño now developing will almost certainly be the strongest ever, breaking the record by an unprecedented margin. It's going to get a lot hotter www.newscientist.com/article/2581...
This El Niño will be the hottest by a huge margin | New Scientist
The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, breaking global temperature records and unleashing extreme weather
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Get your kids vaccinated. Or you're a menace to society www.sciencealert.com/us-measles-c...
BREAKING: US Measles Cases Just Hit a 'Grim Milestone'. Here's What You Need to Know.
Measles cases in the United States have just passed a "grim milestone", reaching numbers that haven't been seen in 35 years.
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“It’s another thing that makes people say they want to leave the UK, these silly little rules.” Climate ignorance kills everyone. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People are scared their neighbours will call the police on them’: how the hosepipe ban got caught up in the culture wars
While many people in the UK recognise the need to preserve water, others are furious and planning to flout the ban in their area. The target of their anger? Failing water companies and frighteningly t...
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In today's Morning File, I wrote about how if we start believing women, we may stop the violence of dangerous men. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
If we start believing women we may stop dangerous men - Halifax Examiner
Women have been gaslit for centuries and we're all paying for it.
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America, you've got some serious issues www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The disturbing rise of ‘gooner’ assaults at Dollar Tree stores: ‘They find it funny to degrade women’
In dark corners of the internet, men are goading each other to masturbate in public – and on female shoppers – and post the footage
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